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The ruling is strictly limited to whether a private citizen can sue the federal government for money damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA). It does not legalize the inte…

I actually think the law isn't terrible (at least not as far as state stalking laws go), but the argument that his lawyer (or the petitioner himself; it's not clear whether he was …

"a crank who got a new neighbours who live differently than he does, and he doesn’t like it." Many such cases, if my previous work experience in the criminal justice system is any …

Yes, even where there is no physical trespass, there very well may be other torts or crimes. Obviously, if you set fire to your neighbor's house, you can't get out of an arson char…

Bottom line: light can be a common law nuisance, but it doesn't (without more) constitute stalking.

Yes, but only if the judge who gets the case believes in silly things like "Federal Rules of Evidence."

The website itself is here and I find it fascinating to put the translations side-by-side: https://www.iliadtranslations.com/

And even then . . . https://ij.org/if-you-break-it-you-buy-it-unless-youre-the-p...

As long as there's probable cause for some crime, the subjective motivations of the officer are almost never going to enter the legal analysis. Whren v. United States[1] was a case…

Let's call it "extremely difficult" - https://ij.org/if-you-break-it-you-buy-it-unless-youre-the-p...

>So in this case the government is raiding the home of someone who did not commit any crime, in the hopes of getting at people who might have. I looked at a lot of search warrant a…

I think this (from near the end) is also noteworthy (based on the two quotes from the late Justice Scalia at the beginning of the article): >Still another point illustrated by Just…

Questions, yes, but specifically questions about the facts in the video (not merely "what should happen to the protesters or police?"). "As one would expect, these differences in c…

I don’t think Butterick is claiming SaaS doesn’t exist. He’s setting boundary cases for an economic argument about distributed software. SaaS isn’t an endpoint in that model; it si…

Provocative title notwithstanding, it seems like the author's core argument is correct: "to the extent that it doesn’t influ­ence economic choices, piracy does not exist."

"it's why books like Mein Kampf or Lolita don't also show up on these lists despite being very intentionally kept off the shelves by librarians." It seems like they would count tho…