A ruling last month by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is a major victory for the openness of today’s Internet. It’s a particular victory for the process that sustains Wikipedia. The case is John Doe No. 1 v. Susan L. Burke.
The ruling concerned a pre-trial motion to quash
Read More → Posted in NewsA Washington attorney suing an anonymous Wikipedia editor for defamation can’t force the editor to reveal his identity, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals ruled late last week...
Read More → Posted in NewsThe heroic effort of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in 2011 to rein in public employee unions has started to produce results.
Read More → Posted in NewsA lawsuit in California could spell the end of union collective-bargaining fees
11 July 2013
by Larry Sand
If the California Teachers Association and its parent, the National Education Association, represent Goliath, then ten teachers and a small union alternative called the Christian Educators Association International are fitting stand-ins for David. They’re taking
Read More → Posted in NewsTogether with former Solicitor General Theodore Olson, CIR filed an amicus brief in Florida v. HHS, now pending before the Supreme Court. Today’s brief was filed on behalf of a group of former Attorneys General and officials of the Justice Department, including Attorney General John Ashcroft, Attorney General William P. Barr, Assistant Attorney General Timothy
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January 12, 2012
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a decision holding that CIR plaintiffs Stephen LaRoque, John Nix and others have standing to pursue their challenge of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. The decision is a big
Read More → Posted in NewsToday the Obama administration filed a petition for Supreme Court review of this summer’s decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Florida v. HHS, one of the major challenges to the Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare.” Relying heavily on CIR’s 2000 Commerce Clause victory U.S. v. Morrison, the Eleventh Circuit had ruled that the act’s requirement
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Read More → Posted in NewsBy Gerald Walpin
Wall Street Jounral, December 5, 2005
Imagine a college accepting your donation, then saying that you cannot have the same access to the school as all other alumni — but that you must continue making donations. Unbelievable? But that is what most law schools now claim: The U.S. government
Read More → Posted in NewsBy Maryanne George
Detroit Free Press, June 7, 2005
Aggressive recruiting — everywhere from church pulpits to the Internet — appears to have helped the University of Michigan recover minority enrollment in its incoming freshman class, which had dropped significantly in 2004, the university reported Monday.
The preliminary numbers, based on deposits for
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