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AR-15 ban issue attracts filing of 45 amicus briefs in Supreme Court
9/6/1983: The City of Richmond solicited bids for installing plumbing fixtures at the city jail. The J.A. Croson Company's bid… The post Today in Supreme Court History: September 6, 1983 appeared first on Reason Magazine
The Supreme Court may rule on whether an all-female nude spa can deny service to transgender clients with male genitalia, raising significant questions about gender identity and discrimination.
In the discussion of the Kyrsten Sinema alienation of affections case, several commenters took roughly the following view: Spouses have… The post Alienation of Affections as Complicity appeared first on Reason Magazine
[A.] I know lots of people have opinions about the Lindsay Clancy trial, and I wanted to pass along the… The post How Would You Have Applied Massachusetts Law in the Lindsay Clancy Trial? appeared first on Reason Magazine
From Netrebko v. Metropolitan Opera Ass'n Inc., decided Thursday by Judge Analisa Torres (S.D.N.Y.): In early 2022, the Met fired… The post Opera Star Anna Netrebko Loses Follow-Up Defamation Case Against the N.Y. Metropolitan Opera appeared first on Reason Magazine
This tort, which lets people sue their spouses' lovers for interfering with the marriage, is litigated in about 150 new cases per year in North Carolina
U.S. officials are defending their work with Venezuelan businessman Alejandro Betancourt in the unprecedented White House move to effectively gain control over huge oilfields in the country. Why it matters: Betancourt is the colorful and controversial figure who heads North American Blue Energy Partners (NABEP), the oil company partnering with the administration in the agreement that gives the U.S. preferential access to output from 17 major fields. The Pentagon's Office of Strategic Capital is taking a 35% equity stake in the company.The U.S. also has the rights to buy 20% of the oil at cost after the company pays its taxes to Venezuela. Driving the news: At a briefing with reporters Tuesday, a U.S. official talked up Betancourt as a "proven operator" in the country's oil sector that has been vetted by the administration. The official also bluntly acknowledged the realpolitik in the effort to boost output in the country, which has vast reserves but modest oil production after years of mismanagement and underinvestment. "There's a reality here, okay, and that is that not just here, but in other parts of the world, you have to deal with the dynamics sometimes that are in place in order to get to where you want to get to," the official said. "I'm being blunt: we make choices like this all over the world.""Geopolitics is often not the choice between the ideal and the imperfect. It is often, you're trying to navigate what's the best outcome, and you have to work with the factors that you have in place."In prior conversations with Axios, two other senior administration officials acknowledged the troubles Betancourt has faced, but said they were worth the risk. Catch up quick: Betancourt, 46, is the linchpin to Trump's plan to increase U.S. access to oil and strengthen its dominance in the hemisphere, which became clear after the Jan. 3 removal of Venezuelan strongman Nicolas Maduro. His ties to the first Trump administration, anti-Maduro activity in 2019 and his help in
The article discusses Texas's designation of an Islamic group as a terrorist organization, arguing that it undermines free speech on college campuses and raises concerns about censorship.
A federal indictment has been filed against an ICE officer for allegedly lying about a shooting incident, raising questions about the Department of Homeland Security's defense of the officer's actions.