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A New York law prevents apartment owners from choosing a new tenant when a lease expires. New York must compensate owners for this loss of their liberty.
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A Texas statute criminalizes corroborating a tip with a government official. The law clearly violates the First Amendment, and officers enforcing such a law should not receive qualified immunity.
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The NLRB held that employers can be forced to allow slogans in the workplace even when they are against company policy. That violates the First Amendment.
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People on pretrial release have not been convicted of a crime and do not relinquish their reasonable expectation of privacy in their location and movements.
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Congress unconstitutionally requires Americans to self‐report to FinCEN so that international and domestic law enforcement agencies can investigate and prosecute financial crimes.
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The First Step Act ended an unjust sentencing rule, but a Fifth Circuit decision would needlessly prolong that unfair regime. The Supreme Court should step in and reverse.
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Cato has filed an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit on behalf of Pheasant. In our brief, we argue that the district court correctly dismissed the two counts against Pheasant on nondelegation grounds. Further, we also explain that the court of appeals should take this opportunity to resolve an inconsistency between its separation‐of‐powers standards for overly vague criminal statutes.
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My new article makes the case for overruling a century‐old precedent and bringing accountability back to temporary "acting" officers.
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State governors have been given the power to nominate as few as three options for membership on a federal rulemaking body. But the Constitution does not allow state officials to wield such power.
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The government hid a constitutional violation until an appeal deadline passed, and a federal court said it was powerless to extend the deadline. The Supreme Court should reverse that mistake.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has the power to impose regulations simply because they are deemed "appropriate." Those policy choices must be made by Congress.
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Seattle took away the right of property owners to control who lived on their property. The Constitution gives them a right to compensation.
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Jascha Chiaverini spent four days in jail because of a police officer's lie. But a bizarre legal doctrine has prevented him from recovering compensation for his ordeal.
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The Constitution requires courts to exercise independent judgment and "say what the law is," including on questions of the president's foreign‐affairs powers.
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Texas officials have lately put their own policy and political goals ahead of the Constitution, but two recent Fifth Circuit decisions have helped protect First Amendment rights.