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Come Back With a Warrant: State Court Deems Aerial Observation of Property Using Telephoto Lens Unconstitutional

The Alaska Supreme Court issued an opinion last week declaring the police practice of taking overhead pictures using telephoto lenses without a warrant to be an unreasonable search in violation of the Fourth Amendment's and Alaska Constitution's protections of privacy.
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National Law Journal

Texas University Defends Drag Show Ban to Supreme Court

"University policy prohibits '[p]ublic behavior that is disruptive, lewd, or indecent,'" Attorney General Ken Paxton wrote. "Drag shows...violate this policy by celebrating conduct that causes many to feel demeaned and objectified."
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National Law Journal

Supreme Court Extends Freeze on Texas Immigration Law

Justice Samuel Alito Jr. has extended a freeze on Texas' controversial new immigration law while the Supreme Court weighs a challenge from the Biden administration.
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National Law Journal

Texas Defends Its Immigration Control Law to Supreme Court

The state's solicitor general told the justices to allow the law to take effect, calling it necessary to stop the "crisis" of illegal immigration at the border.
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National Law Journal

Supreme Court's Delay Creates Uncertainty for South Carolina Election

The justices heard the congressional-map challenge in October and have yet to issue their decision.
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The Legal Intelligencer

UPenn Law Professor Amy Wax Speaks Out About the Sanctions Brought Against Her

"It's all psychologized," Wax said. "What the woke catechism, the woke set of precepts, has done is that they've taken subjective reactions and made them reign supreme, which is completely contrary to every First Amendment principle that ever existed."
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Texas Lawyer

Divided Court Allows Texas to Police Porn Websites

"H.B. 1181 limits access to constitutionally protected speech, regardless of whether the viewer is a minor. Such action 'is to burn the house to roast the pig,'" U.S. Fifth Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham said.
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National Law Journal

Courts Should Rule That the False Claims Act Qui Tam Provisions Are Unconstitutional

Through the qui tam provisions, which have transformed the FCA's broad language and stimulated over-enforcement, Congress has dispersed power from the executive branch to private persons acting not in the public interest but rather in their own self-interest.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Litter-Generating Tax Appeal Awaits Certification Over 'Constitutional Questions of Taxing and Spending'

"The Appellate Division's decision is wrong, and if allowed to stand, sets a dangerous precedent. It invites more and more of New Jersey's government to operate in the shadows—collecting taxes and fees and spending that revenue outside a transparent annual appropriation process," Cargill's petition said.
4 minute read

National Law Journal

Student Group Asks Supreme Court to Allow Drag Show at Texas College

U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk upheld the school's ban, finding drag shows to be "sexualized" exhibitions not protected by the First Amendment.
4 minute read

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