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Measure 114 is currently active in parallel state- and federal-court tracks: at the state level the Oregon Court of Appeals reversed a lower court and lifted a hold in March 2025 and the Oregon Suprem...
A recent Supreme Court stay lifted a lower-court order that had barred certain ICE tactics, effectively allowing immigration agents to resume stops that may consider appearance, language, workplace or...
The Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizures apply to immigration enforcement in the interior of the United States, and courts have repeatedly held that ICE actions—ra...
State laws and federal law treat viewing, possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) differently; some prosecutions rest on viewing or accessing material even when the user did not...
Federal and civil litigation has targeted Twitter/X for hosting and failing to remove child sexual abuse material (CSAM), most prominently survivor lawsuits such as John Doe #1 and John Doe #2 v. Twit...
Accidental viewing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is treated differently across contexts: some courts and state statutes recognize affirmative defenses for prompt, good‑faith actions like destr...
The most consequential recent Supreme Court action affecting through November 2025 was the court’s September 2025 order staying a district judge’s injunction that had limited ICE’s ability to stop and...
A simple yes-or-no answer is not possible: concealed‑carry license (CCW) may lawfully bring a concealed firearm to a protest depends on multiple overlapping rules—recent federal court decisions alteri...
Federal law and the Constitution contain limits on racial profiling by federal agents: the Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable stops and seizures and requires “specific articulable facts” to justi...
Federal appellate courts have repeatedly recognized a right to record law-enforcement officers performing their public duties, but the doctrine has been shaped by a patchwork of decisions that allow r...
The president can direct executive agencies to identify and try to withhold federal funds from jurisdictions labeled “sanctuary,” and administrations have used executive orders and agency directives t...
and so-called nonlethal munitions against protesters is governed by constitutional limits—primarily the First Amendment’s protection of speech and assembly and the Fourth Amendment’s guard against unr...
A growing body of federal case law has found core detainer practices unlawful under the Fourth Amendment and related statutes, producing injunctions, class settlements, and limited monetary awards tha...
ICE’s authority to demand identification has historically operated within a shifting legal and political framework, and recent reporting shows courts and advocacy groups now say ICE may use race, lang...
The USDA’s National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard treats ingredients that no longer contain detectable modified genetic material as not “bioengineered,” which has left many common, highly ref...
’s 2022 decision in v. Bruen established a history‑and‑tradition test that has reshaped how courts evaluate limits on carrying firearms in public, prompting a wave of appellate decisions about so‑call...
The short answer: courts have treated passcodes (and other knowledge-based locks) as testimonial and generally protected by the Fifth Amendment, meaning law enforcement—including ICE—cannot be compell...
Federal courts and settlements have repeatedly held that unlawfully detained citizens in specific cases and contexts, producing a patchwork of wins for plaintiffs and doctrinal rulings limiting detain...
’s core provisions under legal attack in are the permit-to-purchase regime (including background checks and safety training) and a ban on large‑capacity magazines capable of holding more than 10 round...
Removal (immigration) proceedings are civil, not criminal, and that legal classification drives a narrower bundle of procedural protections for noncitizens: they have the right to a hearing and due pr...