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IJ Heads to the U.S. Supreme Court to Take On Backdoor Censorship
Every state has laws against jaywalking. Now imagine you were arrested for jaywalking after publishing an article on the corrupt practices of your local officials. What do you think is more likely: that you were arrested because of your pedestrian violation or because you criticized the government? The 5th Circuit said that doesn’t matter. IJ now has an opportunity to persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn this absurd rule.
A federal court has held that a North Carolina engineering board violated the First Amendment when it ordered retired engineer Wayne Nutt to stop expressing opinions about engineering without a state license. Wayne and IJ filed suit after the board ordered him to stop using his decades of experience to offer opinions on public works, on pain of potential criminal punishment.
Fort Wayne Death Doula Wins First Round of Lawsuit, Can Keep Business Open While Case Is Pending
Fort Wayne "death doula" Lauren Richwine won a preliminary injunction in her lawsuit challenging Indiana’s unconstitutional restrictions on discussing end-of-life care, meaning Lauren can continue to provide end-of-life guidance to her clients at her business, Death Done Differently, while her case is pending. Lauren teamed up with IJ after someone submitted an anonymous complaint that her business was not licensed as a funeral home—though all Lauren does is talk with her clients.
WATCH: SWAT Team Destroyed Innocent Family's Home, Refused to Pay for Repairs
Amy Hadley watched in horror as her home was raided by police and destroyed in South Bend, Indiana. Over a year later, her family is still traumatized and their home still bears the scars of the raid. And all of this happened because police were searching for a man who was never in their home and who had no connection to Amy’s family.
In 1922, Scranton, Pennsylvania was said to be on the verge of collapsing into the vast coal mines beneath the city. State legislators responded by passing a law meant to save the region, but the Supreme Court struck it down, ruling that it would be an unconstitutional “regulatory taking." On this episode, we go to Pennsylvania to find out what happened to the house at the center of the case.
Motions to suppress evidence of illegal firearms possession seem to be all the rage these days, or at least on this episode. We start with an altercation between former high school classmates that leads to the discovery of an M-16 in the back of a tow truck.
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