Indiana Supreme Court’s decision on Lake Michigan beach access is unconstitutional. Here’s why.

Randy and Kimberley Pavlock built their small family home along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Porter, Indiana, with their own hands, on private beachfront property that’s been in the family for five generations.
 
Nobody questioned the Pavlocks’ ownership of the beach for all those years. But as Chris Kieser and Paige Gilliard write in the Northwest Indiana Times, a sweeping decision by the Indiana Supreme Court in February 2018 changed everything.

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With 5G arriving, the Supreme Court needs to rule on what digital privacy means

The introduction of 5G data networks promises unbelievable advancements in the tech capabilities of every area of our lives. But 5G will also make it possible for government and law enforcement to use technology to gather data and information about Americans.

Daniel Woislaw tells us that while the Supreme Court has not yet ruled definitively on what qualifies as our constitutionally protected “digital privacy,” the Court has two past decisions that could set the stage for answering this critical question.

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The Hill: California law unjustly and unconstitutionally restricts freelance journalists

Freelancing is a centuries-old practice and gives tens of thousands of people control over their careers and flexibility in their work.
 
But as Jim Manley explains in The Hill, a controversial state law that took effect on January 1 could soon make freelance journalism a thing of the past in California.

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