janeiro 2025

Five Things to Know about the Supreme Court Case on Texas’ Age Verification Law, Free Speech Coalition v Paxton

Five Things to Know about the Supreme Court Case on Texas’ Age Verification Law, Free Speech Coalition v Paxton

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The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in a case that will determine whether states can violate adults’ First Amendment rights to access sexual content online by requiring them to verify their age.   The case, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, could have far-reaching effects for every internet users’ free speech, anonymity, and privacy rights. The Supreme Court will decide whether a Texas law, HB1181, is constitutional. HB 1811 requires a huge swath of websites—many that would likely […]

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Yes, California’s Fast-Food Minimum Wage Law Has Killed Thousands of Jobs

Yes, California’s Fast-Food Minimum Wage Law Has Killed Thousands of Jobs

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Michael Chapman Recent estimates on job losses in California caused by a $20 minimum wage hike for fast-food employees confirm what classical liberal economics has always taught about the minimum wage and what Cato experts said about the law last summer.  As Milton Friedman taught, minimum wage laws “increase unemployment” and “the groups that will be hurt the most are the low-paid and the unskilled.” In California, the raise in the minimum wage for fast-food workers from $16 […]

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California's Insurance Regulation Fixes Came Too Little, Too Late

California’s Insurance Regulation Fixes Came Too Little, Too Late

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At the end of last year, California issued emergency new insurance regulations giving insurers more freedom to raise premiums while also requiring them to extend coverage to wildfire-prone areas of the state. The hope was that this compromise of higher premiums and more coverage would set right the crisis of insurers fleeing the state and leaving homeowners with no private options for financially protecting their homes from the next disaster. The reality is that these reforms might be […]

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Jennifer Huddleston Comments on TikTok Ban Oral Arguments

Jennifer Huddleston Comments on TikTok Ban Oral Arguments

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Today, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on whether to uphold a law that would ban the updating, maintenance, or distribution of the popular social media app TikTok in the United State unless its parent company, ByteDance, divests it. This case could have broader implications on how the courts balance free speech and similar rights when the government alleges a serious interest like national security beyond just this particular law. The arguments centered around the balance between free […]

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Should Defamation Lawsuits Exist?

Should Defamation Lawsuits Exist?

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Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Last month, ABC News agreed to pay $15 million to Donald Trump’s future presidential library to settle a defamation suit resulting from anchor George Stephanopoulos’ statements on March 10, 2024. Defamation occurs when a person communicates false statements about another person that damage their reputation. Since the founding of the country, defamation has been a tort—a matter for which one person can sue another. Additionally, defamation is a crime punishable by fines and/​or […]

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Viagens internacionais de Lula em 2023 custaram R$ 46,8 milhões

Viagens internacionais de Lula em 2023 custaram R$ 46,8 milhões

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Em 2023, as viagens internacionais do presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva resultaram em um desembolso total de R$ 46,8 milhões dos cofres públicos. As informações são do portal Gazeta do Povo. A viagem mais cara de Lula no período foi para Nova York, nos Estados Unidos. Na ocasião, o petista participou da Assembleia-Geral das Nações Unidas, somando R$ 13 milhões em despesas. + Leia mais notícias de Política em Oeste Desse montante da viagem, R$ 6,9 milhões […]

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"How Not to Decide TikTok: U.S. Press Freedom Hangs in the Balance"

“How Not to Decide TikTok: U.S. Press Freedom Hangs in the Balance”

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An interesting analysis by Prof. David Cole (Georgetown), the former National Legal Director of the ACLU, at Just Security; an excerpt: After more than two hours of argument Friday morning in TikTok v. Garland, the Supreme Court appears likely to allow the U.S. government to force divestiture or shuttering of the platform on January 19…. In my view, that’s the wrong result…. [But] how the Court reaches its result may now be more important than the bottom line. In particular, the Court should reject […]

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