To Win at All Costs
I was not a close observer of the case, but the win seemed to hinge on documents obtained during discovery that revealed Monsanto knew a great deal about the injuries its product caused but deliberately hid those findings.
Jury Trials Are Vital to the Constitutional Order
The Labour-led British government is attempting to hollow out an ancient pillar of English constitutionalism, trial by jury. Under their reforms, trial by jury would survive in England and Wales for certain types of crimes, but its use would be curtailed.
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Ketanji Brown Jackson Remains “Puzzled” by Medical Freedom
While Tuesday’s opinion was a victory for free speech and medical freedom, Justice Jackson’s opinion is not merely the ramblings of a radical ideologue. She is the mouthpiece for a powerful cohort that seeks to strip Americans of their autonomy.
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UK College Student Covid Tuition Settlement Far Exceeds That of US
The UK students had something we don’t: a law that explicitly says students are consumers entitled to fair value. Without that, US students are trying to win a game with very different rules—rules that strongly favor colleges and universities.
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A Free Speech Victory, Sort of
Attorneys announced a “Consent Decree,” which will put an end to the years-long litigation in Murthy v. Missouri (previously called Missouri v. Biden), which focused on government-induced social media censorship. The text implicitly suggests that the practices will largely continue.
Federal Judge Blocks Kennedy’s Vaccine Reforms
On 16 March, federal judge Brian Murphy blocked the US government from making sweeping changes to the US childhood immunisation schedule, “in a blow to Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr’s agenda,” as the BBC expressed it.
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When Judges Go Rogue
Murphy’s ruling is impermissible as a violation of judicial restraint. A judge doesn’t have the power to invalidate the decisions of an Executive Branch agency when those decisions are discretionary and within the stated power of said agency.
Is the UK Still a Liberal Democracy?
Instead of trying to understand the grievances of their base, the major parties join the elites’ contempt in condescendingly dismissing populist parties as grievance vehicles, holding fast to the belief that their voters will have nowhere else to go.
FinCEN’s Warning—and the Predictable Failure of Prohibition
The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network reports that illicit e-cigarettes are being used as part of trade-based money-laundering schemes linked to fentanyl trafficking. Illegal vaping products are no longer just a regulatory nuisance or a youth-use talking point.
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A “Blizzard” Gives Mayor Zohran Mamdani Pretext for a “Climate Lockdown”
We won’t be fine, here in New York, if our rights are restricted again so that we are absolutely physically helpless against any attack that may come — perhaps from the Mayor, or the donors who put this Mayor into office.
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Big Law Is Yet Another Problem
There are myriad institutional problems in this country that trace to the manifestations of Leviathan in media, tech, pharma, and other industries among which is the legal profession. They have in common an intractable desire to preserve the administrative status quo.
Fraudulent Businesses Paid the Equivalent of the GDP of Somalia
Emma walked away to pack up her things while Nick continued to ask her the relevant question: Why is the government enabling fraud? She then implied that he hadn’t been listening to their hearings.
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