Reason Foundation
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Amicus Brief: Valent v. Commissioner of Social Security
The Supreme Court should take this case to resolve the question of what tools the lower courts must employ in a search for the meaning of a statute.
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Amicus Brief: Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
The Supreme Court should act to protect religiously neutral student-aid programs from lower court rulings and state government actions that run afoul of the federal constitution.
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Amicus Brief: Competitive Enterprise Institute and National Review v. Michael E. Mann
If this were the law anywhere in the country, it would represent a profound danger to free speech and debate.
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Study: How to Accelerate the Pace of Exploration and Economic Development of Space
A plan to reorganize U.S. space policy to generate significant improvements to communication and navigation systems, clean energy, manufacturing, research, and more.
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Amicus Brief: US District Court Should Dismiss the Indictment in US v. Lacey, et al
The government may not prosecute a speaker for his or her speech unless and until the government establishes that the speech is not protected.
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Amicus Brief: Court Ruling ‘Allows Police Officers to Steal From Suspects With Impunity’
By insulating even egregious misconduct from liability whenever there is no prior case specifically on point, the panel’s reasoning extends qualified immunity doctrine to its extreme.
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Amicus Brief: Supreme Court Should Hear Montana School Choice Case, Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue
This court should grant the petition to provide legal clarity for the many states seeking to increase educational opportunities for all children.
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Amicus Brief: Law Enforcement, Without a Warrant, Strip-Searched and Photographed a Four-Year-Old Girl at Her Preschool
Qualified immunity denies justice to victims of unconstitutional misconduct. It imposes cost-prohibitive burdens on civil-rights litigants. And it harms the very public officials it seeks to protect.
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Amicus Brief: Mitchell v. Wisconsin
The court should reject Wisconsin’s claim that it can impute consent sufficient to sustain a warrantless search merely from an individual’s choice to drive on the state’s roadways.
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Amicus Brief: Backpage.com Is Presumptively Protected by the First Amendment
The government’s unconstitutional seizure of assets and proceeds from Backpage.com and weekly newspapers is an attempt to erode the First Amendment’s carefully erected bulwarks around free expression.
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Amicus Brief: Abbott v. Pastides
The Supreme Court should make clear that public universities violate the First Amendment by subjecting their students to investigations for having exercised their First Amendment rights.
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Study: Asset Recycling Could Generate Up to $885 Billion for US Infrastructure Investment
Report details how to improve nation’s aging roads and bridges, airports, seaports, and wastewater facilities while also generating hundreds of billions for currently unfunded infrastructure projects.
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Frank Baxter Wins the 2018 Savas Award for Public-Private Partnerships
Baxter and Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools have helped thousands of Southern California students improve their lives.
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Amicus Brief: St. Bernard Parish Government v. United States
This Court should grant the landowners’ petition for certiorari because Judge Dyk’s opinion for the Federal Circuit panel adopted two novel exclusionary rules that are contrary to this Court’s Takings Clause jurisprudence.
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Amicus Brief: Prison Legal News v. Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections
Florida’s censorship of Prison Legal News amounts to an impermissible effort to imprison not only the body but also the mind.
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Amicus Brief: Delano Farms Co. v. California Table Grapes Commission
The point of this brief is to examine how we got to this unusual place and to propose that the Court treat forced subsidies for generic advertising the same way it treats other forced subsidies for speech.
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Florida Ballot Amendment Analysis: Amendment 13
Amendment 13 would outlaw wagering on dog racing, most notably greyhound racing, in Florida.
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California Ballot Initiative Analysis: Proposition 12
Proposition 12 would amend Proposition 2 (2008) to ban the sale of meat from animals confined in areas below certain precise measurements.
