Reason Foundation
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Amicus Brief: Higginson v. Becerra
The right to vote, like the rights guaranteed by the Equal Protection Clause, is an individual right. Vote dilution claims, however, treat people simply as members of their racial group.
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Amicus Brief: Jessop v. City of Fresno
"Now, not only can officials seize and retain personal property with little judicial oversight under the guise of civil asset forfeiture; law enforcement also can outright steal personal property for their own use with impunity and without fear of civil liability. "
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Amicus Brief: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
Harvard’s discrimination against Asian American applicants prolongs a long history of discrimination against Asian Americans in the United States. The judgment of the district court should be reversed.
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Amicus Brief: West v. Winfield
The reasoning embraced by the Ninth and Second Circuits—requiring a Section 1983 plaintiff to point to a decided case with identical, or nearly so, factual allegations in order to defeat qualified immunity—sets an impossible standard
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Amicus Brief: Torres v. Madrid
This Court should reverse the Tenth Circuit and return uniformity and predictability to the Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence.
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Amicus Brief: Fleck v. Wetch
The case warrants this Court’s review because many state and local governments are refusing to comply with Janus’ waiver requirement.
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Amicus Brief: Salgado v. United States
Because lower courts have charted a course around CAFRA’s fee-shifting provision, inefficient and unmeritorious civil asset forfeiture actions are not adequately deterred.
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Amicus Brief: Shaffer v. Pennsylvania
This Court should grant the petition for a writ of certiorari to clarify the applicability — if any — of the “private search” doctrine to today’s digital world.
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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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Structurally Deficient Bridges
Of the 612,408 highway bridges reported, 54,254 (8.86 percent) were rated deficient for 2017.
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Idaho Ranks 13th in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
Idaho’s best rankings are capital and bridge disbursements per mile, urbanized area congestion and administrative disbursements per mile.
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Washington Ranks 37th in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
Washington’s best rankings are overall fatality rate, structurally deficient bridges and rural fatality rate.
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Rural Highway Fatality Rate
The nation’s rural highway fatality rate worsened from 1.58 in 2015 to 1.71 in 2016.
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Florida Ranks 40th in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
Florida’s best rankings are urban arterial pavement condition, rural arterial pavement condition and structurally deficient bridges.
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Minnesota Ranks 22nd in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
Minnesota’s best rankings are in overall fatality rate, urban fatality rate and rural fatality rate.
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New Jersey Ranks 50th in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
New Jersey’s best rankings are in rural Interstate pavement condition, overall fatality rate and rural fatality rate.
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Rhode Island Ranks 48th in the Nation in Highway Performance and Cost-Effectiveness
Rhode Island’s best rankings are in rural Interstate pavement condition, overall fatality rate and rural fatality rate.
