Reason Foundation
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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.
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California Ballot Initiative Analysis: Proposition 11
Proposition 11 would allow ambulance providers to require workers to remain on call during their breaks, would require more training for EMTs, and provide more mental health training.
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California Ballot Initiative Analysis: Proposition 10
Proposition 10 would repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act.
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Florida Ballot Amendment Analysis: Amendment 12
Amendment 12 would prohibit public officials from lobbying for compensation for 6 years after leaving elected office.
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California Ballot Initiative Analysis: Proposition 8
Proposition 8 would limit the amount that kidney dialysis clinics can charge for their services to 115 percent of their costs for direct patient care and quality improvement.
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Florida Ballot Amendment Analysis: Amendment 10
Amendment 10 is a four-part measure that would restructure state and local government operations.
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California Ballot Initiative Analysis: Proposition 7
Proposition 7 would allow the legislature to end bi-annual clock changes in California.
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Florida Ballot Amendment Analysis: Amendment 6
Amendment 6 would expand the rights of victims during the criminal justice process, raise the retirement age of judges, and prohibit courts from deferring to an administrative agency's interpretation of laws.