Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Court case strikes at Georgia Legislature’s ability to exempt its staff

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Arizona Liberals Are Working Hard to Unseat This Libertarian Justice

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Ethics Commission is not all it’s cracked up to be

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Supreme Court: Conservative groups see opportunities to cut regulation, shore up property rights

Steller’s Friday Notebook: Arizona Supreme Court justice deserves voters’ skepticism

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Innovative exercise solution Liv Labs rises above 130 competitors South Side Pitch Crowns Winner in Fifth Annual Business Competition

Executive order violates Constitution, nonprofit says

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

South Side small businesses compete in Polsky Exchange contest

Lawsuit targets lobbyist gift ban in Missouri governor’s office

Missouri Lobbying Rules Fought in Federal Court

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

4 distinguished GCC alumni to be honored at homecoming

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Oklahoma Ethics Commission hit with federal lawsuit over gift rules

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Event announcement: Symposium on the 150th anniversary of the 14th Amendment

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Exciting Conference on the 150th Anniversary of the Fourteenth Amendment, Sept. 21

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Atlas network: the task force of the ‘ultra right-wing libertarians’ behind the capitalist offensive in Latin America

“The 14th Amendment at 150: America’s Second Founding”

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

How a DC Internship Transformed This Future State Supreme Court Justice’s Life

The Plutocratic-Libertarian International: From Diversionism to State Privatization

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

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Contest will shine light on South Side innovation, talent, positivity South Side Pitch Business Competition to Showcase Community Entrepreneurs

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Empirical SCOTUS: Getting rid of those amicus blues

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

For LabMD, the consolation of a big win in court

Why Emanate Penumbras When There’s a Ninth Amendment?

The Conservative Legal Machine

It Took a Village to Raise Kavanaugh

Brett Kavanaugh could quickly have opportunity to expand 14th Amendment

How Conservatives Won the Battle Over the Courts

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

The Contrarian: McAdams Owes Victory to WILL

Book Review: Burt Walker’s ‘Status Schmo’

Come to FreedomFest, Featuring the Reason Media Awards, July 11-14

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Neil Gorsuch Joins Sonia Sotomayor in Questioning the Third-Party Doctrine

Here Are the Finalists for the 2018 Reason Video Prize!

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

The Supreme Court Abandons Another Constitutional Safeguard, Only Gorsuch Dissents

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

IL Supreme Court: Government can’t use change in law to deny info requests filed before law changed

Illinois Supreme Court ruling a victory for government transparency

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Bitcoin Use Case: Limiting Government Growth

Illinois Supreme Court rules in favor of Plaintiff on FOIA case –

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Friday round-up

SCOTUS 101: SCOTUS Bingo & the Slaughterhouse Cases

A bone marrow donor drive and fundraiser will be held for the family Friday evening in Winthrop Grade School. After Winthrop girl falls ill, family urges Mainers to join bone marrow registry

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

How Lawmakers and Courts Closed the Door on Open Government in Texas

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Trump travel ban hinders man’s ability to have lifesaving surgery

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Illinois Supreme Court to hear two cases in Urbana on Thursday

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

State Supreme Court plans to hear oral arguments at University of Illinois

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Charity Navigator: Charity Navigator’s Top 10 Tuesday: Charities with the Most Consecutive 4 Star Ratings

Austin girl in need of bone marrow transplant asks for spit

Missouri Legislature should not repeal post-Ferguson reforms

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Koch tells donors in desert: Conservative political network can increase tenfold

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

AL.com’s new Facebook brand, Reckon, aims to build an identity that breaks out of newspaper voice

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

SCOTUS Considering Major Cellphone Location Case

Your Secrets Are Not Safe With Anyone

Oklahoma Christian students are signing up to make a difference

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Amicus Briefs Filed in Virginia Drivers License Case

Blog Post

Short Circuit Special: Interview with Family Raided By SWAT Team for Tea Leaves in Trash

Carpenter v. United States

FOIA Amendment should not be retroactive, amicus brief argues – – Illinois Leaks

Trump Administration Withdraws Proposed Obama Ban on Compensation for Bone Marrow

HHS withdraws an Obama rule that literally kills people. Money for Marrow, Finally

Conservative Lawyers — Goldwater Institute Cultivates a Helpful Network

Secretive lobbying group heads to Denver next week. Here’s what you need to know

Misinforming the Majority: A Deliberate Strategy of Right-Wing Libertarians

Exclusive: Libertarian Activist Austin Petersen Is Running for U.S. Senate…as a Republican! [Reason Podcast]

The Libertarian Headhunting Firm Serving the Koch Network and the Bradley Foundation

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Chasing Free Enterprise: An Investor Gives Steadily for Libertarian Think Tanks

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Hacked records show Bradley Foundation taking its conservative Wisconsin model national

Grandson honored with blood, bone marrow drive

Couple Swaps Wedding Registry For Bone Marrow Registry, Asks Guests To Become Donors

“Uncommonly Silly”—and Correctly Decided: The Right and Wrong of Griswold v. Connecticut and Why It Matters Today

Will you marrow me?

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Why Scalia Was Wrong About Chevron

Bone marrow basketball tournament comes to ECU Saturday

The Framers did not envision government by judiciary. Against “Judicial Engagement”

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

When Animals Attack, The Law Is Often On Their Side

Thorner Forces Build to Assure Trump Fills Supreme Court Vacancy with Pro-Life Judge

30 Under 30: The Top Young Lawyers And Policymakers (2017)

When Enforcing the Constitution Means Rejecting Precedent: A Reply to Greg Weiner

Cato podcast on Nelson v. Colorado and the presumption of innocence

Deciding Unclear Originalist Cases: Towards Good-Faith Constitutional Construction

EDITORIAL: Flouting the Constitution

IRS, Border Patrol Sued For Records Of Forfeited Cars, Cash And Property

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Four Ways Charitable Giving Can Save Our Democracy

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Jeff Sessions opposes sentencing reform, defends civil forfeiture, and criticizes the Obama administration for letting states legalize marijuana. Trump’s Pick for Attorney General Is a ‘Drug War Dinosaur’

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

BBC News’ Chloe Hadjimatheou and Richard Knight win the Reason Video Prize; The Financial Times’ Tim Harford earns the Bastiat Prize for Journalism Fox’s John Stossel Awarded The Lanny Friedlander Prize at the Reason Media Awards

Social media’s most famous judge is at the forefront of a conservative legal movement that’s redefining what it means to be a judicial activist. And he’s on Donald Trump’s Supreme Court short list. Don Willett’s Quiet Revolution

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Why We Want Judicial Engagement, Not Judicial Restraint

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

2016 Reason Video Prize Finalists Announced

Size Doesn’t Matter: Why Shrinking the Supreme Court Won’t Promote Constitutionally Limited Government

A Couple of Givers: Bruce & Suzie Kovner, Part III

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Miller panel talks SCOTUS

Bruce and Suzie Kovner give to schoolchildren, music students, and policymaking. Here’s how and why. The Educators

Let’s Legislate From the Supreme Court Bench

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Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

South Side entrepreneurs throw out their best pitches

Yelp-Style App for Police Officer Review Wins Polsky Competition

2017 Originalism Works in Progress Conference roster

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Against Judicial Restraint

Students attempt to add diversity to donor registries

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Twenty-Five Years Litigating for Liberty

Money for Bone-Marrow Donors? Company Says Yes; Feds Say No

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

The Supreme Court Needs a New Judicial Approach: The Case for Judicial Engagement

What Would You Do to Save Your Child’s Life?

Things to do this week: Wednesday, Sept. 7 — Why Is There So Much Terrible Beer?

Legal aid clinic helps entrepreneurs cut through Chicago’s regulatory red tape

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Without Matching Bone Marrow Donors, 3,000 Americans Die Each Year — This Movie Wants To Change That

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Scrutiny for Me, But Not For Thee? New York Times Columnist Praises Courts for “Calling out Legislators” in Abortion and Voting Rights Cases

Opinion Journal: Pay Bone-Marrow Donors

The Case for Compensating Bone-Marrow Donors

Pay Bone-Marrow Donors, Save Lives

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

5th Cir.’s Smith Doesn’t Always Fit ‘Conservative’ Label

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

The Libertarian Case for Originalism

George Will’s Constitution

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Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Our Constitution will protect us, if we use it right

Judicial Impartiality Must Not Be a Mere “Facade”: On the Dangers of Individual and Systematic Judicial Bias

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

PLF’s new president wants to extend the organization’s reach

Film inspired by Lewiston mom premieres

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Justice Thomas’ Abortion Dissent And The Decline Of The Rule of Law

From Cops to Clinton: Impunity Corrupts

Conservative legal advocate Pacific Legal Foundation names new president

Steven Anderson Named as New PLF President and CEO

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Beyond the exclusionary rule

Prohibition, Prostitution and Chicago’s Mini-Fiefdoms

Utah v. Strieff: Fourth Amendment Rights Without Remedies and the Problem of Arbitrary Police Power

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Broken Engagement?

Against Narrow and Hidebound Originalism: On Peruta v. San Diego and the Right to Armed Self-Defense

Scope of practice: How can we expand access to care?

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

The Constitution’s Keystone: Why Our Independent Judiciary Was No ‘Afterthought’

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Williams v. Pennsylvania: Supreme Court Holds Judge Can’t Hear Case He Once Prosecuted

Donald Trump, Professor Tushnet and the Incredible Disappearing Rule of Law

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

This Foundation Is a Stalwart Backer of Libertarian Policy. Have You Heard of It?

A Quiet Victory for the Rule of Law: Supreme Court Makes it Easier for Property Owners to Challenge Federal Regulatory Power

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

The Menace of Arbitrary Power and the Duty of Judicial Engagement: A Further Reply to Greg Weiner

Restoring Public Trust: In Foster v. Chatman, Supreme Court Strikes Blow Against Prosecutorial Misconduct

Does Judicial Engagement Empower Progressives? Answering Professor Weiner’s Challenge

Book Review: Dark Money and Plutocrats United

Short Circuit

Boston Globe Columnist Jeff Jacoby to Visit Young Israel of Teaneck

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal circuit court decisions

Originalism Isn’t Enough: Why Judicial Engagement is Essential to Constitutional Enforcement

Yes, the First Amendment Protects Panhandling: A Defense of the Supreme Court’s ‘Free Speech Absolutism’

Great moments in immigration law

Trump Is No ‘Tough Guy’

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Bad Faith or Bad Principle? On Chief Justice Roberts, the Affordable Care Act and Judicial Restraint

Derailing Self-Interested Regulation: Federal Appeals Court Denies Amtrak Power Over Competition

FIRE Hosts Second Amendment Debate

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

U. Of C. Holding Old-Fashioned Debate On Second Amendment And Gun Control

I’m So Fed Up, I’m Suing the TSA

Judging Judicial Nominees

Supreme Court to Decide Whether States Can Make You Leave Your Fourth Amendment Rights at the DMV

Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal circuit court decisions

Why Popular Sovereignty requires the due process of law to challenge “irrational or arbitrary” statutes

FACING THE SPECTRE OF A BOND

Blog Post

Institute for Justice Website Finalist for Webby Award Law Category

‘Moderate’ Or Not, Judge Garland Would Be A Poor Successor To Justice Scalia

Ronald Bailey Speaking at Florida Gulf Coast University on Saturday

For Judicial Independence—and Against Elective Despotism: A Further Reply to Greg Weiner

Judicial Restraint Cannot Restrain the Administrative State

George Will: Brace Yourself for Donald Trump & the Authoritarian Moment

False Modesty: Why the Supreme Court Does Not Need Judicial Minimalism

Arizona Legislature Finally About to Dismantle Corrupt Arizona Bar

Enough Is Enough: Justice Scalia, Auer Deference, and Judicial Duty

One of the nation’s most prominent libertarian legal activists is the newest member of the Arizona Supreme Court. Clint Bolick: The Libertarian on the Court Bench

The Evolution of Constitutional Theory and the Future of Judicial Engagement: A Response to Professor Balkin

What does Scalia’s death mean for the Friedrichs case? Hint: It involves state legislatures

In Defense of the Late Justice -- and the Rule of Law Antonin Scalia, Judicial Activist?

Justice for Freedom

The Art of Public Policy Philanthropy: Donors Go to Court

Why Constitutional Conservatives Should Embrace Judicial Engagement

Meet Clint Bolick, Libertarian Lawyer Turned Arizona Supreme Court Justice

Palm Beach couple donates $5 million to Institute for Justice

Taming the Law’s Coercion

Book Review: The Right to Try

Video Gaming the Supreme Court Justices

With the Supreme Court on sidelines, gun control becomes fight over power

Don’t Amend the Constitution, Enforce It

Arizona GOP Governor . . . Names High-Profile Open-Borders Attorney To State Supreme Court

Justice Bolick Frightens The Statists

Conservative group nears big payoff in Supreme Court case

Watch This Judge: A Conservative Happy Warrior Dons Black Robes

AZ Governor Appoints Notable Judge

Goldwater Institute lawyer to serve on Arizona Supreme Court

The Most Chilling Political Appointment That You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Libertarian Lawyer Clint Bolick Appointed to Arizona Supreme Court

Institute for Justice co-founder named to Arizona Supreme Court

This week in the laboratories of democracy. The Governor of Texas Is Starting to Sound Like a Twitter Egg

Goldwater Institute lawyer named to Arizona Supreme Court

Goldwater Institute Lawyer Named to State Supreme Court

Blog Post

IJ Co-Founder Clint Bolick Headed to Arizona Supreme Court

Phoenix attorney Bolick appointed to Supreme Court of Arizona

Ducey appoints independent to Supreme Court

Self-described ‘activist’ named to state’s high court

Meet Arizona’s Newest Supreme Court Justice: Clint Bolick

Dred Scott, Substantive Due Process, and the Logic of Natural Rights: A Further Reply to Matthew Franck

Judge Posner to Speech-Squelching Sheriff: Cease and Desist

Championing liberty and free markets around the world

Fallible But Final: Why Justice Scalia is Wrong About the Supreme Court’s Authority

Can the Government Put a Price Tag On Your Right to Choose Your Lawyer?

Defining ‘One Person, One Vote’: The Supreme Court Returns to the Political Thicket

Hollowing Out Civil Rights Law: Supreme Court Signs Off On “Shoot First, Think Later” Policing

Innovation Clinic to provide legal guidance for startups

Wanted: Supreme Court Justices With Grit

Does the Constitution Still Matter? Evan Bernick from the IJ

Dozens of vested interests push ‘model bills’ on Kansas politicians

Objecting to Judicial Restraint: Against the Presumption of Constitutionality

Does Government Need A Good Reason For Restricting Your Freedom?

Justice Holmes’ Big Lie(s): Why His Lochner Dissent is Wrong, and Judicial Engagement Is Right

Ed Whelan vs George Will on “judicial restraint”

Answering the Supreme Court’s Critics: The Court Should Do More, Not Less, To Enforce the Constitution

Institute For Justice’s Strategic Research Program Named Finalist For Prestigious Templeton Freedom Award

A Koch and a smile

Yes, Judicial Engagement IS Winning Over Conservatives: A Response to Professor Ramsey

New York Times Reporter Discovers Judicial Engagement, Fears for Big Government

Cooper v. Aaron and Judicial Authority: Lessons From Little Rock

‘Go Dutch’ founders hope to eliminate dating expectations

New York Times Prefers John Roberts Over His Libertarian Critics

No, Chief Justice Roberts’ Judicial Restraint Isn’t Admirable

Professors: Federal government should totally seek RICO charges against climate change skeptics

Environment roundup

It’s Time for Conservatives to Reject Judicial Restraint

Federal Judge to HHS: No, You Can’t Discriminate for No Good Reason

Is This Adversary Procedure? “Dr.” Posner’s Potent Prescription

Signs Point to More Freedom: How a Recent Supreme Court Decision Strengthens the First Amendment

It’s Time to End Prosecutorial Immunity

August 12 roundup

Cruz vs. the Court: Why Conservatives Shouldn’t Join His Crusade

4 Prominent Ayn Rand Recanters

A Year Later, Two Eleventh Circuit Judges Remain Worlds Apart on Doctors and Guns

Ted Cruz, Judicial Activism, and ‘Useful Idiots for Progressive Statists’

Actually, Justice Alito, Liberty Is Nothing to Be Afraid Of

Do We Have an Amoral Constitution? A Second Reply to Kurt Lash

Yes, The Fourteenth Amendment Protects Unenumerated Rights: A Response to Kurt Lash

How Progressives Are Playing John Roberts

That elusive distinction between rights courts are competent at articulating and protecting, and rights they are not

Obergefell v. Hodges and the Meaning of Liberty

Liberals vs. ‘Liberty’: Two Left-Leaning Scholars Side With Scalia

Gay bars were crucial in the fight for equal rights, which is why they kept getting shut down by the government. How Liquor Licenses Sparked the Stonewall Riots

On Obamacare, John Roberts helps overthrow the Constitution

Supreme Court: Force for change?

Looking for change in all the wrong Supreme Court cases

Compensation for marrow donors will save lives

Let’s Compensate Bone Marrow Donors

Court Argument: Compensate Bone Marrow Donors to Save Lives

NBC-TV: Money for Marrow

IJ Attorney Jeff Rowes Discusses Health Care Challenge on MSNBC

Cancer Patients’ Constitutional Challenge to the Allow Compensation for Marrow Donation

Challenging the Ban on Compensating Bone Marrow Donors Part 2

Challenging the Ban on Compensating Bone Marrow Donors

Saving Lives: Challenging the Ban on Compensating Bone Marrow Donors

Press Release

Senior Attorney Scott Bullock to Succeed Mellor as President After 24 Years as IJ’s One & Only President Chip Mellor Elevated to Board Chairman in 2016

Obergefell v. Hodges

Censorship in Your Doctor’s Office

The Case of the Bone Marrow Buyer

HHS vs. cancer patients

George Will: Judicial activism isn’t a bad thing

The Constitution's power-constraining pieces had to be interpreted out of existence to allow judges to blindly defer to legislators. Book Review: ‘Terms of Engagement,’ by Clark M. Neily III

How Activist Is the Supreme Court?

Wanted — less judicial activism, more judicial engagement

Clark Neily’s Book on Judicial Engagement

Clark Neily’s Terms of Engagement—Part 5

Clark Neily’s Terms of Engagement—Part 6

Clark Neily’s Terms of Engagement—Part 1

Clark Neily’s Terms of Engagement—Part 4

Clark Neily’s Terms of Engagement—Part 3

Clark Neily’s Terms of Engagement—Part 2

Report

How Our Courts Should Enforce the Constitution's Promise of Limited Government Terms of Engagement

Panju: The difference between judicial activism and judicial engagement

‘Judicial activism’ a convenient bogeyman

America needs judicial engagement, not abdication

ObamaCare: Contract Killer

Dep’t of Health and Human Servs. v. Florida

Day 2—Judicial Abdication Is a Bigger Problem Than Judicial Activism

re: Statistical Flim-Flam Against Criticism of Judicial Activism

The Facts About Judicial Activism

Report

The False Problem of "Judicial Activism" and the Need for Judicial Engagement Government Unchecked

The Washington Supreme Court and the State Constitution: A 2010 Assessment

Guns and Judicial (In)activism

Report

Context for Coming Debate over Privileges or Immunities Getting Beyond Guns

Has the Supreme Court Eroded Freedom?

Report

Ambiguity, False Modesty and (Maybe) Another Win for Originalism The Right to Keep and Bear Arms in the States

Bone Marrow Statistics

Markets in Everything: Bone Marrow

Fighting the Federal Ban on Compensating Marrow Donors

Using Economics to Solve Bone Marrow Transplant Crisis

How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom The Dirty Dozen

Otis McDonald et al. v. City of Chicago

Otis Mcdonald et al v. City of Chicago

DISPUTATIONS: In Opposition to Looseness

The Dirty Dozen

Judging the Judges

Report

How Twelve Supreme Court Cases Radically Expanded Government and Eroded Freedom The Dirty Dozen

Report

Judicial Abdication and the Rise of Special Interests

Lawrence v. Texas

Lawsuit

Reisman v. Tennessee Dept. of Human Services Institute for Justice Defends Interacial Adoption Interracial Adoption in Texas and Tennessee (joined)