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7 May 2018, 3:52 am by INFORRM
The press complaints body, IPSO, has announced a compulsory arbitration scheme to replace the current voluntary scheme which has not yet had any takers. [read post]
23 Apr 2018, 7:16 am by Ken White
Paul Alan Levy, an attorney at Public Citizen, blogger, and general free speech badass is familiar to Popehat's readers for his legal exploits. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 10:59 am by Wenqing Zhao, David Stanton
On April 5, President Trump directed the trade representative to consider levying a second wave of tariffs against an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods, again under Section 301. [read post]
12 Apr 2018, 12:57 pm by John Buhl
The administration is now considering imposing a 25 percent levy on $150 billion worth of Chinese imports. [read post]
9 Apr 2018, 4:24 am by Edith Roberts
” Horvitz & Levy’s At the Lectern blog looks at an amicus brief filed in Trump v. [read post]
24 Mar 2018, 4:43 am by William Ford
Alan Rozenshtein argued that big tech companies’ period of insulation from government regulation appears to be coming to a close. [read post]
8 Mar 2018, 4:58 am by Colby Pastre
Expiration of the individual income tax rate reductions One of the largest tax changes that is scheduled to expire at the end of 2025 is the reduction of individual income tax rates for households.[15] Before TCJA was passed, the federal individual income tax was levied at seven rates, rangin [read post]
23 Feb 2018, 3:05 am by Walter Olson
You don’t have to think porn’s OK, or that speech never does harm, to see that Ross Douthat’s censorship ideas will fall flat on their face [Rick Garnett/Prawfs, Taylor Millard/Hot Air quoting me, Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Tyler Cowen] Group libel theory meets nationalism in Europe’s censorship creep: “Poland Passes Bill Criminalizing Claims Of Its Complicity In The Holocaust” [Colin Dwyer/NPR, Eugene Volokh, Jacob Sullum] “Arizona Bar Accuses Libel… [read post]
29 Jan 2018, 2:51 pm by Eugene Volokh
Back in Fall 2016, Paul Alan Levy and I wrote about one such scheme that we had uncovered (thanks to a tip from one of the scheme's targets, Matthew Chan). [read post]
21 Jan 2018, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
” by Lee Bergquist for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Redistricting Federal: “Supreme Court Temporarily Blocks North Carolina Gerrymandering Ruling” by Adam Liptak and Alan Blinder for New York Times [read post]
8 Nov 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Eugene Volokh and Paul Alan Levy have been among those recently exposing as fraudulent some practitioners of the art known as “libel takedown” or “de-indexing injunctions. [read post]
3 Nov 2017, 6:25 am by Jim Sedor
When large fines were levied in the first round of fines for illegally lobbying the mayor, Emanuel accused the ethics board of turning “average citizens” into lobbyists. [read post]
19 Sep 2017, 7:00 am by Dan Carvajal
  In a recent study, Tax Foundation economists compared the corporate tax rates levied by 202 jurisdictions across the globe and found that the United States has the fourth highest statutory corporate income tax rate in the world. [5] The only jurisdictions with a higher statutory rate are the U.S. territory Puerto Rico (with a population of 3.7 million), the United Arab Emirates (population 9.4 million), and the tiny African island nation of Comoros (population 826,000). [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 7:09 am by Ron Coleman
Republished by Blog Post PromoterPaul Alan Levy sends along this heartwarming news about the Jenzabar case: In a ruling this week, a Massachusetts trial judge upheld the free speech rights of a documentary filmmaking company against an effort by a Massachusetts software company to use trademark litigation to punish the filmmakers for the portrayal of one of the student leaders in the Tiananmen square protests. . . . [read post]
7 Aug 2017, 8:53 am by Dan Carvajal
Key Findings A tax expenditure is a departure from the normal tax code that lowers a taxpayer’s burden, such as an exemption, a deduction, or a credit. [read post]
3 Aug 2017, 7:24 am by Colby Pastre
“The city needs to collect $10 million in each of the next two months to meet its goal,” said Controller Alan Butkovitz, “a figure that appears to be significantly out of reach. [read post]
28 Jul 2017, 3:05 am by Walter Olson
SPLC: “How the Southern Poverty Law Center Enraged Nominal Conservatives Into Betraying Free Speech Values” [Popehat] “Former University Official Files Libel Lawsuit Against His Replacement For Things A Journalist Said” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt, Tennessee] “Ted Rall Is Incensed That Anti-SLAPP Laws Protect Everyone” [Popehat] Conjuring up notional John Doe defendants can help get injunctions forcing websites to take down stories [Paul Alan… [read post]
22 Jul 2017, 11:20 am by Eugene Volokh
I’m not sure quite what should be done in cases like this, but I agree that this is an important issue, and Levy’s post is much worth reading. [read post]
19 Jul 2017, 12:30 pm
"Ninth Circuit poised to resolve major free speech issue in secret proceeding": Paul Alan Levy has this post at the "Consumer Law & Policy Blog" of the Public Citizen Litigation Group. [read post]