One reason for the growing anger at, and mistrust of, Big Government is the sense of utter frustration and absolute helplessness that the average citizen feels when dealing with officious and obnoxious government officials. This case is a perfect example of why that frustration and helplessness festers in the minds ...

Here a divided panel vacated an order to forcibly medicate a mentally ill inmate to make her competent to stand trial, saying the order “comes perilously close to a forcible medication regime best described not as ‘limited,’ but as ‘routine’”.

Kimberly White and a co-conspirator were arrested on November 14, ...

Defendant's Hobbs Act robbery and Hobbs Act conspiracy convictions are affirmed in part where the interstate commerce element was proven with respect to the defendants' conspiracy convictions, which encompassed cocaine and heroin robberies – substances that necessarily originated out-of-state. However, defendant's convictions are vacated in part where the government presented ...

Daniel Millis thought he was being a good Samaritan. He and a few volunteers from “No More Deaths,” an organization that provides humanitarian aid to migrants, were caught placing gallon-sized plastic bottles of water on trails in the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona to help alleviate death ...

Here the Third Circuit joined with a majority of the Circuits in holding that the “community caretaking exception” to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement is limited to searches of automobiles and does not apply to searches of the home.

In 1973, a sharply divided Supreme Court fabricated a new exception ...

This case involves another one of those quick-fix, meddling and intrusive Federal statutes that seems to be about the only type of legislation that the current Congress can enact - namely, ever more mindless - but crowd-pleasing - regulation. The statute in question is the Stolen Valor Act, 18 U.S.C. ...

Here the Court ordered a defendant to pay $1.6 million in restitution to two victims of his child pornography which had no chance of being paid since the defendant had no assets and payment under the IFRP would take some 3000 years.

Possibly because it makes our legislators look or ...

In a civil rights action arising out of plaintiffs' arrests, incarcerations, and prosecutions for attempting to enter a federal building with objects resembling police badges, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where: 1) plaintiffs' First Amendment claim was waived because it was not explicitly raised, or supported by facts alleged, ...