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The ObamaCare Ruling

Scott Holleran — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:20:26 +0000

Today is another sad day for our dying America: the Supreme Court has upheld ObamaCare, according to most reports. But it should not be a surprising day for Americans, not to those who choose to think. Anyone could have seen this coming. Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative whom most on the right supported when [...]

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Remembering the 1992 Los Angeles Riots

Scott Holleran — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 07:10:57 +0000

This week marks the 20th anniversary of L.A.’s riots, which were sparked by a mixed verdict in a racially-charged trial of police officers accused of using excessive force against a suspect. His name was Rodney King. He had refused to cooperate in an arrest which had been secretly videotaped and was subsequently – also repeatedly, [...]

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Law: I Oppose ObamaCare

Scott Holleran — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:34:53 +0000

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—otherwise known as ObamaCare—turns two years old today. I do not want the date to pass without stating that I oppose ObamaCare—100 percent—on principle because health care, as Leonard Peikoff argued in 1993, is not a right. Under that fraudulent morality, this legal monstrosity forces insurers to cover sick [...]

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Supreme Court: Congress May Re-Copyright Public Domain Works

Scott Holleran — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:00:35 +0000

In an interesting decision today, the Supreme Court ruled that Congress has the power to re-copyright public domain works. I have not read the decision and I am not a legal expert, but I am concerned that this ruling, which as I understand it effectively prohibits public use of works such as composer Sergei Prokofiev’s [...]

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FCC Case Against CBS Rejected

Scott Holleran — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:21:04 +0000

In a victory this Wednesday for freedom of speech, an appeals court rejected the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to punish CBS for airing an expressive portion of Janet Jackson’s broadcast performance during the 2004 Super Bowl. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled by 2-1 (CBS Corp et al v. FCC, [...]

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Professor Barnett on ObamaCare Court Ruling

Scott Holleran — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:17:17 +0000

When the Richmond, Virginia-based Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling against the state of Virginia’s case against ObamaCare this morning, I asked one of the nation’s most knowledgeable legal scholars, Georgetown law professor Randy Barnett, whom I interviewed earlier this year, for a statement. Dr. Barnett responded: “For a case that some [...]

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Obama Shakes Down Doctors

Scott Holleran — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:36:06 +0000

The Obama administration is initiating a secret government operation investigating doctors in private practice, according to the New York Times in its Sunday, June 26 edition. The article reports that, according to government documents obtained from Obama administration officials, government agents posing as patients “will call medical practices and ask if doctors are accepting new [...]

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Interview: Randy Barnett on ObamaCare

Scott Holleran — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:07:25 +0000

Law professor Randy Barnett, who has argued before the Supreme Court, is described by Forbes as the legal scholar “who laid the intellectual groundwork for the surprisingly effective legal attacks on ObamaCare by state attorneys general.” Barnett, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches contracts and [...]

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Update on Effort to Repeal and Reject ObamaCare

Scott Holleran — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:53:56 +0000

The Congressional effort to repeal ObamaCare was postponed by the cowardly Republicans in the House of Representatives after a mass murder in Tucson, Arizona, which is leading to another assault on freedom of speech. But, according to an interactive map on Health Care Lawsuits, the national lawsuit to stop ObamaCare has recently gained several new [...]

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