by Ty Davison | Jun 1, 2022 | News & Commentary
The amazing thing about the Depp-Heard defamation suit is that “actual malice,” the standard to prove defamation for someone who’s famous, is a difficult standard to meet. That’s why defamation suits are rarely brought by famous people in the...
by Ty Davison | May 10, 2022 | News & Commentary
Helping Amber Heard Was Just the Start of the ACLU’s Problems – The Atlantic: In 1978, the ACLU successfully defended the right of neo-Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois, a community populated by Holocaust survivors. But in 2018, following the ACLU’s...
by Ty Davison | Nov 20, 2021 | News & Commentary
The Rittenhouse case was lost during the prosecution. Under state law once a reasonable claim of self-defense was made—and the prosecution(!) videos and witnesses clearly made that case—the burden falls to the DA to prove that it was not self-defense. They...
by Ty Davison | Sep 2, 2021 | News & Commentary
For decades pro-life efforts to restrict abortion have crashed against the rocks of Roe v. Wade. Besides being extraordinary restrictive (6 weeks), the Texas law uses a novel legal concept to (apparently) escape judicial scrutiny: enforcement is up to private citizens...
by Ty Davison | Jun 1, 2021 | News & Commentary
Church clarifies penalties for sex abuse – The Washington Post: The new laws state that clerics who abuse minors or other vulnerable people be punished with “deprivation from office,” and potentially with defrocking. Previously, the church had only...
