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U.S. Supreme Court Approves Nevada Distinction Between Casinos and Churches Pertaining to Pandemic Crowd Size Restrictions
July 27, 2020
In a 5 to 4 order, U. S. Supreme Court approved a Nevada federal court's decision upholding a Nevada pandemic crowd size restriction that petitioners claimed favored casino gatherings over church gatherings, drawing a strong dissent by four other justices.
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USJD Files Criminal Charges Against Hackers Working with the Chinese Government to Steal Covid-19 Research
July 22, 2020
The U.S. Justice Department announced that hundreds of millions of dollars worth of intellectual property and trade secrets from worldwide companies were stolen by hackers working with the Chinese government.
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Delahunty and Yoo: U.S. Commission on Unalienable Rights Report Confirms Source of Trump Administration's Human Rights Policies
July 20, 2020
Writing in National Review Online, Robert Delahunty and John Yoo explain that the Draft Report of the U.S. State Department's Commision of Unalienable Rights evidences that the Trump Administration "seeks to base human rights in the Bible, the republicanism of the American Founding, and the evolution of freedom ever since," not in those human rights "blessed" by the United Nations.
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Advertising Giants Agree to Evaluate Mutual Definition of Hate Speech
July 20, 2020
The Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), which includes advertising giants and big tech companies, is evaluating whether it is possible to develop an industry-wide standard, but non-binding, definition of what constitutes "hate speech."
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Williams Analyzes Impact of Recent U.S. State Department Communications on China's South China Sea Activities
July 20, 2020
In a Lawfare post, Robert Williams of Yale Law School analyzes the diplomatic impact of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s recent statement outlining the “U.S. Position on Maritime Claims in the South China Sea” and Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David Stilwell’s speech setting forth a bill of particulars concerning Chinese misdeeds in the South China Sea and beyond.
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