Court upholds law limiting where child sex offenders can live

In a 6-0 decision, the court found the residency restriction “does not infringe upon a child sex offender’s fundamental rights” and that there was a “rational basis” for the state to ... Read More

Some sex offenders could be surgically castrated under bill OK'd by Senate panel

Chemical castration of certain sex offenders is already legal in Louisiana, specifically of people ... “We’ve said many times somebody might make that mistake and then years later turn their ... Read More

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Supreme Court grapples with online First Amendment rights as social media teems with misinformation

As big tech firms wrestle with how to keep false and harmful information off their social networks ... media. The court is deciding, in separate cases, whether the platforms are like news ... Read More

The Top 10 Social Media Sites & Platforms

And social media users have grown to trust and rely on their preferred social networks for everything from real-time news ... that many other social platforms do not. For this reason, it’s ... Read More

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Mar. 15, 2024 — Scientists tested several hypotheses on the drivers of social aging in free-living Assamese macaques in Thailand. The researchers collected data on the social behavior of females ... Read More

Balance between fighting misinformation and protecting speech on social media gets more complicated

Robert Kennedy Jr. was temporarily ... influence social media. In other cases, the court will look at laws passed in Texas and Florida to determine whether tech companies are like news ... Read More

UK court upholds school's ban on prayer following Muslim student's legal challenge

A Muslim student from the UK has lost a court ... ban on prayer — to promote the school's ethos of integrating pupils from different faiths, cultures and ethnic backgrounds while minimizing soci ... Read More

Nevada Supreme Court upholds state ban on ghost guns, reversing lower-court decision

The Nevada Supreme Court upheld a 2021 state ban on ghost guns Thursday, overturning a lower-court decision that declared the law unconstitutional for being vague. Ghost guns are guns without serial ... Read More

Court upholds law limiting where child sex offenders can live

The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a state law restricting where previously convicted child sex offenders can live ... such a crime can live. Capitol News Illinois is a nonprofit ... Read More

Court upholds law limiting where child sex offenders can live

He authored a unanimous opinion upholding the state’s lifetime residency restrictions for child sex offenders. Illinois Supreme Court Justice ... Capitol News Illinois is a nonprofit ... Read More

Illinois court upholds law limiting where child sex offenders can live

The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled that a state law restricting where previously convicted child sex offenders can live ... judicial factfinding.” Capitol News Illinois is a nonprofit ... Read More