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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on Thursday found a Washington county violated the First Amendment when it refused to run an anti-terrorism advertisement on the side of a bus. The American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) sued King County Metro for refusing to run an ad featuring photographs of people exclusively of [...]

A federal judge in Seattle decided  Monday to extend a preliminary injunction effectively forbidding a Texan gun-rights activist from publishing plans for untraceable 3D printed firearms. The injunction prevents the federal government from implementing a settlement agreement it had reached in June with Cody Wilson, the activist who intended to publish the plans, that would [...]

A federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary restraining order Tuesday blocking a Texas man from releasing downloadable blueprints for plastic 3D-printed firearms. Judge Robert Lasnik of the US District Court for the Western District of Washington issued the ruling a day after the Washington Attorney General, along with several other states, filed a lawsuit challenging the [...]

The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy this week represents the end of an era and the beginning of the entrenchment of a more conservative Supreme Court, probably for years to come. That much seems clear. But there are actually many more sides to Justice Kennedy’s retirement than that simple statement implies. Justice Kennedy was nominated [...]

Seattle’s city council voted on Tuesday to repeal a proposed tax on businesses, in which large businesses would have been taxed $275 for every full-time employee, with the revenue going towards Seattle’s homeless population. The city council had passed the tax unanimously a few weeks ago. However, the council voted 7-2 to repeal the tax [...]

California was the 5th state to explicitly permit mentally competent terminally ill patients to obtain a prescription from their physician for medication the patient may ingest to achieve a peaceful death, a medical practice known as aid in dying. This option appeals to some patients who find themselves trapped in a protracted dying process, where [...]

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed lawsuits on Monday against Google and Facebook for failing to disclose information about who purchased political ads that were displayed on their platforms. Both companies are accused of violating RCW 72.17A, which requires that “political campaign and lobbying contributions and expenditures be fully disclosed to the public and [...]

JURIST Guest Columnists, Sarah Wetter and James G. Hodge, Jr. of the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discuss preemptive legal schemes that deprive states and localities of opportunities to implement efficacious interventions to advance public health......

JURIST Guest Columnist John Buckleton of New Zealand's Institute of Environmental Science and Research, discusses the future of DNA software in the courtroom... As anyone who has ever watched CSI can tell you, DNA is well established as the gold...

JURIST Guest Columnist Corinne Maupin of Valparaiso University School of Law discusses advances in facial recognition technology and the corresponding ripeness for matching regulations ... A recent article in the ABA Journal noted that law enforcement agencies have proposed...