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- An Examination of Foster Care in the United States and the Use of Privatization
Government Record · 2017
U.S. Senate Finance Committee staff
The Senate Finance Committee staff report on privatized foster care, including foster parent recruitment and retention.
- Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, 569 U.S. 576 (2013)
Court Filing · 2013
U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled that a naturally occurring DNA segment cannot be patented just because it was isolated, but synthetic cDNA can be.
- Attorney General of Canada v. Canadian Civil Liberties Association et al., 2026 FCA 6, plain-language summary
Court Filing · 2026
Federal Court of Appeal of Canada
Canada's Federal Court of Appeal in January 2026 dismissed the government's appeals and confirmed that invoking the Emergencies Act against the 2022 convoy protests was unreasonable…
- Axon Enterprise v. FTC (2023)
Court Filing · 2023
Supreme Court of the United States (Kagan, J., for a unanimous Court)
U.S. Supreme Court, April 2023, unanimous: people challenging the constitutional structure of the FTC or SEC can go straight to federal court. They do not have…
- B.K. v. Cox, No. 15-35964
Court Filing · 2016
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit held that social workers get absolute immunity only when acting like prosecutors in dependency court. Investigations and other actions get, at most, qualified…
- Ballotpedia: REINS Act History
Document
Ballotpedia
Ballotpedia: the REINS Act has passed the House six times since 2011, most recently in April 2025, and has never passed the Senate. The Senate version,…
- Bari Weiss: Twitter Files on Visibility Filtering (2022)
News Report · 2022
Bari Weiss
Journalist Bari Weiss, December 2022: a Twitter Files thread saying Twitter teams secretly built blacklists, kept disfavored tweets from trending, and limited visibility of whole accounts.…
- Basin Man Sentenced to 18 Months for Clean Water Act Violations and Destruction of U.S. Property
Government Record · 2016
U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Montana
DOJ reports Robertson was 77 at sentencing and received 18 months’ imprisonment plus restitution. It describes nine ponds on National Forest land and adjacent private property…
- Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, Public Law 115-123, Title VII (Family First Prevention Services Act)
Government Record · 2018
U.S. Congress
The Family First Prevention Services Act, which for the first time let states use Title IV-E money for mental health, substance abuse and parenting services meant…
- Bowman v. Monsanto Co., 569 U.S. 278 (2013)
Court Filing · 2013
U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled a farmer could not reproduce Monsanto's patented soybeans by planting and harvesting them without permission.
- Bowsher v. Synar (1986)
Court Filing · 1986
Supreme Court of the United States (Burger, C.J.)
U.S. Supreme Court, July 1986: struck down part of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget law for giving executive power to an officer controlled by Congress. The Court quoted…
- Brantley v. Kuntz (2015)
Court Filing · 2015
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (Sparks, J.)
Federal court in Texas, January 2015: struck down Texas rules forcing a hair-braiding school to install ten barber chairs and sinks its students were not even…
- Brief for the City of Chicago, City of Chicago v. Fulton, No. 19-357
Court Filing · 2020
City of Chicago
The brief documents the historical boot threshold relevant to the Fulton record. It should not be presented as the current threshold without checking later reforms.
- BT Achieves Significant Downward Variance: Probation Sentence for Former Portage Mayor James Snyder
Document · 2026
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
The defense firm reports that the bribery count was dismissed and the tax-obstruction conviction remained, producing probation on March 10, 2026. The underlying judgment and dismissal…
- Burge Reparations Ordinance
Government Record · 2015
Chicago City Council
The ordinance created financial and nonfinancial reparations, with a maximum $100,000 payment per eligible claimant. It did not itself certify a final survivor count.
- Calabretta v. Floyd, 189 F.3d 808
Court Filing · 1999
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The Ninth Circuit held that a warrant is generally required to search a home, and that a child welfare visit is not automatically an emergency that…
- California Civil Code §1798.90.5
Government Record · 2016
California Legislature
California's plate reader law definitions (SB 34), including what counts as a public agency.
- California Civil Code §1798.90.54
Government Record · 2016
California Legislature
California law letting people harmed by misuse of plate reader data sue, with at least $2,500 in damages.
- California Civil Code §1798.90.55
Government Record · 2016
California Legislature
California law barring public agencies from selling, sharing or transferring plate reader data except to other California public agencies.
- California County and Foster Care Agency Reach $13.5M Settlement With Six Abused Siblings
News Report · 2026
Associated Press
Six of the Turpin siblings settled with Riverside County and the foster agency ChildNet for $13.5 million after being abused again in foster care. The defendants…
- Camara v. Municipal Court, 387 U.S. 523
Court Filing · 1967
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court held that government inspectors generally need a warrant to search a home without consent, even for administrative inspections.
- Camreta v. Greene, 563 U.S. 692
Court Filing · 2011
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court threw out, as moot, the Ninth Circuit's ruling that interviewing a child at school about abuse required a warrant. The underlying question was…
- Canada Invokes the Emergencies Act to Limit Funding of Illegal Blockades and Restore Public Order
Government Record · 2022
Department of Finance Canada
The Emergency Economic Measures Order temporarily extended reporting rules and financial-service cessation duties. It was revoked with the emergency declaration on February 23, 2022.
- Canadian Frontline Nurses et al. v. Canada, 2024 FC 42
Court Filing · 2024
Federal Court of Canada; Justice Richard G. Mosley
The Federal Court granted the Cornell/Gircys, CCLA and CCF applications in part, found the emergency proclamation unreasonable, and found unjustified paragraph 2(b) and section 8 Charter…