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- Jack Dorsey: Senate Judiciary Testimony (November 2020)
Government Record · 2020
Jack Dorsey, Twitter
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, November 2020: told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Twitter's hacked-materials policy was informed by conversations with the U.S. government, and explained blocking…
- Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905)
Court Filing · 1905
U.S. Supreme Court (Harlan, J.)
Upheld Cambridge's smallpox vaccination requirement (a $5 fine for refusal) against a Fourteenth Amendment challenge: 'It is within the police power of a State to enact…
- JAMA: NIH Clinical and Biomarker Tests in Anomalous Health Incidents (2024)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2024
Leighton Chan et al.
JAMA, March 2024: NIH found no differences in most tests between 86 patients and controls, but did find worse balance, fatigue, PTSD and depression in some…
- JAMA: NIH Neuroimaging Study of Anomalous Health Incidents (2024)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2024
Carlo Pierpaoli et al.
JAMA, March 2024: the NIH brain-scan study of 81 Havana Syndrome patients found no significant MRI differences from healthy controls. It did not repeat the earlier…
- JAMA: Penn Neuroimaging of Personnel Exposed in Havana (2019)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2019
Ragini Verma et al.
JAMA, July 2019: University of Pennsylvania scans of 40 Havana personnel found brain differences from controls in white matter, brain volume and connectivity. The authors said…
- January 6 Select Committee: Final Report (2022)
Government Record · 2022
Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, U.S. House of Representatives
House January 6 Select Committee, December 2022: its final report says transcripts and evidence were being released, with a small number of security and privacy limits.…
- Jerusalem Post: NIS 2.35 Billion Hasbara Budget for 2026 (2025)
News Report · 2025
Tobias Holcman
The Jerusalem Post, December 2025: reports Israeli ministers agreed NIS 2.35 billion for 2026 advocacy (hasbara), with NIS 1 billion already authorized. It is a broad…
- Jessop v. City of Fresno, 936 F.3d 937 (9th Cir. 2019), amended opinion
Court Filing · 2019
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
The allegations concerned property seized under a search warrant, not a traffic stop, and were not adjudicated theft findings. Immunity rested on the absence of clearly…
- Johanns v. Livestock Marketing Association (2005)
Court Filing · 2005
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Supreme Court, May 2005: ranchers forced to pay into the beef checkoff program cannot object to its ads on free speech grounds, because the Court…
- John Williamson: What Washington Means by Policy Reform (1989)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 1989
John Williamson
John Williamson's 1989 paper that named the "Washington Consensus": its list of policy reforms includes import liberalization.
- Joint CDC and FDA Statement on Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine (2021)
Government Record · 2021
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The April 13, 2021 joint statement recommending a pause in Janssen (J&J) vaccination after six U.S. cases of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis with thrombocytopenia, all in…
- Joint Committee on Taxation: U.S. International Tax Policy, JCX-16R-21 (2021)
Government Record · 2021
Joint Committee on Taxation
Joint Committee on Taxation, 2021: explains how the 2017 GILTI tax rule exempts a return on foreign factories and equipment, which can reward investing overseas. It…
- Joint Statement by President Clinton and Prime Minister Blair on Human Genome Research (2000)
Government Record · 2000
William J. Clinton and Tony Blair
Clinton and Blair said raw human genome data should be freely available to scientists everywhere, while also backing patent protection for gene-based inventions.
- Joint Statement by Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Government Record · 2023
U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
The statement invoked systemic-risk exceptions to protect all SVB and Signature depositors. It did not protect shareholders or certain unsecured debtholders.
- Jones v. Heslin: Texas Appeals Court Reduces Damages (2026)
Court Filing · 2026
Texas Third Court of Appeals
Texas Third Court of Appeals, August 2026: kept Alex Jones's liability to Sandy Hook parents but cut exemplary damages to $750,000 per appellant, finding the trial…
- Jones v. Lafferty: Petition to the Supreme Court (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
Alex Jones and Free Speech Systems LLC
Alex Jones and Free Speech Systems, September 2025: asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the Connecticut Sandy Hook case. The appendix reprints the appeals ruling…
- Jones v. Lafferty: Supreme Court Docket, Petition Denied (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
Supreme Court of the United States
U.S. Supreme Court, October 14, 2025: docket shows it denied Alex Jones's petition to hear the Connecticut case. Justice Sotomayor also denied application 25A411. A denial…
- Judge Orders Amos Miller to Pay $250,000 Fine Within 30 Days or Risk Jail
News Report · 2021
Food Safety News
The article quotes the sanctions order’s daily penalties: $25,000 per day for prohibited slaughter and $1,500 per day for specified unlicensed retail operations or missing required…
- Julian Huxley and the Continuity of Eugenics in Twentieth-century Britain
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2014
Paul Weindling
A peer-reviewed history of Julian Huxley's role in the British eugenics movement: Life Fellow of the Eugenics Society from 1925, on its Council from 1931, Vice-President…
- Julian Huxley: New Bottles for New Wine, “Transhumanism” (1957)
Document · 1957
Julian Huxley
Huxley's 1957 book contains the essay that named transhumanism: "man remaining man, but transcending himself, by realizing new possibilities of and for his human nature."
- Julian Huxley: UNESCO, Its Purpose and Its Philosophy (1946)
Government Record · 1946
Julian Huxley
UNESCO's first director-general, Julian Huxley, wrote the agency's founding philosophy in 1946. In it he says radical eugenic policy would be politically impossible for many years,…
- June 2026 Investment Program Review (Thrift Savings Plan)
Government Record · 2026
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
The Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board's June 2026 review. BlackRock and State Street manage separate accounts for the F, C, S and I Funds; total TSP…
- Jury Delivers Verdicts in Oregon Standoff Trial
Government Record · 2016
U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Oregon
Six Malheur defendants were acquitted on all counts and Ryan Bundy on conspiracy and firearms, with a hung theft count. Numerous co-defendants had pleaded guilty; later…
- Justice Department Announces Global Resolution of Criminal and Civil Investigations with Opioid Manufacturer Purdue Pharma
Government Record · 2020
U.S. Department of Justice
Purdue agreed to felony pleas, while the named Sacklers’ $225 million resolution was civil. This announcement does not announce criminal charges against a Sackler, but it…