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J. L. Greene

Car Service Cartels Use Regulation to Crush Competitors

HuffingtonPost.com | J. L. Greene | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Taxis, Nashville, Minneapolis, Taxi Medallions, Limousines, National Institute of Justice, Nasvhille Conventions and Visitors Bureau, Legislation, Las Vegas, Transportation, Austin Texas, Livery Vehicles, Dc, Houston, Tennessee Livery Association, Prince George's County, Washington, Milwaukee, Visit Music City, Portland Oregon, Little Rock, Livery Cars, Nashville Metropolitan City Council, Gaylord Opryland, Institute for Justice, Denver, Video, Home News

NASHVILLE, Tenn.-- In June 2010 the Nashville Metropolitan City Council passed legislation raising the city's minimum fee for limo and sedan rentals, ...

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Engaged Judges Needed to Protect Vital Freedoms

Jeff Rowes | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Property Rights, Constitutional Law, Institute for Justice, California Redevelopment Funds, California, Jerry Brown Redevelopment, Judicial Activism, Politics News
Jeff Rowes

To those locked in the power struggles between right and left, adverse court decisions are frequently lambasted as "judicial activism." When the Supre...

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Cancer Patients vs. the Attorney General

Bob McNamara | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Constitutional Law, Institute for Justice, Bone Marrow Donation, Bone Marrow, Politics News
Bob McNamara

Congress can't criminalize things arbitrarily, and it certainly can't turn people into felons on the basis of a simple factual mistake, like treating bone marrow as if it were a solid organ.

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Colorado Gets a C for Its Civil Asset Forfeiture Laws

Mike Krause | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shawn Mitchell, Colorado, Civil Asset Forfeiture, Institute for Justice, Bill Owens, Denver News
Mike Krause

Asset forfeiture laws in Colorado were spawned out of the worst excesses of the war on drugs in the 1980s and '90s and turned the best practices of American justice upside down.

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Supreme Court Backs Plutocracy, Targets Arizona Clean Elections Matching Funds

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Roberts Court, Goldwater Institute, U.S. Senate Candidate Andrew Romanoff, Bush-Cheney 2000 Decision, 1998 Arizona Clean Elections Act, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Pay-to-Play, Matching Funds, Level Playing Field, Rehnquist Court, Corporate Court, U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on Matching Funds, Publicly Funded Campaigns, Infringement of First Amendment, Colorado Clean Campaigns, Tikkun, Erosion of Democracy, Plutocracy, Todd Lang, Millionaires Amendment, Samuel Alito, Initiative 53, Federal Elections Now Act, Chamber of Commerce, Institute for Justice, Chilled Speech, Fair Elections Now Act, PAC Money, Attorney General Candidate Stan Garnett, Denver News
Michele Swenson

The Colorado Citizens (Publicly-Funded) Campaigns Initiative 53 is not modeled on Arizona and other states' public funding initiatives that use matching funds to level the election playing field.

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