Academic

Brandeis on Liberty
?Experience should teach us to be most on guard to protect liberty when the Government?s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers...

Baptist Theology and Religious Liberty
Writing in Liberty Magazine, Edwin Cook has an article entitled "True to 'Soul Liberty'" that tackles the concept of soul freedom in explaining the founding of the JM Dawson of Church-State Studies at Baylor University...

Be afraid, be very afraid
Be afraid, be very afraidDocumenting dissent is under attackFrom Monday, you could be arrested for taking and publishing a photograph of someone in intelligence, the police or armed forcesWhat ever happened to my country whilst I slept? I awake and find myself having a nightmare...

Liberty Counsel Files Brief in Kentucky Ten Commandments Case
Liberty Counsel has issued a press release that reports: Liberty Counsel filed a brief at the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in defense of the Foundations of American Law and Government display, which includes the Ten Commandments...

First Circuit writes in Cook v. Gates: We are convinced that Lawrence recognized that adults maintain a protected liberty interest to engage in certain consensual sexual intimacy in the home. But, still finds Dont Ask, Dont Tell Constitutional
Cook v. Gates was the second challenge to the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy of the U.S. Military decided after Lawrence. Yesterday in Cook v. Gates the First Circuit held in pertinent part: There are at least four reasons for reading Lawrence as recognizing a protected liberty interest...

UPDATE: David Liberty
Liberty is facing several child-porn charges in Platte County, but prosecutors also asking the public if anyone has ever been molested or attacked by Liberty. They're asking anyone with information to call the Western Missouri Cyber Crimes Task Force tip...

Chief Judge Jones rejects liberty interest claim
The Constitution protects against deprivations of life, liberty, and property without due process of law.Somewhere along the way came the notion that the concept of liberty includes freedom from being bad-mouthed by the government, but there's more to it than that, as evidenced by the ruling in April by Judge Jones in Etter v...

Intro to Criminal Justice #1: Justice and Public Safety
Benjamin Franklin was once quoted as saying, “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”  There’s a balance that must be struck between maintaing individual rights while balancing them against the interest of public safety...

Liberty National Life Insurance Co.
allegedly discriminated against Haitians by offering low quality policies and canceling without reason.

Liberty Travel
Agrees Preliminary Overtime Class Action Settlement of $2.76 Million

Stock Market Losses
alleging bad financial advice and conflicts of interest.

JP Morgan Chase & Co
Faces Lawsuit Over Hikes in Credit Card Interest Rate

Bayer CropScience AG
alleging farmers suffered economic losses after Bayer's biotech Liberty Link rice was released into the food supply and countries banned US rice.

Tax Discrepancies
Northwest Airlines pays IRS $12.6 million settlement for taxes and interest.