A George Mason University law professor sued the university over its COVID-19 requirements, asserting that he has natural immunity to the coronavirus and does not need the vaccine. Todd Zywicki, the professor, filed a federal lawsuit in the Eastern District of Virginia earlier this month, alleging the school’s policy regarding the coronavirus pandemic violates his…

A Texas federal judge denied a former defendant’s bid to lift what his lawyers called a “gag order” in his settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor of Fort Worth said there had been no change in the law or violation of due process to justify modifying Christopher Novinger…

A National Labor Relations Board ruling that Tesla CEO Elon Musk unlawfully discouraged unionizing in a tweet violates the First Amendment and signifies a trend toward the board favoring union speech over employer speech, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has argued in the Fifth Circuit. Published in Law360 TweetShareShare0 Shares

Partially disabled veterans whose benefits are suspended when they are recalled to active duty are not automatically entitled to benefits once their tours of duty end, a divided federal appeals court held. In a 2-1 decision Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a Veterans Affairs regulation under which the veteran…

The Environmental Protection Agency has been sued for taking over property adjacent to the 2015 Gold King Mine catastrophe in Colorado to stage cleanup equipment and projects, and keeping it, never paying for it or even for renting it. The case seeks millions of dollars in damages and has been submitted to the U.S. Court…

Imposing a constitutionally dubious vaccine policy at a public university that not only has some of the top classical liberal law professors in the country but is also intimately connected with a global network of freedom advocates is a recipe for a lawsuit. That’s exactly what George Mason University learned recently when it imposed a school-wide vaccine mandate for students, faculty,…