The reasonableness law, an amendment to Basic Law: The Judiciary, prohibits all courts, including the Supreme Court, from using the judicial yardstick of “reasonableness” to review and potentially ...

In Orange County Water District v. The Arnold Engineering Company (D070763), the Fourth Appellate District examined the criteria for evaluating the reasonableness of a parties’ denial of requests for ...

On April 2, 2025, the Court of Appeal for California’s Fifth Appellate District issued its decision in Bring Back the Kern v. City of Bakersfield, 2025 S.O.S. 909. That case held that courts must ...

Two recent experiences have caused me to reflect on how public agencies go about achieving their purposes. Both involved the rigidity with which government's rules are typically applied, and both ...

A clear, disinterested look at the state of higher education is not for the faint of heart. Jonathan Marks, a politics professor at Ursinus College, relates the following story in Let’s Be Reasonable: ...

Here’s a subject new to this column: The Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Before the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnes v.

A 1980s case of a man desperately seeking orange juice to stave off a diabetic coma saved Atlanta police Officer Garrett Rolfe from murder charges. On Tuesday, Rolfe and fellow Officer Devin Brosnan ...

Administrative law is meant to protect the country’s residents against arbitrary government actions and to require the executive branch to function as the public’s trustee. In Israel, the principles ...

A new version of the coalition’s controversial bill to block judicial scrutiny over the “reasonableness” of politicians’ decisions was released Wednesday evening, and despite reports that Prime ...

The Knesset on Monday night approved the first reading of the law to reduce the cause of reasonableness. The law was approved by a majority of 64 to 56. All members of the coalition voted in favor of ...