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3 Jul 2009, 11:27 am
"Flag Burning and Free Speech: The Founding Fathers agreed that the First Amendment protected 'symbolic expression.'" Law professor Eugene Volokh has this op-ed today in The Wall Street Journal. [read post]
28 Aug 2010, 9:32 am
(Eugene Volokh) The Gainesville Sun site reports: The city of Gainesville has denied Dove World Outreach Center’s application for a burn permit to set fire to copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, but the church says it plans to burn the holy books anyway. [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 8:16 am
(Eugene Volokh) Agence France Press reports:A Muslim mob burned churches and clashed with police in Indonesia on Tuesday as they demanded the death penalty for a Christian man convicted of blaspheming against Islam, police said.Two days after a Muslim lynch mob killed three members of a minority Islamic sect [the Ahmadiyahs], crowds of furious Muslims set two churches alight as they rampaged in anger over the [five-year] prison sentence imposed on defendant Antonius Bawengan,… [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 9:12 am
” See also “Planning to Burn a Koran = $200,000 Bill from the Government for Policing Costs? [read post]
8 Mar 2011, 1:31 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The Voice of America reports further developments and more details related to the story I noted yesterday:Police in Ethiopia have arrested 130 people described as religious extremists in connection with a series of church burnings in a Muslim-majority area....Ethiopian government spokesman Shimelis Kemal told VOA two Christians had been killed in the incidents. [read post]
31 Oct 2012, 10:17 am
It burned in the same area and in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. [read post]
31 Oct 2012, 10:17 am
It burned in the same area and in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 7:53 pm
(Eugene Volokh) So reports the New York Daily News; for more on the story from when the transit worker was fired for burning pages from the Koran to protest a planned Islamic center near Ground Zero, see this post. [read post]
9 Apr 2007, 4:02 pm
It does cover some expressive speech like flag waiving or burning. [read post]
11 Apr 2011, 2:24 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The Daily Mail (U.K.) reports:A British National Party election candidate [Sion Owens] accused of publicly burning a copy of the Koran was freed today when the charge against him was unexpectedly dropped....It is understood that his release was due to a technicality regarding the Act under which he was arrested and charged.An unconfirmed source in court today claimed that the permission of the Attorney General must be sought before such a charge can be made.In… [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 7:44 am
Burns has backed down. [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 1:27 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Reuters reports: A Detroit prosecutor has filed a petition in district court to stop a Florida fundamentalist Christian preacher, who recently caused riots in Afghanistan after he burned a Koran, from holding a rally outside a large Michigan mosque.Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said the threat of violence was too great to allow Terry Jones to hold the planned gathering on Friday near the Islamic Center of America — the largest U.S. mosque — in the… [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 4:09 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Josh Gerstein (Politico) has transcripts of Breyer’s Good Morning America remarks, which seemed to suggest that Koran-burning might be constitutionally unprotected, but also his more recent Larry King Live remarks, which pretty strongly suggest that Koran-burning is indeed constitutionally protected. [read post]
8 Jul 2010, 12:11 pm
(Eugene Volokh) From Bohmfalk v. [read post]
23 Aug 2007, 5:54 am
If the farmers down the Willamette Valley insist on burning their fields and letting smoke pour into Eugene, they'd get a lot less grief by letting these guys go first. [read post]
31 Dec 2015, 6:02 am
Wouldn’t burning a Koran be protected by the First Amendment, like burning an American flag? [read post]
12 Sep 2013, 12:16 pm
(Eugene Volokh) AP reports. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 12:12 am
Recently posted to SSRN: "Predicting Premeditation: Future Behavior is Seen as More Intentional than Past Behavior" ZACHARY BURNS, affiliation not provided to SSRN EUGENE M. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 12:12 am
Recently posted to SSRN: "Predicting Premeditation: Future Behavior is Seen as More Intentional than Past Behavior" ZACHARY BURNS, affiliation not provided to SSRN EUGENE M. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 8:23 am
” I’ll defer to Eugene on this question, but I’m particularly skeptical of the idea that the First Amendment would protect flag burning but not Koran burning (not that I’d recommend either, save burning a flag for proper disposal). [read post]
