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6 Jun 2024, 8:15 am
" Yet even as the activists continued to enforce the Jew Exclusion Zone, Defendants not only failed to marshal resources to intervene—they adopted a policy facilitating the Jew Exclusion Zone, ordering, among other things, UCLA campus police to stand down and step aside. [read post]
3 Jun 2024, 5:01 am
And those, who saw the miracle, close their kitchen doors, Stick needles in voodoo dolls, read the psalms and believe That the stone in the heart of the killer, the cowardly, cold creature Will one day stop beating and will give the world peace, And in the sky the blood clots will burst in the crimson Kremlin towers, And the bombs will become quiet in our neighbors' fields, And then the ballets will die down, the sons-of-bitches will run, And the air will smell of Summer, and we can… [read post]
30 May 2024, 12:35 pm
From Justice Sotomayor's opinion today in NRA v. [read post]
27 May 2024, 11:54 am
The Court of Appeals therefore sent the case back down to the district court for further proceedings. [read post]
27 May 2024, 5:01 am
" But how I'd like to fall in that grass And to lie down in the red poppies Poppies, poppies, red poppies… The bitter memories of the earth Do you really see in your dreams… Do you really see in your dreams Attacks of soldiers who never came back home? [read post]
24 May 2024, 5:01 am
At the invitation of First Amendment scholar Eugene Volokh and the Federalist Society, right before the country shut down for Covid, I gave a talk at UCLA on Title IX and ways to accommodate transgender girls in girls' and women's sports. [read post]
20 May 2024, 5:01 am
Some of the hostility occurred at a UCLA Federalist Society event just days before the country shut down for Covid. [read post]
14 May 2024, 10:27 am
Randall (1958), which struck down a denial of a property tax exemption to people and organizations that "advocate[] the overthrow of the Government of the United States … by … violence … or who advocate[] the support of a foreign government against the United States in the event of hostilities": [A] discriminatory denial of a tax exemption for engaging in speech is a limitation on free speech. [read post]
10 May 2024, 9:12 am
They (the abortion clinics) cause the nuisance, Operation Rescue was arguing—not the protesters (such as Operation Rescue members) who come to protest, or the arsonists who try to or threaten to burn down the clinic and thus endanger its neighbors. [read post]
10 May 2024, 8:34 am
Though it was peaceful, its presence generated controversy, including persistent calls from some of you that we shut it down. [read post]
9 May 2024, 10:32 am
That review will probably be influenced by the Supreme Court's Rahimi case, which deals with whether people subject to domestic violence restraining orders lose their Second Amendment rights, and which is due to come down from the Court by June 30. [read post]
7 May 2024, 2:19 pm
Eugene's post focuses mostly on the First Amendment part of the ruling. [read post]
7 May 2024, 5:01 am
Likewise, the letter argues that, if Columbia doesn't crack down on and identify those students who engage in "unlawfully trespassing on and occupying public spaces," then "employers are forced to assume the risk that anyone they hire from Columbia may be one of these disruptive and hateful students. [read post]
6 May 2024, 11:54 am
Many of you have sent me messages noting that the two large rallies – which brought many people from outside MIT to campus last Friday and shut down Massachusetts Avenue – occurred peacefully. [read post]
3 May 2024, 11:33 am
With or without official adoption of the IHRA definition, university officials already have an incentive to clamp down on all sorts of speech that could be deemed hostile to various groups. [read post]
3 May 2024, 10:48 am
Grace (1983) struck down a categorical ban on picketing outside the Supreme Court (which was applied in that case to a lone picketer): The United States … [argues] that the federal courts represent an independent branch of the Government and that their decisionmaking processes are different from those of the other branches. [read post]
3 May 2024, 8:49 am
Many courts have struck down campus speech codes framed in such terms, but the government and various universities have continued to assert that such speech restrictions are constitutional. [read post]
2 May 2024, 2:00 pm
UCLA facilities teams are now in the process of taking down structures and cleaning up the quad, and we ask that students, staff and faculty continue to avoid the area. [read post]
30 Apr 2024, 5:38 am
" -EV] The second states that "[i]n October 2021, several elected officials and candidates spoke at the Patriot Double Down conference hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada by antisemitic QAnon influencer John Sabal (QAnon John). [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 1:30 pm
And the university must protect their right to peacefully protest by using "other, less restrictive means" than shutting down the rally even when protesters are met with violence or disruption from those who disagree with their message. [read post]