"Although I have no doubt that this was accurate reporting of the Alito acolyte's words, I do feel it necessary to remind everyone of what the late Professor Sherry Colb described vividly in 2022: Samuel Alito is not a defender of religious liberty but rather of a very particular brand of far-right Christian nationalist license. [read post]

The Bradford Hill Predicate: Ruling Out Random and Systematic Error In two recent posts, I spent some time discussing a recent law review, which had some important things to say about specific causation.[1] One of several points from which I dissented was the article’s argument that Sir Austin Bradford Hill had not made explicit that ruling out random and systematic error was required before assessing his nine “viewpoints” on whether an association was causal. [read post]