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12 Jul 2017, 3:19 am by Jon Katz
If we treated each day and opportunity as if we were a short-term visitor on this earth, we would not as easily get irritated at such minor transgressions of others as holding their burning cigarettes outside their car windows to stink up everyone’s air but their car’s, cutting us off in traffic, and not listening to us when we call customer service. [read post]
6 Jul 2017, 11:30 am by Eugene Volokh
It’s clear why we criminalize extortion by threat of violence (pay me or I’ll burn down your business): It’s a threat to do something that you have no right to do. [read post]
21 Jun 2017, 7:37 am by Alfred Brophy
 Soon I'll be talking about a duel fought in Dallas County by two slave-owners over whether one of the owner's slaves burned down the house of another. [read post]
22 May 2017, 5:31 am by Eugene Volokh
IJ is suing the board in federal district court, seeking to block it from enforcing the law this way — and my students Brandon Amash, Sarah Burns and Kristin Halsing and I (together with local counsel, Kristian Roggendorf) have filed an amicus brief on behalf of the ACLU of Oregon supporting IJ’s position. [read post]
1 May 2017, 3:02 pm by Eugene Volokh
So as this point, we don’t have a concrete proposal, or even (as with the flag-burning reference) a specific indication of what a proposal would look like if there were a proposal. [read post]
1 May 2017, 12:55 pm by Eugene Volokh
A demonstrator drags a burning American flag through the streets of Oakland, Calif. [read post]
21 Apr 2017, 5:36 am by Eugene Volokh
Of course, one can certainly argue that First Amendment law should be changed to allow bans on hate speech (whether bigoted speech, blasphemy, blasphemy to which foreigners may respond with attacks on Americans, flag burning, or anything else). [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 6:50 am by Eugene Volokh and Geoffrey Stone
” The royal charter declared it unlawful for any person to set up a printing press without a license and empowered the Stationers’ Company to seize and burn any book published without a license and to order the imprisonment of any person who published a book without its imprimatur. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 8:16 am by Christine Corcos
cc=us&lang=en&“Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck”Adam Cohen, authorPenguin Random House/Penguin Bookshttp://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/529315/imbeciles-by-adam-cohen/9780143109990“Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s”Risa Goluboff, authorOxford University Presshttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/vagrant-nation-9780199768448? [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 8:16 am
cc=us&lang=en&“Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck”Adam Cohen, authorPenguin Random House/Penguin Bookshttp://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/529315/imbeciles-by-adam-cohen/9780143109990“Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s”Risa Goluboff, authorOxford University Presshttps://global.oup.com/academic/product/vagrant-nation-9780199768448? [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 11:19 am by Eugene Volokh
The Associated Press reports: A Danish prosecutor says a 42-year-old man in northern Denmark has been charged with blasphemy for allegedly burning the Quran and posting a video of it on Facebook. [read post]
24 Dec 2016, 5:26 pm by Ron Coleman
Eugene Volokh s not a big fan of the work being done by the Monaghan-backed Thomas More Legal Center. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 1:38 pm by Kent Scheidegger
"  Fourteen years ago, CJLF defended Virginia's cross-burning law as applied to a cross burned in a manner that constituted a threat to specific people, and the U.S. [read post]
3 Dec 2016, 4:38 pm by Eugene Volokh
A sample: Article III, Section 1 Suggested title: Good Behaviour Suggested plot: After her husband dies, a Supreme Court justice goes through a midlife crisis, doing Jell-O shots with her law clerks, attending Burning Man and going on endless Tinder dates. [read post]
1 Dec 2016, 5:35 am by Will Baude
(Posner has apparently not encountered co-blogger Eugene’s excellent article on the history of symbolic speech and burning effigies.) [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 10:19 am by Eugene Volokh
Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag – if they do, there must be consequences – perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail! [read post]