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28 Aug 2010, 9:32 am by Eugene Volokh
(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]
9 Sep 2011, 9:58 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Here’s a math problem I much enjoyed, from the 2011 International Mathematical Olympiad:Consider a set of four different positive integers, which we’ll call a, b, c, and d. [read post]
22 Mar 2012, 5:24 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Facebook comment experiment seems to have proven largely unsuccessful. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 11:21 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) So reports Richard Winger (Ballot Access News) about the effects of California’s open primary law, under which the top two vote-getters in the primary — regardless of party — compete in the general election. [read post]
27 Oct 2011, 2:55 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) A pre-2009 Washington state law, under which Yasin Ibrahim was convicted, required aliens to get a license . [read post]
7 May 2011, 7:16 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The comments to the post in which I excerpted parts of Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon reminded me of the poll I ran about the book in 2007. [read post]
7 May 2010, 11:55 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) According to a local CBS TV station, About 85 mostly Hispanic students staged a noon protest march through Morgan Hill on Thursday, one day after five students at Live Oak High School were sent home after showing up in clothing with American flags on Cinco de Mayo. [read post]
23 Jan 2012, 1:52 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I’ve recently seen a couple of cases in which someone seems to be promoting lawyers’ Web sites using spam blog comments. [read post]
25 May 2010, 5:33 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I had always assumed that federal district court opinions (as opposed to Court of Appeals opinions or Supreme Court opinions) don’t serve as binding precedent on district judges even within the same district, and are no more persuasive precedent than any other district court opinions from any other district. [read post]
31 May 2010, 9:16 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) From Minivan News, a Maldivian site: The Islamic Foundation has called for self-declared apostate Mohamed Nazim to be stripped of his citizenship and sentenced to death if he does not repent and return to Islam. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 3:13 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) ABC News reports: Christian protesters traveled across the country to Dearborn, Mich., where they taunted attendees and even held a severed pig’s head for three days at the annual Arab International Festival. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 12:13 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) So the Kentucky Supreme Court held last week in Hill v. [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 3:58 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) A reader asks:Is a sitting Congressman’s Twitter (or other social networking account) his or her own private property even when used for official communication? [read post]
3 May 2010, 1:46 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) A very interesting column from Jonathan Rauch (National Journal); the subject is much more his field than mine, so I don’t have any independent basis for evaluating it, but I generally find his analyses to be quite reliable and worth reading. [read post]