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18 Jan 2012, 8:13 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Following Citizens United, I heard many people argue that the Court was wrong because corporations should not be seen as having First Amendment rights — not just that they do have First Amendment rights but that there’s some special compelling interest that justifies restricting corporate speech about candidates, but that corporations aren’t people and therefore can’t have First Amendment rights at all. [read post]
12 Mar 2011, 3:30 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Fox 411 reports:Everything Britney Spears wanted to know about sex, she learned from her mom.And at a very young age. [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 2:05 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) From the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Determination of No Reasonable Cause in Fair Housing Center of West Michigan v. [read post]
26 Sep 2010, 9:30 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) A commenter writes, in the Blasphemy Arrests in England thread (after suggesting that the reported arrests may be less significant than some argue): ... [read post]
16 Jan 2011, 7:58 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) “[S]ubsequently, the duo, along with the family, has gone in hiding over fears of being killed. [read post]
22 Feb 2012, 4:51 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I briefly blogged about this question in 2009; now there’s a lawsuit, White v. [read post]
24 Mar 2012, 4:24 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) To arrest someone for a crime, the police need probable cause to believe that he committed the crime. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 1:02 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Here’s a fun passage from Francis Holt, Law of Libel 38–39 (1812) [UPDATE: switched to citing the original 1812 edition rather than the 1816 second edition]; it’s an English treatise, but one that was highly influential in America in the early 1800s, and my sense (from the pretty substantial reading I’ve done on the subject) is that the views expressed here were pretty mainstream on both sides of the Atlantic (some paragraph breaks added):The… [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 1:47 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Michael McConnell, a leading First Amendment scholar (who is now at Stanford) and former Tenth Circuit judge (2002–2009), praises Larry Tribe’s stand on the constitutionality of the debt ceiling (see, for instance, this guest post). [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 3:37 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I tend to be skeptical of many resource-saving ideas, which often have pretty substantial hidden costs and fewer benefits than at first appear. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 12:00 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Institute for Justice, one of the very best libertarian public interest law firms in the country, is opening a state chapter in Florida, and is looking for an Executive Director. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 11:18 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) From RealClearPolitics (which also has video):“I’ve said time and time again, if the President gets up to August 2nd, without a piece of legislation, he should not allow this country to go into default. [read post]
7 Jun 2012, 12:22 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) WFAA-TV reports: [A new gun range will have two rooms for] birthday parties for kids. [read post]
17 Aug 2010, 6:19 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Public Advocate for the City of New York (Bill de Blasio) has a site that lists major (nonmedia) corporations’ stands on using corporate money to speak about candidates for political office. [read post]
28 Oct 2012, 4:14 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I’m delighted to report that Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education — one of my favorite public policy advocacy groups — will be guest-blogging this week about his new book, Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate. [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 2:52 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) We usually think of contractions, such as “it’s” or “can’t,” as directly interchangeable with the full versions, such as “it is” or “cannot. [read post]
27 Sep 2014, 3:46 am by SHG
A while back, the question arose whether a poor strategic decision in the Crystal Cox case was the product of choice by her lawyer, Eugene Volokh, or a duty imposed on him because his client demanded it. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 10:19 pm by Ted Frank
Garner, David Mamet, and George Will (not to mention Eugene Volokh) I don't know that my endorsement can add much at the margin, but I found Farnsworth's Classical English Rhetoric edifying and entertaining. [read post]