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12 Dec 2011, 3:00 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The EEOC reported a couple of weeks ago: A Philadelphia-area security company will pay $50,000 and furnish significant equitable relief to settle a federal religious discrimination lawsuit, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today. [read post]
9 Jun 2012, 8:21 am
(Eugene Volokh) That’s what a Pennsylvania bill, unanimously passed last Fall by the state Senate and referred to the House — titled “cyberbullying by minors” — would provide: A minor [i.e., an under-18-year-old] commits a misdemeanor of the third degree if: (1) the minor knowingly transmits or disseminates any electronic communication, including a visual depiction of himself or any other person in a state of nudity, to another minor with the… [read post]
2 May 2010, 5:51 pm
(Eugene Volokh) From the Daily Mail: [Dale McAlpine] was charged with using abusive or insulting words or behaviour contrary to the Public Order Act 1986.... [read post]
14 Sep 2011, 10:31 am
(Eugene Volokh) Prof. [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 4:04 pm
(Eugene Volokh) So held a Kansas state trial judge in Purdum v. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 12:11 pm
EEOC, a key religious freedom case that Eugene Volokh blogged about here. [read post]
2 May 2012, 12:26 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The Wilmington News-Journal reports on a controversy at the University of Delaware involving what may or may not be an attack motivated by sexual orientation: A University of Delaware student charged with a hate crime [and battery] after allegedly shoving a gay student to the floor at a house party in Newark earlier this month insists that he has been “falsely accused. [read post]
26 Mar 2012, 3:31 pm
(Eugene Volokh) A commenter writes, apropos my post that discussed how the word “slut” could some times be pejorative and sometimes not, So now we’ve gone from offensiveness as determined by what the speaker said, through what the subject “felt”, and back to what the speaker “intended”. [read post]
26 Sep 2010, 3:36 pm
Blogs were burning up on Friday over this blog post by a California law professor (Eugene Volokh) that suggested that 5th Circuit nominee and current Miss. [read post]
16 Jul 2010, 3:50 pm
(Eugene Volokh) This is a difficult and recurring question, and arises with regard to a wide range of privileges — lawyer-client, psychotherapist-patient, clergy-penitent, and more. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 12:25 pm
(Eugene Volokh) A profile by Seth Stern:Most constitutional scholars initially ridiculed [Randy] Barnett’s argument against the individual mandate — that Congress cannot regulate or punish the “inactivity” of not buying something.Few mock it anymore, now that two courts have adopted the same reasoning in ruling against the individual mandate’s constitutionality. [read post]
14 Feb 2011, 10:56 am
(Eugene Volokh) So reports the Daily Mail (UK) reports:Residents in Surrey and Kent villages have been ordered by police to remove wire mesh from their windows as burglars could be injured....Locals had reinforced their windows with wire mesh after a series of shed thefts but were told by community police officers that the wire was ‘dangerous’ and could lead to criminals claiming compensation if they ‘hurt themselves’....Here’s the extended quote from… [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 9:48 am
(Eugene Volokh) So concludes the Oregon Attorney General, in Op. 2012-1 (Jan. 19, 2012): The requirement in ORS 475.323(2) to return marijuana likely is preempted by provisions of the federal Controlled Substances Act that prohibit the distribution and possession of marijuana…. [read post]
22 Nov 2011, 4:32 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Gene Fidell (Yale Law School) and some of his students are putting together an article tentatively titled A Pronouncing Dictionary of the Supreme Court of the United States, which will basically help people know the standard ways of pronouncing Supreme Court case names (such as City of Boerne v. [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 1:09 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Some comments on the incest thread seem to argue that incest should be banned just because it’s immoral. [read post]
27 May 2011, 9:47 am
(Eugene Volokh) FIRE — the top defender of university student free speech rights — is looking for a new Justice Robert H. [read post]
1 May 2010, 2:54 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Here’s a message that I got in response to the earlier posts on the Harvard e-mail controversy. [read post]
14 Sep 2010, 11:23 am
(Eugene Volokh) The Brisbane Times reports that: A Queensland University of Technology lawyer[,] ... [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 8:42 am
(Eugene Volokh) From the UK Advertising Standards Authority: A magazine ad for Antonio Federici ice cream showed a heavily pregnant woman dressed as a nun standing in a church holding a tub of ice cream in one hand and a spoon in the other. [read post]
12 Sep 2012, 8:17 am
(Eugene Volokh) And same for all of you who mock young earthers, or devout Scientologists, or believers in miracles — and all who say that, for instance, racist or sexist religious beliefs are contemptible — and maybe even all those who, even politely, contend that rival religions’ views are wrong and will deny salvation to the holders of those views: The United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others. [read post]
