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17 Apr 2023, 5:01 am
And if one's goal is to avoid Google searches quickly finding one's past cases and writings (the way they do for an uncommon name such as Eugene Volokh, for instance), using the name Jane Smith is likely to be at least as effective, and less likely than Jane Doe to raise eyebrows. [read post]
2 Apr 2007, 1:55 pm
This is from Eugene Volokh's description of the case:Hooks was sentenced for "aggravated indecent assault on a person less than 16 years of age, statutory sexual assault, and indecent assault"; he had had a sexual encounter (the details are contested) with a girl whom he had just met -- he was a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman, and she was a resident of one of the houses he visited -- on the day before her 16th birthday. [read post]
24 Apr 2010, 9:37 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Harry Taylor was convicted of “causing religiously aggravated harassment, alarm or distress,” and sentenced to six months in jail (suspended for two years), 100 hours of community service, and 250 pounds in costs; he was also barred from “carrying religiously offensive material in a public place. [read post]
18 Sep 2010, 4:42 pm
(Eugene Volokh) A commenter writes, Actually, anyone with a brain disrespects all of rap and anyone in it. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 11:27 am
(Eugene Volokh) Here are the views that it is a crime in Denmark to express (according to Danish Free Press Society and IceNews):Of course Lars Hedegaard shouldn’t have said that there are Muslim fathers who rape their daughters when the truth instead seems to be that they make do with killing daughters (so-called honour killings) –- and moreover turn a blind eye to rapes by uncles.According to Langballe, Danish law does not allow truth as a defense; it simply provides,… [read post]
20 May 2010, 7:31 am
(Eugene Volokh) The bill (HB1259) — which passed the state House of Representatives by a 78–16 vote , and has cleared the state Senate Committee on Judiciary C — would make it a misdemeanor to transmit any Internet communication or other computer communication “with the intent to coerce, abuse, torment, intimidate, harass, embarrass, or cause emotional distress to a person under the age of seventeen. [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 2:14 pm
(Eugene Volokh) So holds yesterday’s U.S. v. [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 9:09 pm
(Eugene Volokh) ChristianNewsToday reports that there were many more attacks — “At least one Christian was killed and others injured when thousands of Islamic extremists set fire to 59 churches and at least 28 homes in western Ethiopia in the past five days, Christian leaders said,” with “More than 4,000 Christians ... displaced as a result of attacks that began on Wednesday (March 2) after Muslims accused a Christian of desecrating the Quran by tearing up a… [read post]
8 Jan 2012, 9:10 pm
(Eugene Volokh) I’m delighted to say that Bill Patry will be guest-blogging this week about his new book, How to Fix Copyright. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 8:33 am
(Eugene Volokh) I blogged about the case yesterday, but didn’t then have a copy of the trial court’s latest opinion rejecting the free speech defense. [read post]
19 Jan 2012, 1:40 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The Shawano High School newspaper decided to run dueling student opinion pieces on whether same-sex couples should be able to adopt children; the student article that answered the question “no” said, among other things, quotes Leviticus 20:13 (“If there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of of them have committed a detestable act; they shall surely be put to death. [read post]
26 Oct 2010, 11:35 am
(Eugene Volokh) Here’s what the proposed rules say, in relevant part: § 3–03 Grounds for Denial of Permit. [read post]
2 Feb 2012, 12:47 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The Deseret News reports: Former Naples Police Chief Steven C. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 10:53 am
(Eugene Volokh) The Arkansas Legislature has just passed, and sent for the governor’s signature, a bill that would make it misdemeanor “cyberbullying” totransmit[], send[], or post[] a communication by elect[r]onic means [including computers and telephones] with the purpose to frighten, coerce, intimidate, threaten, abuse, harass, or alarm another person ... in furtherance of severe, repeated, or hostile behavior toward the other person.So it may shortly be a… [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 8:33 am
(Eugene Volokh) A commenter on the thread about the 1901 case in which the court rejected (on statutory grounds) a prosecution for expelling someone from church based on how he voted writes: It goes almost without saying that religious freedom was not at issue in this case because the First Amendment would not be incorporated against the states until Gitlow v. [read post]
27 Apr 2012, 1:35 pm
(Eugene Volokh) From a Quinnipiac poll, conducted April 11 to April 17: 47. [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 12:13 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The AP-National Constitution Center poll, conducted August 18 to August 22 of this year, asked respondents whether they are “extremely confident, very confident, somewhat confident, not too confident, or not confident at all in the people who are running” that institution. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 1:35 pm
(Eugene Volokh) From In re Damian R. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 4:25 pm
(Eugene Volokh) So holds today’s opinion in Mazdabrook Commons Homeowners’ Ass’n v. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 11:00 pm
(Eugene Volokh) From President Obama’s remarks today at the University of North Carolina: One Republican congresswoman said just recently — I’m going to quote this because I know you guys will think I’m making it up — (laughter). [read post]
