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24 Nov 2010, 9:09 am
(Eugene Volokh) As I mentioned in my Implementing the Right to Keep and Bear Arms in Self-Defense article (PDF p. 57), “[B]ans on felon possession of firearms also affect their law-abiding spouses, girlfriends and boyfriends, and other housemates: Those people might be unable to safely possess guns in their homes because of the possibility that their felon housemate will be seen as ‘constructive[ly] possess[ing]’ the gun, and that they themselves will therefore be… [read post]
11 Sep 2012, 9:28 am
(Eugene Volokh) Yesterday, I posed this math puzzle: Treating “^” as meaning exponentiation, and treating the exponentiation chain as going on infinitely, solve for x: x^(x^(x^(x^(x^(x^...))))) = 2 Many people in the comments got the right answer — the square root of 2 — some people were unsure, so I thought I’d briefly blog a follow-up. [read post]
16 May 2011, 2:33 pm
(Eugene Volokh) As I blogged a while back, modern defamation law generally applies only to false statements, but at some point a literally true statement may so strongly carry a false connotation that the speaker could be held liable for the implied falsehood despite the literal truth. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 11:19 am
(Eugene Volokh) Reader Tim Hudson writes: Other than Justices Sotomayor and Alito (who were both prosecutors) and maybe Ginsburg (with the ACLU), have any other Supreme Court Justices ever tried a case? [read post]
13 Dec 2010, 1:21 pm
The arrest of Columbia professor David Epstein on charges of incest with an adult family member prompted my UCLAW friend and colleague Eugene Volokh to offer some typically erudite (but somehow abstract) thoughts on criminalizing such things. [read post]
11 Dec 2008, 4:56 am
Eugene Volokh explains in analyzing a recent New Hampshire case:People sometimes ask -- if it's a crime to pay someone to have sex with your friend, or even to pay two people to have sex so you can watch, why aren't pornographers equally guilty? [read post]
30 May 2008, 6:02 am
Here are some articles with a somewhat different analytical take: Volokh Conspiracy: Professor Eugene Volokh tries to put his finger on the disagreement between the majority and dissenting Justices and finds it in the notion of what makes a single “household. [read post]
20 May 2012, 4:30 pm
(Eugene Volokh) I just ran across an interesting case, Memphis Pub. [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 12:59 pm
(Eugene Volokh) I saw a couple of people (including InstaPundit) citing this Utne Reader article, which reports that “Texas Department of Public Safety data show that the fastest-growing group of concealed handgun owners in the state has been, for at least five years, black women” (and also tells the story of the author, one of those black women). [read post]
12 May 2010, 4:42 pm
(Eugene Volokh) I don’t think we should choose our Supreme Court Justices based on their sexual orientation. [read post]
4 Feb 2011, 11:54 am
(Eugene Volokh) Here are the opening paragraphs of her article, which I checked and which are quite correct:“The facts are clear,” said Attorney General Eric Holder. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 9:55 am
(Eugene Volokh) I just came across a law review article title that does an unusually good job of intriguing and informing its likely readers. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 2:51 pm
(Eugene Volokh) That’s the result of Mussa v. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 4:19 pm
(Eugene Volokh) [Original title: Dearborn Jury Holds Terry Jones May Be Barred from Organizing Rally Outside Mosque.] [read post]
25 Jul 2012, 10:47 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Local10.com (South Florida) reported several days ago: The Miami-Dade County school district is looking to evict a pastor who rents space in a public school to preach. [read post]
10 Dec 2010, 4:23 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Cal. [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 3:43 pm
(Eugene Volokh) To review the bidding in the Dietrich matter, two teenage boys were prosecuted in juvenile court for sexually assaulting a teenage girl, the judge apparently imposed a gag order barring people — including the girl — from revealing the names of the assailants, when the assailants accepted a plea bargain, the girl was angry about what she saw as a lenient sentence and expressed her views on Twitter, including the names of the assailants, the… [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 6:54 pm
(Eugene Volokh) I see quite a few comments like this one — from all points of view — so I thought I’d mention the problem: [An earlier commenter wrote:] “Do you even remember 2004-05? [read post]
12 Dec 2010, 3:38 pm
(Eugene Volokh) If you want a look at pure cultural defenses that do set up a separate legal rule for people who belong to a particular group, check out Rhode Island General Laws § 15–1-4: The provisions of §§ 15–1-1 – 15–1-3 shall not extend to, or in any way affect, any marriage which shall be solemnized among the Jewish people, within the degrees of affinity or consanguinity allowed by their religion. [read post]
27 May 2011, 6:47 am
(Eugene Volokh) The Constitution provides that, “Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States: If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the Objections at large on their Journal, and proceed to reconsider it. [read post]
