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11 Mar 2011, 1:51 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports:Controversial north Minneapolis blogger John Hoff must pay $60,000 in damages to a former Jordan Area Community Council executive director Jerry Moore, a jury in the civil case concluded Friday.The Hennepin County District Court jury found that an “Adventures of Johnny Northside” blog post in June 2009 resulted in Moore’s firing from the University of Minnesota....The jury ruled that although Hoff’s post… [read post]
12 Jul 2012, 12:59 pm by Eugene Volokh
(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]
15 Mar 2011, 2:10 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) As FIRE puts it, “For the last couple of days, controversy has been buzzing about a YouTube video (now with more than 1.3 million views) from a college student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), who chose to take to the Internet to complain about the behavior of Asian students in the UCLA library and elsewhere. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 1:28 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Mail Online reports:Police have threatened a Christian cafe owner with arrest –- for displaying passages from the Bible on a TV screen....The Salt and Light cafe in Blackpool has for years repeatedly played the entire 26-hour-long Watchword Bible, a 15-DVD set produced in America in which a narrator reads the whole of the New Testament, on a small flatscreen TV on the back wall....The sound is turned down but the words flash on to the screen against a… [read post]
10 Apr 2012, 9:17 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) From today’s Wyoming Supreme Court decision in Operation Save America v. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 6:54 pm by Eugene Volokh
(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]
6 May 2010, 4:24 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Maureen Downey (Atlanta Journal-Constitution) writes: This is one of those stories that turns into a cause celebre and riles up lots of folks. [read post]
8 Jun 2012, 3:11 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) That’s what the Hollywood Reporter reports, stating that school district officials acknowledged the incident and apologized for the principal’s disinvitation decision: [Gerald Molen] was invited to speak to the graduating class at a Montana high school. [read post]
5 May 2010, 7:05 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) State and federal evidence rules generally bar the prosecution from introducing evidence of defendant’s past crimes to show a propensity on the defendant’s part to commit similar crimes. [read post]
28 Jul 2011, 9:15 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) California Business & Professions Code 460(b) reserves the regulation of medical procedures to the state, and preempts contrary local rules:No city, county, or city and county shall prohibit a healing arts professional licensed with the state under Division 2 (commencing with Section 500) from engaging in any act or performing any procedure that falls within the professionally recognized scope of practice of that licensee.(1) This subdivision shall not be… [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 9:55 am by Eugene Volokh
(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]
25 Oct 2011, 3:02 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Now here’s an idea whose time hasn’t come, and is unlikely to come, from Edward Boches (Creativity_Unbound). [read post]
15 Jul 2010, 2:28 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Mentally competent adults generally have a constitutional right to refuse medical treatment, even when they would likely to die as a result. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 7:00 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) It would be under a newly proposed Florida bill, which would criminalize (among other things) any “verbal or written inquiry by a public or private physician, nurse, or other medical staff person regarding the ownership of a firearm by a patient or the family of a patient or the presence of a firearm in a private home or other domicile of a patient or the family of a patient. [read post]