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Court Tentatively Decides That State Law Preempts Proposed San Francisco Ban on Circumcision of Boys
28 Jul 2011, 9:15 am
(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]
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]
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]
5 May 2010, 11:03 am
(Eugene Volokh) I might be missing something, but there seems to be a singularly poor (and misleading) juxtaposition in this Reuters piece (which has been picked up in various places, such as here): A comedy show on North Korean TV has the distinction of being one of the longest-running in the world, although there’s very little that’s actually funny in it. [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]
28 Nov 2011, 2:53 pm
(Eugene Volokh) A commenter on the Amish heretic hair-cutting thread writes: How sexist is everyone — the Amish, the Feds, especially — when stretching to such absurd reaches (scissors transported across state lines) for felony hair assault — to say n-o-t-h-i-n-g of RAPE. [read post]
5 May 2010, 7:05 pm
(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]
20 May 2012, 4:30 pm
(Eugene Volokh) I just ran across an interesting case, Memphis Pub. [read post]
26 May 2010, 12:52 pm
(Eugene Volokh) An interesting decision, in People v. [read post]
7 Jun 2010, 12:05 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The students in the incident I mentioned last week have now been “suspended for three to five days — causing some to miss graduation”: Seven students met in the school parking lot May 20 to play a game dubbed “Beat the Jew,” though the game happened off school grounds, Johnstone said. [read post]
20 Aug 2010, 2:36 pm
(Eugene Volokh) “Is America Islamophobic? [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 1:28 pm
(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]
4 Apr 2011, 3:53 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Congress Elementary School Dist. [read post]
2 Oct 2010, 11:58 am
(Ilya Somin) Co-blogger Eugene Volokh gives some sensible reasons for why he chooses not to blog about some topics. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 3:26 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Since First Amendment controversies involving the government as K-12 educator often come up on the blog, I thought I’d summarize the Supreme Court’s precedents on the subject:1. [read post]
14 Apr 2011, 4:27 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Several recent court decisions have concluded that the Second Amendment doesn’t protect gun possession in public places, but only in the home. [read post]
8 May 2012, 3:51 pm
(Eugene Volokh) From In the Matter of Ismailoff, 2007 WL 7670254 (N.Y. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 5:16 pm
(Eugene Volokh) SF Weekly blogs reports that the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency doesn’t allow movie ads with guns in them: While the official poster for [The Other Guys] features a maniacal Ferrell and the menacing Wahlberg sailing through the air, guns drawn, the version on Muni vehicles and in stations features Ferrell brandishing a vial of pepper spray and Wahlberg relying upon his bare fists. [read post]
20 Jan 2012, 8:35 am
(Eugene Volokh) The New York Daily News reports: A bigot named their WiFi signal “F— All Jews and N—-” — and now cops are investigating. [read post]
