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17 Sep 2010, 2:01 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Gainesville Sun reports: The cost of policing the Dove World Outreach Center for the planned Quran burning that never happened is expected to come to about $100,000 each for the Gainesville Police Department and the Alachua County Sheriff’s Office, officials say. [read post]
7 Aug 2011, 8:30 am by Ilya Somin
(Ilya Somin) Like Eugene Volokh, I too look forward to the upcoming guest-blogging stints by Kurt Lash and Neil Siegel. [read post]
6 Jan 2011, 4:53 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Jim is a very smart guy, as well as a pretty solid conservative (he clerked for Justice Thomas, and was until recently the State Solicitor of Texas), and he has actually studied the subject closely; so I thought I’d reprint (with permission) his Wall Street Journal op-ed from yesterday, which argues that the Fourteenth Amendment does indeed confer citizenship on the children of illegal aliens, as well as of legal alien visitors and legal alien residents.My… [read post]
2 Feb 2011, 2:28 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I often hear people — usually conservatives — argue generally against a supposed shift from “moral absolutism” to “moral relativism. [read post]
30 Aug 2011, 11:32 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Pew Center has an interesting new report on Muslim Americans. [read post]
30 Dec 2011, 5:17 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) In today’s Western Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 2:55 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Yes, the Renton (Wash.) city prosecutor’s office concludes, applying the Washington “cyberstalking” statute — an excellent example of the dangers of the broad “cyberbullying” and “harassment” statutes that I have often condemned. [read post]
19 Apr 2012, 8:38 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) In his speech to the NRA, Mitt Romney said: Will Rogers famously said that he worried whenever Congress was in session. [read post]
2 Jan 2012, 3:26 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) A common argument against the claim that “the freedom of the press” protects all who use mass communications technology — and thus in favor of the claim that “the freedom of the press” specially protects the institutional media — is that otherwise the “freedom of the press” would be redundant of the “freedom of speech. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 2:46 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I’ve often blogged about whether there is (1) a general First Amendment exception for knowingly false statements of fact (though perhaps with some exceptions to the exception), or (2) a bunch of specific First Amendment exceptions, for fraud, defamation, perjury, highly offensive but nondefamatory factual statements about particular people (the “false light” tort), and also presumably trade libel, false statements to investigating officials, and so… [read post]
2 Sep 2011, 10:18 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Oklahoma Judicial Ethics Advisory Panel opinion 2011–3 (handed down July 6, but just recently reported in the Westlaw Bulletin database) discusses the disagreement on this, and answers the question “no”:¶1 Questions: 1. [read post]
15 Dec 2011, 12:57 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) That’s what one Hamline University business school professor said, in opposing the hiring of another prospective business school professor, according to the St. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 9:01 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Occasionally, I hear people arguing that judges’ decisions are strongly influenced by their sex, race, and so on — “of course, this female judge will rule against the accused rapist / pornographer / sexual harasser / etc.; she’s a woman. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 3:12 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) In December 1997, Kirk Fisher pled guilty to two counts of misdemeanor “harassment” of his wife (who is apparently still his wife), and was placed on probation for six months. [read post]