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17 Mar 2012, 3:37 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) This perennial question came up again on an academic e-mail discussion list that I’m on, so I thought I’d blog about it (though I said much the same thing 10 years ago, in another blog post). [read post]
8 Aug 2012, 10:35 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Colorado shooting has led to renewed calls to ban or otherwise restrict access to large-capacity magazines (see, for instance, Elliot Spitzer’s proposal, though that one is likely to be ineffectual). [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]
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]
12 May 2010, 1:25 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Title 18 U.S.C. [read post]
11 May 2010, 5:54 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) History News Network reports about it (the title is 1877: America’s Year of Living Violently) and the rather pugnacious promotional campaign for it, which argues that Bellesiles’ Arming America was wrongly criticized. [read post]
21 Feb 2012, 10:55 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) A Louisiana statute bans much Internet activity by registered sex offenders who had been convicted of child pornography or other sex crimes involving children (or of video voyeurism); the law, like most other laws dealing with sex offenders, includes within its coverage sex offenders who are no longer in prison or on probation. [read post]
3 May 2010, 11:31 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I much appreciated Orin’s post about the value of caution, judgment, and tact in dealing with certain questions. [read post]
4 May 2011, 8:37 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Victor Steinbok passes along this magistrate judge opinion reducing a lawyer’s fees — under a statute that provides for fee-shifting — based largely on pervasive carelessness in writing and editing, ranging from “nearly unintelligible” passages to omitted pages and paragraphs to pervasive typos to arithmetical errors. [read post]
26 May 2011, 1:43 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I’ve heard some people argue that the proposed circumcision bans (one of which is now on the ballot in San Francisco) is motivated by hostility to Jews. [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]
28 Mar 2011, 1:27 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Mansfield North Central Ohio Tea Party Association was planning to have a meeting featuring an anti-Islam (and, by some accounts, anti-Muslim) speaker. [read post]
25 Feb 2012, 2:29 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) A reader passed along this message that appears to be from the judge in the Zombie Mohammed case: This story certainly has legs. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 12:46 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) As I noted last October, “Amina Farah Ali, on trial in federal court for ‘allegedly funneling money to a terrorist group in Somalia’ (AP), [was] found in contempt of court for refusing to stand for the judge and jury. [read post]
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]
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]
29 Jul 2011, 12:35 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) So reports the Charleston Post & Courier:The South Carolina Democratic Party tried Thursday to make Haley out as a liar for checking “white” as her race on her 2001 Lexington County voter registration application.But the application had no specific option for “Indian. [read post]
16 Nov 2011, 11:25 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Some people have asked whether court decisions recognizing that some felons have a constitutional right to bear arms — if their felonies are long enough in the past — would also extend to felons’ having a constitutional right to vote. [read post]