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17 Mar 2012, 3:37 pm
(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
(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
(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
(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
(Eugene Volokh) Title 18 U.S.C. [read post]
11 May 2010, 5:54 pm
(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
(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
(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
(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]
13 May 2010, 1:26 pm
(Eugene Volokh) In an amicus brief EPIC just filed in G.D. v. [read post]
26 May 2011, 1:43 pm
(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
(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
(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
(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]
3 Jan 2011, 6:30 am
(Eugene Volokh) That’s the issue lurking in In re Aramco Servs. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 12:46 pm
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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]