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4 Jun 2010, 12:08 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The AP reports: Seven seniors at a Southern California high school were facing disciplinary action [including being suspended or barred from graduation] for participating in a game called “Beat the Jew” in which losers were subjected to “incineration” or “enslavement,” a school administrator said Friday. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 2:50 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The AP reports: The Louisiana House gave final legislative passage Monday to a $3.4 billion elementary and secondary school spending plan …. [read post]
20 May 2012, 4:05 pm
(Eugene Volokh) A reader asks: In a discussion thread on another blog, I hazarded an observation that marriage is NOT a contract as typically defined at law. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 3:22 pm
UCLA's Royce Hall(Photo: EEJ)Eugene Volokh of the UCLA School of Law has posted to SSRN The Freedom…of the Press, from 1791 to 1868 to Now – Freedom for the Press as an Industry, or the Press as a Technology?. [read post]
9 Sep 2010, 6:57 pm
(Eugene Volokh) In the discussion of my Herrera v. [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 8:53 am
(Eugene Volokh) No, really. [read post]
17 Oct 2011, 12:15 pm
(Eugene Volokh) As I had expected, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear the Stolen Valor Act case (United States v. [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 9:05 pm
[D&O Diary] “Alice in Wonderland Has Nothing on Section 518 of the New York General Business Law” [Eugene Volokh, swipe fees] “Financial Reform in 12 Minutes” [John Cochrane] Why the state-owned Bank of North Dakota isn’t a model for much of anything [Mark Calabria, New York Times "Room for Debate"] Regulated lenders have many reasons to watch SCOTUS’s upcoming Mount Holly case on housing disparate impact [Kevin Funnell] Cert… [read post]
25 Jun 2018, 5:01 am
Louis Post-Dispatch] “Lawsuit Against Snapchat Encouraging Speeding Can Proceed” [Eugene Volokh] “Art Imitates Life: ‘Billions’ Describes Six-Figure, Part-Time Jobs On Asbestos Trusts” [Daniel Fisher, Legal Newsline/Forbes] Lawsuit by insurer State Farm accuses prominent Michigan attorney of maintaining covert ties to medical imaging provider [JC Reindl, Detroit Free Press] “California Court Rejects Warranty Claims Where Rats… [read post]
24 Mar 2010, 11:20 am
This week, Carolyn published this post with a video from a related presentation she delivered in December as part of Northwestern Law's Fourth Annual Judicial Symposium on Civil Justice Issues, where she appeared alongside bloggers Mark Herrmann and Eugene Volokh. [read post]
11 Aug 2009, 12:29 pm
Eugene Volokh notes this passage from a Delaware court’s child custody ruling, discussing a father’s choice of what movies his roughly 14-year-old could watch: This Court also has concern regarding Father’s decision-making in allowing [son] to watch certain R-rated movies. [read post]
28 Jan 2018, 8:59 am
Eugene Volokh: Illinois “stalking” and “cyber-stalking” statutes criminalize (among other things), “knowingly engag[ing] in [2 more or acts] directed at a specific person,” including “communicat[ing] to or about” a person, when the communicator “knows or should know that this course of conduct would cause a reasonable person to” “suffer emotional distress,” defined as “significant mental suffering,… [read post]
10 Feb 2017, 3:33 am
[Eugene Volokh] ABA model rule defining harassment as professional misconduct violates free speech, says Texas AG [John Mudd, Josh Blackman, earlier on Rule 8.4(g)here, here, etc.] [read post]
18 Jul 2015, 8:13 am
Eugene Volokh weighs in again on Oregon Sweet Cakes case, agrees with my view that agency’s order against Melissa and Aaron Klein’s speech is overbroad; Canada: “Ruling in Twitter harassment trial could have enormous fallout for free speech” [Christie Blatchford/National Post, earlier] Also in Canada: Law Society of Alberta cites controversial-speech veteran Ezra Levant, a lawyer, over column criticizing human rights commission [National Post] … [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 12:55 pm
Ever since Eugene Volokh shared the results of his laptop experiment, the blogosphere has been talking more than usual about laptop bans. [read post]
21 Sep 2017, 2:58 am
Meyer, Philip Miles, Eugene Volokh, Tammy Binford/HRHero] Municipal worker with brain injury could not perform “the essential functions of his job,” per a neurologist’s letter, jury award plus backpay calculation totals $354,070 [Robin Shea on Stragapede v. [read post]
18 May 2016, 9:05 pm
Why Josh Blackman signed Wednesday’s New York Times ad protesting the AGs’ investigation and subpoenas on climate advocacy; Proposed revision of ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct barring discrimination by lawyers could have major anti-speech implications [Eugene Volokh] “Game Studio’s Plan To Deal With Critic Of Games: Sue Him To Hell” [Timothy Geigner, TechDirt] The Citizens United case was correctly decided, says Michael Kinsley. [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 1:26 pm
But I am moved to write by a post by Eugene Volokh yesterday (Martin Luther King Day, not incidentally) in which he writes to state for the record that I think it’s eminently fitting for us — and for anyone else — to feel and express hatred for those who are evil, and in particular to think that they eminently merited death and indeed would have merited an earlier one. [read post]
7 Oct 2013, 3:39 am
Brown signs bill to grant law licenses in California to illegal immigrants [Reuters] “Court: website alleging police corruption shouldn’t have been shut down” [Ars Technica; Lafayette, Louisiana] License to speak: Eugene Volokh and Cato Institute challenge licensing of DC tour guides; Thanks to Keith Lee at Associates Mind for including us in list of recommended law sites; St. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm
“Lying to a Lover Could Become ‘Rape’ In New Jersey” [Elizabeth Nolan Brown/Reason, Scott Greenfield] “A $21 Check Prompts Toyota Driver to Wonder Who Benefited from Class Action” [Jacob Gershman, WSJ Law Blog] On “right of publicity” litigation over the image of the late General George Patton [Eugene Volokh] HBO exec: “We have probably 160 lawyers” looking at film about Scientology [The Hollywood Reporter] … [read post]
