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3 Apr 2018, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Both ironic and disturbing: rejecting a First Amendment defense, a New York court says city and state public accommodation law may forbid the left-wing National Lawyers Guild from turning down (in line with its position favoring an Israel boycott) an attempt from a group based in West Bank Israeli settlements to buy an ad in its awards banquet program [Eugene Volokh] Tags: discrimination law, First Amendment, New York NY court: public accommodations law restricts rights of… [read post]
15 Jul 2018, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
An earlier cyberbullying bill in New York was struck down by the state’s highest court as in violation of the First Amendment, and now a new version… well, let’s just say that it has free speech problems too, which don’t get conjured away just because a person named in and distressed by speech is a minor [Eugene Volokh, Eric Turkewitz first post with explanatory followup, Scott Greenfield first and second posts, earlier] Tags: bullying, New York,… [read post]
20 Apr 2009, 9:35 am
Last year I applauded a Third Circuit decision striking down, on First Amendment grounds, a statute banning the interstate sale of depictions of cruelty to animals. [read post]
17 Apr 2018, 8:49 am by Eugene Volokh
In an earlier case, the Massachusetts high court concluded that stun guns just aren't "arms" for Second Amendment purposes, because they didn't exist at the time the Second Amendment was written, and because they aren't usable in the military. [read post]
23 May 2022, 9:34 am by Eugene Volokh
The post Eleventh Circuit Strikes Down Main Provisions of Florida Social Media Law appeared first on Reason.com. [read post]
6 May 2009, 5:04 am
The Court handed down a few published opinions today in the following cases:AP-75,749, Demetrius Dewayne Smith v. [read post]
10 Sep 2019, 4:59 am by Eugene Volokh
Oransky bragged in an online message that she "helped shut down the meeting. [read post]
11 Mar 2011, 11:19 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) A question arose in connection with the Brandon Darby / New York Times controversy: Say that a newspaper (or some other entity) posts its own article on its site, believing it to be true, and not having serious doubts about its truth. [read post]
31 Jan 2011, 10:18 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Baltimore Code § 3–501 to –503 — just enacted a year ago — provides that any organization that primarily provides pregnancy-related services but not abortion or certain kinds of birth control “must provide its clients and potential clients with a disclaimer substantially to the effect that the center does not provide or make referral for abortion or birth-control services. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 12:43 pm by Eugene Volokh
Qaddafi has every incentive to fight to the death and take a lot of people down with him....As Boot points out, the threat of such an anticooperative effect is by no means always a reason against criminal punishment. [read post]
19 Dec 2007, 2:31 pm
  "It literally legitimizes and justifies their verdict because deep down inside they had a very tough decision to make. [read post]
15 Jul 2011, 4:37 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I’m delighted to report that Prof. [read post]
14 Nov 2009, 11:50 pm
They racked up 55 points against USC, after putting 51 on the board against the Eugene Undertakers. [read post]
30 Nov 2010, 9:19 pm by Eugene Volokh
Some courts have upheld these statutes (see, e.g., here and here), and I don’t know of any court that has struck them down. [read post]
18 Dec 2009, 11:36 am by Kenneth Anderson
At any given point in time, there are only so many routes from here to Mars that will leave our imperialist forces enough fuel and energy to put down the colonists' revolt. [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 3:54 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I just came across an interesting case, Rahman v. [read post]
5 May 2010, 11:44 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) An interesting unpublished decision, handed down Monday. [read post]
10 Aug 2022, 4:08 am by SHG
Eugene makes an assumption that might be unwarranted. [read post]