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10 Sep 2018, 6:03 am by Eugene Volokh
The Sixth Circuit reaffirms this, including for sexual assault accusations, in a case against the University of Michigan; and the court also allows plaintiff to proceed with his claim that the process was biased against him because of his sex.From Friday's Doe v. [read post]
7 Apr 2018, 12:24 pm by Eugene Volokh
If you're putting a whole sentence in parentheses, the custom follows logic -- put the period inside the parentheses, not outside it. [read post]
18 Jan 2018, 9:18 am by Eugene Volokh
A "found editing exercise" (by analogy to found poetry) just seen in an office kitchen. [read post]
28 Jun 2018, 9:38 am by Eugene Volokh
The Double Jeopardy Clause generally bars the government from prosecuting a person twice for the same offense, regardless of whether the first prosecution led to an acquittal or a conviction. [read post]
3 Jan 2024, 9:29 am by Eugene Volokh
I read this and much enjoyed it some years ago; it's an urban fantasy set at Yale, and I expect that people with some Yale or New Haven experience would enjoy it even more. [read post]
20 Jul 2018, 9:35 am by Eugene Volokh
Say that you apply to many schools, including some where other students have much better predictors (chiefly test scores and grades from earlier institutions) than you. [read post]
29 Jun 2018, 5:54 am by Eugene Volokh
Orin posts about the substance below, and notes that the court adopted an approach that he had advocated, but I wanted to add that the opinion cited four separate law review articles of his, nine times in total. [read post]
20 Sep 2018, 8:27 am by Eugene Volokh
The government may not discriminate against businesses because of the political views the business (or its spokesman) has expressed.GoLocalProv News reports that the town council of a Providence-area town "voted 3-2 in favor of a resolution Monday night requesting the town and school department refrain from purchasing Nike products, after Colin Kaepernick became the recent face of the company. [read post]
19 Apr 2018, 5:19 am by Eugene Volokh
From a post (not by Michael Dorf) on Dorf on Law: Just about everyone is expecting Justice Gorsuch to vote with the conservatives [in Janus v. [read post]
18 Nov 2018, 7:12 pm by Eugene Volokh
I'd love to have people's comments this week, since I owe the journal a final draft Saturday the 24th.You can see a draft here, but here's the Introduction: Speech compulsions, the Court has often held, are as constitutionally suspect as are speech restrictions: "[T]he First Amendment guarantees 'freedom of speech,' a term necessarily comprising the decision of both what to say and what not to say. [read post]
15 May 2018, 5:26 pm by Eugene Volokh
So reports the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (John Moritz) about Judge Doug Martin; the $12,500 is a minimum figure -- the required disclosure reports don't give a specific amount but only indicate that the amount exceeds $12,500. [read post]
27 May 2024, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
In Flanders Fields is of course well known to many English speakers: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below…. [read post]
17 Jan 2018, 2:59 pm by Eugene Volokh
A commenter on the Republic/Democracy thread mentioned the shift from "United States" being seen as a plural noun -- e.g., the Constitution's "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them" or the Thirteenth Amendment's "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ... shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction" -- to the modern treatment of the "United States" being singular… [read post]
12 Feb 2018, 3:09 pm by Eugene Volokh
I'd like a system that makes it easy for me to search and review all my payments and receipts, going back years. [read post]
7 Jan 2022, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
[DUI, appellate procedure, rap battles, and Edmund Burke, together in one post.] [read post]