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18 Jun 2024, 3:38 pm
This issue arose in the Adams v. [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 9:01 am
Buzzfeed (David Mack) has the story, quoting the original e-mail from the instructor; students were asked to write a report comparing a social norm in the U.S. with that in another country, the student chose Australia, and the instructor responded: I will gladly re-examine your week 2 milestone project report. [read post]
10 Jan 2025, 8:09 am
I have a short essay with this title in the Harvard Law Review Forum, responding to the Harvard Law Review's publication of Evelyn Douek & Genevieve Lakier's excellent new article, Lochner.com? [read post]
14 Feb 2018, 9:08 am
The Australia story reminded me of something I posted about several years ago, from the first sentence about World War II in All About World History (1999), a history book for children: In 1939, Hitler (see below) sent armies to invade Czechoslovakia and Poland; Britain, France, and Russia decided to help the Czech and Polish people defend their lands. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 8:50 am
I hope to blog a good deal about today's Janus v. [read post]
22 Aug 2018, 10:19 am
The insults were in e-mails sent to the Turkish embassy.NLTimes.nl (Janine Pieters) reported last week: In one email he wrote: "Erdogan, you fucking goat fucker, burn in hell. [read post]
19 Apr 2018, 11:15 am
AP reports: Egypt's top mufti has issued a fatwa, or a religious decree, saying that buying Facebook "likes" is prohibited under Islam because it's a form of fraud and deception. [read post]
7 Aug 2018, 5:31 am
A 2016 Ohio appellate case I recently came across.American First Amendment law still recognizes an "obscenity" exception, which is basically limited to hard-core pornography, and is rarely applied: The government may ban the distribution and display of material that (1) appeals to a "prurient," meaning shameful or morbid, interest in sex, (2) depicts sexual or excretory behavior in a way that's seen as patently offensive under community standards, and (3) lacks serious… [read post]
22 Dec 2017, 11:40 am
People sometimes berate us for departures from self-professed libertarianism -- not just that we're not being libertarian, but more, "How can you call yourselves libertarian if you say [X]? [read post]
19 Jan 2018, 10:06 am
According to press accounts, a University of Alabama student was expelled for posting an Instagram video in which she said, among other things, "I fucking hate niggers," and then some. [read post]
6 Jun 2018, 5:17 pm
From yesterday's Georgia Court of Appeals decision in Maynard v. [read post]
22 Jan 2018, 8:00 am
My post about how the word "right" in American legal usage often includes the entitlements of government as well as of individuals drew this comment: "But as a matter of American legal language... [read post]
30 Oct 2018, 2:27 pm
President Trump has recently said that he plans to issue an executive order denying citizenship to the children of illegal aliens. [read post]
29 Dec 2017, 3:34 pm
The Gallup summaries are here (9% say they admire her most, above any other woman), and here (36% favorable rating, 61% unfavorable). [read post]
26 Oct 2018, 8:47 am
That's part of a broader doctrine under which European countries are still allowed to punish blasphemy.The case, decided yesterday by the European Court of Human Rights, is E.S. v. [read post]
14 Apr 2025, 5:01 am
From an April 1 Justice Department press release: Today, a Federal Judge accepted a guilty plea to destruction of records in a federal investigation from a former employee of a contractor that provided operation and maintenance services to the U.S. [read post]
29 Apr 2025, 10:00 am
I just came across this section heading in a federal filing; an excerpt: The principle that one should include at the very beginning a quick summary of what the filer is asking for and why is familiar; usually the Introduction or Summary of Argument does that. [read post]
25 Apr 2022, 4:30 am
DorfIn a recent blog post, Professor Eugene Volokh considers the question whether Florida's imminent withdrawal of the very substantial legal benefits it had bestowed on the Disney Corporation--in obvious retaliation for Disney's opposition to Florida's "Don't Say Gay" legislation--violates the First Amendment. [read post]
2 May 2018, 7:36 am
Martin's press): Eugene suggested I post here about my new book, The Happiness Curve. [read post]
8 Jun 2018, 11:26 am
Two months later, after the three had a falling out, K.S. and A.T. reported the incident to, and shared a copy of the video with, Officer Eugene Caballero of the Charles County Sherriff's Office, their school resource officer. [read post]
