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13 Dec 2021, 8:01 am by Eugene Volokh
[A murderer's conversation with Jeff Ross (Comedy Central) at Brazos County Jail is admitted in evidence at the death penalty proceeding (and no, the Clown Miranda warning noted above wasn't given).] [read post]
9 Jul 2022, 11:35 am by Eugene Volokh
The Canadian Press (Jacob Serebrin) reported June 30; Université Laval is a prominent Canadian public research university, and apparently "the oldest centre of higher education in Canada": Patrick Provost, a professor at Université Laval who studies micro RNA — small molecules that help regulate genes — was suspended for eight weeks without pay on June 14 for comments he made last December at a conference. [read post]
12 Jun 2023, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
For several months, I've generally congratulated prevailing lawyers in cases I write about, as a mark of acknowledgment of their professional success on behalf of their clients. [read post]
28 Mar 2024, 12:05 pm by Eugene Volokh
From Third Circuit Judge Cheryl Krause's dissent from denial of rehearing en banc yesterday in Lara v. [read post]
19 Sep 2024, 11:32 am by Eugene Volokh
[So holds the Eleventh Circuit, upholding the district court's decision—but the court's standard of review suggests that the exact oppose district court decision might have been upheld, too.] [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]
1 Jun 2022, 9:23 am by Eugene Volokh
From Hume's Of the Liberty of the Press (1742): It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. [read post]
5 Jun 2022, 1:52 pm by Eugene Volokh
["Our generation always understood each other without borders and passports / There, where we sang about friendship, today people dream only of complete revenge / All that normal people built over the years—all is obliterated. [read post]
19 Jan 2023, 2:19 pm by Eugene Volokh
[Though "involuntary manslaughter" is defined by New Mexico statute to includes death caused by lack of "due caution," New Mexico precedent limits it to situations where the defendant had "subjective knowledge 'of the danger or risk to others posed by his or her actions.'"] Alec Baldwin is expected to be charged for involuntary manslaughter for the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins: Baldwin has long maintained his innocence, saying in televised… [read post]
1 Apr 2024, 8:03 am by Eugene Volokh
From a Reply brief filed by plaintiff's counsel in Wojcik v. [read post]
24 Apr 2023, 12:50 pm by Eugene Volokh
This is the case I wrote about in March, and again last week, when I noted the amicus briefs from state attorneys general, from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, and from two financial and business law scholars. [read post]
8 Jun 2022, 7:01 am by Eugene Volokh
[In 1863, Clement Vallandigham—a prominent Democratic politician and former Congressman—was arrested for making an anti-Civil-War speech, and tried before a military court on the charge of: "Publicly expressing, in violation of General Orders No. 38 … sympathy for those in arms against the Government of the United States, and declaring disloyal sentiments and opinions, with the object and purpose of weakening the power of the Government in its efforts to suppress an unlawful… [read post]