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30 Mar 2019, 6:38 pm by Walter Olson
[ABA Journal; Eugene Volokh, first (Section 230), second (“fighting words” doctrine inapplicable), and third (injunction that suspends entire Twitter account likely overbroad remedy) posts; Mike Godwin and Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason] It’s worth emphasizing, in addition, that although the suit claims bias on Twitter’s part against political conservatives, were Nunes somehow to establish as a matter of law that the social media provider is obliged to… [read post]
24 Sep 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Our post on the closure of California’s Westover Winery following punitive fines for letting customers volunteer continues to draw interesting comments, including one from a reader identifying himself as William Smyth, owner of the winery; FDA comes out with revised proposed FSMA rules, a preliminary look [AP] Agency only partially backs off restrictions on use of spent brewing grains as animal feed [Elizabeth Brown/Reason, WLF, earlier] “Cottage food” law… [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 9:46 am by Benjamin Wittes
The two response papers were by Vanda Felbab-Brown, entitled “The Afghanistan Challenge: A Government that Serves the Afghan People, and by Elizabeth Ferris, entitled “The Afghanistan–Pakistan Challenge: Meeting Humanitarian Needs. [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 7:21 am
Lee, Look at Mother Nature on the Run in the 21st Century: Responsibility, Research and Innovation Neil Gunningham, Confronting the Challenge of Energy Governance Charlotte Streck, Innovativeness and Paralysis in International Climate Policy Edith Brown Weiss, The Coming Water Crisis: A Common Concern of Humankind Alexander Gillespie, Science, Values and People: The Three Factors that Will Define the Next Generation of International Conservation Agreements … [read post]
29 Jun 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [Steven Boranian/D&DLaw, Sidley, Steve McConnell/D&DLaw (False Claims Act angle, with much background on that law generally)] “23andMe Closer to FDA Approval” [Matthew Feeney/Cato, earlier] FDA guidance could foreclose most use of tweets, Google ads and other character-limited vehicles in pharmaceutical promotion [Jeffrey Wasserstein/FDA Law Blog, Elizabeth N. [read post]
15 May 2012, 10:23 am by Liz White
Frankel, a partner at Eisinger, Brown, Lewis, Frankel & Chaiet PA in Hollywood, Fla., who advises community associations. [read post]
27 Jan 2019, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
Brown to Campaign Finance Change” by Dirk Vanderhart for Oregon Public Broadcasting Elections National: “Longtime Trump Adviser Roger Stone Indicted by Special Counsel in Russia Investigation” by Devlin Barrett, Rosalind Helderman, John Wagner, and Manuel Roig-Franzia (Washington Post) for Seattle Times Ethics California: “State Controller Betty Yee Disputes Claim That City of Industry Audit Was ‘Politically Motivated’” by Melody Gutierrez and Adam… [read post]
11 Sep 2018, 2:59 am by Walter Olson
Others followed [PolitiFact; Glenn Kessler, Washington Post “Fact Checker” (four Pinocchios); our earlier encounters with Harris on truancy laws and the Moonlight Fire case, and see also Elizabeth Nolan Brown] Some critics charged Kavanaugh with not answering truthfully in several lines of questioning; David Lat responds with explanations regarding Judge Bill Pryor’s nomination, MemoGate, and NSA surveillance. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
And: the campus speech wars reach Hood College [my new Free State Notes post] Three reasons, none of them flattering, why GOP lawmakers might sign onto wacky tollgate-for-adult-material scheme [Elizabeth Nolan Brown; Ben Collins and Brandy Zadrozny, Daily Beast with more on promoter Chris Sevier and so-called Human Trafficking Prevention Act] American Legislative Exchange Council, conservative group of state legislators that has itself been a target of anti-speech campaigns,… [read post]
1 Jun 2016, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Our defense of free expression should go beyond the utilitarian and consequentialist: Flemming Rose’s acceptance speech last week on receiving the Cato Institute’s 2016 Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty [Cato Daily Podcast, WSJ “Notable and Quotable” excerpt, earlier; Michael Tanner on Rose’s role in the Mohammed cartoons episode and more recent Cato book, The Tyranny of Silence; my related post in context of Copenhagen terrorist attack] Virgin Islands… [read post]
20 Sep 2017, 5:50 am by Jim Sedor
Lobbying Maryland: “Maryland Lobbyist Charged in Bribery Scandal Linked to Prince George’s County Liquor Board” by Scott MacFarlane for WRC Campaign Finance Canada: “Taxpayers Would Give Millions to Political Parties in NDP Plan” by Lindsay Kines and Amy Smart for Times Colonist California: “California Passes Bill to Track ‘Dark Money’ in Political Ads and Campaigns” by Jason Shueh for StateScoop Kentucky: “Former Beshear Official Admits He… [read post]
14 Mar 2011, 11:04 pm
Elizabeth Holland, Suffolk University Law School in Boston, for "Holder v. [read post]
26 May 2017, 3:05 am by Walter Olson
Jarrett Dieterle, City Journal] If concept of obstruction of justice is not to do injustice itself, it must be confined to a limited number of well-defined offenses [Tim Lynch, Cato] “Drug recognition experts” deployed at traffic stops have a reliability problem, and that can put innocent people behind bars [11Alive Atlanta, Ed Krayewski] Zero-tolerance THC: Unimpaired driver gets six months for fatal crash she did not cause [Jacob Sullum] New York Senate approves bill to make… [read post]
24 Apr 2012, 11:00 am by Sherry L.
For me, it was Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 2:57 am by Walter Olson
Collins, related chronology of Trump’s record of legal conflict with press] Familiar old war on porn re-outfits itself as new war on trafficking [Collins, Elizabeth Nolan Brown on so-called Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act (JVTA)] Another where-are-they-now on copyright troll Prenda Law [Joe Mullin/ArsTechnica, see also on Hansmeier] “The ‘freedom of the press’ doesn’t give the media any special privileges — but it’s also not a… [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [EFF on stalled California bill to ban “fake news,” introduced by Assemblymember Ed Chau (D-Monterey Park)] “Germany approves bill curbing online hate crime, fake news” [AP/Yahoo, earlier] “Another Free Speech Win In Libel Lawsuit Disguised As A Trademark Complaint” [Tim Cushing, TechDirt; criticism of doctor’s experimental treatment methods] Punching a hole out of Section 230: new “sex trafficking” bill could have far-reaching… [read post]
6 Oct 2017, 3:02 am by Walter Olson
[Eugene Volokh] Meanwhile, co-author of “bourgeois culture” op-ed, Larry Alexander of the University of San Diego, finds his dean distinctly unsupportive [Tom Smith, Caron/TaxProf roundup and more] “Stay Woke” and allyship: insider view of American University’s new required first-year diversity courses [Minding the Campus] So revealing that an AAUW chapter would celebrate cancellation of this American U event [Elizabeth Nolan Brown] Anonymous… [read post]
22 Sep 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Down comes the pediatrician’s wall of baby pictures, another HIPAA casualty [Anemona Hartocollis/NY Times, resulting letters to the editor, earlier, NPR with somewhat different slant] Had the Washington Post stayed on story of Maryland health exchange fiasco, it might have held power to account [my Free State Notes] FDA rules requiring that certain drugs be kept out of hands of anyone but patients may inadvertently establish monopoly for some off-patent compounds [Derek Lowe via Alex… [read post]