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30 Jul 2018, 9:39 am by Eugene Volokh
"The Attendees allege the Officers shepherded them into a violent crowd of protesters and actively prevented them from reaching safety. [read post]
8 Aug 2018, 6:28 am by Eugene Volokh
From a lawyer's letter demanding that a story about a now-expunged arrest be expunged from a newspaper as well as from the government records—but the law, fortunately, does not support this argument.Expungement laws let people who have been arrested—and often even ones who have been convicted—get their records removed from government databases, or sometimes sealed so that some government agencies can access them but the public can't. [read post]
17 Aug 2018, 8:45 am by Eugene Volokh
Texas, like some other states, allows law-abiding adults who have concealed carry licenses to carry at public universities as well as elsewhere; this was challenged on First Amendment, Second Amendment, and Equal Protection Clause grounds.From yesterday's Fifth Circuit panel decision in Glass v. [read post]
28 Dec 2017, 11:13 am by Eugene Volokh
Besides being ordered to pay $135,000 in damages for refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding, the Kleins -- owners of Sweetcakes by Melissa -- were also found to have violated Oregon's ban on announcing an intention to discriminate in the future. [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 4:52 pm by Eugene Volokh
Citigroup announced that it will "require new retail sector clients or partners to adhere to .... restrict the sale of firearms for individuals under 21 years of age. [read post]
27 Jun 2018, 2:05 pm by Eugene Volokh
The government as employer generally has considerably broader rights to control its employees' speech (through the threat of firing and other discipline) than it has over the public as a whole (through the threat of jail or fines or the like). [read post]
5 Mar 2018, 2:25 pm by Eugene Volokh
The discussion of our Excessive Fines Clause amicus brief led to a dispute: When deciding whether a fine is "excessive," should a court look at how hard it is for this defendant to afford it, or should it ignore the defendant's wealth and focus just on the other circumstances of the offense? [read post]
6 Sep 2018, 7:53 am by Eugene Volokh
The policy -- here, applied to someone passing out religious valentines -- also bans "signs ... with offensive content," and more generally limits even nonoffensive signs and leafleting to a narrow "free speech zone. [read post]
26 Dec 2017, 5:19 pm by Eugene Volokh
Jia Yueting is a billionaire Chinese businessman and CEO of Faraday Future, a startup that's trying to build electric cars in Los Angeles. [read post]
2 Oct 2018, 3:12 pm by Eugene Volokh
A law professor circulated a letter urging that Judge Kavanaugh be rejected because of his testimony at the hearings, and I circulated the following response, which I thought I'd share with others as well. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 7:35 am by Eugene Volokh
My Spanish blasphemy post reminded that I've been meaning to blog about the Indonesian decision, handed down last month.Many news sources have reports, the University of Melbourne's Indonesia at Melbourne has an unusually detailed one; here's an excerpt, though the whole thing is worth reading: Late last month, Indonesia's controversial Blasphemy Law (Law 1/PNPS/1956) claimed another victim. [read post]
6 Jun 2018, 10:26 am by Eugene Volokh
From an interim decision of Colorado public utilities commissioner Frances Koncilja describing proposed new rules for various Colorado taxi and car services, handed down May 25: The attached proposed rules attempt to remove some regulatory burdens and define and impose certain safety requirements as follows: ... i.) [read post]
18 Jun 2018, 7:51 am by Eugene Volokh
The Bill of Rights, as ratified in 1791, was generally understood as applying only to the federal government. [read post]