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10 Oct 2010, 9:24 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I’m delighted to report that Timothy Sandefur of the Pacific Legal Foundation will be guest-blogging this coming week about his new book, The Right to Earn A Living: Economic Liberty And The Law, which was just published by the Cato Institute. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 8:44 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Bangkok Post reports:A Thai-born man with American citizenship [Lerpong Wichaikhammat, also known as Joe Gordon] ... [read post]
23 Jul 2012, 3:13 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The Courier-Journal (Louisville) reports: Defense attorneys for two boys who pleaded guilty to assaulting a 17-year-old Savannah Dietrich have withdrawn their motion that she be held in contempt for tweeting the names of her attackers in defiance of a court order…. [read post]
22 Oct 2011, 8:31 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I’m delighted to report that Profs. [read post]
6 Jun 2010, 6:29 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I’m delighted that my friend David Thompson will be guest-blogging this coming week about his and Michael Fertik’s new book, Wild West 2.0: How to Protect and Restore Your Reputation on the Untamed Social Frontier (for more on the book, see here). [read post]
3 Apr 2012, 10:10 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The AP reports: A Greek court dismissed defamation charges Tuesday against a German magazine that had illustrated an article on Greece’s economic crisis with a doctored photo of the Venus de Milo statue [draped in a Greek flag and raising her middle finger]. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 9:59 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I blogged about this issue last week — a quick Lexis query suggests this was the first site to discuss this, but I’m not positive — and I noticed lots of other sites linking to the post and discussing the same statute. [read post]
Ow!
15 Sep 2011, 3:10 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) It turns out that in New York courts, “dismissed as academic” is a standard legalese phrase, meaning “dismissed as moot” or, in lay language, meaning that the particular motion or requested relief is no longer relevant to the case (or wasn’t relevant to begin with). [read post]
19 Feb 2012, 10:49 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) Some of our readers have been following Obsidian Finance Group, LLC v. [read post]
2 Dec 2010, 9:03 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) “Funchess was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of death. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 4:16 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I’m delighted to report that Clark Neily of the Institute for Justice will be guest-blogging this week, about IJ’s “judicial engagement” project. [read post]
1 Dec 2011, 7:11 pm by Ilya Somin
However, I see that co-blogger Eugene Volokh has beaten me to the punch, and said most of what I would have wanted to say. [read post]
PC
14 May 2010, 12:39 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) A tip for lawyers (and others): The standard phrase for certain kinds of unsigned court opinions is “per curiam,” not “per curium” — except perhaps in science fiction stories involving decisionmaking by artificially intelligent radioactive-element-driven quantum computers. [read post]
24 Feb 2012, 10:02 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The incident in which a judge dismissed charges against a Muslim who attacked a “Zombie Mohammed” parader — possibly because of the judge’s expressed anger at the parader’s expression — reminded me of this episode from 1990 (New York Times): The Louisiana House passed a bill today that would lower to $25 the fine against those who assault people who burn the American flag. [read post]
26 May 2010, 1:56 pm by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) I’ve on occasion been using Google Scholar to find court opinions, and have been a bit annoyed that the default is to search articles and not court opinions. [read post]
3 Feb 2011, 10:35 am by Eugene Volokh
(Eugene Volokh) The East Greenwich, Rhode Island town council was apparently considering an “anti-bullying” ordinance that would have outlawed, among other things, “the repeated use” of any “expression” that “[c]auses ... emotional harm to the victim” or “[c]reates a hostile environment for the victim. [read post]