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21 Jul 2010, 9:27 am
(Eugene Volokh) The Vancouver Sun reports. [read post]
26 Nov 2010, 11:38 am
(Eugene Volokh) On the Why American Courts Should Sometimes Consider Islamic Court Rulings thread, a commenter writes: I think one consideration should be if the foreign court would honor a American court’s findings. [read post]
16 Jun 2011, 3:13 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Today’s Mississippi Supreme Court decision in Mississippi Commission on Judicial Performance v. [read post]
7 Mar 2012, 1:28 pm
(Eugene Volokh) When states have (or had) discretionary gun carrying license system, they have often provided that people who engage in “business activities that involve heightened risk, such as the need to carry cash or other ‘street valued’ commodities” should generally get licenses. [read post]
28 Sep 2010, 10:53 am
(Eugene Volokh) From The American Muslim: We, the undersigned, unconditionally condemn any intimidation or threats of violence directed against any individual or group exercising the rights of freedom of religion and speech; even when that speech may be perceived as hurtful or reprehensible. [read post]
14 Nov 2011, 2:20 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Occupy Tucson v. [read post]
22 Nov 2010, 11:57 am
(Eugene Volokh) The Eighth Circuit has just set aside such a probation condition, imposed as part of a sentence for being a felon in possession of a firearm (though (“[a]pparently because Kelly had two sexual assault convictions” in addition to the felon-in-possession conviction). [read post]
7 Mar 2011, 11:15 am
(Eugene Volokh) “During a hearing conducted on March 1, 2011, the District Court determined that L.K. is not competent to make her own medical decisions and directed that she undergo a radical hysterectomy on March 3, 2011, against her desires. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 10:50 am
(Eugene Volokh) So says a Coalition press release. [read post]
1 Jun 2010, 11:21 am
(Eugene Volokh) From the amicus brief for 48 states plus D.C. supporting Snyder in Snyder v. [read post]
17 Aug 2012, 12:36 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The Washington Post reports: Russian authorities sentenced three feminist punk rockers to two years in prison Friday [on charges of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred] .... [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 1:47 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Some commenters to a recent post on teaching tort law suggest that “intentional torts” very rarely come up in most lawyers’ practice. [read post]
23 Mar 2011, 12:43 pm
(Eugene Volokh) I’ve long been interested in the occasional anticooperative effect of law — the tendency of the threat of criminal punishment to sometimes discourage cooperation with the legal system (even though the deterrent effect usually tends to encourage following the law).Max Boot points to the same effect of international criminal prosecution (a topic that international human rights law scholars have discussed in the past):Hillary Clinton claims that… [read post]
27 May 2011, 11:58 am
(Eugene Volokh) So alleges the UCSD faculty assembly, “after hearing a detailed and strongly worded report from its Committee on Academic Freedom,” according to the San Diego Union-Tribune:The issue involves Richard Biernacki, a professor of sociology, and Jeff Elman, dean of the Division of Social Sciences.In June 2009, Biernacki submitted a manuscript titled “Inside the Rituals of Social Science” to Duke University Press. [read post]
1 May 2012, 7:10 pm
(Eugene Volokh) I didn’t hear about this when the decision was handed down in 2003, and when it was apparently enforced in 2009 and 2010, but I just noticed it and thought it would be a good addition to our Blasphemy category and our Freedom of Speech Restricted by Fear of Thugs category. [read post]
27 Dec 2010, 11:17 am
(Eugene Volokh) From the Detroit Free Press:Oakland County prosecutors, relying on a Michigan statute typically used to prosecute crimes such as identity theft or stealing trade secrets, have charged Leon Walker, 33, with a felony after he logged onto a laptop in the home he shared with his wife, Clara Walker.Using her password, he accessed her Gmail account and learned she was having an affair. [read post]
23 Apr 2012, 12:53 pm
(Eugene Volokh) That’s what would happen under a Monroe County (New York) bill, proposed by County Executive Maggie Brooks, County Legislature Vice President Michael G. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 2:56 pm
(Eugene Volokh) From Minnesota/North Dakota Bricklayers Benefit Funds v. [read post]
26 May 2010, 9:25 am
(Eugene Volokh) For more about the essay (for an online symposium), see here; to read the full 9 pages, see here. [read post]
27 Apr 2010, 12:01 am
(Eugene Volokh) The Gizmodo controversy involves, among other things, this question: Say that someone (Finder) offers you an item, and you know it belongs to a third party, who may have lost it or had it stolen from him. [read post]