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3 Jun 2011, 9:49 am
(Eugene Volokh) I blogged about this case a couple of years ago, and saw that some readers were interested in it; so I thought I’d post an update on it, since it’s coming up to the Court again. [read post]
8 Jun 2010, 5:15 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Reader Jeff Semenak, who lives in Lansing, reports that the Lansing State Journal courthouse notes occasionally mention that someone has been convicted of “seducing an unmarried woman. [read post]
19 Jan 2011, 10:28 am
(Eugene Volokh) The National Post (Canada) reports:After receiving threats and two suspicious letters Tuesday, the National Archives of Canada cancelled the screening of a controversial documentary that critiques Iran’s nuclear weapons program, a move that has organizers questioning the national library’s autonomy.The Free Thinking Film Society’s showing of Iranium prompted so many complaints — some of them from the Iranian Embassy — that staff thought… [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 11:37 am
(Eugene Volokh) Friday, a new Tennessee law was changed to provide (new material italicized):(a) A person commits an offense who intentionally:(4) Communicates with another person or transmits or displays an image in a manner in which there is a reasonable expectation that the image will be viewed by the victim by [by telephone, in writing or by electronic communication] without legitimate purpose:(A) (i) With the malicious intent to frighten, intimidate or cause emotional… [read post]
14 Dec 2010, 11:27 am
(Eugene Volokh) I’ve just filed a reply brief in Herrera v. [read post]
26 Aug 2010, 2:58 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The normal way to indicate omitted text is using three dots (“. . . [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 4:54 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The CDC WISQARS site, which I had long used for data on homicides and nonfatal injuries, has a cool new National Violent Death Reporting System page that lets you generate cause-of-death statistics in much more detail than I’d seen before (though unfortunately only for the 16 participating states). [read post]
3 May 2010, 1:46 pm
(Eugene Volokh) A very interesting column from Jonathan Rauch (National Journal); the subject is much more his field than mine, so I don’t have any independent basis for evaluating it, but I generally find his analyses to be quite reliable and worth reading. [read post]
5 Nov 2010, 2:05 pm
(Eugene Volokh) From the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Determination of No Reasonable Cause in Fair Housing Center of West Michigan v. [read post]
16 Jan 2011, 7:58 am
(Eugene Volokh) “[S]ubsequently, the duo, along with the family, has gone in hiding over fears of being killed. [read post]
25 May 2010, 5:33 pm
(Eugene Volokh) I had always assumed that federal district court opinions (as opposed to Court of Appeals opinions or Supreme Court opinions) don’t serve as binding precedent on district judges even within the same district, and are no more persuasive precedent than any other district court opinions from any other district. [read post]
25 Feb 2011, 2:01 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Garrett Coyle asks this question:[Why is] the adjective form of U.S. state names ... [read post]
12 Nov 2011, 10:58 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The case is Occupy Sacramento v. [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 2:30 pm
(Eugene Volokh) I’ve never been that fond of the standard American starches, steamed rice or mashed potatoes — except when they have so much tasty stuff mixed into them that either (1) they’re a good deal less healthy, or at least (2) more time-consuming to make. [read post]
7 May 2011, 7:16 pm
(Eugene Volokh) The comments to the post in which I excerpted parts of Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon reminded me of the poll I ran about the book in 2007. [read post]
18 Jan 2012, 8:13 am
(Eugene Volokh) Following Citizens United, I heard many people argue that the Court was wrong because corporations should not be seen as having First Amendment rights — not just that they do have First Amendment rights but that there’s some special compelling interest that justifies restricting corporate speech about candidates, but that corporations aren’t people and therefore can’t have First Amendment rights at all. [read post]
18 May 2010, 8:56 am
(Eugene Volokh) The Georgian Times (fortunately, that’s not our Georgia) reports that the Georgian Orthodox Patriarchate is calling for a law that would protect “religious feelings,” and arguing that “[f]reedom of speech doesn’t mean right to provoke discord and confrontation, abuse church, religious feelings and belittle state symbols. [read post]
9 Jul 2010, 9:07 am
(Eugene Volokh) [UPDATE: Yow! [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 3:16 pm
(Eugene Volokh) Yesterday, the Supreme Court sent Maloney v. [read post]
7 May 2010, 11:55 am
(Eugene Volokh) According to a local CBS TV station, About 85 mostly Hispanic students staged a noon protest march through Morgan Hill on Thursday, one day after five students at Live Oak High School were sent home after showing up in clothing with American flags on Cinco de Mayo. [read post]
