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20 May 2024, 5:01 am by Doriane Coleman
Some of the hostility occurred at a UCLA Federalist Society event just days before the country shut down for Covid. [read post]
14 May 2024, 10:27 am by Eugene Volokh
Randall (1958), which struck down a denial of a property tax exemption to people and organizations that "advocate[] the overthrow of the Government of the United States … by … violence … or who advocate[] the support of a foreign government against the United States in the event of hostilities": [A] discriminatory denial of a tax exemption for engaging in speech is a limitation on free speech. [read post]
10 May 2024, 9:12 am by Eugene Volokh
They (the abortion clinics) cause the nuisance, Operation Rescue was arguing—not the protesters (such as Operation Rescue members) who come to protest, or the arsonists who try to or threaten to burn down the clinic and thus endanger its neighbors. [read post]
10 May 2024, 8:34 am by Eugene Volokh
Though it was peaceful, its presence generated controversy, including persistent calls from some of you that we shut it down. [read post]
9 May 2024, 10:32 am by Eugene Volokh
That review will probably be influenced by the Supreme Court's Rahimi case, which deals with whether people subject to domestic violence restraining orders lose their Second Amendment rights, and which is due to come down from the Court by June 30. [read post]
7 May 2024, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh
Likewise, the letter argues that, if Columbia doesn't crack down on and identify those students who engage in "unlawfully trespassing on and occupying public spaces," then "employers are forced to assume the risk that anyone they hire from Columbia may be one of these disruptive and hateful students. [read post]
6 May 2024, 11:54 am by Eugene Volokh
Many of you have sent me messages noting that the two large rallies – which brought many people from outside MIT to campus last Friday and shut down Massachusetts Avenue – occurred peacefully. [read post]
3 May 2024, 11:33 am by David Bernstein
With or without official adoption of the IHRA definition, university officials already have an incentive to clamp down on all sorts of speech that could be deemed hostile to various groups. [read post]
3 May 2024, 10:48 am by Eugene Volokh
Grace (1983) struck down a categorical ban on picketing outside the Supreme Court (which was applied in that case to a lone picketer): The United States … [argues] that the federal courts represent an independent branch of the Government and that their decisionmaking processes are different from those of the other branches. [read post]
3 May 2024, 8:49 am by Eugene Volokh
Many courts have struck down campus speech codes framed in such terms, but the government and various universities have continued to assert that such speech restrictions are constitutional. [read post]
2 May 2024, 2:00 pm by Eugene Volokh
UCLA facilities teams are now in the process of taking down structures and cleaning up the quad, and we ask that students, staff and faculty continue to avoid the area. [read post]
30 Apr 2024, 5:38 am by Eugene Volokh
" -EV] The second states that "[i]n October 2021, several elected officials and candidates spoke at the Patriot Double Down conference hosted in Las Vegas, Nevada by antisemitic QAnon influencer John Sabal (QAnon John). [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 1:30 pm by Eugene Volokh
And the university must protect their right to peacefully protest by using "other, less restrictive means" than shutting down the rally even when protesters are met with violence or disruption from those who disagree with their message. [read post]
27 Apr 2024, 1:06 pm by Eugene Volokh
We've been told that the encampment must be torn down immediately, and that it must be allowed to stay; that discipline is not the answer, and that it is the only answer. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 11:05 am by Guest Author
Eugene Scalia, the former Secretary of Labor, son of the former Justice, and a partner at Gibson Dunn, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 10:24 am
With the rise of eugenics in the early 20th century, certain scientists began to worry that slouching among 'civilized' peoples could lead to degeneration, a backward slide in human progress. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 1:52 pm by Eugene Volokh
They would have lasted roughly five minutes before masses of students shouted them down and drove them off the campus. [read post]