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[Eugene Volokh] "White Supremacist Leader Sentenced to 44 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Make Death Threats Against Brooklyn Journalist"

20 Apr 2024, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh

The Justice Department reported yesterday: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, Nicholas Welker, also known as "King ov Wrath," was sentenced by United States District Judge Pamela K. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Lawsuit Alleging School District Wouldn't Inform Certain Parents About Their Children's "Sign[s] of an LGBTQ+ Identity" Dismissed for Lack of Standing

19 Apr 2024, 10:47 am by Eugene Volokh

From today's opinion by Judge Michael Watson (S.D. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Seattle Improperly Imposed a "Heckler's Veto" on Street Preacher at "an Abortion Rally and an LGBTQ Pride Event"

19 Apr 2024, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh

[So holds the Ninth Circuit.] [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] N.Y. Bill Would Require Users to Swear They Won't Use Generative AI to Produce "Offensive, Harassing, Violent, [or] Discriminatory" Speech

18 Apr 2024, 11:34 am by Eugene Volokh

[(among other things).] [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Thursday Open Thread

18 Apr 2024, 8:09 am by Eugene Volokh

[What's on your mind?] [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Letter from Stanford President and Provost to Incoming Stanford Students

18 Apr 2024, 8:02 am by Eugene Volokh

Dear XXX, Congratulations on earning a place in Stanford University's Class of 2028! [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] "USC Canceling Valedictorian's Commencement Speech Looks Like Calculated Censorship"

17 Apr 2024, 3:44 pm by Eugene Volokh

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (Alex Morey) discusses the incident; I also commented on it yesterday morning on AirTalk (with Larry Mantle) on an L.A. radio station yesterday; for more about the material that the valedictorian had apparently posted online, see this Daily Mail (James Gordon) story. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] High School Student Allegedly Suspended for Saying "Illegal Alien" in Class Discussion

17 Apr 2024, 11:56 am by Eugene Volokh

The New York Post (Yaron Steinbuch) reports: A 16-year-old North Carolina high school student says he was suspended just for saying "illegal alien" while discussing word meaning in English class — possibly ruining his chances of landing a college sports scholarship. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Court Reaffirms Commentators' Standing to Intervene to Unseal Court Records

17 Apr 2024, 11:35 am by Eugene Volokh

Movant Eugene Volokh, proceeding pro se, requests to intervene under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 24(b) and requests that the motion to proceed under a pseudonym and the order granting that motion be unsealed. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] N.C. Court Holds Selective COVID Shutdown May Have Violated State Constitution's "Fruits of Labor" Clause

17 Apr 2024, 8:59 am by Eugene Volokh

From N.C. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Center for Individual Rights Looking for Individual Rights Litigator

16 Apr 2024, 7:57 pm by Eugene Volokh

I've long followed and much admired CIR's work; Rosenberger v. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] "Trump Didn't Violate Logan Act with Reshare of Old Iran Social Media Post, Experts Say"

16 Apr 2024, 4:27 pm by Eugene Volokh

PolitiFact (Jeff Cercone) has the story; I am one of the experts. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Congratulations to Sam Bray, Whose National Injunction Article Was Cited Three Times by Justices Today

16 Apr 2024, 1:09 pm by Eugene Volokh

That happened in yesterday's opinions respecting the stay in Labrador v. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Can the Government Say: If You Want to Sell Us These Products, You Must Answer Our Questions About Them?

16 Apr 2024, 1:00 pm by Eugene Volokh

From today's dissent from denial of rehearing en banc in Book People, Inc. v. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] "World's First Beauty Pageant for AI Women Is Announced"

16 Apr 2024, 11:21 am by Eugene Volokh

Daily Mail (William Hunter) reports on the "Fanvue Miss AI pageant"; "ladies face off in tests of beauty, technology and social-media clout. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Court Reverses Harassment Conviction for Vulgar Calls to City About Water Shutoff

16 Apr 2024, 10:51 am by Eugene Volokh

From yesterday's Ohio Court of Appeals decision in State v. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Conviction for Recording Own Phone Conversation with Deputy Sheriff Overturned

16 Apr 2024, 5:26 am by Eugene Volokh

From the Florida Court of Appeal decision Friday in Waite v. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] No Sealing of Allegedly Defamatory Statements in Libel Lawsuit

16 Apr 2024, 5:01 am by Eugene Volokh

["Dr. [read post]