Eugene Volokh is the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA School of Law. Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any institution. He is also the co-host of the Free Speech Unmuted podcast.
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Disability Discrimination and Allegations of AI Use in Student's University of Michigan Course Papers
"[A]t this stage of the case, ... [plaintiff] plausibly pleads that [the university] discriminated against her by disregarding [her medial records] to find that she used AI when the writing style of the course papers could have resulted from her disabilities."
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S. Ct. Suspends District Court's Injunction Blocking Border Barrier Building
"There is no such thing as a 'constitutional' major-questions claim."
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Court Allows Discovery as to Vindictive Prosecution Defense by Smartmatic's Parent Company
"It may well be that no fire will be discovered under all the smoke, but there is enough smoke here ... to warrant the unusual step of ... find[ing] out how this unusual prosecution came about."
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Lawsuit Against New York AG Letitia James over Letter Alleging Group's Event Was Connected to "White Nationalist Ideals" …
can go forward on First Amendment coercion, First Amendment retaliation, and defamation grounds, a federal district court concludes.
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May Court Order Parent to "Immediately Cease All Disparagement of" Other Parent "via Social Media"?
An appellate court orders a trial court to consider whether such an order is consistent with the First Amendment.
First Circuit Declines to Mandate Religious Exemptions from Public School Vaccination Requirement,
at least on an emergency basis while an appeal on the subject is pending.
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Court Orders Plaintiff to File Handwritten Opposition,
after noting that many of plaintiff's filings contained seeming AI hallucinations, despite assertions in plaintiff's filings that all the citations were valid.
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Prof. Francesca Gino's Contract and Discrimination Claims Against Harvard Business School Dismissed
"In 2021, allegations were brought against [Gino] claiming that she committed research misconduct, which triggered an approximately 18-month long inquiry and investigation by HBS administrators and faculty," and eventually to her tenure being revoked and her being fired.
