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.
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Wednesday Open Thread
A belated thread today.
Claim That Minnesota Agency Retaliated Against Rancher for Petitioning Legislature to Change Law …
can go forward, the Eighth Circuit rules.
Court Declines to Block Federal Government's New "Government-Wide Email System"
The employees who claimed adoption of the system violated the E-Government Act of 2002 lacked standing to bring the challenge, a federal judge concluded.
"It Is a Fact That the Body of Water … Is Called the Gulf of America"?
Place names in American English are defined by what American English speakers call them, not what the President tells us to call them.
First Annual Hoover Institution (Stanford) / ASU Law Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop
Please feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested.
Student Suspended for Creating—but Not Sharing—Nudified Deepfakes of Classmates
The N.Y. Commissioner of Education has just reversed the decision.
OpenAI: "AI Should Empower People to Explore, Debate, and Create Without Arbitrary Restrictions—" …
"no matter how challenging or controversial a topic may be."
Trump's Personal Defamation Lawsuit Against Pulitzer Prize Board Members May Continue
So holds the Florida Court of Appeal, rejecting the members' claim that they aren't subject to personal jurisdiction in Florida. The majority doesn't discuss the substantive merits of the case.
No Domestic Violence Restraining Order Based on Allegations of "Gaslighting"
"Lily accused Gunther of 'Gaslighting' (underscoring omitted) by denying he suffered from steroid-induced rages during their marriage and denying Lily's contributions to Gunther's career success."
"Bloggers, Xers, Facebookers, YouTubers, Instagrammers, and Others" Have Right of Access to Court Proceedings,
including the right to videorecord, given that state law (unlike federal law) provides for such videorecording for the mainstream media; so holds the Ohio Chief Justice.
Journal of Free Speech Law: "Beyond the Editorial Analogy: First Amendment Protections for Platform Content Moderation After Moody v. NetChoice,"
by Kyle Langvardt & Alan Z. Rozenshtein.
"A Major Law Firm's ChatGPT Fail"
"The problem with these cases is that [only one] exist[s]."
Liking Post That Contains Porn Deepfake Can Lead to Liability, Court Says in Megan Thee Stallion Lawsuit
At least this is so when defendant "also ... allegedly directed viewers of her post to click on her 'Likes' page where the video had been archived" (not clear what the judge would have thought if the case involved solely the "like").
Megan Thee Stallion's Defamation Lawsuit Against "Online Personality" "Milagro Gramz or Mobz World" Can Go Forward
Plus, does speech about a celebrity become "intentional infliction of emotional distress" when the celebrity is known to have been "trauma[tized]" by a violent crime?
"Title VI Must Be Applied Consistent with First Amendment Principles"
A federal district court discusses how the First Amendment limits liability for "hostile environment harassment" based on "speech on matters of public concern" in universities (public or private). And the reasoning may extend to Title VII liability on workplaces as well.
