I'm continuing to serialize my forthcoming law review article on the duty to correct your own libelous posts, once you learn that they are libelous.
Court records are generally public records, embarrassing as they might be for the parties.
I'm continuing to serialize my forthcoming law review article on this subject.
The awful events of January 6 accelerated trends in left-of-center circles, particularly within media and technology companies.
A Maryland court reverses a juvenile delinquency adjudication based on a supposed threat at school.
But the agreement could complicate Derek Chauvin's murder trial, and it leaves unresolved the question of whether qualified immunity would have blocked the lawsuit.
Obvious, but good to have a cite for that.
For possessing a gun while committing a crime—even when no one is killed—too many defendants are slammed with sentences decades or even centuries longer than justice demands.
Databases of involuntarily supplied identities make for a plug-and-play surveillance state.
Another article that I'm serializing over the coming days.
... about there being disproportionate number of black students near the bottom of a class.
"The public has every right to understand how the public and elected officials of the Town of Wilton and the Wilton Public Schools in the exercise of their best judgment sought to resolve this case."
The plaintiff was fired and accused of sexual harassment; he won a libel lawsuit over that, and the jury awarded him $550K, but the trial court had reduced it to $100K.
Is that constitutional? Not clear.
As usual, the senator and her allies want to ban guns based on arbitrary distinctions.
One measure would require checks for nearly all firearm transfers, while the other would increase delays in completing sales.
The heavy-handed measure, a direct response to the protests provoked by the shooting of Breonna Taylor, looks like an attempt to deter constitutionally protected activity.
Overbroad Injunctions Against Speech
Some speculation from my forthcoming article.
Plus: Problems with the PRO Act, what libertarian feminism isn't, and more...
Compare: “With the exception of traditionally black law schools ..., the median black law school grade point average is at the 6.7th percentile of white law students.”
Overbroad Injunctions Against Speech
Some speculation from my forthcoming article.
Overbroad Injunctions Against Speech
Some speculation from my forthcoming article.
Experts disagree on whether this is likely or not. The answer remains unclear. But, either way, reform advocates should pursue both litigation and legislative reform. The two approaches are mutually reinforcing, not mutually exclusive.
A California rule and a bill approved by the House seem designed to chill freedom of speech and freedom of association.
“But increasingly, courts are sealing documents in run-of-the-mill cases where the parties simply prefer to keep things under wraps.”
“[T]hat the subpoenas directed at Mrs. McCloughan may be less of a bona fide effort to obtain evidence supportive of the claims brought in the Indian Action, than they are an effort to burden and harass individuals formerly associated with the Washington Football Team who may have acted as sources for The Washington Post story.”
Plus: Iowa limits early voting, a prominent sex trafficking "rescue" group relies on psychics, and more...
Overbroad Injunctions Against Speech
I’m continuing to serialize a new law review article draft of mine.
Overbroad Injunctions Against Speech
I’m continuing to serialize a new law review article draft of mine.
The Supreme Court delivers another blow to a victim of egregious police abuse.
Overbroad Injunctions Against Speech
I’m serializing a new law review article draft of mine.
The federal government weighs in on Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L..
Carlsbad City Council member Cori Schumacher had claimed the critics’ speech was threatening; no, the judge eventually held: "Simply calling these posts threats is not enough."
Is the senator's authoritarian grandstanding the dark future of the GOP?
Courts have widely upheld the First Amendment right to hurl choice words or gestures at police.
The Second Circuit held that this was a permissible viewpoint-neutral restriction on a subsidy program.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson denied qualified immunity to the officers involved in Patterson v. United States.
The Ninth Circuit decides a case involving "Rise Above Movement" white supremacists who participated in riots in California.
Democracies are going to have to do better at exercising their core liberal values to prove their worth and win back support.
