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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More on Free Speech on Campus, Title VI, and Anti-Israel Speech
"[I]n seeking to hold Cooper Union liable for [students'] expression, [plaintiff] cannot help but say the quiet part loud: sweeping otherwise-protected political expression into the hostility analysis will create pressure on institutions 'to suppress speech to ensure compliance with Title VI,' causing 'regulated entities to adopt restrictive policies in an effort to avoid liability' for a hostile environment."
"Grok Briefly Censored Criticism of Musk and Trump"
"It was blamed on a new hire who hadn't 'fully absorbed' the startup's culture."
Justices Sotomayor and Gorsuch on the Fourth Amendment and Misdemeanor Arrests
"Founding-era common law gave officers no authority to make an 'arrest without a warrant, for a mere misdemeanor not committed in [their] presence.'"
Justice Thomas Calls Again for Overruling Hill v. Colorado
But though other Justices had expressed doubt about Hill before, only Justices Thomas and Alito noted their willingness to grant review in this case.
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.
