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First Amendment

New Article on Eugene Volokh's Amicus Briefs Regarding Compelled Speech and Antidiscrimination Law

Volokh's view gave breathing room for individuals' speech interests while leaving plenty of space for government to protect people from discrimination

Dale Carpenter |The Volokh Conspiracy | 5.21.2025 11:05 AM

Title IX

Unsealed Title IX Complaint Against Columbia Now Available

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.24.2024 11:30 AM

Religion and the Law

Religious Discrimination Claims Related to Ex-Employee's Objecting to Participating in "LGBTQ+" Events Can Go Forward

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 10.23.2024 4:25 PM

Religion and the Law

Title IX's Exemption for Religious Institutions as to Sex, Sexual Orientation, and Gender Identity Is Constitutionally Permissible

The court concludes that the government may institute such an exemption, though doesn't decide whether it must do so.

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.30.2024 5:34 PM

Free Speech

Mother's Recurring Condemnation of 13-Year-Old Son's Homosexuality as Child Neglect

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 8.10.2024 3:12 PM

Sixth Circuit

Divided Sixth Circuit Panel Affirms Preliminary Injunction Against Department of Education Title IX Guidance

The court concludes states are likely to succeed in their procedural challenges to the Education Department's decision to extend Bostock to Title IX.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 6.14.2024 6:01 PM

personal jurisdiction

Lawsuit Over Outing of Gay Saudis by Lufthansa in Saudi Arabia Can't Proceed in California

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 3.30.2024 12:14 PM

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Education

Florida 'Effectively Banned AP Psychology' With Rules Against Teaching About Gender, Sexual Orientation

Plus: The gender gap in high school political identification is overstated, Why We Can't Have Nice Things explains the baby formula shortage, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.4.2023 9:59 AM

Free Speech

The First Amendment and Sexual Orientation "Conversion Therapy" -- Next Stop, the Supreme Court?

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 1.23.2023 5:29 PM

Title IX

Title IX Statutory Exemption for Religious Institutions Doesn't Violate Constitutional Rights of Sexual Minorities

Eugene Volokh |The Volokh Conspiracy | 1.12.2023 8:54 PM

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Reason Roundup

House Republicans Seek To Shield Kids From Talk About Gender, Sexual Orientation

Plus: Liz Truss resigns, declining internet freedom, new fentanyl seizure fuels Halloween candy panic, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.20.2022 9:31 AM

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Reason Roundup

Alabama Passes Bill Making It a Felony To Offer Transition-Related Care for Trans Kids

Plus: Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmed, judge gives gun rights back to January 6 defendant, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.8.2022 9:50 AM

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Reason Roundup

30 Percent of Americans Still Oppose Same-Sex Marriage 

Plus: Research says neuroscience studies are largely unreliable, Elizabeth Warren's new antitrust bill, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 3.17.2022 9:30 AM

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LGBT

Florida's LGBT School Censorship Bill Is a Lawsuit Factory That Overrules Many Parents

Under H.B. 1557, only the most conservative parents will decide what everybody else’s kids will learn about sexual orientation or gender identity.

Scott Shackford | 2.10.2022 1:10 PM

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Gender Identity

Abigail Shrier Worries Teenage Gender Transitions Lead to 'Irreversible Damage'

The controversial author on her acclaimed and condemned book, being deplatformed, and the future of free expression in an increasingly polarized marketplace of ideas

Nick Gillespie | 7.13.2021 2:00 PM

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Reason Roundup

Strip Club Ban on Unaccompanied Women Spawns LGBT Rights Controversy

Plus: House votes on $2,000 stimulus checks, another win for Brooklyn churches challenging lockdown orders, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 12.29.2020 9:37 AM

First Amendment

Eleventh Circuit Enjoins Local Ordinances Barring "Conversion Therapy"

A divided panel concludes that such ordinances run afoul of the First Amendment, creating a split with other circuits.

Jonathan H. Adler |The Volokh Conspiracy | 11.20.2020 5:54 PM

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