A judge "issued an interim injunction that bans [Kate Scottow] from posting any personal information about [Stephanie] Hayden on social media, 'referencing her as a man' or linking her to her 'former male identity.'"
A great line from Megan McArdle's recent article on newspapers and their "pivot to dust."
The justices were wrong to reject a religious discrimination claim in a case where a person sentenced to death was not allowed access to a Muslim cleric at the moment of death. But the decision was not the result of anti-Muslim bigotry.
Why college writings are complicated but the perfect solution fallacy is worse.
A panel decision had said there is such a right to carry (though the state can decide whether people must carry openly or may carry concealed); the Ninth Circuit has just agreed to rehear the matter with an 11-judge panel.
How to ensure lack of transparency and prevent asylum seekers from accessing rights.
Hypnosis, fungal spores, and a Bernie independent.
When is a threat to reveal something embarrassing blackmail, and when is it permissible? Plus a special Bill Cosby (but non-sexual-assault) connection.
Opening the Overton window on responding to cyberattacks
Some troubling uncertainties in a case of troubling allegations of religious discrimination
The latest map of state laws related to concealed carry, 1986 to 2019, is out -- and it's striking.
Another cert. petition asks the Supreme Court to resolve the circuit split on this question.
Since 2013, California has outlawed new semiautomatic handguns
Canadian columnist Andrew Coyne explains why efforts to combat fake news by cutting off supply are barking up the wrong tree.
Federal law treated the conviction -- for altering a motor vehicles department certificate that allowed the owner to have tinted windows on his car -- as a felony, because the maximum penalty was five years in prison. But state law treated it as a misdemeanor, and the defendant was sentenced only to a year's probation.
Senate Democrats and progressive groups launch unfounded attacks against a judicial nominee.
Episode 249 of the Cyberlaw Podcast
The Liberty & Law Center a Scalia Law School is launching a program to encourage civil discourse among students of differing ideological commitments.
I'm helping organize an exciting conference, from the evening of March 21 to the afternoon of March 23, 2019, bringing together academics and student-affairs professionals to talk about current issues related to academic freedom and free speech on campus.
If a statute imposes strict liability for dog bites, does that extend to a herding dog nipping at a cow that then trampled the plaintiff?
The judge was right to conclude that the individual health insurance mandate is now unconstitutional, but wrong to rule that the rest of the ACA is now unlawful because it can't be severed from the largely toothless mandate left in place under the 2017 GOP tax bill.
A federal district court judge in Texas has accepted a strained and implausible argument that the Affordable Care Act must be struck down because Congress eliminated the tax penalty for failing to purchase qualifying health insurance.
A misleading film, a misleading statistic, and misleading crackers.
Legal experts debate whether payments to kill stories about then-candidate Trump's affairs were undisclosed campaign expenditures.
The "questionable" "editing choices," the court said, weren't sufficiently injurious to reputation to qualify as libelous (whether or not they conveyed a false message).
Hardball, yes. Asymmetric, not so much.
Please share it widely -- there will be at least nine more in the upcoming months.
USC's procedures didn't fairly treat the accused, a California appellate court rules.
"[SUNY] Purchase College student Gunnar Hassard was arraigned in Harrison Town Court for Aggravated Harassment in the First Degree, a class E felony, for hanging posters with Nazi symbolism in areas of the campus."
The liberal-dominated federal court of appeals lets its partisan and ideological freak flags fly.
"Protection against the possibility of future adverse impact on employment does not overcome the presumption of public access."
Fresh off the law review presses.
The new law will help victims of child pornography crimes receive full restitution from convicted defendants who have harmed them.
Constitutional theory meets criminal defense meets Civil War history.
mine is The Player of Games, by Iain Banks
Further explication of our ongoing disagreement concerning the scope and conduct of the Mueller investigation.
