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The Demise of the Short-Lived Government Edits Doctrine

People interested in government, and in editing, would have surely found it interesting.

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Prof. Lior Silberman (UBC) points out this government edit by the Supreme Court to the syllabus its decision last week in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc.—a reference to the enigmatic "government edits doctrine" has been corrected to the more banal "government edicts doctrine."

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.