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Interesting Fifth Circuit Denial of Qualified Immunity to Police Officers

Qualified Immunity Eugene Volokh | 5.4.2024 2:09 PM From Hughes v. Few , decided yesterday by Judge Andrew Oldham,...

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Massachusetts High Court Upholds Ban on Picketing Within 200 Feet of Courthouse in Karen Read Murder Trial

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 5.3.2024 1:48 PM From Spicuzza v. Commonwealth , decided yesterday by the Massachusetts...

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Message from Johns Hopkins University President

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 5.3.2024 12:32 PM Circulated yesterday "regarding a pro-Palestinian protest initiated...

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Again, Someone Trying to Vanish My Post About a Case on One-Sided Pseudonymity

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 5.3.2024 11:11 AM In February, I wrote about a Fourth Circuit decision in Doe v. Sidar,...

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"Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023" (Which Just Passed the House) Could Suppress First-Amendment-Protected Criticism of Israel

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 5.3.2024 11:49 AM HR6090, which passed the House of Representatives Wednesday by a...

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UCLA Chancellor's Statement

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 5.2.2024 5:00 PM Just circulated: Our community is in deep pain. We are reeling from...

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Judges Encouraging Oral Argument Opportunities for Junior Lawyers

Eugene Volokh | 5.2.2024 12:47 PM Various district courts have put out such orders; here's the most recent I've seen, a Standing...

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Stanford Message to Students About Protests

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 5.1.2024 12:54 PM Sent out yesterday: This post provides an update from Stanford...

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Ohio State University President's Statement on Clearing of Protest Encampments

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 5.1.2024 1:06 PM Released Monday by OSU President Ted Carter; I'm not up on the factual...

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"Plaintiff Threatened the District Staff's Jobs, Reputation, Careers, and Legal Liability—Not Their Physical Safety"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 5.1.2024 8:00 AM From Pryor v. School Dist. No. 1 , decided yesterday by the Tenth...

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No Pseudonymity for Alleged Jeffrey Epstein Victims Suing FBI Over Failure to Properly Investigate Epstein

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 5.1.2024 8:01 AM From Doe v. U.S. , decided yesterday by Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil...

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Free Speech Unmuted: Free Speech on Campus

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.30.2024 2:05 PM You can watch on YouTube (see here for past episodes), or subscribe...

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"If He Did Not Want to Be Called a 'Rioter,' Plaintiff Should Not Have Admitted … to 'Participation in … [a] Riot'"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.30.2024 11:47 AM An excerpt from Hiles v. CNN , decided yesterday by Judge Arenda L....

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Alleged "QAnon John"'s Libel Lawsuit Against Anti-Defamation League Can Go Forward

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.30.2024 8:38 AM From Judge Reed O'Connor's decision today in Sabal v. Anti-Defamation...

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Journalist Has No First Amendment Right to Publish Police Chief's Home Address,

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.29.2024 8:04 PM From Kratovil v. City of New Brunswick, decided Friday by the N.J....

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Monday Open Thread

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University of Illinois Relocates Demonstration

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.28.2024 6:11 PM From a Friday statement by the university president: We write to ask...

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FIRE's Response to Police Dispersing Pro-Palestinian Protesters at UT Austin

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.28.2024 4:30 PM As I've noted before, public universities have considerable authority...

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MIT President's Statement on the Anti-Israel Students' Encampment

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.27.2024 4:06 PM Here's the transcript; on balance, the message seems to me to be...

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No Pseudonymity in Title IX Wrongful-Discipline Lawsuits, Holds Seventh Circuit

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.27.2024 1:32 PM From Friday's Seventh Circuit opinion in Doe v. Trustees of Ind....

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Court Upholds #TheyLied Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress Award Against Student Who Accused Professor of Sexual Assault,

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.27.2024 8:01 AM From Thursday's Tenth Circuit decision in Sun v. Xu , written by...

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Thursday Open Thread

Politics Eugene Volokh | 4.25.2024 3:00 AM

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Gen. Michael Flynn's Brother v. CNN "False Light" Lawsuit Dismissed

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.24.2024 5:26 PM From today's decision by Judge Arun Subramanian (S.D.N.Y.) in Flynn...

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John McWhorter on the Columbia Protests

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.24.2024 4:52 PM An excerpt from his column in yesterday's N.Y. Times: Last Thursday,...

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Private, Shmivate: Sit-ins, Campouts, and True Threats Are Constitutionally Unprotected at Universities, Whether Private or Public

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.24.2024 3:28 PM The Wall Street Journal had an editorial this morning called "Defining...

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No Pseudonymity in Lawsuit Challenging N.Y.'s Involuntary Commitment System as It Affects Gun Rights

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.24.2024 2:23 PM In P.D. v. Sullivan (S.D.N.Y.), plaintiff alleges: New York State...

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Northwestern Dean of Students' Presence at Anti-Israel Protest

Eugene Volokh | 4.23.2024 11:12 AM I've seen some items online asserting that the Northwestern Dean of Students "joins anti-Israel...

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"Despite Police Pushback, Biden Presses On With Visit To Syracuse After Two Cops Were Just Slain"

Eugene Volokh | 4.22.2024 7:16 PM From the Daily Caller: Biden is set to travel to the city on Thursday to promote the CHIPS and...

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Brief Challenging Texas Restriction on "Sexual Gesticulations Using Accessories or Prosthetics That Exaggerate … Sexual Characteristics"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.22.2024 2:16 PM I was delighted to sign on to this amicus brief supporting the...

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For Those Who Want a More Musical Volokh

Politics Eugene Volokh | 4.22.2024 10:08 AM Volokh, apparently from the place name Wallachia (Romania), is a klezmer (East European Jewish) musical...

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The Bail Project Isn't Liable for Crimes by People It Bailed Out

Politics Eugene Volokh | 4.22.2024 8:01 AM From Troutt v. The Bail Project, Inc. , decided Friday by the Kentucky...

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District Court Unseals Sentencing Memorandum in Case Involving Detroit's "Topless Prophet"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.22.2024 8:49 AM From Judge Linda Parker's opinion Thursday in U.S. v. Markovitz (E.D....

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Monday Open Thread

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Pennsylvania Court Lets Suit Over Removal of Columbus Statue Go Forward

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.20.2024 11:18 AM Italian Sons & Daughters of America v. City of Pittsburgh , decided...

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"Last Week, a … [UC Berkeley] Professor Confronted a Muslim Student During a Dinner for Graduating Law Students"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.20.2024 11:42 AM Here are the closing paragraphs of yesterday's NBC News article,...

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"White Supremacist Leader Sentenced to 44 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Make Death Threats Against Brooklyn Journalist"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.20.2024 8:01 AM The Justice Department reported yesterday: Earlier today, at the...

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Lawsuit Alleging School District Wouldn't Inform Certain Parents About Their Children's "Sign[s] of an LGBTQ+ Identity" Dismissed for Lack of Standing

Parental Rights Eugene Volokh | 4.19.2024 1:47 PM From today's opinion by Judge Michael Watson (S.D. Ohio) in ...

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Seattle Improperly Imposed a "Heckler's Veto" on Street Preacher at "an Abortion Rally and an LGBTQ Pride Event"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.19.2024 8:01 AM From yesterday's decision in Meinecke v. City of Seattle , written by...

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N.Y. Bill Would Require Users to Swear They Won't Use Generative AI to Produce "Offensive, Harassing, Violent, [or] Discriminatory" Speech

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Letter from Stanford President and Provost to Incoming Stanford Students

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.18.2024 11:02 AM Dear XXX, Congratulations on earning a place in Stanford University's...

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Thursday Open Thread

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"USC Canceling Valedictorian's Commencement Speech Looks Like Calculated Censorship"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.17.2024 6:44 PM The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (Alex Morey)...

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High School Student Allegedly Suspended for Saying "Illegal Alien" in Class Discussion

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.17.2024 2:56 PM The New York Post (Yaron Steinbuch) reports: A 16-year-old North...

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Court Reaffirms Commentators' Standing to Intervene to Unseal Court Records

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.17.2024 2:35 PM From last week's decision by Magistrate Judge Alice Senechal in N.D....

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N.C. Court Holds Selective COVID Shutdown May Have Violated State Constitution's "Fruits of Labor" Clause

Economic Liberty Eugene Volokh | 4.17.2024 11:59 AM From N.C. Bar & Tavern Ass'n v. Cooper , decided yesterday by...

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Center for Individual Rights Looking for Individual Rights Litigator

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.16.2024 10:57 PM I've long followed and much admired CIR's work; Rosenberger v. Rector...

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"Trump Didn't Violate Logan Act with Reshare of Old Iran Social Media Post, Experts Say"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 4.16.2024 7:27 PM PolitiFact (Jeff Cercone) has the story; I am one of the experts. An...

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"World's First Beauty Pageant for AI Women Is Announced"

Eugene Volokh | 4.16.2024 2:21 PM Daily Mail (William Hunter) reports on the "Fanvue Miss AI pageant"; "ladies face off in tests...

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Interesting Fifth Circuit Denial of Qualified Immunity to Police Officers

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Massachusetts High Court Upholds Ban on Picketing Within 200 Feet of Courthouse in Karen Read Murder Trial

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Message from Johns Hopkins University President

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Again, Someone Trying to Vanish My Post About a Case on One-Sided Pseudonymity

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"Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023" (Which Just Passed the House) Could Suppress First-Amendment-Protected Criticism of Israel

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UCLA Chancellor's Statement

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Judges Encouraging Oral Argument Opportunities for Junior Lawyers

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Stanford Message to Students About Protests

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Ohio State University President's Statement on Clearing of Protest Encampments

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"Plaintiff Threatened the District Staff's Jobs, Reputation, Careers, and Legal Liability—Not Their Physical Safety"

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No Pseudonymity for Alleged Jeffrey Epstein Victims Suing FBI Over Failure to Properly Investigate Epstein

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Free Speech Unmuted: Free Speech on Campus

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"If He Did Not Want to Be Called a 'Rioter,' Plaintiff Should Not Have Admitted … to 'Participation in … [a] Riot'"

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Alleged "QAnon John"'s Libel Lawsuit Against Anti-Defamation League Can Go Forward

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Journalist Has No First Amendment Right to Publish Police Chief's Home Address,

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Monday Open Thread

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University of Illinois Relocates Demonstration

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FIRE's Response to Police Dispersing Pro-Palestinian Protesters at UT Austin

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MIT President's Statement on the Anti-Israel Students' Encampment

Eugene Volokh

No Pseudonymity in Title IX Wrongful-Discipline Lawsuits, Holds Seventh Circuit

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Court Upholds #TheyLied Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress Award Against Student Who Accused Professor of Sexual Assault,

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Thursday Open Thread

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Gen. Michael Flynn's Brother v. CNN "False Light" Lawsuit Dismissed

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John McWhorter on the Columbia Protests

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Private, Shmivate: Sit-ins, Campouts, and True Threats Are Constitutionally Unprotected at Universities, Whether Private or Public

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No Pseudonymity in Lawsuit Challenging N.Y.'s Involuntary Commitment System as It Affects Gun Rights

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Northwestern Dean of Students' Presence at Anti-Israel Protest

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"Despite Police Pushback, Biden Presses On With Visit To Syracuse After Two Cops Were Just Slain"

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Brief Challenging Texas Restriction on "Sexual Gesticulations Using Accessories or Prosthetics That Exaggerate … Sexual Characteristics"

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The Bail Project Isn't Liable for Crimes by People It Bailed Out

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District Court Unseals Sentencing Memorandum in Case Involving Detroit's "Topless Prophet"

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Monday Open Thread

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Pennsylvania Court Lets Suit Over Removal of Columbus Statue Go Forward

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"Last Week, a … [UC Berkeley] Professor Confronted a Muslim Student During a Dinner for Graduating Law Students"

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"White Supremacist Leader Sentenced to 44 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Make Death Threats Against Brooklyn Journalist"

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Lawsuit Alleging School District Wouldn't Inform Certain Parents About Their Children's "Sign[s] of an LGBTQ+ Identity" Dismissed for Lack of Standing