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Do Judges "Have an Important Role to Play in Our Society" Beyond Judging?

Orin S. Kerr | 5.9.2024 2:36 AM I have written before here at the blog about why I disagree with judges boycotting particular law...

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More on the New York Trump Case and the First Amendment

Orin S. Kerr | 5.4.2024 5:00 PM I thank Steve for his clarification below about his theory of why Trump might have a First...

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No, Trump Does Not Have a First Amendment Defense In His New York Criminal Case

Orin S. Kerr | 5.4.2024 2:09 AM I have mixed views about New York's prosecution of Donald Trump—if you look at all the crimes...

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Do Fourth Amendment Protections Change When Property Is Moved?

Orin S. Kerr | 5.1.2024 6:59 PM This past fall, I had the pleasure of being the Michael A. Doyle '62 and Bunny Winter...

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Cert Petition Filed in United States v. Streett

Orin S. Kerr | 4.26.2024 4:55 PM Last October, I wrote a long post on a new Tenth Circuit decision, United States v. Streett ,...

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Beverly Hills Cop is a Fourth Amendment Movie

Orin S. Kerr | 3.16.2024 4:57 AM I recently rewatched Beverly Hills Cop (1984), the Eddie Murphy movie, which came out when I was...

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The Case for Caution on Reacting to the Judicial Conference Press Release on Forum-Shopping

Orin S. Kerr | 3.14.2024 4:11 AM My co-bloggers Josh Blackman and Sam Bray have offered very different reactions to the Judicial...

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Yes, Warrants Allow a Search Through the Whole Phone

Orin S. Kerr | 3.2.2024 4:04 PM As regular readers know, one of the big issues in computer search and seizure law that I often...

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District Court Enjoins S.B. 4, the Texas Immigration Enforcement Law

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Remembering the Proper Role of the Supreme Court, As Taught at Harvard in the 1990s

Orin S. Kerr | 2.26.2024 7:43 PM When I read reactions to the current Supreme Court from academics today, I'm often struck by the...

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Just Published: "Terms of Service and Fourth Amendment Rights"

Orin S. Kerr | 2.21.2024 8:15 PM In the last year or two, the U.S. Department of Justice has been arguing in federal courts of...

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Thoughts on Internet Content Moderation from Spending Thousands of Hours Moderating Volokh Conspiracy Threads (Repost from 2022)

Orin S. Kerr | 2.19.2024 4:38 PM Note to readers: I first published the blog post below in 2022, after the Fifth Circuit's...

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Thoughts on Judge Engoron's Opinion, A Response to Calabresi

Orin S. Kerr | 2.19.2024 3:36 AM There's a lot going on in my friend and co-blogger Steve Calabresi's post below about Judge...

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Thoughts on the Declining Numbers of SCOTUS Clerks Becoming Law Professors

Orin S. Kerr | 2.1.2024 12:20 AM From 1940 to 1990, about one third of Supreme Court law clerks became law professors.  But in...

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How Has Legal Academia Changed Since Posner on Meltzer?

Orin S. Kerr | 12.27.2023 4:25 PM Back in 2007, Richard Posner published a very interesting reflection on the state of the legal...

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Dog Sniff of a Person is a Fourth Amendment Search, New York Court Rules

Orin S. Kerr | 12.19.2023 4:39 PM The police often rely on trained narcotics-detection dogs to alert for drugs.  How far the...

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You Might Want to Read More Sentences of Arizona v. United States

Orin S. Kerr | 12.19.2023 5:44 AM In his post below, my friend and co-blogger Josh Blackman writes that there is only one sentence...

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Dobbs Was Never In Doubt

Orin S. Kerr | 12.15.2023 6:16 PM If I read the New York Times scoop about Dobbs correctly, there was never any internal...

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Is Compelled Decryption Heading to the Supreme Court?

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Did Google Just Defeat Every Geofence Warrant?

Orin S. Kerr | 12.13.2023 6:42 PM I wrote last week about an oral argument in the Fourth Circuit involving geofence warrants. ...

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The First Geofence Warrant Case Reaches the Federal Court of Appeals

Orin S. Kerr | 12.9.2023 4:25 AM In March 2022, I had a long post on the district court's ruling in United States v. Chatrie ,...

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LSAT to Drop the "Logic Games" Section

Orin S. Kerr | 10.18.2023 4:55 PM Back in 2007, I wrote Volokh post, Should the LSAT Have A "Logic Games" Section?. arguing that...

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Can Copying Data Be a Fourth Amendment Seizure If Accessing It Is Not a Search?

Orin S. Kerr | 10.17.2023 5:25 PM Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Colorado handed down the first state supreme court case on the...

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Does the Inevitable Discovery Exception Include Imagined Revised Attempts to Get Warrants?

Orin S. Kerr | 10.9.2023 5:42 PM Under the inevitable discovery exception to the exclusionary rule, evidence is admitted, even if...

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