I’m delighted to report that Prof. Kurt Lash (University of Richmond School of Law) will be guest-blogging this coming week about his new book, The Reconstruction Amendments: The Essential Documents: Ratified in the years immediately following the American Civil War, the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution—together known as the Reconstruction Amendments—abolished […]
From Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright’s decision Friday in Goyette v. City of Minneapolis: The individual Plaintiffs are journalists, photographers, and other members of the press who bring this lawsuit on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated individuals…. On May 25, 2020, George Floyd died as a result of an encounter with four officers of […]
This was announced last month, but I’m afraid I somehow missed that at the time. Here’s the story from Ron Collins’ First Amendment News: Ronald London, a highly skilled and savvy First Amendment lawyer with years of experience, has left Davis Wright Tremaine to head FIRE’s Faculty Legal Defense Fund. Among other things, Mr. London, […]
From In re Piland, decided by the Michigan Court of Appeals Thursday, in an opinion by Judge Michael J. Kelly, joined by Presiding Judge Thomas C. Cameron and Judge Kristen F. Kelly: Respondents appeal … the orders terminating their parental rights to their children, MP, JP, and VP …. On February 6, 2017, respondents’ third […]
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An interesting short article from Prof. Kevin Cope (Virginia) and my UCLA colleague Prof. Alexander Stremitzer (also at ETH Zurich). An excerpt: In general, governments can restrict certain fundamental rights only if no less-restrictive alternatives exist for accomplishing the same objectives. In countries like Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, this argument holds generally und Read More […]
From the N.Y. Department of Financial Services last month: To: All New York Domestic and Foreign Insurance Companies Re: Diversity and Corporate Governance As Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), I have consistently stressed the critical importance of diverse perspectives to problem-solving. Research shows that diverse teams perform better, innovate […]
A fascinating, and frightening, story from the Chronicle of Higher Education (Sarah Brown & Megan Zahneis) (free registration required); an excerpt: An email sent to nearly a dozen people at the University of Georgia, where [Cassia] Roth is an assistant professor, alleged that she had plagiarized parts of her master’s thesis and doctoral dissertation, stealing […]
From Delplanche v. Window Products, Inc., decided yesterday by Judge Ann Aiken (D. Or.): Plaintiff worked for defendants from November 2014 until he was terminated on August 19, 2015. On December 14. 2016, he filed this action, asserting unlawful termination under the Equal Pay Act, the Fair Labors Standards Act, and various state laws. On […]
Newsweek (Daniel Villarreal) reports: The article mentioned that Cullors had purchased “four high-end homes for $3.2 million” in the United States. It also said that she was seeking real estate in the Bahamas. It contrasted the purchases with Cullors’ self-identification as a Marxist as well as criticisms from others about the alleged lack of financial […]
Google’s FeedBurner, which we use to deliver the Volokh Daily e-mail to our ≈3,000 subscribers, is stopping its e-mail service. My plan was to move to Google Groups instead, and we still might if we can’t get a good alternative, but I’m not wild about its content limits, including on whatever speech Google views as […]
