From Perlot v. Green, decided yesterday by Chief Judge David Nye (D. Idaho), the facts: On April 1, 2022, the law school at the University of Idaho held a “moment of community” in response to an anti-LGBTQ slur that had been left anonymously on a whiteboard in one of its classrooms …. Plaintiffs Perlot, Miller, […]
So reports NJ.com (Chris Sheldon), quoting this Facebook post from the West Caldwell Police Department: The West Caldwell Police Department has responded to multiple calls at a residence formerly owned by Justice Samuel Alito. Erroneous information was circulating on the internet that indicated that Justice Alito still resides in West Caldwell, and individuals have been […]
So reports the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, with a link to what a transcript of the group chat in which the speech being investigated took place; I appreciate that at this point the university is just investigating, but it seems to me that even investigations of such speech are unduly chilling of student […]
From Oberholzer v. Galapo, which was decided two months ago by the Pennsylvania intermediate appellate court (Judge Carolyn Nichols, joined by Judges Victor Stabile and James Gardner Colins) but just popped up for me on a Westlaw query: Appellants Simon and Toby Galapo (individually, Appellant Husband and Appellant Wife) appeal from the judgment entered in […]
A new Washington statute related to protection orders, which will become effective July 1, provides: In issuing any type of protection order, other than an extreme risk protection order, the court shall have broad discretion to grant such relief as the court deems proper, including … an order restricting the respondent from … making harassing […]
From Wysocki v. Wardlaw-Hartridge School, decided yesterday by Judge William Martini (D.N.J.): In January of 2021, Plaintiff … was a senior high school student at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School when a video clip circulated of her using a racial epithet. The school disciplined Wysocki, and she was not permitted to attend in-person classes or activities for […]
From Klement v. Kofsman, decided March 30 by the Florida Corut of Appeal (Chief Judge Mark Klingensmith, joined by Judges Martha Warner and Spencer Levine); note that Kofsman was the plaintiff here, and Klement was the defendant: The parties were next door neighbors whose daughters attended the same daycare center and became friends. [Kofsman] alleged […]
From U.S. v. Yung, decided today by the Third Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Stephanos Bibas, joined by Judges Felipe Restrepo and Jane Roth: Congress enacted the cyberstalking law in 2006 and broadened it in 2013. As amended, it makes a defendant a cyberstalker if he checks three boxes: An act. The defendant must […]
Ilya Shapiro, as many of you know, was suspended and investigated by the Georgetown law school—where he had been about to start a job as a lecturer and as executive director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution—for tweeting the following about the Ketanji Brown Jackson nomination: Objectively best pick for Biden is Sri Srinivasan, […]