[This post is co-authored with Professor Seth Barrett Tillman.] In the past, Blackman has compared Chief Justice Roberts's opinions to… | Continue reading
Heather Wallace was prosecuted for child endangerment after her 8-year-old son walked half a mile home through the Waco, TX suburbs. | Continue reading
Terence Duque was arrested for 'conducting business in Charlotte County without a Florida license.' If charged as a felony, that's an offense that could carry up to five years in prison under Florida law | Continue reading
Data show that students admitted by lottery to San Francisco's Lowell High School are academically faring much worse than their peers. | Continue reading
The proposals were agreed on by members of the conservative, libertarian, and progressive teams participating in the NCC's earlier constitution drafting project. | Continue reading
The California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act was seen as good for digital privacy, but critics warn of a litany of unintended consequences. | Continue reading
Even reduced immigration and job openings for miles aren't luring America's ever-growing workforce dropouts back in. | Continue reading
A First Amendment case prompts 'The Onion' to explain how parody works. | Continue reading
NYU fired chemistry professor Maitland Jones Jr. after students created a petition that demanded he make the class easier. | Continue reading
"A report was taken by officer Tipping, and I've seen that report. And...the female victim claimed that she was raped by four different people, all LAPD officers." | Continue reading
NYU professor Jonathan Haidt is resigning an academic association after attempts to force diversity statements into his work. | Continue reading
"Upon careful review, we determined this video is not violative of our Community Guidelines and have reinstated it," said a YouTube spokesperson. | Continue reading
This is the first serious challenge to Biden's student loan forgiveness plan. The lawsuit takes issue with the pandemic justification for debt relief. | Continue reading
Reading the Fifth Circuit's decision in Netchoice v. Paxton brings me back to the old days of the Volokh Conspiracy. ... | Continue reading
The Big Apple's building regulations are almost impossible to navigate, and officials like it that way. | Continue reading
More universities than ever are now requiring lengthy DEI statements from job applicants. Is that good for academic freedom? | Continue reading
Licensing authorities are penalizing Charles Marohn for referring to himself as a professional engineer while his license was briefly expired. | Continue reading
For the first time ever, the Treasury Department has sanctioned not a person or a group but a digital tool and all who would use it. | Continue reading
Hundreds of lives were upended by the University of Farmington, a fake university that took $6 million in tuition and fees from foreign students. | Continue reading
They appear to be here (the order to unseal is here). | Continue reading
In all states, you can use deadly force to defend yourself against death, serious bodily injury (which can include broken bones and perhaps even lost teeth), rape, or kidnapping, so long as (a) your fear is reasonable | Continue reading
One of Ralph Petty's victims is trying to hold him accountable, but she will have to overcome prosecutorial immunity. | Continue reading
Women's preference for socially valuable, personally fulfilling work, might explain much of the early-starting gender pay gap. | Continue reading
The United Kingdom's innocuously-titled Online Safety Bill threatens citizens' rights to privacy and to speak freely. | Continue reading
Michael Picard's free speech rights were violated when he was booked for telling passersby to "Google Jury Nullification." | Continue reading
It's virtually the only area of law enforcement where racial discrimination is officially permitted by policy. And it's both wrong and illegal. | Continue reading
This legislation is a dispiriting illustration of how the worst instincts of both major parties combine to produce policies that are neither just nor sensible. | Continue reading
Meta's third-party fact-checkers have flagged as "false information" posts on Instagram and Facebook accusing the Biden administration of changing the definition of a recession in order to deny that the U.S. economy has entered one. | Continue reading
Why American films have ignored life under communism. | Continue reading
Federal prosecutors want to keep key details about the planning and execution of the March 2021 raid at U.S. Private Vaults from the public. | Continue reading
Solving the college cost problem in the long term requires getting the government out of the lending business. | Continue reading
Atlanta, Sioux Center, and too many other cities and towns are still treating food trucks like second-class businesses. | Continue reading
Overzealous gatekeeping on race and gender is killing books before they're published—or even written. | Continue reading
The fewer rules you place on building "missing middle" housing, the more housing you'll see built. San Francisco doesn't get it. | Continue reading
A top-down exhortation that half of all new vehicles be electric feels more like wishful thinking than a market-based possibility. | Continue reading
From Judge Amul Thapar's Sixth Circuit opinion in Lindke v. Freed today, joined by Judges Ralph Guy and Chad Readler:... | Continue reading
It's fair to say that reality has a lot of problems. War. Famine. Disease. Taxes. Unwanted accumulations of pet hair.... | Continue reading
The last 50 years have been marked by a remarkably stable social consensus balancing the rights of women and fetuses. Let's not throw that away. | Continue reading
"This is fantastic progress in understanding childhood as the right time for children to learn to recognize and mitigate risk." | Continue reading
The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 that if a police officer fails to inform you of your Miranda rights, you can't sue under federal law. | Continue reading
YouTube removed a video uploaded by the January 6 Committee that showed footage of former President Trump contesting the results of the 2020 election. | Continue reading
The city failed to perform a state-required environmental analysis of its Minneapolis 2040 comprehensive plan, three environmentalists groups had argued in a lawsuit that. | Continue reading
The New York Times published a 1,700-word article this week alleging that the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken had been roiled by an internal culture war. | Continue reading
The court concludes that the federal "cyberstalking" statute covers only speech intended to "put the victim in fear of death or bodily injury" or to "distress the victim by threatening, intimidating, or the like." | Continue reading
Portland's abolition of single-family zoning has lead to the construction of about 100 newly legal "missing middle" housing units. The city is now trying to go further. | Continue reading
When is a tax break actually a tax penalty? When it's the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance. | Continue reading
Philadelphia's planned restrictions on bulletproof glass would violate the Pennsylvania Bill of Rights -- "All men ... have certain inherent and indefeasible rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty, [and] of ... protecting property ...." | Continue reading