Selasa, 31 Maret 2015

Silk Road Investigators Charged With Money Laundering and Wire Fraud

From the New York Times : On the so-called dark web, drug dealing and other illicit sales have thrived in recent years, the authorities have...
Senin, 30 Maret 2015

Kerr on The Influence of Immanuel Kant on Evidentiary Approaches in Eighteenth Century Bulgaria

A while ago, I wrote about Adam Liptak's criticism of law reviews, and argued that Liptak's criticism lacked novelty. I also did so...
Jumat, 27 Maret 2015

Ninth Circuit to Grant En Banc Review in Concealed Carry Case

So reports the Los Angeles Times : A federal appeals court agreed Thursday to reconsider a decision that made it easier to receive a permit ...
Rabu, 25 Maret 2015

No Sanctions for Attorney Who Submitted Incomprehensible Certiorari Petition

From the Wall Street Journal Law Blog : The Supreme Court on Monday declined to sanction a Washington, D.C., patent attorney who faced a ra...
Selasa, 24 Maret 2015

Court Finds No Third Amendment Violation After Police Occupy Home

Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin writes about a recent ruling by a federal district court that police officers did not violate the...
Jumat, 20 Maret 2015

A New Round of Bar Exam Criticism

Law school graduates around the country took the bar exam at the end of February. In the exam's wake, commentators are questioning the n...

My New Paper on Prior Sexual Misconduct Evidence in State Courts

I just posted my most recent article on SSRN. The title is Prior Sexual Misconduct Evidence in State Courts: Constitutional and Common Law ...
Rabu, 18 Maret 2015

Ban on Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy for Minors Approved By Iowa Senate

So reports the Des Moines Register : Iowa mental health professionals would be banned from trying to change the sexual orientation of gay pa...
Selasa, 17 Maret 2015

The Implications of the "Blurred Lines" Verdict for Weird Al Yankovic

The major intellectual property story of the spring has been a lawsuit by Marvin Gaye's estate against Pharrell Williams and Robin Thick...
Selasa, 10 Maret 2015

Labeling a Container as "Not Weed" is Unlikely to Eliminate Suspicion

So learned a Nebraska man who was pulled over when officers suspected he was driving under the influence. The Lincoln Journal Star initially...
Senin, 09 Maret 2015

University of California, Irvine Law School Ranked 30th by US News

So reports this press release  from the school: The University of California, Irvine School of Law has been ranked by U.S. News & World ...
Rabu, 04 Maret 2015

Florida Man Kills Neighbor, Brings Body to Lawyer's Office

From the incomparable Florida Man Twitter account , I learned of this strange story of a man who claims he killed his neighbor in self-defe...
Selasa, 03 Maret 2015

Proposed California Ballot Initiative Would Punish Homosexuality With Death, Vigilantism, Banishment

Shifting gears from my last post on Iowa's bill to prohibit sexual orientation conversion therapy for minors, I recently learned about ...