Voisine and the Significance of Second Amendment Silence

The Supreme Court released an opinion today in Voisine v. United States (full opinion here ), a case described by Rory Little of SCOTUSblog...

Oklahoma State Legislators! Please Make These Changes to Your State's Laws

My Facebook and Twitter accounts were abuzz yesterday with reports of this recent opinion by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma in w...

Non-Disparagement Agreements With the Government and the First Amendment

Eugene Volokh wrote yesterday about a settlement agreement between a former employee of a Veterans Affairs Hospital in Washington. The sett...

In Washington, Your Trash is Private, But Not Your Abandoned DNA

So reports the Seattle Times: Seattle’s ordinance allowing garbage collectors to look through people’s trash — to make sure food scraps are...

How to Get Away With Unethical Lawyering, Season 1, Episode 3

At the time I am writing this post, I have seen all of Seasons One and Two of How to Get Away With Murder . To date, about two minutes of Se...

How to Get Away With Unethical Lawyering, Season 1, Episode 2

Long ago I wrote a post on the first episode of How to Get Away With Murder detailing the plethora of ethical violations committed by the ...

Aerial Surveillance, Intrusiveness, and the Fourth Amendment

Eugene Volokh has this post at the Volokh Conspiracy highlighting the recent case of State v. Davis in the New Mexico Supreme Court. In th...

Varriale v. State: DNA Submitted Without Express Limitation on Consent Can be Used to Investigate Other Crimes

So holds Maryland's Court of Appeals (the state's court of last resort), in Varriale v. State . The opinion can be found here . Here...

Trial By Combat in New York?

A friend sent me this post by Eugene Volokh commenting on a colorful brief filed by Richard Luthmann, a Staten Island attorney. This parag...

Bail Decisions Based on Algorithms

The New York Times has this interesting report on using algorithms to make bail determinations. From the article: Setting bail is a difficu...