North Dakota's New Law Restricting Law Enforcement Drones

North Dakota's governor recently signed this bill  (H.B. 1328) restricting the government's use of drones, which makes North Dakota ...

Prison Security and Drone-Smuggled Contraband

Today's New York Times has this interesting article on the use of drones to smuggle contraband into prisons. It begins: During the grav...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

Is it Constitutional to Prosecute Those Who Mail Cow Manure?

My attempt at answering this age-old legal question is prompted by this story about a pair of feuding Iowa couples. Here is the report: A s...

Guilty Verdict in San Diego Revenge Porn Case

NBC San Diego has the story here . From the report: A San Diego man was found guilty Monday of 27 felony counts for creating a so-called rev...