Texas Judge: No Plea Bargains "Involving" Probation for More Crimes than You May Realize

The title of this post admittedly involves a bit of a paraphrasing, but not much. The Wall Street Journal Law Blog has this post on a Texas...

Arbitration by Combat: The Consumer-Friendly Approach America Needs

A former classmate of mine, Amanda Werner, co-authored  this article  with Sonia Gill for some obscure political website .  Werner and Gill ...

California Governor Vetoes Drone Bills; Denounces Creation of New Crimes

The Los Angeles Times has this report on California Governor Jerry Brown's veto of several bills that would criminalize flying drones o...

California Governor Vetoes Drone Trespass Bill

So reports the LA Times : Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday vetoed legislation to restrict the use of drones over private property. The legislat...

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...

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 ...

Iowa Bill Would Prohibit Sexual Orientation Conversion Therapy for Minors

So reports the Des Moines Register : A bill that would ban Iowa mental health professionals from trying to change the sexual orientation of ...

FAA Releases Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for Drone Regulations

So reports the Washington Post : Thousands of businesses could receive clearance to fly drones two years from now under proposed rules that ...

Would Texas Bill H.B. 868 Make it More Likely that Teachers Will Shoot Students?

Commentators at Daily Kos and ThinkProgress believe it will. From the ThinkProgress article: People who are concerned about the use of exc...

Robinson on the Rise and Degradation of Criminal Codes

From the CrimProf Blog , I learned about Paul Robinson's essay , The Rise and Fall and Resurrection of American Criminal Codes . Here is...