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Supreme Court to hear arguments on porn age verification law - Roll Call

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Wednesday on a Texas law that requires pornography websites to verify the ages of their visitors.

Roll Call · Jan 14, 2025

California Officials Agree to Preliminary Injunction Blocking Law That Limits Discussing Arrest Records

FIRE, which represents the First Amendment Coalition and me in challenging the law, reports: A federal court, acting on a… The post California Officials Agree to Preliminary Injunction Blocking Law That Limits Discussing Arrest Records appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Dec 19, 2024

Our New Threads Account Is at https://www.threads.net/@volokhconspiracy

We used to have our Threads at @volokhc, but we lost access to the underlying Instagram page and therefore the… The post Our New Threads Account Is at https://www.threads.net/@volokhconspiracy appeared first on Reason.com.

Reason · Nov 23, 2024

New California Precedent on Anti-Harassment Orders and Public Speech About People

I was glad to see that the California Court of Appeal published its opinion in Luo v. Volokh, following a request by the First Amendment Coalition. (In California, any person or organization may ask a court to publish an opinion that was initially released as nonpublished.) The opinion thus becomes…

Reason · Jun 25, 2024

Why I Post About Pretrial Decisions (on Motions to Dismiss and Such)

A commenter on the Claim That Public School Employee Was Unconstitutionally Fired for Sharp Pro-COVID-Vaccine Post Can Go Forward thread wrote: Eugene Volokh likes to post about cases that can go forward because they survive some kind of summary judgement. Mostly it just seems to rile up the usual commenters…

Reason · Jun 24, 2024

My Identifying Would-Be Jane Doe Litigant in Law Review Article Wasn't "Harassment,"

notwithstanding the claim that it “invites worldwide haters to threaten, stalk, and commit violence against” her.

Reason · May 30, 2024

Federal Court Rules Laws Restricting Interstate Travel for Abortion Violate the Right to Travel

The decision addresses an important issue left open by the Supreme Court's decision reversing Roe v. Wade.

Reason · May 7, 2024

Court Reaffirms Commentators' Standing to Intervene to Unseal Court Records

A couple of circuit court decisions noted that the intervenors had to have a concrete plan to write about the records; the court here makes clear that such a plan indeed suffices for standing.

Reason · Apr 17, 2024

Abridging, Not Coercing, Is The First Amendment's Yardstick for Speech Violations

Philip Hamburger: Prof. Somin is mistaken about Murthy v. Missouri

Reason · Mar 25, 2024

Brief Opposing Pseudonymity in Ohio Libel Case

I thought I'd pass along this friend-of-the-court brief that I just filed a couple of days ago in the Ohio Court of Appeals (Doe v. Roe), with the help of invaluable local counsel Jeffrey M. Nye (Stagnaro, Saba & Patterson) and UCLA LL.M. student Bhavyata Kapoor. [* * *] This…

Reason · Mar 21, 2024