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Link Policy - The Volokh Conspiracy
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Commentary on law, public policy, and more. Advice for Bloggers Promoting Their Work to Other Bloggers:. I thought now was a good time to repost my old post on the subject, especially since I suspect that many other bloggers have similar preferences to these. I also add a new item (#3):. We sometimes get e-mail from people asking us to link to their blogs, or their posts. 1 Pitch the post, not the blog. 2 Include both (a) the text of the post and (b) the URL of that particular post. Sources on the Second...
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Ninth Circuit Decides Cotterman Case, Reversing District Court on Laptop Seizure at the Border - The Volokh Conspiracy
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Commentary on law, public policy, and more. Ninth Circuit Decides Cotterman. Case, Reversing District Court on Laptop Seizure at the Border. March 30, 2011. Back in 2009, I blogged about. United States v. Cotterman. Was whether the government could seize the computer, bring it to a forensic specialist 170 miles away, and have the forensic specialist search the computer there two days later. Is that still a border search? The District Court held. The Government appealed but has not argued that the search ...
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Was the Dissent Originally a Majority Opinion? - The Volokh Conspiracy
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Commentary on law, public policy, and more. Was the Dissent Originally a Majority Opinion? June 28, 2012. The four-Justice dissent, at least on first quick perusal, reads like it was originally written as a majority opinion, [ something Larry Solum also noticed. If so, was he responding to the heat from President Obama and others, preemptively threatening to delegitimize the Court if it invalidated the ACA? Initial Thoughts on the Health Care Ruling. And in really important Supreme Court news . . . Democ...
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What were Jared Loughner’s Politics? - The Volokh Conspiracy
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Commentary on law, public policy, and more. What were Jared Loughner’s Politics? January 8, 2011. When a very probably mentally ill person kills a judge and a young child, that person’s politics are not terribly relevant. The cause is usually mental illness, not political ideology. But even if you don’t agree with me on that point, the current attacks on conservatives over this shooting are at least premature, since we don’t yet know what Jared Loughner’s politics were. Saying Jared Laughner was the gunm...
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Get posts by e-mail. Sources on the Second Amendment. Testimony on the Second Amendment. Shards: Poems from the War. Saturday, June 14, 2003. Progress and compromise on CAPPS II:. That criticism of CAPPS II from privacy advocates has led the Transportation Security Administration to change the program:. Under the new approach, the system known as CAPPS II would draw less personal information about passengers into the government computers, the documents show. According to a draft of the document, the noti...
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Preliminary Thoughts on Judge Leon's Opinion - The Volokh Conspiracy
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Commentary on law, public policy, and more. Preliminary Thoughts on Judge Leon’s Opinion. December 16, 2013. In this post, I’ll offer a few thoughts on Judge Leon’s remarkable opinion. On NSA surveillance. Unfortunately, my time was limited, so I have to offer a more brief analysis than I would normally like to do. Here are a few thoughts for now, with more to come later if time permits. 1) Distinguishing Smith v. Maryland. Judge Leon’s first and most fundamental move is to distinguish. Holding up a cell...
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A Crime to Use "Any Electronic or Digital Device" "And Use Any Obscene, Lewd or Profane Language" "With Intent to ... Offend"? - The Volokh Conspiracy
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Commentary on law, public policy, and more. A Crime to Use “Any Electronic or Digital Device” “And Use Any Obscene, Lewd or Profane Language” “With Intent to … Offend”? March 31, 2012. That’s what Arizona HB 2549. Which was just passed by both houses. Though not yet signed by the Governor) provides, in relevant part:. It is unlawful for any person, with intent to terrify, intimidate, threaten, harass, annoy or offend, to use a. ANY ELECTRONIC OR DIGITAL DEVICE. Likewise if a blog poster were to post the ...
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Get posts by e-mail. Sources on the Second Amendment. Testimony on the Second Amendment. Shards: Poems from the War. Saturday, August 02, 2003. Den Beste on the Breakthrough with North Korea:. Another fascinating analysis of the current situation in Korea. By Steven Den Beste. It begins with a lengthy history of the Korean conflict in the context of the cold war along with a comparison to Vietnam. Here are some morsels from the middle, but they are no substitute for reading the whole thing:. North Korea ...
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"In Supreme Court Opinions, Clicks That Lead Nowhere" - The Volokh Conspiracy
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Commentary on law, public policy, and more. 8220;In Supreme Court Opinions, Clicks That Lead Nowhere”. September 23, 2013. Supreme Court opinions have come down with a bad case of link rot. According to a new study, 49 percent of the hyperlinks in Supreme Court decisions no longer work. This can sometimes be amusing. A link in a 2011 Supreme Court opinion about violent video games by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. now leads to a mischievous error message. Aren’t you glad you didn’t cite to this Web page?
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Diane Wood on the Second Amendment - The Volokh Conspiracy
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Commentary on law, public policy, and more. Diane Wood on the Second Amendment. April 9, 2010. Justice v. Town of Cicero. 8216;s paragraph stating that the Second Amendment right is not unlimited. As examples, the. The Cicero gun registration ordinance fits in none of the. Lamont v. Postmaster General. 1965) Likewise, a law requiring married women to notify their husbands about abortions is unconstitutional, even though the notification mandate does not ban abortion. Planned Parenthood v. Casey. 1992) Re...
