Archive | September, 2004

The Legal Times has a story on law school faculty hiring entitled ‘A Tough Market for Women.’ The article notes that while most entering law school classes have close to as many women as men, most faculties remain male-dominated. The article makes the case that women are underrepresented among law professors for a number of […]

Ever wonder what percentage of people who look at a book’s listing on Amazon actually purchase it? Here’s one datum: I have a click through link to Amazon’s listing of You Can’t Say That! book on my academic home page, on the book’s home page, and I also occasionally use this link on Volokh. Because […]

I’ve linked to several new (or at least, new to me) reviews of my book, You Can’t Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws, on the book’s homepage.

A reader points to this story: Campaign mail with a return address of the Republican National Committee warns West Virginia voters that the Bible will be prohibited and men will marry men if liberals win in November. The literature shows a Bible with the word “BANNED” across it and a photo of a man, on […]

GMU lawprof Eugene Kontorovich writes about this: The divestment action manifests a singular animosity towards Israel. The Presbyterians have not divested their funds from any of the cruel regimes of the world: not from China for its ethnic cleansing of Tibetans, and its repression of Muslems and Falun Gong; and not even from Sudan, currently […]

William Safire writes: “Whoever, having devised any scheme or artifice to defraud transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 20 years, […]

My new guest blog post at GlennReynolds.com is now up; here are the first few paragraphs: Tongue Tied on FoxNews.com reports — presumably with disapproval, as an example of politically correct excess — that A Pennsylvania man is on a quest to rid a local Catholic high school of the “crusader” nickname because he says […]

A few readers asked, apropos this post: Does the Nebraska ACLU have an ethical obligation to try to protect its client, even if that means asking for a court-imposed restriction on the press, and perhaps undermining its credibiltiy in future free speech cases? My understanding — which my colleague Norm Spaulding confirms — is that […]

From the San Francisco Chronicle, Evangelist Jimmy Swaggart apologized Wednesday for saying in a televised worship service that he would kill any gay man who looked at him romantically. . . . In the broadcast, Swaggart was discussing his opposition to gay marriage when he said “I’ve never seen a man in my life I […]

Joe Carter (Evangelical Outpost) has some interesting comments, as does Rob Vischer (Mirror of Justice).

The Omaha World-Herald reports: In a stark turnabout from its free-speech advocacy, the ACLU urged a judge Monday to prevent the Omaha World-Herald from publishing the name of the Plattsmouth, Neb., man who sued the city over a Ten Commandments monument. Amy Miller, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union Nebraska, asked the U.S. […]

In a forthcoming article, I argue that the rapid pace of technological change makes it difficult for courts to craft lasting Fourth Amendment rules when technology is in flux. Soon after a court’s rule is announced, the technological facts may change, requiring a new rule or leaving the validity of the old rule uncertain. On […]

It’s hard to imagine a news story that combines sex, crime, elite law schools, civil liberties, and law school loans. But I think we may have a candidate in this story from yesterday’s Oakland Tribune. Excerpts:   Feds seeking $61K from alleged call girl  No charges filed against Stanford Law graduate who lived in Oakland   Federal prosecutors […]

Reuters reports:  The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday approved a bill that would increase jail time for identity thieves and other fraudulent Web users who register sites under false identities. The bill, which passed by voice vote, would not directly outlaw the use of fraudulent registration information. Rather, it would increase by up to seven years […]

To its credit, Christianity Today magazine’s weblog reports (thanks to Patrick Oden for the pointer): Speaking of televangelists … Crouch [a figure from the preceding story] isn’t the only TV preacher who needs help with his theology this week. In his September 12 broadcast, Jimmy Swaggart (remember him?) demonstrated exactly how not to oppose gay […]