The San Antonio News-Express Web site reports, Rackspace Hosting Inc. hosted the Florida church’s website, but stopped providing services late Wednesday after determining the Dove World Outreach Center violated a provision in its contract regarding hate speech, a Rackspace spokesman said. The company received complaints that the center violated the acceptable use policy, which is […]
Archive | 2010
Elizabeth Warren to Get Advisory Appointment
ABCNews (among other news outlets) is reporting that President Obama will tap Harvard law professor Elizabeth Warren to help get the new Consumer Financial Protection Agency off the ground, but is not (yet) planning to nominate her to head the new agency. President Obama will announce this week that Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard Law School […]
No Lomborg U-Turn on Climate
You read it here first, but in case there was any doubt, “skeptical environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg appears in today’s WSJ explaining that he has not altered his views on the existence of climate change or whether it poses a serious environmental problem.
Global Governance Conference at American University
The American University School of International Service (not my law school, but SIS) is holding a conference on global governance on Friday-Saturday, September 24-25, at the spanking new and quite lovely new SIS building at AU. It’s a great line-up of speakers and panelists; kudos to the organizers. One of the convenors is David Bosco, […]
Having Sex with Your Client’s Wife = Unacceptable Risk of Conflict of Interest for Lawyer
Seems pretty obvious, but the issue actually got litigated in South Carolina, where the state Supreme Court reached that conclusion.
Constitution Day Conference at the Cato Institute
Tomorrow the Cato Institute will have a Constitution Day conference at which various experts will discuss last term’s Supreme Court decisions. I will be speaking on the panel at from 1 PM to 2:15, on United States v. Comstock, which I previously wrote about here.
Constitutional puzzle
What are the earliest five constitutions of independent countries? [UPDATE: Why limit ourselves to five? Let’s just go no further than 1799. Also, I forgot the most important part: they must be written. Every country has a constitution, but most old ones are unwritten!] A bit of definitions and clarifications to start us off: The […]
ABA Journal Blawg 100 Amici
I’m sure Our Chief Conspirator is far too shy, modest, and retiring to note that the ABA Journal is inviting people to come and name their favorite legal blogs … but I’m not. It is an interesting format, actually – it is not an online vote or poll, where the blogs with the most buddies […]
Harvey Silverglate on the Unintended Consequences of the Craigslist Crackdown:
Interesting observations by Harvey Silverglate on the unintended consequences of the Craigslist crackdown. The fact that there are unintended consequences, of course, does not necessarily mean that taking this activity off Craigslist is a bad idea, if the benefits exceed the costs. But as Harvey indicates, there plainly will be unintended consequences and the whole […]
New Jersey Public Transit Employee Fired for Blasphemy
By Eugene Volokh on September 15, 2010 1:55 am in "Hate Speech", Blasphemy, Freedom of Speech, Religion and the Law
The New York Daily News reports: [Derek Fenton, t]he protester who burned pages from the Koran outside a planned mosque near Ground Zero has been fired from NJTransit, sources and authorities said Tuesday…. “Mr. Fenton’s public actions violated New Jersey Transit’s code of ethics,” an agency statement said. “NJ Transit concluded that Mr. Fenton violated […]
More Women Than Men Earned PhD Degrees in 2009
So reports The Washington Post.
Coons Website Features O’Donnell
Based on his website, Delaware Democratic Senate nominee Chris Coons seems to be rather happy with tonight’s GOP primary election result:
Origins of Obama’s Ideology
Dinesh D’Souza’s and Newt Gingrich’s claims that Obama’s ideology and policies are rooted in his father’s “Kenyan anti-colonialism” have attracted a lot of controversy. I don’t think that these claims necessarily amount to racist “bigotry.” But I also see little if any evidence to support them. It’s hard to point to any Obama positions that […]
Mazzone on Judicial Confirmations And Vacancies
Over at Balkinization, Jason Mazzone has an insightful post compared judicial confirmations and vacancies so far in the Obama era to those at the equivalent point in George W. Bush’s first term. The results are pretty interesting. At the Supreme Court and appellate court level, here are the numbers: Supreme Court Appointments: 2 for Obama, […]
Comment of the Week
Not from the VC, but from Althouse’s comments section, by a commenter named Revenant: O’Donnell doesn’t sound like someone I’d want to vote for, but frankly I’d vote for a trained monkey if it promised to repeal Obamacare.