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Archive | 2010
Not Mentioning the Religious Group Involved
In the comments to my “Some Religious Leaders Urging People to Delay Going to the Police with Child Sex Abuse Allegations?” post, a commenter asked: Is there any reason you went to such effort to avoid mentioning which religion was involved? Absolutely. I was hoping that people would do one of two things: (1) They […]
Query re University Administrative Bloat
CoConspirator Todd’s post on the growth of administrative staff at universities raises a further question for me. Considered as a public choice/incentives question, what are the rational incentives of university administrators regarding faculty tenure? We have had some interesting discussions here at VC on the policy considerations on tenure – I’ll weigh in on them […]
Some Religious Leaders Urging People to Delay Going to the Police with Child Sex Abuse Allegations?
If the account in this story (on the Asbury Park (N.J.) Press site) is accurate, it strikes me as quite troubling. The story reports that the religious leaders’ proclamation instructs people not to bring even criminal matters to the police (at least until they are brought to the religious authorities), and says that “it is […]
Another Prosecution for Criticism of Religion
By Eugene Volokh on August 25, 2010 11:14 am in "Hate Speech", Freedom of Speech, Religion and the Law, Religious Freedom
The Daily News Egypt reports: Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud on Monday referred the publisher of Islamic books to a State Security Court on charges of contempt of the Christian religion. Publisher Ahmed Abdallah Abo-Islam, was charged for accusing Christians of fabricating the Bible and threatening social stability and security…. In [the complaint that triggered […]
ObamaCare on Campus
Kaiser Health News has an interesting report on the effects recent health care reform could have on health care plans some universities offer to students. Colleges and universities say that some rules in the new health law could keep them from offering low-cost, limited-benefit student insurance policies, and they’re seeking federal authority to continue offering […]
The Individual Mandate is Unprecedented? So what??
Over on Concurring Opinions, Gerard Magliocca is bothered by my persistent claim that the health insurance mandate is “unprecedented”: Folks like Randy Barnett rely heavily on the idea that congressional regulation of inactivity (or commercial coercion) is unprecedented under the Commerce and Taxing Clauses. But isn’t it is equally unprecedented to establish a “private action” […]
Some skepticism about “UnemployedJD”
Today’s Wall Street Journal Law Blog has an article about the “UnemployedJD” blog of an unemployed law graduate. The website begins “My name is Ethan Haines.” The website features a picture of a trim white male who, according to the website, is on a hunger strike to protest his own unemployment and the unemployment of […]
Shocking Stem Cell Decision
Yesterday’s opinion by District Court Judge Royce Lamberth enjoining federal funding of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research sent shockwaves throughout the medical research community. As usual in this area, the implications of the decision, rather than the legal analysis, is getting all the air time. I’ll discuss the statutory interpretation issue on which the […]
Elmer Kelton, The Time It Never Rained:
Over the summer I had an opportunity to read several great books. Most of them are well-known and there’s not much I can do to add to their lore (I especially enjoyed Graham Greene The Power and the Glory and Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust). But one that I only stumbled across recently, and […]
Administrative Bloat at Universities:
The latest edition of Minding the Campus has an entry by Mark Bauerlein, “Why So Many Administrators?” The entry discusses a new report from the Goldwater Institute by Jay Greene on the astonishing rise in administrative employment and expenses in higher education. From 1993-2007, expenditures and employment of university bureaucrats rose twice as fast as […]
Searches for Guns at the Home of a Suspect’s Family Member
This is the case I blogged about last year; an 11-judge Ninth Circuit en banc panel has just held (Millender v. County of Los Angeles) that the search was so clearly unconstitutional — “Because the challenged sections of the warrant were ‘so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to render official belief in its […]
Update and Correction on “Why Wasn’t United States v. Arizona Filed in the Supreme Court from the Outset?”
A few days ago I blogged about a question that some readers had asked: why hasn’t United States v. Arizona — the case in which the U.S. is challenging the constitutionality of Arizona’s law dealing with illegal immigrants — hasn’t been filed from the outset before the United States Supreme Court? Article III, section 2 […]
“The Pope Is Not a Pedicurist”
From Judge Kleinfeld’s concurrence in the judgment in Spencer v. World Vision: The core of Judge Berzon’s dissent is the idea that performance of activities that are often performed in a secular context cannot be religious. That is mistaken. When the Pope washes feet on the Thursday before Easter, that is not secular hygiene, and […]
Who Owns Your Dead Son’s Brain?
Do parents have a constitutionally protected property interest in the dead body of their child, including all organs? Not necessarily is the answer given by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Albrecht v. Treon, at least under Ohio law as interpreted by the Ohio Supreme Court. The Albrechts brought a Section […]