WFAA-TV reports: [A new gun range will have two rooms for] birthday parties for kids. “One of the reasons we’re doing this is, when I had my boys, I didn’t have a place to take them and educate them about how to handle a gun safely,” Prince explained. “I really want families to be able […]
Archive | June, 2012
No Democrat on November Congressional Ballot, Though Democrats Are the Largest Party in the District
So reports Richard Winger (Ballot Access News) about the effects of California’s open primary law, under which the top two vote-getters in the primary — regardless of party — compete in the general election. (The more common system, of course, is for the top vote-getters of each party to compete in the general.) California’s 31st […]
Ray Bradbury, RIP
Legendary science fiction writer Ray Bradbury passed away on Tuesday. Orson Scott Card – a famous science fiction writer himself – has an interesting tribute here. Bradbury was not one of my personal favorite science fiction writers. But there is no doubt that his books are among the most iconic in the genre, especially Fahrenheit […]
New Poll Showing that 68 Percent of the Public Want the Court to Strike Down the Individual Mandate
As co-blogger Jonathan Adler points out, a new New York Times-CBS poll shows that 68% of the public want the Supreme Court to rule that the individual health insurance mandate is unconstitutional, while 41% want it to invalidate the entire Obama health care reform law. Only 24% want the mandate upheld. Even a slight 48-42 […]
Chevron Deference and Jurisdictional Questions
Should a federal agency receive Chevron deference for its interpretation of a statute of limitations governing violations of the statute it enforces? In AKM LLC v. Secretary of Labor the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied an attempt by the Occupational Safety and Health Commission to fine an employer for failing to […]
About “The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time” (Posting 3)
First, let me ask, is it common for commenters on this blog to criticize perfectly standard grammar as grammatically incorrect? An article just published in Michigan Law Review, written by me and Michelle Pearse, includes an updated version of my study of the most-cited law review articles. Some Volokh Conspiracy readers may be interested to […]
Health Care Reform Costing College Students
How should college students feel about health care reform? The WSJ reports some colleges and universities have dropped student insurance plans or hiked premiums. (More from Peter Suderman.) Perhaps it’s some consolation that the law makes it easier for parents to keep their children on their health plans — they might have to if they […]
NYT/CBS Poll: Over Two-Thirds Want Mandate Struck Down
The flurry of commentary suggesting the Supreme Court would provoke a popular backlash were it to strike down the individual mandate does not appear to have affected the populace. In a new NYT/CBS poll over two-thirds of respondents said they wanted some or all of the health care reform law struck down. Specifically, 41 percent […]
D-Day thoughts
In a column from 2000, I examined what military historians suggest might have happened if the D-Day landings had been repulsed. Or what if they had taken place in 1943 instead of 1944? The short answers are that if D-Day had failed, Stalin would have ended up occupying almost all of German, which would have […]
Hazardous Swimming Pool Lifts
A few weeks ago, I stayed with my family at a Marriott hotel in Hershey, PA that had a small indoor pool. Until then, I was only vaguely aware of the controversy over federal ADA regulations that seem to require all public pools to have permanent lifts for the disabled. And to the extent I […]
About “The Most-Cited Law Review Articles of All Time” (Posting 2)
An article just published in Michigan Law Review by me and Michelle Pearse includes an updated version of my study of the most-cited law review articles of all time. I went to great pains to incorporate not just totals from the HeinOnline database of citations by legal articles, but also totals from the Web of […]
Scholar-in-Residence at the Library of Congress, Provided by the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation Program on Demography, Technology and Criminal Justice
I’m pleased to announce that I have been selected as the first Scholar-in-Residence for a new program at the Library of Congress created thanks to the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation Program on Demography, Technology and Criminal Justice. The focus area of the two-year position is “Information Technology vs. Privacy—The Impact on Criminal Justice,” and […]
Sabbatical Tax Hypothetical
Here’s a hypothetical that’s come up, and may be of interest to some of our academic readers. Professor X is a professor at the University of Wyoming. She has accepted an offer to undertake research at Tel Aviv University for calendar year 2013-2014. As a twenty-year veteran of UW, X is eligible to take two […]
Circuit Precedent and “Clearly Established” Law
Over at Crime & Consequences, Kent Scheidegger has an interesting post on the Supreme Court’s recent qualified immunity decision, Reichle v. Howards. A taste: There are several doctrines related to criminal law in which the decision turns not on a federal court’s opinion on a point of law as such but rather how clearly that […]
On Whiggish Constitutional History and the History of Women’s Constitutional Equality
Attorney Rob Weiner has a guest post over at Balkinization decrying challenges to the ACA. Weiner claims that the challenges reflect nostalgia for a bygone era and discredited doctrines. I disagree for reasons that have been repeated many times on this blog (essentially, the challengers are attacking a broad new and novel expansion of federal […]