Author Archive | Jonathan H. Adler

Very funny. For a legal (Supreme Court, even) tidbit about Eszterhas, see item 6 here.

“Who has conquered the Middle East …? See 5,000 years of history in 90 seconds.” A way cool flash animation, at least to a map junkie like me. There are a few glitches here and there, but all in all very nice.

I just came across an article in Graft, which turns out to be a journal about organ and cell transplantation. It reminds me of once running across Bridge Magazine, which is related to arts and the disabled. (There are other magazines with that name, too.) I once saw a reference to Reentry Magazine, which is […]

So writes Jacob Sullum, in Reason‘s Hit & Run: [T]he group opposing the [Nevada marijuana legalization] initiative is called the Committee to Keep Nevada Respectable. Gambling, prostitution, and 24-hour liquor sales are one thing, but pot smoking? That would really give the state a licentious reputation. Sullum’s post is actually primarily about a recent survey […]

So at least it appears from this news story; I’m trying to get my hands on the exact complaint, but so far I haven’t gotten it. (If anyone knows more about this, please let me know.) The [Spring Valley, New York] chapter of the NAACP has filed a complaint accusing the Ben Gilman Medical and […]

The Complaint is here, and it’s very interesting. The theory is simple: O.J. owes Goldman, according to the Complaint, $38 million (the original $19 million wrongful death award plus interest). O.J. has a valuable asset — his right of publicity, which is to say the right to distribute merchandising containing his name, likeness, signature, voice, […]

I just gave blood today, and thought about how it would be good to one day persuade my kids to do the same. Naturally, this should happen only when they’re physically big enough to safely donate, by which time they should be old enough to appreciate what they’re doing and why it’s good. But I’d […]

It’s been in the news, so I thought I’d pass along the text — I had decided that I ought to read it, and I thought others might want to as well. Here’s the most relevant excerpt: I was reminded of all this recently, when I read the edition by Professor Theodore Khoury (Münster) of […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces held yesterday, in U.S. v. Lane, that appointing Senator Lindsey Graham — a colonel in the reserves — as a military appellate judge violated the Incompatibility Clause of the Constitution (“no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House […]

— it says so right there in the First Amendment. Well, somewhere in there. Doesn’t it? Here’s the key excerpt from near the start of Judge Karlton’s concurrence in Faith Center Church v. Glover, a case in which the majority concludes (based on a more plausible argument, though one I think is still ultimately mistaken) […]

Here’s the review. I haven’t read the book, and for all I know the book it might be unpersuasive, but the review did not strike me as particularly apt even focusing only on what’s within the review’s own four corners. Consider, for instance, this: Many of Judge Posner’s arguments in this book are riddled with […]

“[T]he real insult to Islam is not a line from a papal speech or a cartoon about Mohammed. It is the violence, terror, and bloodshed that Islamist fanatics unleash in the name of their religion — and the unwillingness of most of the world’s Muslims [which I read as referring primarily to influential Muslims, not […]

The Great Falls Tribune reports: The arrival of a white nationalist family, including 14-year-old twins who perform music as the group Prussian Blue, has prompted neighbors to distribute fliers that say, “No hate here.” Lamb and Lynx Gaede, their mother April and stepfather Mark Harrington moved to Kalispell from Bakersfield, Calif., which was “not white […]

Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society Associate Director Lauren Gelman will be teaching a a class in There.com on Bloggers and Liability; it’s described here, and you can download the required software here. Today’s class (5:30 Pacific) will be mostly on the First Amendment and Thursday’s class (also 5:30 Pacific) will be mostly […]

NewsBusters asks: When the Washington Post runs a favorable news story on gun buybacks, can’t they find a single person who could criticize the proposals? Even the Boston Globe, hardly an NRA sympathizer, criticizes such buybacks — there’s obviously a serious question whether they’re worthwhile. Shouldn’t a news story that quotes people praising them also […]