Orin Kerr is a law professor at George Washington University and a blogger on the popular Volokh Conspiracy. He is a thoughtful, open-minded legal scholar, but I don’t think it’s unfair to say that he reliably sides with law enforcement on Fourth Amendment issues.
He recently posted a draft article defending the third-party doctrine, which is […]
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Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Texas ruled that Child Protective Services (CPS) abused its discretion by seizing 468 children from the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints ranch in Eldorado. Eugene Volokh has a roundup of the legal analysis.
I wrote about this case a few days ago at NRO, but space limitations kept me from going into more […]
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This week I’m filling in for libertarian blogger Megan McArdle at the Atlantic. Yesterday I finished a three part discussion of Patent Failure, an excellent new book on the patent system by James Besson and Michael Meurer.
The use of the phrase “intellectual property” to describe patents and copyrights has become so commonplace that we barely […]
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Passed into law Wednesday:
Section 1. AS 44.99 is amended by adding a new section to article 1 to read:
4 Sec. 44.99.040. Limitation on certain state expenditures. A state agency may not expend funds solely for the purpose of implementing or aiding in the implementation of the requirements of the federal Real ID Act of 2005 […]
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I recently received a complimentary copy of Peter Gosselin’s new book, High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families. Mr. Gosselin is the national economics correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. Here is an excerpt from the book jacket:
The recent downturn seems to have brought an end to some of the strongest, smoothest growth in […]
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“The Supreme Court this week made big news because it hardly changed the law at all,” reports The Washington Post. “The court broke no new ground in deciding that workers are protected from retaliation for complaining about discrimination, just as they are protected from discrimination itself.” The story goes on to quote part of this press release that […]
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