The Volokh Conspiracy

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• Trump Administration Announces New "Hacking Back" Program
  August 17, 2026

  But does it legalize hacking under the CFAA?

• How To Teach Trump v. Barbara?
  August 17, 2026

  The Barnett/Blackman casebook split up the case into six excerpts that stretch across sixty pages that can be taught ...

• Bloodright Citizenship (Citizenship by Descent): Who Decides?
  August 17, 2026

  An excerpt from Friday's concurrence in Guerra Quezada v. U.S., by Fifth Circuit Judge James Ho: The Constitution ves...

• U Pittsburgh Denied Due Process to Professor as to Sexual Harassment Allegations
  August 17, 2026

  Some excerpts from Friday's longish decision by Judge Nora Barry Fischer (W.D. Pa.) in Bhattacharya v. Univ. of Pitts...

• Judge's Allegedly "Relying Wholly" on AI in Order Is Covered by Judicial Immunity, Court Rules
  August 17, 2026

  From Wednesday's decision in Phillips v. Parlade, by Judge Gloria Navarro (D. Nev.), where a litigant sued a state co...

• Today in Supreme Court History: August 17, 1988
  August 17, 2026

  8/17/1988: Republican party nominates George H.W. Bush for President. He would appoint David Souter and Clarence Thom...

• Open Thread
  August 17, 2026

  What’s on your mind?

• Judge Rudofsky Will Be An Excellent Addition To the Eighth Circuit
  August 17, 2026

  I appreciate the trend of elevating District Court judges to the Circuit Court.

• Today in Supreme Court History: August 16, 1933
  August 16, 2026

  8/16/1933: President Roosevelt adopts the Code of Fair Competition for the Governance of the Petroleum Industry. The ...

• Open Thread
  August 16, 2026

  What’s on your mind?

• Israeli Settler "Terrorists" Unjustly Expel West Bank Palestinians From Their Land
  August 15, 2026

  I am generally pro-Israel. But these actions amount to ethnic cleansing and gross violations of property rights.

• Today in Supreme Court History: August 15, 1938
  August 15, 2026

  8/15/1938: Justice Stephen Breyer's Birthday.   The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 15, 1938 appeared fir...

• Open Thread
  August 15, 2026

  What’s on your mind?

• Dissenting Parents' Defamation Claim Over School's Allegations of Racism Can Go Forward
  August 14, 2026

  Some excerpts from the long Turpin v. Charlotte Latin Schools, Inc., decided today by the N.C. Supreme Court, in an… ...

• Fraud Claim Over "No Blowback" Assurance by Private School to Complaining Parents, Followed by Children's Expulsions, Can Go Forward
  August 14, 2026

  Some excerpts from the long Turpin v. Charlotte Latin Schools, Inc., decided today by the N.C. Supreme Court, in an… ...

• Contract Claim Over Private School Expulsions, Allegedly Caused by Parents' Organizing Against Ideological Curriculum Changes, Can Go Forward
  August 14, 2026

  "Beginning in the summer of 2020, the school began to change its curriculum to focus on politicized issues of race an...

• Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
  August 14, 2026

  Hunting ICE, unremarkable arson, and lewdness at the Founding.

• "Professors' Speech in Class Has Not Been Regulated; It Has Been Hired"
  August 14, 2026

  Yesterday's Seventh Circuit opinion in McDonald v. Trustees of Indiana Univ. held that public university professors l...

• Indiana Professors Lack Standing to Challenge Indiana "Intellectual Diversity" Statute
  August 14, 2026

  Some excerpts from yesterday's longish McDonald v. Trustees of Indiana Univ., written by Seventh Circuit Judge Joshua...

• Some More Thoughts About Surrogacy and Abortion
  August 14, 2026

  My post yesterday on surrogacy and abortion has generated many responses, as I had suspected. Surrogacy is one of tho...