The Volokh Conspiracy

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• Yet Again with the Heckler's Veto in a Government Employee Speech Case
  March 13, 2026

  From Judge Glen Davidson's opinion Wednesday in Stokes v. Boyce (N.D. Miss.): On September 10, 2025, well-known podca...

• Background Check's Reporting Expunged Conviction Isn't Defamation or Fair Credit Reporting Act Violation
  March 13, 2026

  From Smith v. InformData, LLC, decided Wednesday by Judge Rossie Alston (E.D. Va.): Plaintiff Harry Smith filed suit ...

• Who's Being Pornographic Here? (And Were Pornography Allegations Related to School Library Book Reading Defamatory?)
  March 13, 2026

  From yesterday's opinion in Wilburn v. Guthrie by the Colorado Court of Appeals (Judge Karl Schock, joined by Judges ...

• Firing Government DEI Executive Didn't Violate First Amendment
  March 13, 2026

  From Judge Dabney Friedrich (D.D.C.) Wednesday in Jewell v. Jagadesan, which generally seems correct to me: In Decemb...

• Today in Supreme Court History: March 13, 1963
  March 13, 2026

  3/13/1963: Ernesto Miranda is arrested. The post Today in Supreme Court History: March 13, 1963 appeared first on Rea...

• Open Thread
  March 13, 2026

  What’s on your mind?

• Judge VanDyke: "This is a case about swinging dicks."
  March 13, 2026

  30 members of the Ninth Circuit write to disagree.

• Is Judge Pauline Newman Entitled to Her Day in Court?
  March 12, 2026

  Her cert petition to the Supreme Court presents the important jurisdictional question of whether the Judicial Disabil...

• Fourth Circuit Publicly Admonishes Lawyer for "Citations to Nonexistent Judicial Opinions"
  March 12, 2026

  From yesterday's decision in In re Nwaubani, from the Fourth Circuit (Judges Marvin Quattlebaum, Allison Rushing, and...

• Three Students' Libel Lawsuit over Columbia "Doxing Truck" Can Go Forward
  March 12, 2026

  The students allege they weren't involved in the Oct. 11, 2023 Columbia student groups' letter that blamed Israel for...

• Today in Supreme Court History: March 12, 1889
  March 12, 2026

  3/12/1889: Justice John Campbell dies.   The post Today in Supreme Court History: March 12, 1889 appeared first on Re...

• Open Thread
  March 12, 2026

  What’s on your mind?

• The Ninth Circuit's En Banc Shadow Docket
  March 11, 2026

  Why can lower courts issue unexplained rulings on the emergency docket, but not SCOTUS?

• Free Speech Unmuted: Equal Time, Stephen Colbert, and the Future of Political Broadcasting, with Stuart Benjamin
  March 11, 2026

  Is the FCC about to revive a broad reading of the Equal Time Rule—and should broadcast TV still get "special"… The po...

• Today in Supreme Court History: March 11, 1936
  March 11, 2026

  3/11/1936: Justice Antonin Scalia's birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: March 11, 1936 appeared first ...

• Open Thread
  March 11, 2026

  What’s on your mind?

• First Amendment May Protect First-Grader's Giving Black Classmate "Black Lives Mater Any Life" Drawing
  March 10, 2026

  So holds a Ninth Circuit panel, though reinforcing the Ninth Circuit's view that allegedly "derogatory and injurious ...

• California AI Model Training Disclosure Law Likely Doesn't Violate First Amendment
  March 10, 2026

  From last Wednesday's decision in X.AI LLC v. Bonta, by Judge Jesus Bernal (C.D. Cal.): Assembly Bill 2013 …, entitle...

• Today in Supreme Court History: March 10, 1919
  March 10, 2026

  3/10/1919: Debs v. United States decided. The post Today in Supreme Court History: March 10, 1919 appeared first on R...

• Open Thread
  March 10, 2026

  What’s on your mind?