Aug 17, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy U Pittsburgh Denied Due Process to Professor as to Sexual Harassment Allegations Some excerpts from Friday's longish decision by Judge Nora Barry Fischer (W.D. Pa.) in Bhattacharya v. Univ. of Pittsburgh: Plaintiff,… The post U Pittsburgh Denied Due Process to Professor as to S...
Aug 17, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Judge's Allegedly "Relying Wholly" on AI in Order Is Covered by Judicial Immunity, Court Rules From Wednesday's decision in Phillips v. Parlade, by Judge Gloria Navarro (D. Nev.), where a litigant sued a state court… The post Judge's Allegedly "Relying Wholly" on AI in Order Is Covered by Ju...
Aug 17, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Today in Supreme Court History: August 17, 1988 8/17/1988: Republican party nominates George H.W. Bush for President. He would appoint David Souter and Clarence Thomas to the Supreme… The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 17, 1988 appe...
Aug 17, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Judge Rudofsky Will Be An Excellent Addition To the Eighth Circuit I appreciate the trend of elevating District Court judges to the Circuit Court.
Aug 16, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Erlebnis Sonnenfinsternis: Der Komödie erster Teil Wir haben ausgekundschaftet, wo man die Sonnenfinsternis am besten betrachten kann.
Aug 16, 2026 from Stranger Than Usual Erlebnis Sonnenfinsternis: Prolog Wir haben die Sonnenfinsternis nicht gesehen, nur erlebt.
Aug 16, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Today in Supreme Court History: August 16, 1933 8/16/1933: President Roosevelt adopts the Code of Fair Competition for the Governance of the Petroleum Industry. The Supreme Court declared… The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 16, 1933...
Aug 15, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Israeli Settler "Terrorists" Unjustly Expel West Bank Palestinians From Their Land I am generally pro-Israel. But these actions amount to ethnic cleansing and gross violations of property rights.
Aug 15, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Today in Supreme Court History: August 15, 1938 8/15/1938: Justice Stephen Breyer's Birthday. The post Today in Supreme Court History: August 15, 1938 appeared first on Reason.com.
Aug 14, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Dissenting Parents' Defamation Claim Over School's Allegations of Racism Can Go Forward Some excerpts from the long Turpin v. Charlotte Latin Schools, Inc., decided today by the N.C. Supreme Court, in an… The post Dissenting Parents' Defamation Claim Over School's Allegations of Racis...
Aug 14, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Fraud Claim Over "No Blowback" Assurance by Private School to Complaining Parents, Followed by Children's Expulsions, Can Go Forward Some excerpts from the long Turpin v. Charlotte Latin Schools, Inc., decided today by the N.C. Supreme Court, in an… The post Fraud Claim Over "No Blowback" Assurance by Private School to Complaini...
Aug 14, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Contract Claim Over Private School Expulsions, Allegedly Caused by Parents' Organizing Against Ideological Curriculum Changes, Can Go Forward "Beginning in the summer of 2020, the school began to change its curriculum to focus on politicized issues of race and gender identity. At some point, the Turpins learned that the school was teachi...
Aug 14, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal Hunting ICE, unremarkable arson, and lewdness at the Founding.
Aug 14, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy "Professors' Speech in Class Has Not Been Regulated; It Has Been Hired" Yesterday's Seventh Circuit opinion in McDonald v. Trustees of Indiana Univ. held that public university professors lacked standing to challenge… The post "Professors' Speech in Class Has Not Been ...
Aug 14, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Indiana Professors Lack Standing to Challenge Indiana "Intellectual Diversity" Statute Some excerpts from yesterday's longish McDonald v. Trustees of Indiana Univ., written by Seventh Circuit Judge Joshua Kolar and joined… The post Indiana Professors Lack Standing to Challenge Indian...
Aug 14, 2026 from Palladium Technological Determinism and Human Freedom For millennia, myths and philosophy warned of tools entrapping us in tragedies of our own making. But the discovery of technology offers its own horizon of choice, and with it escape from such fate...
Aug 14, 2026 from The Volokh Conspiracy Some More Thoughts About Surrogacy and Abortion My post yesterday on surrogacy and abortion has generated many responses, as I had suspected. Surrogacy is one of those… The post Some More Thoughts About Surrogacy and Abortion appeared first on R...
