Where Are the October And November Sitting Calendars?

latest 10

Josh Blackman

Wednesday Open Thread

latest 8

Eugene Volokh

Brickbat: The Right Tools for the Job

latest 7

Charles Oliver

Columbia Ph.D. Student #TheyLied Libel Suit Over Allegations of Stalking and Abuse Can Go Forward

latest 0

Eugene Volokh

How the Elite Changed Its Mind on Christianity

latest 0

Emma Camp

Religious Hiring and Church Autonomy

latest 0

Luke Goodrich

Federal Circuit Judges Question Trump's Discovery of Vast Tariff Powers

latest 10

Jacob Sullum

Ford Paid $800 Million in Tariff Costs Over 3 Months, Despite Building Most of Its Cars in America

yesterday 30

Eric Boehm

Sharp Words from Judge in Google AI Copyright Case

yesterday 10

Eugene Volokh

Brickbat: Slow Down, Say Cheese

Speed Cameras Charles Oliver | 8.5.2025 4:00 AM Authorities are deploying new "ultra" two-way speed cameras across the United Kingdom, capable of...

yesterday 10

Charles Oliver

Center for Individual Rights Looking for Individual Rights Litigator

Politics Eugene Volokh | 8.5.2025 8:01 AM I've long followed and much admired CIR's work; Rosenberger v. Rector (free speech) and U.S. v. Morrison...

yesterday 7

Eugene Volokh

The 'Rigged' Jobs Data

Reason Roundup Liz Wolfe | 8.5.2025 9:46 AM His side of the story: The president made headlines yesterday after announcing he would be firing the...

yesterday 20

Liz Wolfe

Trump's Immigration Crackdown Imperils the Fourth Amendment Rights of U.S. Citizens

Donald Trump Damon Root | 8.5.2025 7:00 AM The Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures has been regrettably...

yesterday 10

Damon Root

Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass Declare NIMBY Martial Law To Stop Duplexes in the Palisades

Politics Christian Britschgi | 8.5.2025 8:00 AM Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week's stories include: But first,...

yesterday 2

Christian Britschgi

Religious Hiring and Title VII's Religious Exemption

Religion and the Law Luke Goodrich | 8.5.2025 8:56 AM May a religious group legally fire a non-ministerial employee (like a secretary or janitor)...

yesterday 2

Luke Goodrich

The Lawyers Are Taking Over Soccer

Sports Jason Russell | 8.5.2025 11:05 AM Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent ! Pack your bags , because it's a wonderful month to...

yesterday 1

Jason Russell

Harvard Is Wise To Not Consider $500 Million Settlement With Trump

Harvard Autumn Billings | 8.5.2025 10:51 AM Last week, The New York Times reported that Harvard University was open to a $500 million settlement...

yesterday 1

Autumn Billings

The Trump Administration's Move To Halt Wind and Solar Development on Federal Lands Reverses a Biden Priority

Trump Administration Jeff Luse | 8.5.2025 12:37 PM On Friday, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued a secretarial order that could effectively...

yesterday 1

Jeff Luse

The Collapse of Consent

Mark Movsesian | 8.5.2025 11:32 AM On the latest episode of Legal Spirits, I speak with legal scholar Steve Smith (University of San Diego) about a...

yesterday 1

Mark Movsesian

Minnesota Town Denies Family Permission To Build Affordable Housing Unit on Their Property

Property Rights Tosin Akintola | 8.5.2025 1:06 PM Like many cities in the United States, Blaine, Minnesota, is facing a housing shortage . In 2021,...

yesterday 1

Tosin Akintola

Finding That Defendant Had Yanked on Israeli Flag Plaintiff Had Tied Around Neck, Choking Her, Leads to 3-Yard Stay-Away Order Against Defendant

yesterday 10

Eugene Volokh

TRO Orders Removal of Allegations of DMCA Takedown Fraud and of Forged Court Order Submission—but …

yesterday 10

Eugene Volokh

Gun Rights Groups Sue To Overturn Federal Weapons Registration

yesterday 10

Brian Doherty

Upholding a Vaccine Mandate, the 9th Circuit Embraces an Alarmingly Broad Definition of 'Public Health'

Public Health Jacob Sullum | 8.4.2025 5:25 PM Defending COVID-19 policies against legal challenges, government officials relied heavily on Jacobson...

previous day 20

Jacob Sullum

How 'National Security' Came Unmoored From Americans' Actual Security

Book Reviews Brandan P. Buck | 8.4.2025 2:00 PM Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security , by Andrew Preston, Belknap...

previous day 10

Brandan P. Buck

No Foreign Employment Advantages Exception to Confidentiality of Adoption Records—Not Even for Opera Singers

Privacy Eugene Volokh | 8.4.2025 1:42 PM From a 2017 case that I just came across, Petition to Unseal Record of Adoption of Robert (written by...

previous day 7

Eugene Volokh

TRO Against Alleged Defamation, and Also Banning "Harassing Conduct"

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 8.4.2025 12:13 PM From Owen v. Askew , decided July 24 by Judge Ann Aiken (D. Ore.); I'm skeptical about this, because...

previous day 7

Eugene Volokh

Luke Goodrich (Becket Fund) Guest-Blogging This Week About "Religious Hiring Beyond the Ministerial Exception"

Religion and the Law Eugene Volokh | 8.4.2025 11:59 AM I'm delighted to report that Luke Goodrich of the Becket Fund—one of the most prominent,...

previous day 7

Eugene Volokh

Anti-Doxing Injunction (as to Address and Phone Number) in N.Y. Trial Court

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 8.4.2025 8:01 AM From the July 25 decision in Fuhr v. Smith by N.Y. trial court judge Gerald Lebovits: This action...

previous day 8

Eugene Volokh

Firing the Data-Collectors

Labor Market Liz Wolfe | 8.4.2025 9:30 AM Jobs numbers make it all come together: "I have been a bit mystified by the economic data over the last...

previous day 20

Liz Wolfe

Alabama's Porn Tax Starts Soon

Pornography Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 8.4.2025 11:52 AM Alabama can't seem to decide whether it wants to discourage porn consumption or profit from...

previous day 3

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Restricting Open Carry of Guns Constitutional if Concealed Carry Allowed

Guns Eugene Volokh | 8.4.2025 6:00 PM From Friday's decision by Judge William Smith (D.R.I.) in O'Neil v. Neronha: [W]hile Bruen held that the...

previous day 3

Eugene Volokh

Court Rejects Subpoena Request from Turkey Seeking Records on Gülen Movement Member, Allegedly for Turkish Financial Crime Prosecution

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 8.4.2025 5:38 PM A short excerpt from Friday's long decision by Judge John Cronan (S.D.N.Y.) in In re Application of...

previous day 3

Eugene Volokh

Religious Hiring Beyond the Ministerial Exception

Religion and the Law Luke Goodrich | 8.4.2025 12:04 PM When can a religious group, like a church or school, lawfully fire an employee for violating...

previous day 3

Luke Goodrich

The Government Fined This Farm Over $550,000—Mostly for a Paperwork Violation

Civil Liberties Billy Binion | 8.4.2025 6:03 PM The government has fined you more than $550,000—most of it for an alleged paperwork violation. You...

previous day 10

Billy Binion

The New York Times Doesn't Understand Men

Gender Peter Suderman, Matt Welch, Eric Boehm, and Emily Jashinsky | 8.4.2025 4:50 PM HD Video Download This week, editors Peter Suderman and Matt...

previous day 4

Peter Suderman

St. Louis Fan Removal for MAGA Hat Ignites Debate Over Free Speech

First Amendment Tosin Akintola | 8.4.2025 3:22 PM Donning a Make America Great Again hat is a major fashion faux pas in some circles, leading to...

previous day 3

Tosin Akintola

Another Reminder: Plaintiffs' Lawyers Ought to Warn Clients That Their Cases Will Be Publicly Available

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 8.4.2025 1:29 PM From Judge Valerie Caproni (S.D.N.Y.) Tuesday in Hooks v. Bridgestreet Global Hospitality : [O]n...

previous day 1

Eugene Volokh

Monday Open Thread

previous day 10

Eugene Volokh

Anti-Doxxing Injunction (as to Address and Phone Number) in N.Y. Trial Court

Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 8.4.2025 8:01 AM From the July 25 decision in Fuhr v. Smith by N.Y. trial court judge Gerald Lebovits: This action...

previous day 10

Eugene Volokh

Capitalism Isn't Why You're Unhappy

Culture Emma Camp | 8.4.2025 8:00 AM Are you feeling bad? Sad? Lonely? Despondent about your life? Anxious about politics? Angry about the state of...

previous day 10

Emma Camp

Brickbat: It's a Gas, Gas, Gas

Natural Gas Charles Oliver | 8.4.2025 4:00 AM San Francisco's Board of Supervisors is set to vote on an ordinance proposed by Board President...

previous day 10

Charles Oliver

Federal Court Appears Receptive to Arguments Against Unilateral Presidential Tariff Power

Tariffs J.D. Tuccille | 8.4.2025 7:00 AM Everybody with a brain knows that tariffs are taxes. And they know that tariffs imposed on goods imported...

previous day 10

J.d. Tuccille

The Justice Department's Dubious Attempt to Erase a Police Officer's Federal Excessive Force Conviction

Police Abuse Paul Cassell | 8.4.2025 8:10 AM Over the last several days, the Justice Department has attempted to vacate the conviction of a police...

previous day 10

Paul Cassell

Wild Animals Are Thriving on South Africa's Private Reserves and Game Farms

Privatization Ronald Bailey | From the August/September 2025 issue This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest...

sunday 10

Ronald Bailey

Federal Appeals Court Rules Takings Clause Creates Cause of Action Even Without Additional Federal or State Legislation

Takings Ilya Somin | 8.3.2025 10:30 AM A horse is a horse, of course, of course…. unless the horse is the focus of a major takings case, in which a...

sunday 9

Ilya Somin

Science Needs Dissent: NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya on COVID, Autism, and Climate Change

Science Matthew Rozsa | 8.2.2025 7:00 AM My friendship with National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya began when he was a...

02.08.2025 30

Matthew Rozsa

Today in Supreme Court History: August 2, 1923

02.08.2025 20

Josh Blackman

Chris Arnade on China, Wall Street, and Walking Around the World

Travel Tyler Cowen | From the August/September 2025 issue This is part of Reason's 2025 summer travel issue. Click here to read the rest of the...

02.08.2025 3

Tyler Cowen

Update on Potential Condemnation of New Jersey Church to Build a Park and Pickleball Courts

Takings Ilya Somin | 8.2.2025 7:33 PM In May, I wrote about how the town of Toms River, New Jersey, planned to use eminent domain to condemn the...

02.08.2025 2

Categories

Sources

Newspaper Columnists

Where Are the October And November Sitting Calendars?

Josh Blackman

Wednesday Open Thread

Eugene Volokh

Brickbat: The Right Tools for the Job

Charles Oliver

Columbia Ph.D. Student #TheyLied Libel Suit Over Allegations of Stalking and Abuse Can Go Forward

Eugene Volokh

How the Elite Changed Its Mind on Christianity

Emma Camp

Religious Hiring and Church Autonomy

Luke Goodrich

Federal Circuit Judges Question Trump's Discovery of Vast Tariff Powers

Jacob Sullum

Ford Paid $800 Million in Tariff Costs Over 3 Months, Despite Building Most of Its Cars in America

Eric Boehm

Sharp Words from Judge in Google AI Copyright Case

Eugene Volokh

Brickbat: Slow Down, Say Cheese

Charles Oliver

Center for Individual Rights Looking for Individual Rights Litigator

Eugene Volokh

The 'Rigged' Jobs Data

Liz Wolfe

Trump's Immigration Crackdown Imperils the Fourth Amendment Rights of U.S. Citizens

Damon Root

Gavin Newsom, Karen Bass Declare NIMBY Martial Law To Stop Duplexes in the Palisades

Christian Britschgi

Religious Hiring and Title VII's Religious Exemption

Luke Goodrich

The Lawyers Are Taking Over Soccer

Jason Russell

Harvard Is Wise To Not Consider $500 Million Settlement With Trump

Autumn Billings

The Trump Administration's Move To Halt Wind and Solar Development on Federal Lands Reverses a Biden Priority

Jeff Luse

The Collapse of Consent

Mark Movsesian

Minnesota Town Denies Family Permission To Build Affordable Housing Unit on Their Property

Tosin Akintola

Finding That Defendant Had Yanked on Israeli Flag Plaintiff Had Tied Around Neck, Choking Her, Leads to 3-Yard Stay-Away Order Against Defendant

Eugene Volokh

TRO Orders Removal of Allegations of DMCA Takedown Fraud and of Forged Court Order Submission—but …

Eugene Volokh

Gun Rights Groups Sue To Overturn Federal Weapons Registration

Brian Doherty

Upholding a Vaccine Mandate, the 9th Circuit Embraces an Alarmingly Broad Definition of 'Public Health'

Jacob Sullum

How 'National Security' Came Unmoored From Americans' Actual Security

Brandan P. Buck

No Foreign Employment Advantages Exception to Confidentiality of Adoption Records—Not Even for Opera Singers

Eugene Volokh

TRO Against Alleged Defamation, and Also Banning "Harassing Conduct"

Eugene Volokh

Luke Goodrich (Becket Fund) Guest-Blogging This Week About "Religious Hiring Beyond the Ministerial Exception"

Eugene Volokh

Anti-Doxing Injunction (as to Address and Phone Number) in N.Y. Trial Court

Eugene Volokh

Firing the Data-Collectors

Liz Wolfe

Alabama's Porn Tax Starts Soon

Elizabeth Nolan Brown

Restricting Open Carry of Guns Constitutional if Concealed Carry Allowed

Eugene Volokh

Court Rejects Subpoena Request from Turkey Seeking Records on Gülen Movement Member, Allegedly for Turkish Financial Crime Prosecution

Eugene Volokh

Religious Hiring Beyond the Ministerial Exception

Luke Goodrich

The Government Fined This Farm Over $550,000—Mostly for a Paperwork Violation

Billy Binion

The New York Times Doesn't Understand Men

Peter Suderman

St. Louis Fan Removal for MAGA Hat Ignites Debate Over Free Speech

Tosin Akintola

Another Reminder: Plaintiffs' Lawyers Ought to Warn Clients That Their Cases Will Be Publicly Available

Eugene Volokh

Monday Open Thread