Thursday, September 30, 2010
Do corporations have "personal privacy" rights under FOIA? The Supreme Court will answer that question when it hears the case of FCC v. AT&T. Some additional comments and links can be found here.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
This fall California voters will decide whether to legalize possession and sale of small amounts of marijuana by persons over 21.
The language of the initiative may be found here. Essentially, the law would legalize the possession and sale of less than one ounce of marijuana by persons over the age of 21. Other provisions in [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
(Eugene Volokh)
A very interesting London Review of Books essay; thanks to Brian Hughes for the pointer.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
(David Bernstein)
Contrary to J Street denials, the Washington Times uncovers evidence that J Street facilitated meetings between Judge Richard Goldstone– author of the “Goldstone Report” on the war in Gaza which is considered unfairly hostile to Israel across all but the very extreme left of both the Israeli and American Jewish political spectrums–and members of [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
(Eugene Volokh)
This apparently happened in July, but I only heard about it a few weeks ago. Here is part of a summary from an advocacy group, the European Centre for Law and Justice:
Spain’s Ministry of Industry, the government department responsible for regulating telecommunications and audiovisual media, fined Intereconomía, a Christian-inspired multimedia communication group, which [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
(John Elwood)
As some of you know, for a few years (with a big hiatus when I was in the gummint) I have done semi-humorous and often factual Supreme Court Term-end wrap-ups. Well, I did my fourth this year, but because of a busy summer (and fall) at my day job, it looks like it won’t [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
(Eugene Volokh)
May a state give siblings — usually adult siblings — a right to visitation with a child, over the parents’ objection? The issue is discussed in In re D.C. & D.C., decided yesterday by the New Jersey Supreme Court. That case involved prospective adoptive parents (currently foster parents, but an adoption request [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
(Orin Kerr)
Read about it here. Old news, perhaps, but still interesting.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
(Eugene Volokh)
St. Louis’s Comprehensive Sign Control Regulations regulate the display of “signs” — including on private property, and not limited to commercial ads — and define sign this way:
“Sign” means any object or device or part thereof situated outdoors which is used to advertise, identify, display, direct or attract attention to an object, person, institution, [...]
Thursday, September 30, 2010
(Todd Zywicki)
Anne Neal has the scoop. I’ve known Michael for several years. He is an immensely smart and serious man who would be an excellent trustee for Yale (although it appears that they have a title different from trustee there).
It appears that Michael needs 3808 petition signatures by TOMORROW Oct. 1 to get on the [...]