Eugene Volokh
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🔮 He will speak about his experience, and his approach to liberty, both in his time as a lawyer and in his time as a judge.
🔮 The requirements of paragraph a. shall not apply if compliance would impose an operational or financial burden on the state or local entity and their employees.
🔮 No further extensions will be granted.
🔮 And, if the decision endures, it will likely be followed by many other such decisions.
🔮 Since 2020, the Department has also collected the names of individual foreign donors while stating that it would not publish them.
🔮 When officers told him he would need to move, Geri refused and threatened to throw one of his explosive devices into the street to demonstrate its destructive power.
🔮 Here's an excerpt from the discussion of why Matar was acting sufficiently under the direction of a foreign terrorist organization (which is required under the relevant federal statute) rather than just independently—if he had been acting independently, that would have still been attempted murder punishable under state law, but likely not a violation of these statutes:
🔮 Because in the late 1800s, "race" was understood to include what today might refer to "ethnicity" (e.g., German, Arab, Jewish), the Court concluded that § 1981 extends to such discrimination based on ethnicity.
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From yesterday's Blackman v. Substack, Inc., by California Court of Appeal Justices Tracie Brown and Danny Chou and Marin County Judge Andrew Sweet:
"'[I]f a newspaper lawfully obtains truthful information about a matter of public significance then state officials may not constitutionally punish publication of the information, absent a need to further a state interest of the highest order.'"
🔮 On June 7th of 2020, while Stephanie Rapkin was sleeping in her bed, members of the Shorewood and Whitefish Bay police departments were outside her home, trying to think of an excuse to enter, so they could arrest her on allegations that she pushed a protestor picketing outside of her home.
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