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Reason Magazine published an open thread on their website featuring commentary from Eugene Volokh, who is associated with the blog The Volokh Conspiracy. This blog primarily features contributions from law professors but also includes more contrarian viewpoints sometimes. Volokh encourages readers to subscribe to Reason magazine for independent and libertarian-leaning news and analysis, emphasizing its role as a reliable source of honest and insightful information.

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2026-09-05

Lawyers' Responsibility for Hallucinations in Briefs That They Sign

Eugene Volokh

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🔮 Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent An excerpt from the long opinion today in Lewis-Williams v. S.F. Bay Area Rapid Transit Dist., decided by Judge Ryan Nelson, joined by Judges Johnnie Rawlinson and Bridget Bade: San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District seeks to overturn a jury verdict of $7,824,580 to six former employees for Title VII violations for failure to accommodate their sincere religious objections to a COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

2026-09-12 · assertive framing · Court Upholds $7.85M Verdict for Employees Fired for Refusing to Get COVID-19 Vaccine

🔮 Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent I much enjoyed participating in this, and I expect many of our readers will much enjoy listening to it.

2026-09-11 · assertive framing · Geof Stone and I on "The State of Free Speech in 2026" (from the National Constitution Center)

🔮 [Nor do they] offer … facts that would suggest inevitable or likely exposure to the curriculum (or its harmful effects)….

2026-09-08 · mixed framing · "Jewish, Zionist" Teachers' and Parents' Lawsuit Over Allegedly Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Zionist School Curriculum Can Be Refiled, Ninth Circuit Rules

🔮 The court concluded that "The Big Board's refusal to comply with the orders was not expressive conduct protected by the First Amendment," so not renewing his license based solely on such refusal would have been constitutional:

2026-09-08 · assertive framing · Was D.C. Bar's Liquor License Denied Partly Based on Owner's Speech Criticizing Anti-Masking/Vax-Proof Requirement Speech?

🔮 Lambert … falsely stated that the Plaintiffs had conflicts of interest with her clients and/or her firm, that she would sue the Plaintiffs if they were to be engaged in these relationships, and implicitly that she would take legal action against the relationships themselves if they were to hire Plaintiffs.

2026-09-08 · mixed framing · Forensic Election Fraud Analysts Allege Defendants Defamed Them as "Retaliation for Plaintiffs' Refusal to Report False Findings of Election Fraud"

🔮 The court concluded that, even "assuming arguendo that there's a fair chance that the press defendants have violated the federal and state trade secrets provisions," the First Amendment would preclude the TRO:

2026-09-06 · assertive framing · Judge's Opinion Denying TRO Against Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as to Publishing of Data Center Plans

🔮 Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent From the docket this morning; for more on the case, see here and here (the latter item notes the sealing, and expresses the now-realized hope that "the motion will be unsealed at some point soon"): Via email, Plaintiff has informed the Court that it will not be pursuing preliminary injunctive relief….

2026-09-06 · assertive framing · Brief Update on the Entergy / Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Matter

🔮 Perhaps most analogously to alienation of affections, if Alan breaches his contract with Betty, and Cathy encouraged him to breach it, she will in many situations be liable for intentional interference with contract.

2026-09-06 · assertive framing · Alienation of Affections as Complicity

🔮 In a phone call on March 2, Gelb told Netrebko to issue a statement specifically denouncing Putin, or she would be fired.

2026-09-05 · assertive framing · Opera Star Anna Netrebko Loses Follow-Up Defamation Case Against the N.Y. Metropolitan Opera

🔮 A malicious act "include[s] any intentional conduct that would probably affect the marital relationship.

2026-09-05 · assertive framing · N.C. Court Has Jurisdiction over Alienation of Affection Claim Brought Against Ex-Arizona-Senator Kyrsten Sinema

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