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Today in Supreme Court History: January 17, 1973 and January 17, 1996
8+ hour, 33+ min ago (85+ words) Josh Blackman | 1.17.2026 7:00 AM Frontiero v. Richardson (1973) and United States v. Virginia (1996) were argued on the same day, twenty-three years apart. Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued the former case, and wrote the majority opinion in the latter case. C. Jarrett Dieterle | 1.17.2026 7:00 AM Jacob Sullum | 1.16.2026 4:15 PM…...
Open Thread
12+ hour, 33+ min ago (66+ words) What's on your mind? Eugene Volokh | 1.17.2026 3:00 AM NEXT: Arkansas Case on Zoning Laws Being Used to Exclude Gun Shops C. Jarrett Dieterle | 1.17.2026 7:00 AM Jacob Sullum | 1.16.2026 4:15 PM Autumn Billings | 1.16.2026 3:51 PM Ronald Bailey | 1.16.2026 3:25 PM Lenore Skenazy | 1.16.2026 3:10 PM...
Video shows feds shooting ICE protester with nonlethal round at point-blank range, blinding him in one eye
23+ hour, 41+ min ago (304+ words) The shot causes him to collapse to the ground until an agent grabs him by the collar and drags the bloodied Rummler toward the federal building." Rummler lost vision in his left eye and suffered a fractured skull around his…...
Arkansas Case on Zoning Laws Being Used to Exclude Gun Shops
1+ day, 2+ min ago (197+ words) Eugene Volokh | 1.16.2026 3:31 PM In yesterday's Arkansas Supreme Court decision in Eureka Gun & Pawn, LLC v. City of Eureka Springs, the majority dismissed Eureka Gun & Pawn's appeal on procedural grounds. But three of the seven Justices opined on the substantive issue; from…...
Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
1+ day, 3+ min ago (272+ words) Bad aim, conjugal visits, and a cavalier gun dealer. John Ross | 1.16.2026 3:30 PM Please enjoy the latest edition of'Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the Institute for Justice. Hot dang! Today, the Michigan Supreme Court…...
Business Is Apparently Selling AI-Hallucination-Filled Documents to Unwary Litigants, Court Says
1+ day, 27+ min ago (269+ words) Eugene Volokh | 1.16.2026 3:05 PM From Judge Michael Liburdi (D. Ariz.) last Friday in Gardner v. Nationstar Mortgage LLC: Thus, the Court brings the matter to the attention of the State Bar of Arizona and the Attorney General of Arizona. The Court instructs the Clerk…...
Year in Prison for Role in Hate Crime Hoax
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (313+ words) Eugene Volokh | 1.16.2026 11:20 AM So Judge Regina M. Rodriguez (D. Colo.) decided yesterday in'U.S. v. Blackcloud; for more on the case, see this November 2024 press release by the U.S. Attorney's office in Colorado: The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado announces that…...
María Corina Machado gifts Trump her Nobel Peace Prize during D.C. visit
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (455+ words) Liz Wolfe | 1.16.2026 9:30 AM Nobel for Trump:Mar'a Corina Machado, Venezuela's opposition leader and the most recent Nobel Peace Prize recipient, decided to hand over the prize to President Donald Trump during a meeting at the White House yesterday, knowing he'd…...
"The Waning of Racial Preferences at American Law Schools, 2021-2025," by My UCLA Colleague Rick Sander
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (89+ words) Eugene Volokh | 1.16.2026 8:32 AM From this new draft, cowritten by Prof. Sander and Henry Kim: The authors also had a Wall Street Journal op-ed on this earlier this week. NEXT: Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing,Abstract to Concrete: Analogies…...
Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing, Abstract to Concrete: Analogies and Metaphors.
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (593+ words) Judge David Weinzweig | 1.16.2026 8:01 AM Make the important interesting." "James Fallows Concrete renditions of abstract material give respite to weary readers who must hurdle abstraction after abstraction like it's a track and field event. A visual image or concrete example anchors…...