A briefer reply to Orin Kerr
Replying to my recent post, Orin Kerr writes: But I read Dave as also saying that criticizing the NRA for its positions and influence in gun control debates is somehow …
David Kopel
Private Gun Carriers’ Self-Defense Against Public Shooters
Photo credit: Oleg Volk (naturally, this isn’t the particular woman in the Charleston shooting). Mass shooting incidents—or incidents that looked like they might have become mass shootings—often lead both …
A Maine Couple Is Suing the State for the Right To Hunt on Sundays
Maine’s new “right-to-food” constitutional amendment is the subject of its first lawsuit. The suit was filed in April by two hunters in the state who argue the amendment provides ample basis to overturn …
Today in Supreme Court History: May 28, 1906
5/28/1906: Justice Henry Billings Brown dies. Justice Henry Billings Brown The post Today in Supreme Court History: May 28, 1906 appeared first on Reason.com. ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the …
Unstuck in Deep Time
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, by David Graeber and David Wengrow, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 704 pages, $35 There’s a simple story about life before civilization, …
A brief response to David Kopel
I realize the old days of extended debates among Volokh bloggers have long passed. Still, I can’t help but chime in to say that David’s recent post leaves me speechless. …
No Religious Freedom Problem with Court Approving One Parent’s Choice of Religious School,
From today’s decision in Karutz v. Karutz, decided by the Kentucky Court of Appeals (Judges Pamela Goodwine, Irv Maze, and J. Christopher McNeill): Mother and Father share joint custody of …
A response to the latest vilification campaign against the NRA
This morning I spoke at the NRA Foundation’s annual National Firearms Law Seminar, a continuing legal education program. Below are my introductory remarks. In a future column, I will describe …
Obscenity (Including as to Minors) and “the Work Taken as a Whole”
The Court of Mist and Fury / Gender Queer controversy is a good opportunity to note an important legal principle: Under modern American law, a work can only be “obscene” and …
Why Isn’t Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard Foreclosed by Depp’s Loss in an English Libel Case?
Fairfax County Chief Judge Penney Azcarate dealt with this in an August 17, 2021 order; first, the facts: In the underlying action for defamation, Plaintiff John C. Depp II … …