I’ve recently started looking into anonymous “John Doe” (or “Jane Doe”) litigation; generally speaking, people are presumptively required to sue in their own names, but sometimes courts allow them to …
The Dawoodi Bohra are a Shia Muslim sect; many of its members believe that, among other things, boys and girls must be circumcised. The federal government charged some Dawoodi Bohra …
The Berlin Wall. When critics of President Trump’s plan to build a wall on the Mexican border analogize it to the Berlin Wall, immigration restrictionists indignantly respond that there is …
Love Field. The Supreme Court is now considering whether it wants to review Love Terminal Partners v. United States, an important takings case decided by the Federal Circuit last year. …
Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature from the Institute for Justice. IJ’s Center for Judicial Engagement is hiring. We are looking for someone who will focus …
One of my most enduringly controversial VC posts has been Sorry, but the Irish were always ‘white’ (and so were Italians, Jews and so on, in which I took on the …
From yesterday’s opinion by Judge John Segal in Jenni Rivera Enterps., LLC v. Latin World Entm’t Holdings, Inc.: These appeals arise from a dispute concerning a television production based on the …
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. In a recent dissenting opinion, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch warns of the dangers of the modern expansion of criminal law to the point where …
President Donald Trump. Ron Sachs (CNP/MEGA /Newscom) Vox has posted a symposium on the question of whether a sitting president can be indicted and prosecuted for a federal crime. It …
From an opinion by Judge Danny C. Reeves in Commonwealth v. Dickerson, 2019 WL 2064500 (E.D. Ky. May 9): In 2018 and 2019, a number of public school teachers protested …