Bloggers = Media for First Amendment Libel Law Purposes

Eugene Volokh The Volokh Conspiracy 1/17/2014

So holds today’s Obsidian Finance Group v. Cox (9th Cir. Jan. 17, 2014) (in which I represented the defendant). To be precise, the Ninth Circuit concludes that all who speak to the public, whether or not they are members of the institutional press, are equally protected by the First […]

Producer Of Anti-Islam Film Was Fed Snitch

L.A. man began cooperating with prosecutors after 2009 fraud bust

The Smoking Gun 9/14/2012

SEPTEMBER 14–In remarks stressing that the U.S. government had “absolutely nothing to do with” the anti-Islam film that has touched off violence in the Middle East, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday sought to quash Arab concerns that the “disgusting and […]

#BrettKimberlin next tries to intimidate blogger Ali Akbar; Sen. Chambliss presses AG Holder to investigate

Glenn Reynolds Instapundit 6/6/2012

CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Senator Saxby Chambliss has sent a letter to AG Eric Holder demanding action on behalf of conservative commentators currently experiencing threats and harassment by an as yet unidentified source. And Jake Tapper of ABC News has noticed.

Sen. Chambliss’s press release is here.

UPDATE: More here.

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Free Speech and Guns

Legal superstar Eugene Volokh on the Bill of Rights in 2010

Eugene Volokh & Ted Balaker Reason Magazine July 2010

Few scholars have led a life as varied as Eugene Volokh’s. Born in the Soviet Union in 1968, Volokh immigrated with his family to the United States at age 7. A prodigy, he entered the […]

“…’Czars’ is an odd naming choice for a democracy…”

SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

EUGENE VOLOKH: “Others have pointed out that having offices called ‘czars’ is an odd naming choice for a democracy. But czars weren’t just authoritarians. They were ultimately authoritarians who left their country far poorer than their more democratic counterparts, lost a world war, and of course paved the way for an even […]

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