The Volokh Conspiracy: The perils of voting for "change"

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‘Student arrested by East Tennessee State University police for “Civil Rights Intimidation” ‘

"[Tristan] Rettke’s act -- dressing in a gorilla mask and attempting to hand bananas to the protesters in an attempt to 'provoke' them -- has to have been intended to be offensive. But, as the ACLU of Tennessee’s executive director observes, the First Amendment precludes the criminal charge against Rettke."

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The perils of voting for “change”

Even if the status quo is bad, you shouldn't vote for "change" unless you have good reason to believe that it will actually make things better rather than worse.

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Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

Here is the latest edition of the Institute for Justice’s weekly Short Circuit newsletter, written by John Ross.

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Amicus brief in Second Amendment gun store zoning case

A brief I filed on behalf of Profs. Randy Barnett, Bob Cottrol, Brannon Denning, Michael O'Shea, and Glenn Harlan Reynolds, as well as the Firearms Policy Foundation, urging the Ninth Circuit to oppose en banc review of Teixeira v. County of Alameda.

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‘Patents constricting the essential channels of online communication run afoul of the First Amendment’

So writes Judge Mayer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, concurring in today's panel majority opinion in Intellectual Ventures, Inc. v. Symantec Corp..

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