I submitted a comment to the California State Bar's Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC) on its proposed amendments to the…
In Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men, the author compares the law to a blanket. When used by a big family in the same bed, one family member tugs on the b…
On March 31, I gave a virtual guest lecture in Mailyn Fidler’s course “The Digital Fourth Amendment” at Harvard Law School. Prof. Fidler invited me to come talk…
The government's summary judgment reply brief for the Golan v. Ashcroft litigation can be found on the case page.…
The Government's reply brief in support of summary judgment was filed on Nov. 24, 2004. No hearing date is presently scheduled for this motion.…
In the decade-and-a-half since the infamous decision in Bowers v. Hardwick, the Supreme Court again ruled against gays in two major cases. The first of these w…
In an interview on Meet the Press, Senator Harry Reid, the new leader of the Democrats in the Senate, refers to Justice Thomas as an "embarrassment."…
A GOP aide owned up today to authoring a provision in a new law that would allow lawmakers to look at any American's income tax return. While the issue has…
It has just come to my attnetion that the Governator owes allegiance to Old Europe! The SF Chronicle reported last year that A.S. kept his Austrian citizenship…
So the district court has granted the government's motion to dismiss in Kahle v. Ashcroft. Here's the order. We're going to fight on to the Ninth…
So the district court has granted the government's motion to dismiss in Kahle v. Ashcroft. Here's the order. We're going to fight on to the Ninth…
Apple's price for downloads varies by region--from $0.83 to $1.52. This would suggest a possibility of arbitrage, but Apple's technology eliminates the…
On Sunday, Thailand will seek to improve relations with its Muslim minority by releasing origami birds over the Muslim region. It's hard to know how it wil…
Bush's former top campaign official in New England has been indicted for disrupting Democratic get-out-the-vote efforts by having a system that would tie up…
President Bush is apparently selecting Bernard Kerik, a former NYC Police Commissioner, to the position of Homeland Defense. But Kerik seems to be a committed…