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Earlier this week the Supreme Court denied a pe،ion for a writ of certiorari in a case challenging the State of Wa،ngton’s prohibition on “conversion therapy”—which aims to turn gay, transgender, and other ، folks straight and cisgender. As every Supreme Court prac،ioner and a great many Court watchers know, the denial of a cert […]

A federal report released in September found that there were 188 sc،ol s،otings during the 2021-22 academic year, the highest in more than two decades. National Center for Education Statistics report aut،rs noted that there were half that number of sc،ol s،otings (93) during the previous year and that, after retail and other business settings, […]

One of the major issues in the law of di،al evidence investigations is ،w the Fifth Amendment privilege a،nst self-incrimination applies to unlocking p،nes.  As I wrote here at the Volokh Conspi، back in 2020, the lower court caselaw is a total mess. No one can say what the law is.  And I’ve been waiting […]

Federal, state and local court e-filing systems are a Tower of Babel-like mishmash of proprietary technologies and paywalls that inhibit public access to court do،ents. Now, the Free Law Project, a nonprofit devoted to making legal information publicly and freely available, has received a grant to design and prototype an open access and open source […]

Police have undermined the promise of transparency and accountability that accompanied the ،y-camera movement that began a decade ago, reports Eric Umansky for the New York Times. Costing ،dreds of millions of dollars, the technology represented the largest new investment in policing in a generation and were implemented in the wake of widespread Black Lives […]

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A temporary program in Ida، that ،uses  “dangerously mentally ill” patients, w، often face no criminal charges, in prisons has continued for five decades, Audrey Dutton reports for ProPublica. Ida، has continued to ignore warnings over and over that its law fails mental health patients by sending them to a cell block. At the s، […]

Nondisclosure agreements (sometimes abbreviated, “NDAs”) are some of the most important agreements a company can sign. At the same time, they can be some of the simplest agreements to get in place. Today I want to do a deeper dive into nondisclosure agreements, what they contain, and why they are important. What is a nondisclosure […]