Michael Smith's Law Blog

I've argued at length elsewhere that three of the highest-profile cases of the Supreme Court's October 2021 term marked a shift awa...

 At Volokh Conspiracy , Eugene Volokh flags a  brief article  that he coauthored with Adam Candeub that was recently published in the Journa...

A few weeks ago, Iowa's governor signed a law that she claimed would address the teaching of "critical race theory." Shortly a...

In Illinois v. Austin , the Illinois Supreme Court addressed a challenge to the State's prohibition on the non-consensual dissemination ...

I have written several posts on the implications of Trump's presidency on various constitutional rights. I was going to write one on t...

So reports Politico : Donald Trump may not be planning to sue People over the magazine's story accusing him of sexual assault, but hi...

Back when I lived in Iowa City, the local police blotter was a reliable source of intrigue and occasional amusement. I would read it now and...

While I currently live in California, I spent most of my life in Iowa, and I regularly visit my family in Iowa around the holidays. It is ni...

Via How Appealing , I learned of this post by Lyle Denniston at the Constitution Daily blog for the Constitution Center. Denniston notes se...

The Wall Street Journal has this article  from last week on police body cameras and the Alton Sterling shooting. The Journal notes that whi...

Eugene Volokh wrote yesterday about a settlement agreement between a former employee of a Veterans Affairs Hospital in Washington. The sett...

From the BBC : Victims of revenge porn will be able to put in requests to Google to take down content from search results.  The images ...

So ruled the Iowa Supreme Court last week, holding that Iowa Code section 123.46(2) , which prohibits a person from being "intoxicated ...

At long last, the Supreme Court has issued an opinion in Elonis v. United States . I blogged about the opinion back when the Court granted c...

So reports the Des Moines Register : Iowa mental health professionals would be banned from trying to change the sexual orientation of gay...

So reports the Des Moines Register : A bill that would ban Iowa mental health professionals from trying to change the sexual orientation ...

My attempt at answering this age-old legal question is prompted by this story about a pair of feuding Iowa couples. Here is the report: A...

The Los Angeles City Attorney announced that it has secured a conviction against Noe Iniguez, who posted nude photographs of his ex-girlfri...

Over at Slate, Danielle Citron has this article excerpting her recent book, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace . In the article, Citron argues for ...

Today's New York Times contains  this article by Adam Liptak on campaign finance rules for judicial elections. From the article: Soon ...