Michael Smith's Law Blog

The summer submission season is fast approaching. Some journals have jumped the gun and are opening well in advance of August 1, throwing pr...

Since 2017, I have been fascinated by laws prohibiting "distracted walking," which is most typically defined as walking across the...

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

A recent editorial from TN Online reports : State Rep. Karen Boback, a Republican whose district includes parts of Luzerne and Lackawanna co...

I learned from Greg McNeal's Twitter thread (and related blog post ) of an interesting opinion issued by the Michigan Court of Appeals l...

There are a lot of people out there who generally express reasonable opinions and seem normal, but who nevertheless are willing to entertain...

The Independent reports : Politicians in Yamato, about 25 miles southwest of Tokyo , have put forward a bill that could make it illegal f...

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

Proposals for laws and ordinances that restrict "distracted walking" (walking while texting or using the internet on phones) have ...

By now, it should be clear to readers of this blog that I have a Google alert set up to notify me of proposed laws or ordinances related to ...

Through this angrily-titled Reason article , "Good Riddance to Chris Christie," I learned about a recent law in New Jersey that cr...

NPR reports here and here on a recent ordinance passed by the City and County of Honolulu that prohibits people from "viewing" ...

I only just learned of this (nearly one year old) article at Legal Cheek, but I thought it was worth sharing. Legal Cheek reports: A Cana...

From The Verge : The Supreme Administrative Court of Sweden just ruled that camera drones qualify as surveillance cameras and require a ...

The BBC has this interesting article on an attempt by the City of Oakland, California to adopt a wide-ranging surveillance system, and the...

Several news outlets have reports on this bill (AB 6601) recently introduced by Illinois State Representative Kelly Cassidy. Nicknamed ...

This post is a spinoff from some of my recent posts on Pokémon Go litigation which you can find here  and here . Pokémon Go's popularit...

The attorneys at Pomerantz Law are at it again, and are attorneys of record in a Michigan class action lawsuit against Niantic and Nintendo...