Guest Blogger Correct says Supreme Court…
By Jonathon Blevins, Legal Satyricon Second Amendment Correspondent Today the Supreme Court handed down District of Columbia v. Heller. The background of the case is available here:...
View ArticleThe New Marketplace of Ideas Remains Open for Business
by Sam Lea Legal Satyricon Correspondent Blogging, an often controversial area of the “marketplace of ideas,” has just won a victory over an overzealous attorney, who improperly sought to silence one...
View ArticleHeller in Wisconsin
By Jonathon Blevins, Legal Satyricon Second Amendment Correspondent Recently, the Eastern District of Wisconsin denied a felon’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea. Kenneth Robinson plead guilty to...
View ArticleIndividual Rights? Forget Heller
By Jonathon Blevins, Legal Satyricon Second Amendment Correspondent As first reported here and here, the Second Amendment does not act (currently) as a restriction on the states’ power to regulate the...
View ArticleNew Satyriconista, Christopher Harbin
Christopher Harbin is a second-year law student at the University of Michigan. His interests include anonymous internet defamation, net neutrality, John Doe lawsuits, obscenity law, video game law, and...
View ArticleHow Feminists Can Improve the Porn Industry
By Tatiana von Tauber Feminism drives me crazy. Truthfully, the more feminist stuff I read the more I get stirred into falling for how women never seem to get treated right, how they’re always second...
View ArticleWelcome a New Satyriconista – Matthew C. Sanchez
Matthew C. Sanchez is a budding First Amendment and media lawyer based in South Florida. A regular volunteer with the Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard, Matt has logged more than 1600 hours of pro...
View Article“Why I do it” — An Erotic Documentarian’s Viewpoint
by Tony Comstock Special Guest to the Legal Satyricon In a world that seems awash in sexualized imagery, why is it that so little of this imagery speaks to the common pleasurable reality of sex? We’ve...
View ArticleJuly 4 And Your Sexual Freedom
By Marty Klein, Ph.D Special Guest to the Legal Satyricon This weekend we celebrate the birthday of our country. Many will do this by participating in a parade, getting drunk, or displaying the Stars...
View ArticleDrunk Driving: A Victimless Crime
by Charles Platt I wonder if anyone else agrees that drunk driving is a victimless crime. A conviction merely affirms that a person was more likely than average to hit someone or something. Well, all...
View ArticleUnprotected Speech from Outside the US
by Charles Platt Send a drunken email from the UK to the White House, calling the president a prick, and you’re banned from the United States for life. Or so it says here.
View Article“Feminism” In Iceland: Saving Women From Their Own Adulthood
By Dr. Marty Klein Iceland, the world’s oldest democracy, is now heading in exactly the opposite direction. And they’re doing it in a familiar way—by eliminating choices regarding sex. Iceland has now...
View ArticleU.S. v. Heicklen Explained – a Win for the Wizened and Worried
By Larry Sutter, Special to the Legal Satyricon The Southern District of New York recently issued its order dismissing the United State’s case against Julian Heicklen. The order is available here....
View ArticleStatutes of Limitations
Contributed by Charles Platt For two weeks, now, UK residents have been stunned by an avalanche of revelations–or at least accusations–regarding the BBC and one of its most famous, nationally revered...
View ArticleProving Yourself Wrong About Things You Think You’re Right About
By Christopher Duston This is a story about hypothesis and fact-checking on the gun-violence debate. And about how proving you are wrong about something is better the thinking you are right. I was...
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