NC’s new sex offender law is unjust and unconstitutional
By MARK JOSEPH STERN . . . A new sex offender law took effect in North Carolina on Thursday, restricting offenders’ freedom of movement and association by barring them from
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Fayetteville Observer: New premises law seriously flawed
Editorial Board . . . Protecting our children from extreme danger is one of our most solemn obligations. And protecting them from sexual predators needs to be among our highest
Read morePokémon Go ban senseless, useless, political theater
By STEVEN YODER . . . Last last month, two state senators in New York—Jeffrey Klein and Diane Savino—issued a report laying out an apparently scary set of numbers. In
Read morePokémon Go pedo pervs? Hocus pocus hogwash
By SANDY ROZEK & ROBIN VANDERWALL . . . The Pokémon Go craze is sweeping the nation and beyond, sending young people scurrying through the streets, phones in hand, frantically
Read morePackingham petition offers hope for change at nation’s highest court
By ROBIN VANDERWALL . . . Among the more significant cases concerning registered citizens that have made their way to the United States Supreme Court, few have had as much
Read moreWhen “ample alternatives” are neither
By David Post . . . A couple of weeks ago, I joined 16 law professors in an amicus brief (authored by Eugene Volokh and several of his students) urging
Read moreFederal court guts NC premises statute, permanently enjoins prosecutions
By ROBIN VANDERWALL . . . Frustrated by the state’s refusal to offer any facts supporting its “conjectural” and “anecdotal” evidence defending section a(2) of North Carolina’s premises statute (N.C.G.S.
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