Posts by Tim Zinnecker

BYU:  revises university's internet network block of Youtube website.  Story here.Liberty University:  issues new policy to regulate on-campus political clubs.  Story here.

I'm way behind on my pleasure reading, so it’s only been in recent weeks that I have read Jeffrey Toobin’s book, “The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme…

I submitted two articles to numerous journals earlier this year in March/April using the Expresso service.Two statistics:Percentage of journals that took action triggering the “confirmation of receipt” response at my…

Publisher Penguin Press is releasing a new book on the United States Supreme Court this month titled Packing the Court:  The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of…

This morning the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in the so-called strip search case, Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding, finding that the search violated the student's…

The Fourth Circuit issued its en banc opinion earlier today in the case of Richmond Medical Center for Women v. Herring.  Readers can find the opinion here, with a nice…

With Lucas Glover's win earlier today at Bethpage, the following trivia question comes to mind:Name a multiple-time winner of the U.S. Open Golf Championship who attended a "tier one" law…

OK, so the title of the post is perhaps just a bit misleading.  Maybe it should have read "Obama Nominates Alito's Replacement on the Third Circuit."  But that phrasing was…

I am the son of a potato farmer.I attended Notre Dame University.I was the last player to achieve one of baseball's rarest accomplishments.I was a first-ballot electee into MLB's hall…

A big shout-out to fathers everywhere, as we honor you on Sunday. For many of us, our father is a hero, an inspiration, a teacher, a role model, a mentor,…