Criminal Law

Thoughts for the Big Dance: On Duke Hatred
Good piece from The New Republic on the venomous hatred of Duke basketball and Duke players and the way that hatred is explicitly and unabashedly expressed in homophobic terms.This really is part of the larger issue of race in college basketball (which the article touches on briefly) and the perception that white players are "soft" spot-up shooters, rather than "tough, strong athletes...

Double Standards at Duke -- and in the Courts
Recently, Stuart Taylor wrote about sexual double standards at Duke University. Duke paid $3,500 to finance a performance by strippers and prostitutes co-sponsored by the Duke Women's Center at which scatological obscenities were hurled and audience members were exhorted to...

Duke Bows to Pressure: Dehydrates Students
The Duke Chronicle reports that Duke University removed water dispensers from campus dormitories because their presence violated the terms of a 10-year contract between Duke Dining Services and the Coca-Cola Company...

Duke Football Wins!!!
At left is the Wallace Wade Stadium, home to the Duke Blue Devil football team and site of the 1942 Rose Bowl. These days, Duke isn't really thinking Rose Bowl. Or any bowl really. According to the Louisville Courrier-Journal, Duke...

JOANNE JACOBS: DUKE BLUE DEVILS CANT HAVE SEX: The Duke Blue Devils had better remain chaste. A
JOANNE JACOBS: DUKE BLUE DEVILS CAN’T HAVE SEX: The Duke Blue Devils had better remain chaste. As national champions, they are unable to have consensual sex with other students under Duke?s new ?sexual misconduct? policy, warns the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)...

Duke Lacrosse II: First Amendment Implications
Continuing my thoughts on the latest Duke lacrosse lawsuit. One interesting feature is the role that the First Amendment might play for the defendants. Much of the conduct described in the complaint, and much of the conduct that presumably forms the basis for the players' claims against Duke and Duke officials (and to law-enforcement officials to a lesser degree), centers on all sorts of public statements that stated or suggested that some or all the players had done something wrong...

Office Politics
Ramsey County pays two deputies $750,000 settlement after being placed in dead end jobs.