Religion & Law

A taxonomy of slippery slope arguments
Eugene Volokh has recently objected to my post deriding the sorts of ?slippery slope? arguments invoked in the ?same-sex marriage? debate. His post inspired me to take another look at my two very favorite pieces on slippery slope arguments ? Fred Schauer?s 1985 piece and Gene?s own much longer 2003 piece (both in Harvard)...

Why do conservatives keep on invoking the "slippery slope"
As a conservative myself, I'd like an answer to this mystery -- even at the expense of posting one more item (I swear, my last) on the topic. The "slope" is by far, the weakest and least plausible argument against same-sex marriage (see my last post on the subject)...

Student Blogger - Eugene Volokh: Mechanisms of the Slippery Slope
The term "slippery slope" is a metaphor. Like all metaphors, it is a lie; someone making a slippery-slope argument is not literally sliding down a hill. Metaphors often illuminate a general pattern, but they can do so at the expense...

The Slope Is Rarely So Slippery
In his blog the Art of Advocacy, Baltimore lawyer Paul Mark Sandler suggests a counter to the slippery slope argument: "The 'slippery slope' argument falsely assumes that once you take a moderate first step in a particular direction, a catastrophic chain of events will follow...

The slippery slope to endless "slippery slope" rhetoric
The California Supreme Court's recent decision on gay marriage has predictably revived that old perennial favorite of arguments against substantive due process arguments for sexual privacy -- the "slippery slope...

Slippery slope of censorship
Given the proposal for Australia to introduce ISP level content filtering, this post from Techdirt's Mike Masnick is worth remembering: The Slippery Slope Of Censorship In ISP Filtering We've talked about how government attempts to censor certain types of internet content tend to be a slippery slope towards more and...

Gay Marriage Laws
Where same sex couples can marry

Selection of State Supreme Court Judges
How State Court Judges are Selected

Hawaii Divorce Laws
How to end a marriage in paradise

Divorce Laws
How to end a marriage

California Supreme Court Proposition 8 Decision
Court Rejects Challenges to Proposition 8, but Finds Marriages Valid

Family Law
involving divorce, child custody, spousal support, common law, adoption and same sex marriage.

Settlement Reached in Female Athletes' Class Action
Slippery Rock University Settles Discrimination Class Action