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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Laws suspending driver licenses for fines need reform

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Spencer K. Schneider , a 3L at UMass Law and teaching assistant in my Torts I-II classes, has authored an article for the National Lawyers ...
Monday, November 9, 2020

All politics is local

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This Ayrshire Daily News , Scotland, headline refers to the Trump Turnberry Golf Courses .  The headline caught the attention of BBC's ...
Sunday, November 8, 2020

Singers revel in federal judges' lifetime appointments

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I just discovered The Bar & Grill Singers , an Austin, Texas-based musical revue of attorneys.  My favorite song is " Appointed For...
Saturday, November 7, 2020

Depp defamation suits in US, UK see London setback

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Heard and Depp in 2015 ( GabboT CC BY-SA 2.0 ) Johnny Depp is fighting accusations of spousal abuse in defamation suits in England and t...
Friday, November 6, 2020

Supreme Court vacates First Amendment decision, tells lower court to certify negligence question to Louisiana

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Mckesson ( HimmelrichPR CC BY-SA 2.0 ) A negligence lawsuit blaming Black Lives Matter organizer DeRay Mckesson for injury to a police off...
Thursday, November 5, 2020

Court: Pseudonymous WeChat user cannot be libeled

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As matter of law, statement is not 'of and concerning' plaintiff Statements about a person on a social media platform are not defama...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

'Super tort' might represent failure of public policymaking, but is only tip of melting iceberg

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First Circuit remands R.I. suit against Big Oil for public nuisance Super Tort ( px her e.com CC0 ) A "super tort" sounds delicio...
Tuesday, November 3, 2020

No recklessness, no liability, court affirms in case of head injury during softball batting practice

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mohamed Hassan from Pixabay Applying recklessness doctrine in a non-competitive context, the Massachusetts Appeals Court yesterday affirmed...
Sunday, November 1, 2020

Peace, power at stake in elections around the world

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Pres. Ouattara ( s t CC BY 2.0 ) With the U.S. election looming, it's easy to miss crucial elections going on elsewhere in the world, s...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Legal scholars overlook scholarship about state FOIA, but dedicated academics toil for state transparency

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Professor Robert Steinbuch and I aim to draw attention to the undersung work of state-law transparency  scholars through our recent publica...
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