12 Dec Is Liberty “Natural”?
Our idea of liberty has simply become confused, even deranged....
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12 Dec Trump Points Out Horror Attack in Require Migration Overhaul
President Trump said Monday’s attempted New York City terrorist attack is more evidence that the U.S. immigration system needs a total overhaul to end immigration based on family relationships, the Wall Street Journal reports. Suspect Akayad Ullah “entered our country through extended-family chain migration, which...
12 Dec How Futures Markets Reinforce Bitcoin’s Market Order
Bitcoin, as I have argued, is a store of value that is now more attractive than bad fiat currencies and is likely to become even more attractive over time. It is an innovation that replaces trust in government with trust in a decentralized order— an...
12 Dec Non-Whites Comprise 55% of Personal Jail Prisoners: Research Study
Inmates of private prisons are disproportionately non-white compared to incarcerated state and federal populations, according to a study published this month in the International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice. The study author, Brett C. Burkhardt, Ph.D., an assistant professor of sociology at Oregon State University’s...
12 Dec Petition of the day
The petition of the day is: Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. v. Wendell 17-747 Issues: (1) Whether the two-part standard of reviewing expert-admissibility rulings employed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, along with the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 3rd and 7th Circuits, improperly...
12 Dec Secret D&O Insurance Plan Phrasing Issues and Protection Issues
Over the course of several years in which the marketplace for D&O insurance has been highly competitive, the scope of coverage available has continued to evolve and expand. Terms and conditions are available today that were not available even a short time ago, as carriers...
11 Dec Logo designs, values and pathos (not to be puzzled with Athos, Porthos and Aramis)
Aristotle and later Cicero wrote about argument being composed of logos, ethos and pathos. Most people know the “logos” as logic and “pathos” as emotion (easy to remember because of words such as “pathetic” and especially “pathos”). But it’s easy to misremember “ethos” as an...
11 Dec “For a minimum of 6 factors, the movement [for emergency injunction against allegedly defamatory web sites] is REJECTED”
From Friday’s federal district court decision in Kazal v. Price (M.D. Fla. Dec. 8, 2017), which I thought was worth quoting in detail, and which seems a nice counterpoint to the Ohio state court Barley House injunction: The latest spat in a protracted dispute between several...
11 Dec Justices tackle First Modification problem to state abortion disclosure legal guidelines: In Plain English
In 2015, California lawmakers enacted the Reproductive Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive Care, and Transparency Act. The law, known as the Reproductive FACT Act, responded to concerns that crisis pregnancy centers – nonprofit organizations, often affiliated with Christian groups, that are opposed to abortion – were posing...
11 Dec Is Weinstein Liable Under Anti-Rackeetering Laws?
The federal anti-racketeering law has been used since the 1970s to bring down mob bosses. Could it be used to prosecute Harvey Weinstein? Lawyers for six actresses who say they were sexually assaulted by the movie producer filed suit last week arguing that Weinstein was...
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