President Trump promised to declare a national emergency to confront the opioid epidemic 68 days ago. Since then, more than 6,000 Americans have died of overdoses, USA Today reports. Trump says he’ll formally declare that emergency next week, a two-month delay that he said underscores...
Welcome to the binary edition, where you have a choice: An informative and engaging stroll through the history of the oil and gas business in Texas, or a wonkish and also informative legal analysis. First, at the recent summer meeting of the Texas Independent Producers and...
A commemoration of the Constitution calls for impertinent arguments. Mine is this: Our campaign-finance regime ought to be as unregulated as possible, but not for the reasons commonly supposed.[1] The usual way of thinking about campaign finance and free speech pertains primarily to the rights of...
Since the worldwide financial crisis of 2008, things haven’t been the same in legal marketing. Demand has taken a nosedive, with clients opting to hang on to work they’d otherwise have outsourced. Unfortunately, as clients keep more work in-house, they become more capable, making the...
The presumption of innocence is among the sacred precepts encoded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: “Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law.” It’s also a cardinal principle of U.S. justice. Yet with...
Yesterday the court removed securities-fraud case Leidos, Inc. v. Indiana Public Retirement System from the November argument calendar. At Bloomberg, Greg Stohr reports that the move came “after the two sides told the justices they are near a settlement,” and that the case had “asked...
As everyone knows, Richard Thaler has won the Nobel Prize in economics. Thaler’s prize was mainly for behavioral economics, which built upon the work of the earlier nobel laureate Daniel Kanneman. This work has been controversial. Many rational choice economists have strongly criticized it and some...
Jay Knight Will Lay In March 2015, the SEC released its final rules implementing the provision of the JOBS Act to try to facilitate small companies’ access to capital and to provide new investors with new investment choices, in the form of Regulation A+. In the following...
The petition of the day is: Dawson v. Steager 17-419 Issue: Whether the Supreme Court’s precedent and the doctrine of intergovernmental tax immunity bar states from exempting groups of state retirees from state income tax while discriminating against similarly situated federal retirees based on the source of their...
The arrest of Michael Christopher Estes, the man accused of planting a homemade bomb at the Asheville, N.C., Regional Airport this month, was quick. The news media weren’t so quick to report on it, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. Authorities found what appeared to...