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23 Apr 2016, 10:08 pm
The purposes of this Constitution include the following:1.1 To unite the peoples of the Band Republic into a permanent Union;1.2 To establish justice;1.3 To ensure domestic tranquility;1.4 To provide for the common defense;1.5 To promote the common welfare;1.6 To secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity.For these purposes we the people hereby do ordain and establish this Constitution, providing that any official action inconsistent with them is void.2. [read post]
23 Apr 2016, 12:33 am
The chances that the historical person, a well-meaning actor-bumpkin from Stratford named William Shakespeare, wrote all these assorted, richly-layered erudite and intricate gems in a working life in which he retired at 49 is about as likely as learning in a few years that Billy Carter, Jimmy's brother, invented the Internet, thought up Twitter, and did both theoretical and initial lab work resulting in three Nobel Prizes in Physics over a 20-year period. [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 4:55 pm
” On March 3, meanwhile, the FBI’s cyber division issued a Private Industry Notification, warning law firms that “in a recent cyber criminal forum post, a criminal actor posted an advertisement to hire a technically proficient hacker for the purposes of gaining sustained access to the networks of multiple international law firms,” Bloomberg reports. [read post]
23 Mar 2016, 6:51 am
The nursing home was not a state actor, and the statute benefits residents, not employees. [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 1:35 pm
Our Chicago business, commercial, class-action and consumer litigation lawyers represent individuals, family businesses and enterprises of all sizes in a variety of legal disputes, including disputes among partners and shareholders as well as lawsuits between businesses and and consumer rights, auto fraud, and wage claim individual and class action cases. [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 7:30 am
Governance organizations--states, international organizations and non-state actors--all seek to act as representatives of individuals. [read post]
12 Mar 2016, 9:01 am
Tort law is often public too: punitive damages aren’t about corrective justice; class actions aren’t really either. [read post]
8 Mar 2016, 2:23 pm
Cyber warfare is defined as actions by a nation-state to infiltrate another nation’s computers or computer networks for the purposes of causing disturbance or damage. [read post]
7 Mar 2016, 1:29 pm
The cultivation of this perspective is important and may be deeply culturally embedded, especially within our intellectual classes. [read post]
22 Feb 2016, 4:36 pm
As a result of this decision, several states began to enact corporate indemnification statutes.8 In 1967, the State of Delaware passed new indemnification laws specifically authorizing corporations to purchase D&O liability insurance; by 1973, 25 other states had followed Delaware’s lead.9 Until this time, it was unclear if a corporation could legally pay the cost of the individual liability of a director or officer under the corporate indemnification… [read post]
20 Feb 2016, 7:41 am
He never sought to refute Saul Cornell's influential claim that the right to bear arms in 1791 was the right to be part of a state militia. [read post]
3 Feb 2016, 7:19 am
The opinion went on to cite texts: “In addition, the leading torts treatises state a duty of care is owed to a rescuer “even when the defendant endangers no one’s safety but the defendant’s own. [read post]
28 Jan 2016, 12:42 pm
Public employers are prohibited from taking action based on an employee’s political activity because the activity constitutes the exercise of an expressive right protected by the First Amendment. [read post]
27 Jan 2016, 9:15 am
Yes, of course, the familiar Footnote Four categories were meant to govern the scope of judicial review, not to exhaust the meaning of the Constitution for all political actors. [read post]
25 Jan 2016, 6:00 am
At the same time, the Supreme Court’s recent track record on labor rights, voting rights, campaign finance, and class actions evoke for some commentators the specter of “neo-Lochnerism. [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 8:34 am
Class Action Compl. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 9:01 pm
As we begin 2016, however, this familiar morality play is being cast with actors who are playing “against type. [read post]
13 Jan 2016, 5:05 pm
But while these issues and responsibilities are now well-recognized, many boards still struggle to translate these issues into action. [read post]
11 Jan 2016, 5:00 am
E.g., the Georgia State district court approach was much more predictable as a rule. [read post]
7 Jan 2016, 4:49 pm
Background As I noted in a prior post (here) discussing IPO-related securities class action lawsuit filings, on September 3, 2014 a plaintiff shareholder filed a securities class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California against Rocket Fuel, Inc., certain of its directors and officers and its offering underwriters. [read post]
