The decision had something for everyone: It was clearly a victory for both the company challenging the appointments and the conservative and business groups supporting the company, but it was also at least partially a favorable ruling for the Obama administration, because the majority upheld the president’s power to make other recess appointments, as long as they are made during recesses that last at least 10 days. [read post]

The First Amendment protects truthful, nonmisleading commercial speech promoting lawful products or services, but especially when the products or services are themselves protected by other constitutional rights, such as the right to abortion or the right to buy contraceptives.[1] What is true for unenumerated constitutional rights must be at least as true for the enumerated right to bear arms, which includes the right to possess and acquire handguns.[2] Plaintiff firearms dealers are… [read post]

I imagine that the Ruler of the Galaxy's cat from Episode 12 of the radio series would get a free bite regardless of its previous disposition. 10 - Cathy Gellis is a cyber lawyer in California who I have come to know online over the years. [read post]