Regardless of how they are counted, the coronavirus-related securities lawsuits tended to fall into one of three categories: first, the lawsuit filed against companies that experienced coronavirus outbreaks within company facilities (such as cruise ship lines and private prison systems); second, companies that had sought to tout their ability to profit from the coronavirus outbreak (such as vaccine developers, diagnostic testing services,  manufacturers of personal protective… [read post]

  James Madison had suggested that constitutional protections of rights were, ultimately, only “parchment barriers” against the desires of those with political power, whether democratic majorities or oligarchs, to get their way. [read post]