The U.S. House Ethics Committee found "substantial evidence" that former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to a dozen women for sex or drugs, used or possessed cocaine, ecstasy and ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping wave of laws this year, passed by the Republican supermajority of Florida’s Legislature, that have been criticized as unconstitutional and discriminatory. And some ...

In December, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a series of amendments that made significant changes to the requirements for statutory powers of attorney in the state of New York. The changes, as discussed by C ...

Mechanic's liens are a basic security right created by either constitutional or statutory law. They do not exist as a matter of equity or common law, but are instead legislative creatures.

My colleague Sam Bray, who is one of the nation's leading remedies experts, and also someone whose judgment I very much trust, passes along this note highly ...

I often see people assuming that sex with under-18-year-olds is a crime (statutory rape); for instance, some comments on the 17-year-old gets help in lying about age to get abortion; later, she and ...

Is forty years too far along for a book review? Another look at A Common Law for the Age of Statutes by eminent Second Circuit Judge and Yale Law professor Guido Calabresi suggests no. Published in ...

A statutory will refers to intestacy laws that control which family members, called heirs-at-law or distributees, receive the inheritance if you die without a will. In that case, your family members ...

I’ve returned again and again (and again) to the subject of property rights in information. As regular readers know, a 2018 Supreme Court case called Carpenter v. United States posed the question of ...

Some of the changes imposed by the 2022 amendments to Colorado’s noncompete statute (C.R.S. §8-2-113) are clear and unambiguous. The amendments eliminated the former exception for management employees ...

Jonathan Skrmetti is chief deputy attorney general of the state of Tennessee, which filed an amicus brief on behalf of 15 states in support of the employers in Bostock v. Clayton County and Harris ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas discussed the idea of stare decisis and its history in the legal traditions of English common law. He spoke ...