For small businesses, just as for individuals, bankruptcy should dispose of all disputes with their creditors. A discharge under Chapter 7 or confirmation of a payment […]
… but a massive, enormous, extravagant Christmas lights display on what used to be a quiet residential corner. In an era when enterprising people organize paying […]
Limited liability is the cornerstone of modern, corporate free enterprise. It means the entrepreneur puts no more of their personal fortune at risk than they invest […]
The purpose of non-compete agreements, paradoxically, is to allow competition (there is a right to work and compete), all while preventing unfair competition by protecting employers’ Legitimate Business […]
In the wake of the events in Charlottesville, a question came up in the business community. Can you fire someone for being a white supremacist? The […]
The ADA is a noble law, and not just for bleeding-heart types of reasons. Certainly, it is primarily motivated by the emotional desire to see those […]
Do you know the difference between general and special damages? One “actually and necessarily” flows from the alleged wrong; the other “might result” from it but […]
For businesses, the first quarter of each year brings a number of fiscal and legal obligations. A business must, for instance, file its Annual Report with […]
The Florida Supreme Court decides remarkably few civil decisions, and even fewer commercial ones. Its docket is dominated by review of death-penalty decisions and updating rules […]
The murderous rampage by a racist young man who wrapped himself in the confederate flag jolted the previously somnolent debate about the meaning of that flag. […]
Under one municipal code, signs advocating this or that political opinion or philosophy are limited to 20 square feet; campaign signs may grow to 32 square […]
On the information superhighway, the guardrails protecting the institutional press also protect the rest of us. An Opinion earlier this year on the other side of […]
The First Amendment states that “Congress” shall make no laws abridging the freedom of speech. Because its protection was expanded by operation of the 14th Amendment, […]
Courts have paid lip service on more than one occasion to the proposition that public school students do not shed their rights at the school’s doors. […]
Freedom of speech means protecting speech we disagree with – even speech we hate. The Supreme Court reminded us of that, for example, when it upheld […]
A breast-cancer awareness bracelet bears the message “I ♥ Boobies”. The question asked to a Federal Court of Appeals is whether, when that message is worn […]