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April 20, 2016
Why incorporate – or, more likely, organize as an LLC? The answer is simple enough to fill radio ads. If something goes wrong, only the company’s […]
April 13, 2016
When the Supreme Court issued an opinion last week on “one person one vote,” the political press did what it does best and reduced it to […]
March 29, 2016
One spouse opens a business – let’s say the husband as it was in a recent case. The financial institution providing the seed money for that […]
March 24, 2016
The Florida court system has three levels, like indeed every other state and the federal government: trial, appeal, and a Supreme Court. The first appeal may […]
March 9, 2016
Federal law means what the United States Supreme Court says it does. There are no ifs, no buts, no questions about it. Yet sometimes, stubborn state […]
March 2, 2016
Executive action is a hallmark of every administration, even more so in a divided government. So it should be no surprise that 2015 was, and 2016 […]
February 29, 2016
Jailhouse lawyers have a lot of time on their hands. They also can be darn creative. A counterfeiter spending ten years as a guest of the […]
February 16, 2016
Our readers are well familiar now with many reasons why arbitration is not recommended in business to business contracts. And more pitfalls keep coming to mind […]
February 15, 2016
In 1953, Justice Jackson wished that the Court could have decided a case that came before them “by analysis of the statute instead of by psychoanalysis of […]
February 9, 2016
Appellees – litigants who won before the trial court and now face an appeal – have for first line of defense that the decision in their […]
January 22, 2016
Think of the comma, that small, underused, throwaway punctuation mark. How unimportant, how easy to ignore it is. But like nerds in a bad 1980s movie, […]
January 13, 2016
Issues related to evidence and sentencing are probably the two most frequent topics for appeal in criminal cases. We have mentioned both in previous posts. An […]
January 4, 2016
The year 2015 included its lot of consequential cases. None received more press than the decision prohibiting bans on sex-same marriages across the country. None excited […]
November 16, 2015
Our blog is traditionally dedicated to educating and sometimes entertaining. We eschew grand philosophical thoughts for the economic trenches, for what is most useful to the […]
October 27, 2015
Once the U.S. Supreme Court makes a ruling, its decision becomes the law of the land. It binds all other courts, both state and federal, everywhere […]
October 23, 2015
Traveling internationally can be exhilarating. Coming home can be comforting. But in the middle, our constitutional rights disappear. Courts from the Supremes on down have ruled […]
October 12, 2015
The death of a loved one is not only tragic. It also carries legal consequences. If the decedent had debts, those have to be paid. And […]
September 21, 2015
New laws mean new lawsuits. The Affordable Care Act and its regulations have alone gone to the Supreme Court three times – on the question of […]
September 14, 2015
We have spent some time on this blog explaining how arbitration clauses are typically a bad idea in business-to-business contracts. We have explained that they are […]
September 4, 2015
Would-be plaintiffs who seek redress against a company will generally start the process by a demand letter. They do so either because it is mandated by law, […]
September 1, 2015
Employers are sometimes too easily tempted to categorize people working for them as independent contractors. This avoids paying unemployment and other payroll taxes, and contractors are […]
August 25, 2015
Florida recently amended its Arbitration Act, mostly to put it in line with the federal version. Reading the changes’ review in the Florida Bar Journal only […]
August 20, 2015
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. […]
August 17, 2015
The Washington Post, among many other outlets, reported that former wrestler and Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura won his lawsuit against Chris Kyle, the American Sniper whose […]
August 17, 2015
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 […]
August 11, 2015
Some U.S. Supreme Court cases turn on the meaning of a single word. In those instances, Justice may appear to rule, concur, or dissent based on […]
August 5, 2015
It seemed a narrow case, one of those of no interest to anyone but the parties involved. A law that gave the federal government the right […]
July 30, 2015
The city of Los Angeles, which requires hotels to keep a registry of their guests, also required those hotels to show their registry to any police […]
February 5, 2015
Successful businesses, especially smaller ones, often rely on a casual, cooperative culture among their employees. Those businesses rue over-regulation, common as it may be in our […]
January 16, 2015
We explained in a previous post that the IRS scrutinizes unpaid internships. It is not the only government agency that does. The Department of Labor is […]
January 13, 2015
The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) does more than regulate relations between employer and unions. It also gives non-union employees the right to organize. That makes […]
December 15, 2014
Warehouse employees spend their days lifting, moving, loading and unloading sometimes heavy merchandise. It is not an easy job. They might be cranky at the end […]
September 23, 2014
Even small, non-union businesses in right-to-work states need to pay attention to the National Labor Relations Act (the NLRA). While that law is primarily concerned with […]
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