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In 1992, with former NBA star and then-Senator Bill Bradley leading the way, and the sports industry offering its support, Congress passed PASPA, the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act. PASPA prohibits states from “authorizing”...

No television show or movie has written stuff this good. Jury selection for the securities fraud trial of Martin Shkreli began on Monday, June 26, 2017. The judge anticipated having a jury empaneled by noon, with the trial beginning in the afternoon....

A fascinating constitutional law issue arose in a case involving events at a Trump campaign rally held on March 1, 2016 in Louisville, Kentucky. Plaintiffs attended the rally and protested Trump’s policies. In response, Trump repeatedly said from...

A Memphis Tennessee Fight for $15 organization (an international movement begun in 2012 seeking a $15 minimum wage for low-income workers) is suing the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department for alleged violations of the Constitutional rights of free speech...

What do we do when a juror makes a racial slur during deliberations? Thanks to a Colorado criminal case that made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, we have the answer. In 2007, in the bathroom a Colorado race-horsing facility, a man allegedly sexually...

A couple seeking to marry must first obtain a marriage license. To get the document, the husband and wife to-be are required to establish that neither is married to someone else. The government offices that issues marriage licenses are the county clerk...

Pedro Hernandez, age 54, was recently tried for the 1979 murder of 6 year old Etan Patz. The lad vanished on his way to a school bus stop in New York City on the first day his parents permitted him to make the two-block walk alone. The trial began January...

Lynn Tilton, known as “The Turnaround Queen,” has been charged by the SEC with hiding poor financial performance of loan assets in loan obligation funds that her firm, Patriarch Partners , sold to investors through Patriarch fund sales. The...

John Swartz has been learning about the First Amendment for six years. Mr. Swartz was a passenger in his then fiancé’s (Judy Mayton Swartz) car on Memorial Day in 2006 when he spotted a police car with an officer using a radar gun. Mr. Swartz...

The highest court in New York State just reversed a highly publicized murder conviction and granted a new trial to a prominent businessman convicted of murdering his wife. The case illustrates some of the tensions between the media’s role in reporting...

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On February 19, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Monsanto Co. v. Bowman, an Indiana can that began when Vernon Bowman, an Indiana farmer, planted soybean seeds from a grain elevator that housed the seeds of other farmers. Those other...

The Illinois Liquor Control Commission ruled a couple years ago that Anheuser-Bush could not buy an Illinois alcoholic beverage distributor, City Beverage. Illinois liquor law prohibits a non-Illinois resident from owning an interest in a licensed Illinois...

The problems of those online reviews. The stars, or lack thereof, can make or break a business. Consider Joe Hadeed’s carpet cleaning business. A slew of negative reviews that began cropping up in 2012. The result? Business down by 30%. Eighty...

State and local lawmakers constantly try to think up ways to stick non-residents with higher taxes than are paid by residents and ways to benefit local businesses compared to non-local businesses. For example, airports routinely charge higher taxes on...

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The U.S. Supreme Court has granted certiorari in one of the so-called Obamacare constitutional challenges, the cases brought by the states that have challenged the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) , 26 U.S.C. §7421...

Two employees of the Pasco County, Florida, fire department sued their employer for discrimination and harassment. After conflicts with their supervisor, who called them names, they were transferred to fire stations they did not like and were denied opportunities...