On Jan. 20, 2025, both former President Biden and President Trump issued pardons pursuant to Article 2, Section 2 of the United States Constitution.
During the 2024 elections, political advertisers spent tens of billions of dollars trying to will their preferred candidates into office. The groundwork for this historic spending spree, however, was actually laid exactly 15 years ago.
Great news! Your UK based social media dating company – “Better Than Cupid” – just got funded. It’s been launched in the US and is slated to be released in other countries. You just started celebrating. But then you get an e-mail from your general counsel: “We’ve been sued in NY.
A band of blue-state top cops leaped into federal gun regulation litigation in Texas Thursday, asking two courts to fill defense vacuums after President Joe Biden leaves office next week. One of those efforts was instantly rebuffed.
It has been almost five years since federal employees packed up their desk plants and office mugs and retreated to the comfort of their sofas.
A Federal Election Commission opinion in March that was thanks to legal pressure from Democratic attorney Marc Elias ended up giving an assist to the Trump campaign and is poised to reshape the campaign finance system.
President-elect Donald Trump’s resounding victory signals a turning point for our nation. As America grapples with the consequences of unchecked diversity, equity and inclusion or DEI policies,
At first blush, requiring adult visitors of pornographic websites to verify their age might not seem controversial: after all, if it might help prevent some children from accessing inappropriate materials, what’s the problem?
The recent 9th Circuit case of X Corp. v. Bonta tackles the messy issue of what constitutes a “standard business report” in the space of social media content moderation – and whether compelling platforms to disclose their definitions and moderation practices (if any) regarding controversial categories of content violates their First Amendment rights.
Vice President Kamala Harris claimed the mantle of a civil rights champion as part of her presidential campaign origin fable. But her record tells a darker tale. At every step of her career, Harris has proven that the most dangerous place for a constitutional norm to be is standing between Harris and her political ambitions.
A California federal district court has upheld discipline imposed on a 7-year-old by her school district in connection with a picture she drew for a friend that the principal deemed inappropriate.
Does the government violate citizens’ First Amendment rights when it pressures social media platforms to remove posts it doesn’t approve of? It’s a question at the heart of speech doctrine in the modern age but was avoided by the Supreme Court in the recent case of Murthy v. Missouri.
Students accused of misconduct at private high schools around the country are at the mercy of school administrators, who often act as judge, jury and executioner in cases of student discipline.
A Florida state court judge has awarded the operators of a pet store nearly $53,000 in attorney fees defending against a lawsuit over sexual harassment and gender discrimination after a manager allegedly showed a video of his genitalia to an underage female employee while on the job.
A Santa Clara County jury has awarded $1 million and tuition reimbursement to two former students who sued an elite Catholic high school in Mountain View, saying administrators forced them out over an alleged blackface photo that actually showed teens masked in acne medication.
Businesses have been navigating through a continuously altering and evolving employee benefits landscape. Work-from-home and hybrid office trends, new technological advancements and workforce shortages in many industries have led to a new set of expectations, protocols and best practices when it comes to businesses determining the right benefits packages for their employees.
In the evolving landscape of employment law in California, the case of Elinton Gramajo v. Joe’s Pizza on Sunset Inc. et al. emerges as a significant development with wide-ranging implications for both employers and employees.
Last month, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill titled “Thirty-Two Hour Work Week Act” to the U.S. Senate, which would reduce the full-time workweek from 40 hours to 32 hours.
As the modern marketplace of ideas, Big Tech platforms are ground zero for government-coerced suppression of political speech.
This is why fair and free elections will be in danger if the Supreme Court does not immediately put a stop to self-interested government bureaucrats pressuring social media platforms to censor Americans’ speech online.
The long legal battle between Applied Medical Distribution Corporation and its former employee, Stephen Jarrells, highlights the intricacies of trade secrets law, providing valuable lessons for businesses and their attorneys.
The family of a student at Muirlands Middle School in La Jolla has filed a lawsuit against employees of the San Diego Unified School District following his suspension for wearing “offensive” face paint at a football game.
A student was confronted by a teacher at Muirlands Middle School after filing a lawsuit for being wrongly suspended for wearing “blackface.”
When it comes to sexually explicit images generated by AI, Taylor Swift is just the tip of the iceberg.
Ohio legislators have one last chance to protect children from “gender-affirming care.” They must not be fooled by Gov. Mike DeWine’s diluted executive order that bans gender transition surgeries but does nothing to stop the chemical castration of vulnerable children or protect equal opportunities for girls in athletics.
With the nationwide proliferation of defamation lawsuits in recent years, a question that often arises among legal scholars and First Amendment enthusiasts is whether the seminal case of New York Times v. Sullivan should remain good law.
Do social media platforms “speak” when they pick and choose what user speech they disseminate?
As a young law student back in in 1987, I read an article about "human rights violations" being perpetrated by Israel in the National Law Review. Never a shrinking violet, I dashed off a letter to the editor in protest. A couple of days after it was printed, two letters arrived in my law school mailbox, both of them antisemitic and threatening. I was a bit spooked, so I called the Chicago office of the Anti-Defamation League.
Last week, the California Court of Appeal decided a case with important implications for those who file public records requests
The majority’s creative interpretation of the line between fact and opinion creates a slippery slope that will undoubtedly be used by defendants to obscure the protected opinion doctrine in their favor.
In the coming weeks, Texas will witness the impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton — an event that has captured public attention and raised serious concerns about the integrity of the House proceedings, compared to something worse than a kangaroo court. As the trial rules develop with a June 20 deadline in the Senate, it is vital to prioritize fairness and due process.
A Los Angeles employment lawyer facing ethics charges over tweets she made in May 2020 during Black Lives Matter protests in the wake of the killing of George Floyd said the California state bar's disciplinary action against her must be dropped because the "enshrined" free speech rights of Golden State attorneys "depend on it."
The EDD is accusing some pandemic-era claimants of fraud and demanding repayment, years after their applications were approved. In some cases, current wages are being garnished to claw back the unemployment money, even before appeals are filed.
The YouTube personality "Nate the Lawyer" fought to preserve his defamation case against a New Jersey-based social media watchdog in a motion on Monday, arguing that he is the victim of online smearing and maintaining that his suit has met the pleading requirements for defamation.
Tampa, Fla. –– The Dhillon Law Group (@dhillonlaw) obtained a multi-million-dollar judgment for its client, Michael Reiterman, in a high-profile cyberstalking and defamation lawsuit.
Like a homeowner who sees evidence of termites on the windowsill, the RNC has finally woken up to the election integrity crisis, years after Democrats systematically began hollowing out safeguards ensuring that our elections be limited to legal voters only.
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