Who is the Judge behind the Argentine debt default? He’s a man whose most recent profile case involved none other than a failed highway project and fish. And so what has put him now in the epicentre of a row with a major, international dimension that affects the future of an entire country, not just […]
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There has been nonsense litigation for as long as there has been litigation, and the current claimant to the title of the most pointless lawsuit is the “Sleeping Yankee” suit by a Yankees fan caught napping on camera. He’s suing ESPN for defamation, for a mere $10 million damages. Twenty six-year-old Andrew Rector is seeking
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The Hobby Lobby case showed that the Christians truly can choose some things, but when the Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim outlined the eight other laws that you may wish to pick and choose what to follow, it generated some of the highest interest in any story recently. So what are some of the laws that
The House´s lawsuit against Obama has brought together two unlikely legal allies, a neocon lawyer and a libertarian lawyer, who may appear an unlikely duo to take on the most powerful man in the United States. Foley, a professor of constitutional law at Florida International University College of Law and Rivkin, lead outside counsel of
The “hobby lobby” decision of the US Supreme Court who decided by a majority decision to limit its decision to contraception and to closely held businesses, it nevertheless could lead to a dangerous precedent, identified by Jusstice Ginsburg in her dissent. Adjunct law professor Jessica Pieklo believes that there are now likely to be legal
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Australian-born entertainer Rolf Harris faces the rest of his life in prison following his conviction on 12 counts of indecently assaulting four girls in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s in a dramatic trial that showed how the entertainer used his celebrity status to protect himself from action over his often brazen sexual assaults. One of the victims was
Too many lawyers? It’s a question that’s asked with increasing frequency and in the UK, where there are around 200,000 lawyers, being one in 300 in the population, there are surplus lawyers in numbers that may number tens of thousands. The Guardian reports on a legal recruiter, Samuel Clague, who has set up a legal
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Gridlock, embittered factions, the ongoing issues of the US lawmakers have entered a new era now with a brand new debate over the limits of presidential power. The decision of the Supreme Court on Thursday to limit the President’s ability to make recess appointments was the trigger point for the new argument. The New York
Searching the cellphones of those arrested is available only after a search warrant, the US Supreme Court has ruled in a decision welcomed by those concerned about privacy in the age of digital communication. The Chief Justice, John Roberts referred to the power of cell phones, saying because they contain so much information the police
The death of DJ Casey Kasem has unleashed a potential elder abuse lawsuit by his daughter against her estranged stepmother in an area of law that continues to grow in importance, for lawyers and clients alike. The Kasem issue arises from various claims relating to his widow’s alleged cheating on Kasem prior to his death,
