Law professor Margaret Kwoka has been writing a lot on freedom of information. Read her new article called Leaking and Legitimacy. Here is the abstract: Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden have captured the world’s attention in recent years by leaking massive quantities of secret government information. In each case, critics have made much […]
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Yep, that's the topic of Essay: From the 'No Spittin', No Cussin' and No Summary Judgment' Days of Employment Discrimination Litigation to the 'Defendant's Summary Judgment Affirmed Without Comment' Days: One Judge's Four-Decade Perspective by U.S. District Judge Mark W. Bennett. Here is the no-nonsense abstract: Nearly seventy-five years after its birth, the time has […]
That's what the economic data suggest, at least the data through 2012. After reproducing what Matthew Yglesias calls the most important chart about the American economy you'll see this year, Yglesias explains: For a long time, most of the gains from economic growth went to the bottom 90 percent of the income distribution. And, after […]
Read this article by Michael Corkery and Jessica Sliver-Greenberg. Here's an excerpt: The thermometer showed a 103.5-degree fever, and her 10-year-old’s asthma was flaring up. Mary Bolender, who lives in Las Vegas, needed to get her daughter to an emergency room, but her 2005 Chrysler van would not start. The cause was not a mechanical […]
For years now, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has authorized auto manufacturers to recall defective vehicles on a regional (rather than a national) basis. The idea, NHTSA maintains, is that some vehicle defects only matter regionally — say, in places that are cold or hot, for defects that supposedly are related to cold-weather […]
As explained in this article by Daniel Fisher, Seventh Circuit judge Richard Posner recently had some tough questions for proponents of a class-action settlement in which the plaintiff-consumers got coupons (that's right, $10 coupons to purchase the defendant's products!) and the plaintiffs’ lawyers got cash (a million bucks in fees). That's nothing new — that's […]
Second Circuit judge Guido Calabresi has written A Broader View of the Cathedral: The Significance of the Liability Rule, Correcting a Misapprehension. Here is the abstract: Recent years have seen a resurgence of Torts viewed as a purely private legal arrangement: whether described in terms of compensatory justice — the right of an injured party […]
Guest post by Deborah Kopald [Deborah Kopald (BA, Harvard; MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management) is an environmental health and public policy consultant and author who has developed and overseen the passage of legislative initiatives and has served as a guest expert at various media outlets. In 2013, she organized and moderated The Conference on Corporate Interference with Science and Health in New […]
That's the topic of Alan Morrison's wide-ranging article entitled Saved by the Supreme Court: Rescuing Corporate America.
Yesterday, Google agreed with the Federal Trade Commission to pay $19 million to consumers whose children allegedly were misled into making purchases in the Android "app store." As this article by Cecilia Kang explains: Google made it too easy for children to use Android phones to buy items ranging from 99 cents to $200 in […]