by Paul Alan Levy In a decision issued today, the California Second District Court of Appeal has created an additional way for anonymous speakers, and for web operators who host anonymous comments, to protect the right to speak anonymously. Instead of invoking the First Amendment as courts in other states, and indeed other appellate courts […]
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by Paul Alan Levy Popehat carried a story yesterday about a demand letter from a "senior attorney" for the US Department of Health and Human Services named Dale Berkeley (who pompously signed himself as "Ph.D. / J.D."), complaining about two lame parodies on a web site that opposes Alcoholic Anonymous and asserts that there is […]
Note: This item is reposted from yesterday. I screwed up the link to Adam Levitin's essay in the original link. The link has now been repaired, and I want to make sure that our readers have a chance to read the essay. "Mandatory Arbitration Offers Bargain-Basement Justice." That's the name of this thoughtul essay by […]
We've told you about the long saga to coax the DOT to issue a rear visibility safety standard, as mandated by Congress six years ago, to help prevent "backover" crashes, which primarily affect young children and the elderly. Six weeks ago, DOT finally issued the long-delayed standard, which will effectively require backup cameras in all […]
Remember Romneycare? You know, the universal health care plan in Massachusetts championed (and signed) in 2006 by then-Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, which required individuals who could afford it to buy health insurance (or pay a tax or fine if they didn't). Yes, Romneycare, the law that provided a blueprint for key components of the national […]
That's the name of this thoughtul essay by law professor Adam Levitin (pictured below) in the American Banker.
by Brian Wolfman Yes, according to this study issued by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Institute. To oversimplify, the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate requires employers with over 50 employees to provide their full-time employees with reasonably priced health insurance that meets the ACA's minimum requirements (or to pay penalties if they don't comply […]
Tattoos are popular. Temporary tattoos are safe (and, by definition, non-permanent) alternatives to permanent tattoos, right? Not necessarily, says the FDA. They can have serious negative, long-term health consequences, such as allergic sensitivity, scarring, and sensitivity to UV exposure from sunlight.
Some of our readers may know about a case pending in the Supreme Court called POM Wonderful v. Coca-Cola. In that case, POM Wonderful, which markets drinks containing pomegranate juice, sued Coke under the Lanham Act, claiming that Coke has deceptively marketed products as containing lots of healthy pomegranate juice when in fact they contain almost […]
Yesterday, Company Doe unmasked itself: it’s the baby-carrier maker Ergobaby. It was a smart move to share its side of the story (and a fascinating story it is, told here by Alison Frankel of Reuters and worth a read). Ergobaby has every right to defend itself in the press — that is, in fact, the […]