by Paul Alan Levy Following the recent decision of the Virginia Court of Appeals affirming the enforcement of a subpoena to Yelp by Hadeed Carpet Cleaning, demanding the identities of seven anonymous reviewers, and our petition to the Virginia Supreme Court seeking leave to appeal, Hadeed has been trying to organize a broader crusade against […]
As the Baltimore Sun reports, "Maryland's minimum wage will rise to $10.10 by July 2018 under a bill granted final passage by state lawmakers Monday. The measure goes to Democratic Gov. Martin O'Malley for his promised signature." For a good discussion of the political debate over the effects of the minimum wage, listen to this […]
Here. I recommend the conference highly. Very informative.
The case is Dart Cherokee Basin Operating Company, LLC v. Owens. Here is the question presented (and the defendant's argumentative intro to the question presented taken from its petition for a writ of certiorari): A defendant seeking removal of a case to federal court must file a notice of removal containing “a short and plain […]
This article by Tony Mauro discusses the reactions of campaign-reform advocates to the Supreme Court's decision last week in McCutcheon v. FEC, which struck down congressional limits on how much money an individual may donate in total to all federal candidates or political committees in a particular election cycle. See 2 U.S.C. § 441a(a)(3) (deceased Apr. […]
Go here or click on the embedded video below to watch a series of pieces by Jon Stewart on the Supreme Court's campaign-finance ruling, McCutcheon v. FEC.
by Paul Alan Levy I blogged recently about several of the issues raised by Cindy Lee Garcia's copyright claims against Google, which we addressed in an amicus brief filed well before the amicus due date, specifically to give her the chance to address those issues. I suppose that I should be flattered that Garcia mentions […]
That's the question implicit in today's NYT report on tests of child car seats run by our friends at Consumer Reports. The Times explains: A new testing procedure, said by the magazine to represent an investment of more than a half-million dollars and over two years of work, was developed to evaluate the crash protection […]
by Jeff Sovern In preparation for remarks at the University of Houston's Teaching Consumer Law Conference, to be held this year in Santa Fe in May, I asked my research assistant, Preston Postlethwaite, to review the web sites of the ABA-accredited schools to see which are teaching consumer law courses this school year. According to Preston, 49 […]