A big challenge in the opioid crisis is getting overdose patients from emergency rooms into treatment. In an aggressive proposal, Massachusetts authorities want to allow hospital staff to send overdose patients to treatment centers against their will for up to three days. The goal is...
In the five years since 20 school children and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Ct., a new school has been built, and the gunman’s house has been razed. How the community marks the grim occasion hasn’t changed: quietly and...
At The Federalist, Margot Cleveland notes that although the justices denied cert this week in Evans v. Georgia Regional Hospital, which asks whether federal law prohibits employment discrimination based on sexual orientation, “[t]he Supreme Court … will need to eventually resolve the circuit split and...
For the most part judges serve as a critical link in the ordinary flow of administration. Whether criminal law or civil, the main task of judges (and lawyers, as officers of the courts) is the routine administration of law. Judges serve, in the main, as...
Important (for good or evil) as Brexit may be to the future of Britain, it is not without its importance for the European Union. Indeed, it was always essential for the Union that Britain’s departure should be an economic disaster for Britain: for if it...
Ask anyone in the industry, or check the record: No one is enforcing our environmental laws. Whether or not that was the goal of the Trump Administration, it certainly seems to be one of the effects of its recent moves, beginning with the appointment of Scott...
The petition of the day is: Southern California Edison Company v. Nevada Department of Taxation 17-755 Issue: Whether proof that a tax scheme violates the dormant commerce clause by favoring in-state interests over out-of-state interests, and thereby advantages some competitors over others within the same market, is sufficient...
While commentators (like me) were predicting a blitz of data breach-related D&O litigation, the anticipated onslaught failed to materialize. The few cases that were filed –in the form of shareholder derivative suits — were unsuccessful. More recently, however, plaintiffs’ lawyers have been taking a different...
Under pressure from a national advocacy group, Nashville leaders may change the bail system that keeps some criminal defendants in jail if they can’t afford to pay their way out, The Tennessean reports. Officials want to expand programs that allow defendants to get out of...
The New York City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio reached an agreement on legislation to tighten restrictions on police stops, ending years of negotiations and angering activists who said the measure doesn’t go far enough, reports the Wall Street Journal. One bill would require...