On Friday, the court removed Salt River Agricultural Improvement and Power District v. Tesla Energy Operations Inc., which asks when a state or local government can appeal the denial of a motion to dismiss based on state-action immunity, from the March argument calendar, after the...
Taney may well deserve to be “hooted down the page of history,” but it is unfair to take Marshall and Story with him....
The New Criterion offers something different in the world of conservative magazines: a steadfast commitment to high culture....
E.O. Wilson offers us a kind of environmentalism that ignores trade-offs, a fact that moves his arguments from the realm of policy to that of faith....
John Reed Stark As I noted in a post at the time, on February 20, 2018, the SEC issued its guidance for cybersecurity-related disclosures. In the following guest post, John Reed Stark, President of John Reed Stark Consulting and former Chief of the SEC’s Office of...
Last night, a Galician search and rescue company, Helimer 401, medecaved an ill passenger from the P&O Ventura cruise ship, after flying from its base in La Coruña, in North West Spain. Galicia is an autonomous community in Spain’s northwest, on the Atlantic coastline. In the...
When a young man well-known to police and neighbors for bizarre and scary behavior suddenly stabbed a former schoolmate to death in Winchester, Ma., last month, many people asked why someone so seemingly dangerous was allowed to roam freely. It’s a natural question that has...
The estate of Eric Harris, a Tulsa man gunned down in a botched gun sting in 2015 that got national headlines, has settled with the defendants in a civil case for $6 million. It is likely the largest settlement for an excessive force violation in...
On Friday the justices will meet for their March 16 conference; our “petitions to watch” for that conference will be available soon. The argument calendar for the March sitting, which will begin on March 19, is available on the Supreme Court’s website. The post This week...
As the grisly murder trial of a former nanny unfolds in a New York City courtroom, the prosecution and defense agree that in 2012, Yoselyn Ortega fatally stabbed two young children in her care. The fate of the 55-year-old ex-nanny rests on whether the jury...