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Back in 2011, we learned that several Silicon Valley companies agreed not to poach each other’s employees, resulting in suppressed wages. The class ended up in federal court and looked close to a settlement by April of last year. Judge Lucy Koh, however, rejected the proposed $324 million settlement, which would have resulted in $5,000 […]

The results from Vault’s 2014 Law Firm Associate Survey are in, reports TaxProf Blog. Wait, why is TaxProf Blog reporting on this? Probably because “Tax” is the practice area with the highest associate satisfaction. Take that, antitrust! So what makes tax law so interesting? “Tax law may be satisfying work because it is often described […]Read More

In a case that Court-watchers were eagerly anticipating, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously today in Holt v. Hobbs that a prison policy prohibiting inmates from growing beards unless they have a dermatological condition violates the First Amendment. Holt, a prisoner in Arkansas, converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdul Maalik Muhammad. Muhammad’s […]

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. Should our digital pasts always follow us around, or should we have the right periodically to wipe out digital slates clean? The notion of “the right to be forgotten” has garnered quite a bit of attention in Europe, […]

It’s happened to you before: You get an unsolicited email from someone you don’t know, claiming that someone else did something to him and now he wants to sue. You’re pretty sure this person got your email address from the state bar website, because you’ve never heard of this person before. Opening up the email, […]Read More

In 2003, an air marshal named Robert MacLean went to the press with a story that the TSA was ineffectual at protecting us from potential airplane hijackings. He was eventually fired, leading to a whistleblower retaliation lawsuit against the TSA. The TSA had always maintained that MacLean shouldn’t get whistleblower protection because he disclosed internal […]

That ISIS wants ransom isn’t unexpected. But a few things — like the public nature and staggering amount of the demand — make the latest case stand out.

The Nigerian Law School, Abuja. Inset: Onadeko. The Body of Benchers, whose responsibility is to admit and call successful students of the Nigerian Law School to the bar, has warned Nigerians to desist from begging for the students who failed their final Bar examination.

A tort, in common law jurisdictions, is a civil wrong[1] that unfairly causes someone else to suffer loss or harm resulting in legal liability for the person who commits the tortious act, called a tortfeasor. Although crimes may be torts, the cause of legal action is not necessarily a crime, as the harm may be due to negligence which does not amount to criminal negligence. The victim of the harm […]Read More