Archive for 'Legal News'

Justice Scalia seems to want to turn the Constitution upside down when it comes to government and religion.

Source: Justice Scalia’s Majoritarian Theocracy – The New York Times

Organizations can compel their customers and employees to resolve disputes in arbitration proceedings bound not by state or federal law, but by religious edict.

Source: In Religious Arbitration, Scripture Is the Rule of Law – The New York Times

Forced individual arbitration often bears little resemblance to court: The rules tend to favor businesses, and judges and juries are replaced by arbitrators whose rulings are difficult to appeal.

Source: In Arbitration, a ‘Privatization of the Justice System’ – The New York Times

With a clause in complex contracts that few people read, corporations have insulated themselves from lawsuits and locked Americans into a system where arbitrators overwhelmingly favor business.

Source: Arbitration Everywhere, Stacking the Deck of Justice – The New York Times

Ensuring that a brand is registered and protected requires several important steps, and not taking the time now can backfire later, experts say.

Source: Z-Burger Case Shows Value of Trademark Protection – NYTimes.com

Who is an employee in an economy where the tech-driven and on-demand nature of services has to some degree changed the nature of classification criteria?

Source: The Uber Ruling and the Future of Worker Classification | Corporate Counsel

Three Supreme Court justices didn’t recuse themselves from cases in which they held stock in companies interested in the outcomes. Nearly 90 percent of the time, they sided with these businesses that filed ‘friend of the court’ briefs, a new report said.

Source: Friends of Supreme Court: Justices repeatedly find for businesses related to their stocks — RT USA

John Roberts has presided over a court that has been far too willing to undermine precedent and give the powerful a helping hand.

Source: The Activist Roberts Court, 10 Years In – The New York Times

• How the court decided in key cases during the 2014-15 term.

Source: Major Supreme Court Cases in 2015 – The New York Times

ACLU video app comes to Colorado – Boulder Daily Camera.