Tag: Court

Ifyou see the world through rose-colored glasses, you're likely to believe that the world is inherently just, which is a problem when you're sitting on the highest judicial body in America, the Supreme Court. Since 1789, when Congress established the court, justices have been taske...

Ifyou see the world through rose-colored glasses, you're likely to believe that the world is inherently just, which is a problem when you're sitting on the highest judicial body in America, the Supreme Court. Since 1789, when Congress established the court, justices have been taske...

69-year-old Dutchman Emile Ratelband filed a court case in 2018 to change his age from 69 to 49. He claimed that his age increased the amount of ageism that he experienced. He also claimed that his experience on dating apps and with life in general would improve for him if he was 20 years youn...

Since stepping onto the glossy floors of the Staples Center in 2018, donned in the illustrious purple and gold, LeBron James has been nothing short of a renaissance figure for the Los Angeles Lakers. The echoes of the franchise’s golden era reverberated through the stands as LeBron embarked on...

Florida’s Miami Cheers erupted from the crowd when former president Donald Trump waved to them from the tinted window of his car as he left a federal court in Miami. Trump, the first former US president to be charged with a federal crime, entered a not guilty plea to 37 counts of mishandling s...

I want to start this post by acknowledging that my Law Brain isn’t totally screwed in right now. That’s why I’m Outta Office. But you know what’s still intact? My Legal Vibe Check capability. And this, my friends, is the story of a property owner (possibly ...

The new program, called the Community Assistance, Recovery and Empowerment, or CARE Court, is required in every county by the state of California. It is designed for a narrow population of people diagnosed with schizophrenia or other psychotic disorders: to get them treatment and, if they’re h...

My girlfriend and I were living in a building in New Westminster, British Columbia that was run by a large property management company called Onni Property Management. We decided that we wanted to move to Vancouver to reduce our commute time and live closer to our friends and family. To do that...

So, the Supreme Court has gone totally rogue — to the point that some of the justices rightfully worry for their safety. Seriously, it feels like America is just a couple more measures away from a mass riot involving pitchforks and gunfights. Two major blows to humanity came from this: the ...

The Family Court was conceived as a judicial sanctuary intended to arbiter the resolution of domestic disputes. However, in the context of cases of involving family violence, in my experience, it frequently morphs into a domain of entrapment, where the very people it seeks to protect are instead ...

Why was I so focused then and now on the Supreme Court? For as long as I can remember, my family and community counted on the federal government to liberate us. The segregated southern state (Tennessee) in which we lived legislated in the opposite direction, so we looked to the federal government, a...

When I was a newly hatched lawyer, I handled a small trial in rural New Mexico. A woman slipped and fell in her cowboy boots, hurt her knee and sued the local grocery store. It was the kind of small dollar case that baby lawyers cut their teeth on. My opponents were a couple of local boys whom th...

udge Robert Reed, who dismissed the lawsuit against the newspaper and the journalists in May, asserted that Trump’s legal action against his niece for sharing the tax records is still ongoing. Reed deemed the legal fees incurred by Trump, totaling $392,638, as reasonable, emphasizing the compl...

On October 31, the US Supreme Court will hear two cases that will determine the future of race-conscious affirmative action. The most likely outcome is that the court will decide to outlaw the consideration of race in college admissions. There has long been disagreement about affirmative action&r...

This Python code is configuring an environment for data analysis and visualization focused on examining the impact of Supreme Court decisions on stock returns. It appears to be part of a larger analysis looking into the correlation between court rulings and abnormal stock performance. The code be...

Today Sandra Day O’Connor died at age 93. The pioneering woman was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, by then President Ronald Reagan. She is also the only Supreme Court member I ever actually met. I do not wish to overstate this, the meeting was accidental and very brief, but I w...

The latest Originalist stupidity is United States v. Rahimi. Rahimi’s lawyers argue the Second Amendment gives all American criminals a right to own guns. Police took Zackey Rahimi’s guns because he assaulted his girlfriend, shot at people in the streets, shot at other dri...

LGBTQ+ rights and same sex marriages are a topic most countries across the world have been discussing in the past ten to twenty years. Thankfully, more and more countries have decided to honor human rights and legalize same-sex marriage. But some have taken a different turn. This is the case for Ind...

1. No Right to Strike for Government Employees In the case of T.K. Rangarajan v. Government of Tamil Nadu and Others (the Tamil Nadu Government Employees Case), Justice M.B. Shah, speaking for a Bench of the Supreme Court consisting of himself and Justice A.R. Lakshmanan, said...

Let’s ignore enabling religious bigots, declaring the rights of a fetus to be superior to that of a woman, and telling college grads with crushing debt to pound salt. Hah! Impossible. But let’s not think about those things for a moment. The Supreme Court actually got one right. ...

He went back to private practice in 2001, starting his own law firm Kampala Associated Advocates. In 2005, Katureebe was appointed chairman, board of directors, New Vision Printing and Publishing Company Limited. He also served as a director at Standard Chartered bank and National Insurance Corpo...

While it obviously doesn’t change what happened to her, I’m glad that she’s getting some semblance of justice and closure that she deserves, and I wish her nothing but all the best moving forward. Obviously, I also can’t help wondering what this means for Donald Trump in t...