Extradition and Asylum – the Question of Snowden
Even more so than the classified information he leaked, Edward Snowden has become known worldwide. Yet, it seems his whereabouts, at least to those trying to catch him, remain unknown. …
United States Statutes of Limitations versus Italian Statutes of Limitations
Recently in Italy, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was sentenced to seven years in prison following his sex scandal trial. The Premier, famous for the sheer number of charges that…
Demonstrations at the Supreme Court
On June 11, in the case Hodge v. Talkin, a U.S. District judge in D.C. struck down a 64 year old law banning demonstrations on the grounds of the Supreme…
Reach of Restrictive Covenants Revisited by the Second Circuit
The Second Circuit in Hyde v. KLS Prof’ Advisors Grp recently called into question the long-standing practice of holding restrictive covenants unenforceable if the employee was terminated without cause. The…
Guantanamo Revisited
In President Obama’s May 23 speech, he outlined a new vision for the war on terror and once again raised the issue of Guantanamo Bay. While he defended the controversial…
Evolving Photography
For the vast majority of its new, minute-long advertisement, Apple, in its classic, minimalist style, refuses to include any dialogue, merely cycling through moving images of people taking photographs with…
The Insanity Plea
The insanity plea is likely one of the most well-known criminal defenses. On May 7th, attorneys for James Holmes, the man accused of murdering 12 people in a movie theatre…
Patent Trolls
Patent trolls have long plagued the technology frontier, preying on unsuspecting and vulnerable startups and tripping up the tech giants. Known more formally as non-practicing entities (“NPEs”) or patent assertion…
The Public Safety Exception
Every modern police drama that has ever appeared on television has featured a scene where officers read someone their rights. These rights became enshrined in U.S. law (and subsequently in…