Senators John Kennedy (R-La.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) recently introduced the Protecting Our Courts from Foreign Manipulation Act of 2023. The legislation aims to stop foreign entities and governments from funding litigation in America’s courts. Foreign Involvement in the U.S. Court System We all know the United States is a litigious country with courts often […]
Many historians and legal scholars see the class action lawsuit as a particularly, or even peculiarly, American phenomenon. Indeed, while America has thousands of class actions each year, and has had a class action model in place for well over a hundred years, many countries have only adopted such a model in the last couple […]
One ad you probably won’t see at this year’s Superbowl–Larry David dressed as a pharaoh, a monk, and so on, shilling FTX. As 2022 dragged on, winter gave way to spring, but the sun did not come out for crypto. As in 2018, 2022 marked another another “cryptowinter.” The total value of cryptocurrencies plummeted somewhere […]
Class action lawsuits have long been important tools in enforcing civil rights. Sometimes laws and regulations are not enough to force action, and litigation can play an important role in protecting the rights of individuals. From discrimination to unequal treatment and violations of constitutional rights, many class action lawsuits have changed the course of civil […]
If you’d been rocking the iphone 11 these past few years and decided to splurge for the new iphone 14, you likely double checked the packaging to look for the charging block. But no, you never did find it. Maybe you wondered where the headphones were. Nope, not seeing those either. The box does look […]
There are few areas of the law more important to the music industry than copyright protection. Piracy and other forms of IP violations prop up a multi million dollar industry that profits off of music creators proprietary material. Removing music that violates copyright is a regulatory requirement and a constant struggle for music distributors. Recently, […]