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If Corporations Cannot Vote, Should They Have the Right to Spend Money in...
An irony of Shakespearean proportions is unfolding as I write this: the Town Hall discourse revolves around complaints government is getting too big, yet in the quieter halls of the US Supreme Court...
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Exclusive Interview: Top Constitutional Law Authority Erwin Chemerinsky Talks...
Dean Erwin Chemerinsky Last week I covered the incredibly important yet widely unnoticed update on the corporate speech case before the Supreme Court (Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission)....
View ArticleBreaking: Supreme Court Increases Speech Rights of Corporations
The AP is reporting: The Supreme Court has ruled that corporations may spend freely to support or oppose candidates for president and Congress, easing decades-old limits on their participation in...
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What Does the Bilski Case Mean to the Technology Sector?
What Bilski Means Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a slew of rulings on several consequential issues. Its ruling in Bilski v. Kappos is one of the more significant decisions with regard to the...
View ArticleYour Cheat Sheet to the Bilski IP Supreme Court Case
Earlier this week we took a look at the impact of the Supreme Court’s decision in Bilski v. Kappos on the technology sector. Today I had the privilege to listen in to a conference with several experts...
View ArticleThe Federal Reserve Will Not Join Bank Supreme Court Appeal on Loan Disclosures
“Greater transparency results in more accountability, and the banks’ fight continues to engender suspicion among taxpayers about the bailouts. The banks’ move to appeal will deepen the public’s...
View ArticleWhy Walmart is Winning the Day
Two big reasons, the first, according to release from Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas this morning, being that the company has acquired a majority stake in South...
View ArticleSupreme Court Will Hear Arguments Over Obama’s Healthcare Overhaul
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments over President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul in March 2012. The justices announced today that they will hear more than five hours of arguments from...
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These Americans Don’t Seem Thrilled About Obamacare
Falling just behind the nation’s economy and Social Security, healthcare was listed as the most important issue affecting America, according to a poll of 1,000 “general population respondents”...
View ArticleWill the Feds Force Google to Reveal Users’ Secrets?
It looks like Internet privacy issues are more in play than ever. When the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) released its “Who Has Your Back?” study in April, many observers were surprised Google...
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Netherlands Supreme Court to Apple: Samsung Not Infringing
The Netherlands Supreme Court has ruled against Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) in a patent-infringement case in which the Cupertino-based company was accusing rival tablet maker Samsung (SSNLF.PK) of copying the...
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Supreme Court Asked to Review NSA Surveillance Ruling
At the beginning of June, former National Security Administration contractor Edward Snowden disclosed to The Guardian that the government agency had been authorized by a secret intelligence court to...
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6 Reasons Why Apple’s E-Book Defense Failed
Soon after U.S. District Judge Denise Cote issued a ruling that found Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) guilty of violating antitrust laws in the e-book business, the Cupertino-based company announced its next...
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Will Medicaid Complexities Leave Many Still Uninsured?
The expansion of Medicaid is essential to Obamacare’s two-part strategy for covering the uninsured, but last year’s Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act made the...
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Comcast: Better Read the Fine Print, Customers
The precarious state of a court filing made Monday by Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ:CMCSA) to defend itself from a charge of unfair anticompetitive agreements with the National Hockey League is effectively...
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Does Amazon Want to Collect Sales Tax or Not?
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) is going to the Supreme Court over 2008 New York law requiring online retailers to collect sales tax. Save Time Make Money! A new stock idea each week for less than the...
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Homeowners Show Class-Actions Are Harder Post-Walmart
More than five years have passed since the housing market bubble burst — causing a credit crisis and leaving financial institutions stuck with securities that had lost much of their value — and the...
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Here’s How Confusion May Threaten the Success of Obamacare
“Many Americans are unsure if the health care law is still in effect,” is an often-repeated headline. More than three years have passed since the Affordable Care Act was signed into law and less than...
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Expensive COBRA Rates Make a Good Case for Obamacare
Republican opposition of the Affordable Care Act has become a standard party position. Some have argued the law is a “jobs killer.” Others have said that the founding fathers would not approve it....
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Reform or Remove? Election Spending Caps Are Under Review
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristinausk/ Before candidates debate in 2014 and voters go to the polls, policymakers and the public have the chance to ponder the future of the contentious issue...
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