We’ve already seen a dangerous growing trend – large corporate interests using the power of government to subvert the legal system. In the world of economics, it’s called rent…
It may sound like something out of Grimm’s fairy tales but patent trolls are not imaginary but real and formidable. In the world of intellectual property, a patent troll is properly…
The old adage runs that where your treasure is, so there will be your heart. Put another way, in economic terms, you assign your limited resources to those items which you desire…
Like the B-horror-movie tagline, says “They’re baaaaack . . .” The hallmark of any great creature feature is a monster who pops out when you least expect it. Enter…
In many instances it is beneficial to your case to get documents and information outside of the parameters of formal discovery. One popular vehicle is a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request….
The attorney-client privilege is one of the cornerstones of our legal system. So sacred is it that not even the death of the client will work to unseal the lips of the attorney. Months ago,…
For years Internet users have been operating under a misconception. We have treated web-content as something ephemeral — especially when we are the originator of that content. We will…
The Atlantic magazine has written a very interesting piece on a Tylenol study that raises many more questions than it answers. It seems that acetaminophen is not only an effective…
The devil is in the details, or so they say. For corporate defendants there is a nasty little IRS demon lurking in President Obama’s budget proposal. The change concerns how punitive…
In popular culture the gold-standard simile for a nuclear catastrophe is “Chernobyl.” But is the nuclear disaster at Fukushima a worse event (at least from an American…
It’s time for a brief post-mortem on the events leading to the passage of the Monsanto Protection Act (MPA). Now that President Obama has signed the legislation which included the MPA…
The war for transparency on genetically modified foods and crops may be at an end with disclosure losing and Big Agra winning in bold fashion. Last Friday, the Untied States Senate passed…