As has been widely reported, “a French court has ruled that an employee who died while having sex on a business trip was the victim of a workplace accident.” While some commentators have ooh...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/09/about-that-oh-so-french-workers-comp-case/
Neat trick: banks can get Community Reinvestment Act credit for lending in “low-income census tracts” even when that means extending $800K mortgages to gentrifiers Sen. Elizabeth Warren has ...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/09/banking-and-finance-roundup-28/
When does a taking of land occur? The wrong answer would let the government push around owners in disputes over rails-to-trails projects Though the federal government can’t successfully manage...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/08/land-use-and-property-roundup/
Singapore law restricting so-called fake news “could force companies to tell the government what websites users have viewed” Ruling People’s Action Party “is notorious for its practice o...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/07/international-free-speech-roundup-5/
At UCLA as elsewhere, pledges and obligatory statements about diversity threaten academic freedom 2019, 1673, whatever: By calling ourselves “inclusive,” Cambridge explains, we mean “there...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2019/04/campus-speech-roundup-2/
Extended look at problems of the adult guardianship program in New York “‘Professional Speech’: a Distinction without a Difference” after the NIFLA case New York enacts law imposing sti...
In more than 300 cases, a defense attorney in the Australian state of Victoria acted as a police informant to undermine her clients’ interests Tags: Australia, ethics, police Australian lega...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/12/australian-legal-ethics-and-police-scandal/
Federal judge Preska of Southern District of New York rules structure of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unconstitutional, creating split with D.C. Circuit which upheld CFPB structure; “Au...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/07/banking-and-finance-roundup-19/
SCOTUS by 9-0, Ginsburg writing, agrees with Cato amicus (and disagrees with Sen. Grassley amicus) that Dodd-Frank doesn’t cover “whistleblowers” who never told the SEC Claim: “rolling b...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/03/banking-finance-roundup-45/
You don’t have to think porn’s OK, or that speech never does harm, to see that Ross Douthat’s censorship ideas will fall flat on their face Group libel theory meets nationalism in Europe�...
https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/02/free-speech-roundup-85/