A Sports Law Hypothetical
A question for our legal folk: When is plunking the batter a tort?
A question for our legal folk: When is plunking the batter a tort?
One company begins an experiment in ways to take enlightened management techniques down a notch, conveniently in the middle of union negotiations. Burt Likko offers a few answers to the question, “What could possibly go wrong?”
It’s Linky Friday and now you have a way to malinger productivity while reading random links embedded in wry comments that are only funny after you read the articles!
By special request: Burt Likko reflects on a dozen or so not-particularly-glamorous cases from early in his career.
In which the necessity of a law is politically dismissed because of a massive public misunderstanding by a man with an eerily orange face.
So far two bakeries have faced legal challenges to their refusal to make wedding cakes for same-sex weddings. Opponents of same-sex marriage see these cases as the start of a fast approaching widespread persecution. Personally, I don’t see how the act of baking a cake for a wedding implies approval of that wedding, but the…
A new ad by Coca-Cola has caused a bit of fuss over the intertubes, including in the threads of a post by Ethan over in Off the Cuff. The debate that’s raging is centered on the questions of whether or not people should have the freedom to drink unhealthy soft drinks if they wish, and…
I would like to congratulate Justice Paul Wooten of the State Supreme Court in Manhattan for his no-nonsense ruling that 4-year-old children should be open to lawsuits for biking recklessly. In the case of 4-year-olds Juliet Breitman and Jacob Kohn, who accidentally ran down an 87-year-old woman while riding their training-wheel bikes in Manhattan, Justice…
(UPDATED) I’d strongly advise against this course of action. It is certainly true that what Breitbart did was wrong and blatantly misleading. To the average person lacking a preexisting loyalty to Breitbart, the defenses Breitbart has raised have come across as hollow and implausible, or at least woefully poor excuses that amount to an admission…