For grammar lovers the Oxford Comma is an important element. For legal writers the Oxford Commas is something that has legal implications, at least the 1st Circuit decided this when they ruled on the O’Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy No. 16-1901 (1st Cir. 2017). In this case the lack of a comma won several million dollars … More The Oxford Comma Case (O’Connor v. Oakhurst Dairy)
Recently an injunction that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) granted for the Roman Catholic Diocese who were joined by Agudath Israel of America temporarily preventing an executive order that limited attendance at religious services to no more than 10 or 25 people depending on the severity of COVID-19 in the area. This … More Case Commentary – Injunctive Relief NYC religious services
Korematsu v. United States is one of the landmark cases a law school student will learn about in Constitutional Law. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) was decided in 1944 and basically allowed the United States government to relocated United States Citizens to internment camps (Encyclopedia Britannica does a great job at explaining … More Korematsu v. US – why it hasn’t been overturned
A real life food fight resulted in a lawsuit that awarded the plaintiff (Constance Koulmey) over $100,000 in Connecticut. Yup, a man threw a bowl of pasta in a restaurant and the woman who was hit by accident was awarded just over $100,000 by a jury. How? There were several factors that played into this … More Koulmey v. Sweeney – Pasta throwing leads to a $100K jury verdict
Recently, a group of Florida teens videoed a man who drowned. CNN has a great timeline of the situation here. The teens were heard laughing and teasing the man on the video, and none of them rendered help once the man started to struggle in the water. I have been asked why the teens are … More Moral vs. Legal obligations
Commonwealth v. Carter case commentary June 2017 … More Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter for texting that ends in suicide
“Court fines a man of $4K for ‘liking’ defamatory Facebook posts” is the title of article in the NY Post’s website. A friend asked if I thought this was Brassy of a court to do. As a lawyer I like to know all the facts I can before attempted to explain why the court ruled … More Court fined a man over liking a Facebook Post
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