GOP fights the Department of Labor’s final rule on overtime pay through a motion of disapproval.
Revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act is being met with resistance by both the House and the Senate. ...[Continue Reading]
Understanding the Law
Explaining court cases, statutes, and executive actions across the country, providing valuable analysis of the facts and legal impact on the public.
Fear and loathing in matrimony.
There’s trouble in paradise as actress Amber Heard files a restraining order against her husband and fellow actor Johnny Depp. ...[Continue Reading]
Three seconds to check a text… three seconds to cross the center line
While the problem of texting and driving continues to plague our country, law enforcement officials struggle to keep up with the ever-changing technology and enforce texting and driving laws. ...[Continue Reading]
62 years after Brown v. Board of Education, segregation is still not history.
With the recent desegregation of public schools in Cleveland, Mississippi, the hard truth that segregation still exists must be dealt with nationwide. ...[Continue Reading]
The day McCrory went to war
The battle over North Carolina’s controversial HB2 Bill heated up recently when Governor Pat McCroy and the Department of Justice filed almost simultaneous lawsuits against each other in United States District Court. ...[Continue Reading]
Crime does pay…the State
North Carolina’s “drug taxes” on substances ranging from marijuana to moonshine are reaping a major reward. ...[Continue Reading]
Operating on a late schedule: DEA considers re-scheduling marijuana
The possibility of a reclassification of marijuana from Schedule I to another schedule has many concerned about what this change could mean for medical marijuana industries and businesses who currently sell regulated, legal marijuana. ...[Continue Reading]
What in the world is going on with Colorado and the Republican Convention?
It looks like the Republican National Convention is going to be contested—what does this mean for the presidential nomination and how are some states responding with their delegates? ...[Continue Reading]
Ohio House Bill 294: “Improving Health Care” or Restricting Rights?
In February, Ohio Governor John Kasich signed into law Ohio House Bill 294, which cuts over $1 million in funding to Planned Parenthood under the guise of improving women’s health care. ...[Continue Reading]
The complement of controversy: free speech
University “safe spaces” create a new conversation about free speech ...[Continue Reading]
Supreme Court Agrees to Review the Employer Contraception Opt-Out Option
After the Eighth Circuit refused to deny the argument that the opt-out option to the contraception mandate of the Affordable Care Act violated employers’ religious freedoms, the Supreme Court agreed to take on and consolidate seven cases regarding this issue to hopefully give proper guidance on whether the opt-out accommodation violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. ...[Continue Reading]
How do you say no when you cannot say no?
When it comes to refugees seeking asylum in the European Union (“EU”), it is not as easy as “just saying no.” Legally speaking, human rights trump all, regardless of the cost. This has created a Catch-22 that is testing the mettle of the twenty-eight member states. ...[Continue Reading]
Save Your Tears, Crying is Not Protected Communication
The North Carolina Court of Appeals held that a spouse crying was not a “communication” covered under martial privilege for purposes of determining whether a spouse could testify that her spouse cried in reaction to reading a newspaper article. ...[Continue Reading]
What Would the Founding Fathers Do: Confederate Flag Controversy
The South Carolina Confederate flag controversy through a jurisprudence lens. ...[Continue Reading]
EEOC Urges University of Denver Law School to Increase Female Law Professor Pay to comply with Equal Pay Act
Earlier last month, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) determined that female law professors at the University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law were illegally paid less than men, in violation of the Equal Pay Act. The EEOC found that the pattern of unequal pay disparities for ...[Continue Reading]