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State and local governments have promised nearly $1 trillion in retiree healthcare benefits to public employees. Although retiree healthcare benefits represent a form of compensation, historically, state and local governments…

The Supreme Court rejected the use of patent law to enforce conditional sales contracts in Impression Products v. Lexmark . The case appears to be just another step in the…

In 1990, Arizona voters passed the Victims’ Bill of Rights. Codified as Article II, § 2.1 of the Arizona Constitution, the bill created 12 enumerated rights designed to safeguard crime…

Pets are something special; one only needs to talk to a pet owner for a short time to determine as much. But that special place a pet takes in its…

Whether a person has the right to physician-assisted suicide (“PAS”) has been a contentious topic throughout history. The U.S. Supreme Court, in its 1997 decision Washington v. Glucksberg, delivered a…

Transparency and accountability were the announced aims of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) as it unveiled a new policy of requiring some enforcement targets to admit wrongdoing when they…