A government may have an environmental, statutory, tort or political obligation to provide safe drinking water without the Constitution itself creating a private right to it.
In a recent decision, the 11th Circuit reversed a lower court’s blockbuster ruling holding that the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act violate the U.S. Constitution’s Appointments Clause. The appellate court left other key constitutional questions unanswered and
Here’s the latest in an issue we’ve been on for a long time: whether government actions taken under the police power are categorically exempt from providing just compensation when those activities take or damage private property. In Blue 42 Organics,
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Good afternoon.Following are our summaries of the civil decisions of the Court of Appeal for Ontario for the week of September 7, 2026.
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Unanimous court adopts ‘markedly longer’ test in R. v. R.B.-C.; sentence reduction is the ordinary remedy for delay
As we just saw with the Lindsay Clancy case, juries can deadlock, leading to a hung jury and a mistrial. So, what should happen when the jury sends a note that they’re deadlocked to the judge, who responds with a
Neil Duxbury, London School of Economics, has posted The General Law Renaissance and the Common Law, which is forthcoming in the Notre Dame Law Review: Of late, there has emerged an important body of legal scholarship sympathetically reassessing
A federal appeals court in Boston on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s request to remove an injunction barring the US Postal Service (USPS) from implementing the rule restricting the issuance of mail-in ballots, affirming a decision from a lower district
Judge sees need for pleadings and discoveries to resolve factual issue on legal fee invoices
We are disposed to think so when we weigh the medical testimony vis-a-vis the ocular testimony. There is no dispute that the value of medical evidence is only corroborative. It proves that the injuries could have been caused in the
