What rights do landowners have when a pipeline company takes part of their property by eminent domain? As I mentioned on Monte Belmonte‘s show on the River, although federal law governs the taking itself, state law determines the meaning
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Affirmative Action after Fisher
A stable society depends on the rule of law, which involves, among other things, legal certainty. This is a simple principle that means people should have a reasonable sense of what is lawful and what is not. It also depends
Desegregation: a new rule
Advocates of desegregation should take heart, and planners should take notice, because at last it’s official: Land-use policies that perpetuate residential segregation are illegal. A new rule from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) clearly spells out that
This should be easy
Some aspects of intellectual property law are inherently complex. But other areas could be — and should be — much simpler. For example, you would think the law would have a crystal clear answer to this question: When a retailer
Why remember William H. Lewis?
Before we say goodbye to 2012, the year in which we re-elected our first African-American President, I would like to mention an important centenary in civil rights law. One hundred years ago William H. Lewis, a graduate of Amherst
Tebowing Trademark Takeaways: Three Lesons
Privacy, publicity, and identity
Sometimes judges give helpful hints. I think Judge Kenneth Neiman provided one recently when he denied a motion to dismiss in a case about a photograph, Peckham v. New England Newspapers, Inc., 40 Media L.Rep. 1849 (June 4, 2012).
Three Things I Learned About Campaign Finance
“You never want to see my name and your name in the same newspaper story,” is how Mike Sullivan, director of the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance (OCPF) opened his seminar in Westfield recently. He pointed
