“Going Mainstream: How a little-known Orthodox Jewish law professor in Ireland became a prominent legal voice in the Trump era.”

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley is proud to announce that trial attorney Victoria Mesa-Estrada has been re-elected to serve a two-year term on the Board of Directors for the Palm Beach County Bar Association. Voting took place in April, and her new term follows her initial election to the Board in 2023. As a member of the Board of Directors, Ms. Mesa-Estrada plays a vital role in shaping the direction and policy of one of Florida’s most active local bar associations. The Board is responsible for formulating and adopting policies that influence the programming, advocacy, and engagement efforts of the Association — all in support of the broader mission of The Florida Bar to promote professionalism, uphold the rule of law, and serve the legal needs of the public. Ms. Mesa-Estrada is deeply committed to the legal community both inside and outside the courtroom. In addition to her role with the Bar Association, she currently serves as President of the Palm…

Searcy Denney Scarola Barnhart & Shipley is proud to announce that 15 of the firm’s attorneys have been named to Lawdragon’s 2025 500 Leading Plaintiff Consumer Lawyers Guide, a prestigious national honor that recognizes the most accomplished attorneys representing consumers in personal injury, wrongful death, and other civil claims. The attorneys recognized include: Theodore Babbitt Rosalyn Sia Baker-Barnes F. Gregory Barnhart T. Hardee Bass Laurie Briggs Brian Denney Brenda Fulmer Mariano Garcia James Gustafson Cameron Kennedy Jack Scarola Matthew Schwencke Chris Searcy Karen Terry C. Calvin Warriner This distinguished list is compiled through Lawdragon’s rigorous selection process, which draws upon decades of legal journalism, peer input, and careful review of recent case outcomes. The honorees are recognized for their impact on the law, significant verdicts and settlements, and overall dedication to meeting their clients’ goals. For…

Ed. note: Please welcome Vivia Chen back to the pages of Above the Law. Subscribe to her Substack, “The Ex-Careerist,” here. I WAS WALKING along the south edge of Central Park when I saw a woman in handcuffs. I usually pay scant attention to this type of scene (hey, I’m a New Yorker), but this time I stopped. She was a middle-aged Asian woman in cheap, nondescript clothes and sneakers. She didn’t look threatening. Flanked by officers in plain-clothes, she seemed terrified, as she was pushed into an unmarked SUV. What did this woman do to merit such ceremony? Assault someone in the park? Run a drug cartel? Offer illicit services? None of those possibilities felt right. Quickly, I wondered: Could this be an ICE raid? It’s only logical. Immigrants, including legal residents, are now being hunted down, getting detained at airports, picked up off the street, held without explanation, or speedily deported. Just like that. Gone. …

I just listened to dozens of people tell me that heat pumps don’t work, may cause homelessness, and can bankrupt small businesses. This was shocking news to me, in no small part because I’m currently in the process of installing a heat pump in my condo. Obviously, I don’t want to waste money, sleep on the street, or see my local bakery go belly up. Should I call up my contractor and tell him we are sticking with our 1960s gas furnace? No, of course not. This is a hit job! Welcome to The Drain, a weekly roundup of environmental and climate news. Subscribe to the newsletter here.  These critics of heat pumps — Orange County realtors, Chamber of Commerce lobbyists, gas company spokespeople, and small city mayors — were commenting at Friday’s meeting of the South Coast Air Quality Management District as air regulators voted on a pair of rules to encourage zero-emission heat pumps and electric water heaters. The rules failed 7-5, as I wrote…

[Five scholars discuss what role, if any, the ABA should play in the regulation of legal education.] Recently, the Texas Supreme Court requested comments on "whether to reduce or end the Rules' reliance on the ABA." Perhaps unsurprisingly, all of the Law Deans and nearly all law professors have fallen in line too support the ABA. I thought that the ABA would benefit from some alternate views. I helped to coordinate an excellent symposium from the Civitas Institute about the future of legal education in Texas. Here, five scholars discuss what role, if any, the ABA should play in the regulation of legal education. Josh Blackman "The Supreme Court of Texas Must Put Texas First, and Liberate Law Students from the ABA‍ Seth J. Chandler "Accrediting for Tomorrow: Law School Metrics and Interstate Compacts Andrew P. Morriss "Ending the ABA's Role in Accreditation Will Benefit Texas Derek T. Muller "New Paths for Legal Education Should Be…

This post was authored by Luke Jenkins, Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Plaintiff-Appellants, commercial property owners, brought suit against the City of Lathrup Village and the Lathrup Village Downtown Development Authority (collectively the “City”). Appellants owned three commercial buildings which it rented to commercial tenants. The City Code required landlords apply for a rental license prior to renting to commercial tenants. It also required landlords renting to commercial tenants to provide each tenants name and principal business. To comply with the city code, the appellants applied for a landlord rental license. However, the appellants did not include the names or businesses of the tenants in the application. Thus, the City denied the application and also denied its tenants business license applications as a result. Appellant brought nine claims against the City, alleging there was a concerted effort by the defendant-appellees to compel…

The government’s plan for warrantless disclosure of Internet subscriber information is rightly attracting increasing attention as sneaking lawful access provisions into a border bill raises significant privacy concerns. As I pointed out last week, Bill C-2’s new “information demand” power – which can be used by a wide range of enforcement agencies over literally any potential offence of any Act of Parliament – is certain to spark a legal challenge given the Supreme Court of Canada’s previous decisions in Spencer and Bykovets. While the government has tried to paint the information at stake as “phone book” information with little privacy value, the reality is far different. The information demand includes whether the provider provides or has provided services to a particular subscriber or client, or to any account or identifier, whether there is transmission data on hand (who was the person communicating with and what apps…

In this month’s sponsor spotlight for Intapp, they review their latest Spring software updates, and share a blog post highlighting the value of cloud-based compliance solutions: “3 ways to drive your law firm’s growth with Intapp cloud-based compliance solutions” — Competition in the legal industry is intensifying every year. Efficient client onboarding, meticulous risk management, and reliable compliance enforcement are now critical drivers of your firm’s growth potential. For firms still operating with legacy on-premises solutions, Intapp’s cloud-based compliance suite offers critical advantages that help professionals firmwide contribute to firm growth. Intapp’s latest compliance updates address the everyday challenges your professionals face across the firm. These improvements use AI to identify critical information that might otherwise be missed and substantially reduce time spent on administrative tasks. They ensure…

Following two days of turbulent protests over ICE raids in Los Angeles County, President Trump issued a memorandum on Saturday night purporting to authorize the federalization and deployment of the National Guard, as well as the deployment of active-duty-armed forces, “at locations where protests against [ICE] functions are occurring or are likely to occur based on current threat assessments and planned operations.” As explained herein, the memorandum represents an unprecedented, dangerous, and legally doubtful exercise of power—one that raises many of the same concerns as an Insurrection Act invocation would, and that could end up looking quite similar in practice. 1. What legal authorities did Trump invoke to authorize deployment of the military? The use of federal forces (including federalized National Guard forces) to perform core civilian law enforcement functions is barred by the Posse Comitatus Act unless “expressly authorized by the Constitution…

Posted by Itai Fiegenbaum (St. Thomas University College), on Tuesday, June 10, 2025 Editor's Note: Itai Fiegenbaum is an Assistant Professor of Law at St. Thomas University College of Law. This post is based on his recent article forthcoming in Cardozo Law Review, and is part of the Delaware law series; links to other posts in the series are available here. How and why do corporate rules evolve? Delaware is the unquestioned jurisdiction of choice for most publicly traded US corporations. And since the decision of where to incorporate belongs to corporate insiders, one might attribute Delaware’s market dominance to a corporate law that caters to their needs. According to this view, Delaware corporate law habitually relaxes the restraints that hamper insider expropriation of gains that would otherwise be distributed to outside investors. Conversely, because insiders anticipate the need to tap the capital markets for future funding,…

For the Balkinization symposium in honor of Ken Kersch  Mark A. Graber  The most feared curse in the American academy is “May Reviewer #2 write your obituary, speak at your memorial service, or pen a memorial essay.”  I was the infamous reviewer #2 for Ken Kersch’s first book, Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law.  Within a few pages, I recognized that my recommendation was going to be positive.  The manuscript obviously merited publication by the best university presses in the United States.  Kersch knew stuff.  The text combined remarkable elbow grease with a sophisticated theoretical foundation.  After making a brief note that some of the jargon might be reduced, I largely stopped grading the manuscript and started learning. Constructing Civil Liberties has much to teach.  Professor Kersch challenged the view that contemporary liberal perspectives on…

* Surrender firms basking in coverage suggesting they view Trump deals as empty gestures. Yes, and all those big ticket partner defections are just coincidental. [Bloomberg Law News] * Profile of Robert Guiffra’s embrace of Roy Cohn role. [Business Insider] * Reviewing Goodwin’s EEOC disclosures. [American Lawyer] * Proposed legal aid cuts result in “devastation.” But on the other hand, the country is on track to massively grow the deficit too. [ABA Journal] * Oklahoma will retry former death row inmate now that AG is running for governor. [Reuters] * California sues over Trump’s National Guard seizure. [Law360] * Anthony Weiner mounts comeback. Wait, really? [Courthouse News Service] The post Morning Docket: 06.10.25 appeared first on Above the Law.

Russian forces have used more than a dozen types of antipersonnel mines since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, causing thousands of civilian casualties and contaminating vast tracts of agricultural land. The antipersonnel mines have been emplaced by hand, delivered by rockets, and—as a report from my colleagues at Human Rights Watch has documented—dropped from drones. Now some neighboring countries, concerned about Russian aggression, are moving to withdraw from the international treaty ratified by 165 countries that comprehensively bans antipersonnel mines. Russia, China, the United States, and several other countries, are not party to the treaty, but most of Russia’s European neighbors are, including Ukraine. As documented in the report, Russian forces are modifying commercial quadcopter drones to scatter antipersonnel mines in and around the city of Kherson, as part of a campaign that has killed dozens of civilians and injured…

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A tomato recall was announced in May in connection with possible salmonella contamination. It affects three states, and recently was upgraded to Class I recall, which is the highest recall designation for health dangers. It means that the FDA believes that there is a reasonable probability that the recalled product will cause serious harms to health or even death. The affected products are from Williams Farms Repack. If you suffered from illness due to recalled tomatoes, you should call the seasoned Chicago-based product liability attorneys of Moll Law Group. Billions have been recovered in cases with which we’ve been involved. Contact Moll Law Group About Your Food Safety Claim Salmonella is a kind of bacteria that is one of the most common causes of fatal foodborne illness and should be taken seriously. The distributor Williams Farms Repack LLC initiated a tomato recall on May 2 after it was told by its supplier H&C Farms that their tomatoes carried the danger of…

Bicycling is a popular activity for children, offering both recreation and transportation. However, when a child is involved in a bicycle accident, the consequences can be devastating. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), children and adolescents have some of the highest rates of non-fatal bicycle-related injuries. While any accident involving a […] The post BICYCLE ACCIDENTS INVOLVING CHILDREN: UNIQUE LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS appeared first on Maus Law Firm.

Law.com is set to unveil a comprehensive redesign on June 16 that significantly restructures how legal professionals access and navigate the platform’s extensive collection of legal news and resources. Most notably, the site is moving away from a somewhat siloed organizational structure built around the various publications owned by ALM, its parent company, in favor […]

Renting a car comes with certain responsibilities and one of the lesser-known but potentially costly fees you may encounter after an accident or damage is the “loss of use” charge. This fee is assessed by rental car companies to cover the income they claim to lose while a damaged vehicle is out of service and undergoing repairs. In this article, we’ll explain what a loss of use charge is, when and why it’s applied, and how to protect yourself from being unfairly billed. What Is a “Loss of Use” Charge? “Loss of use” refers to the income a rental company claims it loses when a vehicle is unavailable for rental due to damage—even if you weren’t at fault. The company may charge you a daily rate for each day the car is out of commission, reflecting the theoretical revenue they would have earned had the vehicle remained in service. For example, if you damage a car and it takes five days to repair, you may be charged the…