Investigations into the cause of the Kleen Energy plant explosion in Middletown, Connecticut, and the level of worker safety at the plant are beginning, according to a report by the Hartford Courant. Officials currently believe a welder's torch in the vicinity of the natural gas being purged from th ...

By Eric Goldman I recently posted the final published version of my article Wikipedia’s Labor Squeeze and its Consequences. In...

In twin February 4, 2010 decisions, the Third Circuit reached opposite rulings on whether a school violated a student's First Amendment rights by disciplining him for creating a defamatory MySpace page about the school principal. In both cases, a student used an off-campus computer to create the pr ...

Now, having gotten that out of the way (unbidden), on to a few brief, and probably socially unacceptable, words about a Congressman and Ex-Marine who passed away yesterday: John Murtha. In the interest of time, space, and not prolonging nausea, I won’t delve into this corrupt late Congressman& ...

Robert Matthews died Saturday after the plane he was piloting crashed into another plane midair over Colorado City. Matthews was a commercial litigation partner in Faegre & Benson’s Boulder office. He joined the firm in March 2002 when Faegre merged with Boulder’s Chrisman, Bynum & Johnson. ...

Remember Klumpp v. Borough of Avalon, No. A-2963-07 (per curiam), the decision from New Jersey's Appellate Division which held that the government can assert inverse condemnation in order to take property without compensation? As noted in this order dated November...

In his State of the Union the President referred to what in his view was the potential for foreign involvement in U.S. elections after Citizens United.  Many sources today report that the China Investment Corp. recently disclosed that it holds $9.6 billion in 60 companies. In a Securities and Exchan ...

If you’re thinking about how Citizens United will impact the rest of campaign finance law, take a look at the Republican National Committee’s recent supplemental memo in the party’s case against the Federal Election Commission. The document was filed Feb. 2, 2010.

In order to comply with subscription agreements you will need to use your own Westlaw password to view the full text of cases listed below: Tuesday, February 09, 2010  #2     1. The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Umar Delgado, Defendant-Ap ...

According to the Los Angeles Times, Robert Khuzami, the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) director of enforcement, has initiated a new whistle-blower program to attempt to catch fraudsters in the act. This program hopes to stop the fraudster before they have caused too much damage and to at ...