New York and North Carolina were the last two states to treat offenders under the age of 18 as adults. However, in the past two years, both states have begun to implement reforms that will distinguish the ways that juvenile offenders are processed, ... [Read more...]
Columns & Commentary
Uber Employee or Uber Independent Contractor? It Depends Where You Ask.
Increasingly, people are using their cars for work – not only to get to and from the workplace, but as a source of income. Uber claims that it has two million drivers around the world with three-quarters of a million of those in the U.S. But, it is ... [Read more...]
Non-compete Agreements for Non-managerial Employees
Non-compete agreements have become increasingly common in the past few years. Their appeal to employers is obvious: these agreements mean that when a business loses a valuable employee, they don’t lose a vital competitive advantage as well. However, ... [Read more...]
Statutes of Limitations for Childhood Sexual Abuse
In the wake of a grand jury report of clergy sexual abuse in Pennsylvania, a legislator introduced a bill to eliminate the statute of limitations on prosecuting such cases. Currently, Pennsylvania allows criminal charges to be filed in childhood ... [Read more...]
Parental Rights for Same-Sex Couples
In June 2015, the Supreme Court held that same-sex couples have the right to marry. That decision established that states could not define marriage in a way that excluded same-sex couples, but it did not clarify how to secure some of the rights of ... [Read more...]
The Immigration Court Backlog
Last spring, Syracuse University’s TRAC immigration project reported that the backlog of cases before the U.S. Immigration Court had reached a new high of 714,067. This figure represents a 32 percent jump in the court’s backlog from January 2017. ... [Read more...]
Older People and Voter IDs
A 2017 report by Democratic Senators Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota identified a number of barriers to voting for older Americans, including closure of voting locations, hard-to-reach polling places, and limits on ... [Read more...]
E-Discovery, Emails and Texts
Ohio State football coach Urban Meyer recently came under fire for efforts to rid his phone of any text messages older than a year. His request looked suspicious because he asked about the possibility of eliminating old text messages on the same day ... [Read more...]
Recipes and Intellectual Property
The internet is littered with food blogs; television channels are devoted to the preparation and consumption of food; people snap pictures of their meals to post on Instagram and debate craft cocktails. All this interest in making and trying new ... [Read more...]
A Glance at Sanctuary Cities
They’re scattered across the country, from Los Angeles, California to Providence, Rhode Island. They’re in the Northeast, the Southwest, and the deep South. And, while they’re known as sanctuary cities, they include counties and states as well. ... [Read more...]