Substantive rights have a core that can be meaningfully interpreted and protected; they can exist independently of a particular government or a particular legal system. Procedural rights lack such an ...
Although the affinities between the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and the Seventh Amendment right to civil jury trial seem strong, there are crucial differences. The first concerns ...
On May 13, 2015, the Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, opined in Cynthia Lozano v. WCAB (B258000) that a 2009 amendment to Labor Code section 3212.1 may be applied retroactively to an ...
It is natural for taxpayers to seek assistance when they receive correspondence from the Internal Revenue Service. What often ...
Anita S. Krishnakumar is a professor of law and the associate dean for faculty scholarship at St. John’s University School of Law. Substantive canons of statutory construction — such as the rule of ...
In her Trusts and Estates Update, Ilene Sherwyn Cooper, a partner with Farrell Fritz, writes that just as this winter has provided us with a mix of sun, clouds, snow, sleet and ice, so, too, has the ...