by Sam Ventola | Apr 10, 2019 | Constitutional
The Electoral College, the military draft and the First Amendment – with the increasingly polemic state of our political environment, the parties are looking for new ways to get to their political goals. One recent dimension of this is the parties’ efforts to...
by Sam Ventola | Mar 13, 2019 | First Amendment
Opinion or Defamation? A while back, news reports indicated that musician Courtney Love was stuck paying $430,000 plus interest to a designer about whom she had unkind words on MySpace and Twitter. That’s an expensive tweet. Ms. Love stated things such as that her...
by Sam Ventola | Mar 7, 2019 | Constitutional
As the Senate considered the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, many were concerned that an apparently conservative judge replaced Justice Kennedy, who is considered a centrist “swing vote” on the Court. In particular, they accused Judge...
by Sam Ventola | Feb 20, 2019 | Contracts
High Jackpot When the Powerball jackpot gets high, you see a rash of posts on social media offering to share a Powerball jackpot with anyone who “likes” or “shares” a post. Is such an offer is an enforceable online contract? The short answer is yes – if you can prove...
by Sam Ventola | Jan 24, 2019 | Intellectual Property
“Please take it,” says I, “and don’t ask me nothing—then I won’t have to tell no lies.” –Huckleberry Finn You may have heard a major media frenzy awhile back over the decision by the “publisher” of Huckleberry...
