In a split decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held an insurer's notice of cancellation of an insured's life insurance policy complied with a North Carolina statutory ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is positioned to finally address a long-open question about the interplay between common-law and statutory remedies, according to Kenneth Behrend of the Behrend Law ...

February 17, 2022 - Restrictive covenants were once the exclusive province of the common law in each state. That is no longer the case. So far, the applicable law remains state law (although there are ...

In previous posts, I have argued that legal conventions form a de facto common law and that this de facto common law remedies many defects in our statutory criminal law system. Despite these criminal ...

Is forty years too far along for a book review? Another look at A Common Law for the Age of Statutes by eminent Second Circuit Judge and Yale Law professor Guido Calabresi suggests no. Published in ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a sweeping wave of laws this year, passed by the Republican supermajority of Florida’s Legislature, that have been criticized as unconstitutional and discriminatory. And some ...

I’ve returned again and again (and again) to the subject of property rights in information. As regular readers know, a 2018 Supreme Court case called Carpenter v. United States posed the question of ...