Statutes of repose establish a legislature’s determination of when defendants should be free from liability. As set forth in Nevada Revised Statute (NRS) 11.202, the statute of repose for construction ...

As previewed, Jamar Quarles was previously convicted under a Michigan “burglary” statute that encompasses not just common-law offenders (those who, in Blackstone’s conception repeated today, “break ...

A young woman from a poor family in Massachusetts struggles in school, and is referred to a behavioral health provider serving Medicaid patients. After prolonged counseling of doubtful quality, she is ...

Language and the limits of the common law suffered this week as an Oklahoma judge declared Johnson & Johnson liable for supposedly creating what the judge called a “public nuisance” resulting in the ...

You may have heard of common law marriage or you may know someone who refers to another as their “common law spouse,” their “common law wife,” or their “common law husband.” But what exactly is it and ...

Neder v. United States, 527 U.S. 1 (1999) offers a convenient point of entry into the debate over how best to reconcile fuzzy statutory language with fairly settled common-law expectations. What we’ll ...

In recent years, allegiance to the constitutional theory known as originalism has become all but mandatory for American legal conservatives. Every justice and almost every judge nominated by recent ...