In New York state, it is a criminal sex offense for one person to have sex with another who is younger than 17 years old. The statute declares that a person younger than 17 is legally “incapable of ...

My colleague Sam Bray, who is one of the nation's leading remedies experts, and also someone whose judgment I very much trust, passes along this note highly ...

In December, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed a series of amendments that made significant changes to the requirements for statutory powers of attorney in the state of New York. The changes, as discussed by C ...

I often see people assuming that sex with under-18-year-olds is a crime (statutory rape); for instance, some comments on the 17-year-old gets help in lying about age to get abortion; later, she and ...

Mechanic's liens are a basic security right created by either constitutional or statutory law. They do not exist as a matter of equity or common law, but are instead legislative creatures.

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 ...

A statutory will refers to intestacy laws that control which family members, called heirs-at-law or distributees, receive the inheritance if you die without a will. In that case, your family members ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jonathan Skrmetti is chief deputy attorney general of the state of Tennessee, which filed an amicus brief on behalf of 15 states in support of the employers in Bostock v. Clayton County and Harris ...

At the annual Red Mass in 2012, a clergyman chats with Justice Clarence Thomas after calling on the Holy Spirit to guide judges, attorneys, and other legal professionals. Thomas's belief in natural ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas discussed the idea of stare decisis and its history in the legal traditions of English common law. He spoke ...