BY ADRIENNE SCHEFFEY– “It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” – New State Ice Co. v. Liebmann, 285 U.S. 262, 311 (1932) […]
BY ANTONIO HERNANDEZ — On the morning of December 1, 2013, America turned its focus to the future of commercial drones, or Unmanned Aviation Systems (“UAS”), as the Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) calls them. The night before, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos showed off Amazon’s “octocopter” drones to CBS’ “60 Minutes.” He optimistically envisions that within possibly […]
BY ADAM HOOCK — On December 20, 2013, Judge Robert J. Shelby of the United States District Court for the District of Utah shocked the country when he issued an order in Kitchen v. Herbert declaring Utah’s statutory and state constitutional bans on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. In […]
BY ERIN FITZGERALD — On October 7, 2013, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Chadbourne & Parke LLP v. Samuel Troice, in which the Court is expected to clarify the scope of preclusion under the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act (“SLUSA”) of state-law securities fraud class actions. Chadbourne, representing three consolidated cases arising from […]
BY DAVE COULTER — On December 13, 2013, terror gripped a community already scarred by tragic gun violence. In just 80 seconds, a lone gunman entered Arapahoe High School, shot a fellow student point blank with a shotgun, set fire to the library with a Molotov cocktail, and then took his own life. The sole […]
