In multiple cases, U.S. Supreme Court being asked to intervene in West Virginia state courts [Liptak, NYT] Employers buy big legal headaches when they ask for specifics from workers who call in sick. Better just to wave those intermittent...

The press has been full of chatter this week about the supposedly unprecedented vehemence of campaign rhetoric on the Republican side of the presidential contest -- a charge that, as my colleague John Leo has noted, may be a trifle...

Over the past couple of years I've repeatedly expressed fascination (here, here, here, here, and here) with the lawsuit in a Moscow commercial court in which the government of Russia is invoking the RICO law -- America's RICO law, that...

25 questions you can't ask at job interviews, such as "Can you work weekends?" and "What relative should we notify in case of emergency?" [HR Daily Advisor via Ohio Employment Law Blog] "California already ranks 48th in state business...

I'm quoted on the subject, as is co-blogger Ted Frank, in this new piece by Joseph Lawler for the American Spectator. I should add that I'm not trying to speak to the ultimate merits of either specific proposal discussed (a...

I posted a few days ago about the crazy action in closed-end mutual funds. At the end of the week, the action got even crazier. As of market close on Friday,...

In a recent post, co-blogger Eric Posner writes that:...

Many commentators have argued that the Bush administration’s response to 9/11 was driven by fear. They were never precise about what they meant, but a number of interpretations suggested themselves. (1)...

Under Florida law, individuals convicted of felonies lose their right to vote, at least temporarily. (Some felons are eligible to have their vote restored upon release from prison.) Yet while many...

My father tells me that he has quite a few Jewish friends in their 60s and 70s who tell him that they would vote for McCain over Obama but for the...