The Free Speech Cycle The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (together with the Fourteenth Amendment) provides that neither Congress nor the States can pass a law that abridges Americans’ right to speak freely. It therefore guarantees a broad – and thoroughly American – freedom...
Market Manipulation, Securities Fraud and Insider Trading Is there such a thing as a securities law Trifecta? The Chief Executive Officer of a publicly-traded company (X Corp) is having a rough time. Sales are down. Volume is down. Profits are down. X Corp’s...
The Legal Precedent of Impeachment Over the more than 230 years of U.S. history, Articles of Impeachment have been filed by the House of Representatives against three American Presidents: Andrew Johnson in 1868; Richard Nixon in 1974; and William Clinton in 1998. The charges...
America’s Different Democracy, or How Change Has Come to America America’s government is a Constitutional democracy that differs significantly from most other democracies, many of which do not have written constitutions and the majority of which are parliamentary. In parliamentary democracies, the country’s head-of-state is...
California Dreaming Californians for the last several decades have dreamed of making their State an American Utopia. And California’s governments accordingly have taken actions intended to help its citizens realize those Utopian dreams. The steps taken by government action and ballot-box referenda have shaped...
