Paul Mark Sandler, partner/litigation chair of Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler, of Baltimore, has joined the board of directors of the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland for a three-year term. Sandler's trial practice includes representing defendants in criminal cases and plaintiffs in civil lawsuits, including personal injury lawsuits, as well as unusual constitutional law cases. Jonathan S. Beiser, an attorney in the Rockville office of Ashcraft & Gerel, recently joined the board of directors for Kids' Chance of Maryland, a tax-exempt organization that provides scholarships to children of Maryland workers who have been catastrophically or fatally injured during the course of their employment. Beisler is also co-chair of the Workers' Compensation Section of the Montgomery County Bar ...
The area of animal law goes beyond drafting life-estates for four- legged survivors or defending an owner whose dog has been judicially declared inherently dangerous. The cases deal with serious, wide- ranging areas of the law -- including constitutional rights, property law and business law, animal lawyers said. Any time there is an animal-type aspect of a case, people look for an animal law attorney, but it can be a business law case, a tort case or a contract dispute," said Rebekah Damen Lusk, who practices animal law at Thienel Law Firm LLC in Columbia. "The underlying law is the law we already know, but they have an aspect that involves animals and there are a lot of attorneys out there not willing to take those types of cases.
Traditional First Amendment categorizations of speech content, entrenched as constitutional precedent through many cases and decades, fail to reflect the three fundamental philosophical categories of speech content: , historical interpretations, and viewpoints. In particular, courts ignore or grossly mishandle questions of what First Amendment protection to give . This constitutional mistreatment of -a considerable fraction of all speech content-suggests that structural infirmities may exist within the First Amendment's purportedly stable core. In this essay, we identify 's unique, knowable attributes not shared by the two other kinds of legally relevant speech. We then advance a novel argument: some instances of false ...
[...] although this Essay focuses on privacy costs, Part IV briefly discusses what a broader understanding of these costs might mean for both constitutional jurisprudence and wise policy around disclosure in election law. 147 Classic disclosure cases allowing the NAACP to withhold the names of its members explicitly rely on protection of the individual members' rights, and allow the organizations to assert those personal rights on their behalf.148 A corporation, a political action committee, or a tax-exempt social welfare organization each has a legal identity that brings with it certain election-related rights - arguably more rights than ever after Citizens United v. FEC49 But these entities do not have individual privacy rights like natural persons do.150 Corporations cannot bring to...
The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed poised on Wednesday to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act as an unconstitutional intrusion on the authority of states to regulate marriage. Such a ruling would allow the court to strike down the statute, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman under federal law, while still avoiding the issues that brought the case to the high court: whether the law violates the Equal Protection Clause, and what level of constitutional scrutiny should be applied in cases alleging discrimination against gay people.
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