The days of signing your grocery receipt may be over soon, as the four major credit card brands (American Express, Discover, Visa, and Mastercard) are each making efforts to do away with signatures for various credit card transactions. The extent and geographic reach of these...
In 1986, when Congress passed the Stored Communications Act, the World Wide Web did not yet exist; that would not happen until three years later, when British scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented it in Switzerland. Electronic mail did exist, but – although Queen Elizabeth II had...
Whether you’ve been running your firm for decades or just hung up your shingle last week, if you’re not accepting credit cards, you are simply hurting yourself. There are many reasons to accept credit cards and, more to the point of this article, there are...
Fans of the tear-jerking NBC drama This Is Us will be aware of a certain incident with a kitchen appliance that had a big effect on the show’s Pearson family. (Fans who don’t know what I’m talking about and don’t like spoilers should read no...
In the bleak midwinter, the Supreme Court gave us three opinions to mull over while we wait for the next argument session. We’ll talk about the outcomes– and how they line up with our predictions– in District of Columbia v. Wesby and Artis v. District...
A month after New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced the closure of one of Rikers Island’s detention centers by this summer, grass-roots activists who powered the movement said fundamental change in criminal justice policies required reform of the bail system. The creation of “a...