Most commentary about the Dominion/Fox News defamation settlement has been silly and ill-informed.  Especially the legal talking heads about how the law of defamation compelled the settlement and how this settlement will affect future defamation litigation. Now that...

With Turkey’s withdrawal of its dispositive vote to block its application, Finland will today become a member of NATO. “Finlandization” is jargon used by political scientists of its international studies sect to signal they’ve got game and doctorate.  It describes not...

McBurney is the Georgia Superior Court Judge who ordered release of parts of a Special Purpose Grand Jury’s report about efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Georgia.  McBurney did that over the well-founded objections of Fulton...

Madison Square Garden’s facial recognition of lawyers engaged in litigation against the Garden, followed by their ouster, at the direction of MGS’s principal owner/executive Jim Dolan, deserves its own Recognition.  It will require synthesis of our experience in law,...

We watched with joy and amazement, along with billions of others last Sunday as Argentina clobbered France for most of the match, that instantly was crowned the “greatest” (men’s) World Cup final.  And if that’s plausible – “greatest” – it’s also an almost perfect...

The math we constantly hear used in commentary of the Brittney Griner for Viktor Bout prisoner trade is wrongheaded.  The erroneous and inapposite calculus does not involve the very dangerous threshold decision about whether or not to make these trades, with...