The July 2015 issue of Money magazine states that the recent unanimous Supreme Court decision in Tibble vs. Edison International makes it easier for employees to sue their employers for failing to offer the cheapest possible mutual funds in their 401(k) plan. Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Elsie Law’s Dose Of The Law: Slave Trade Act of 1788
According to Wikipedia, “The Slave Trade Act 1788, also known as Dolben’s Act, was an Act of Parliament which placed limitations of the number of people that British slave ships could transport. Dutch ships were not subject to restrictions on the number of slaves they could carry.” The fact that the slave trade was “legally” […]
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“The French empire in the West Indies was built on sugar production and the labor of enslaved Africans. The Code Noir, a French legal code, regulated slavery in the West Indies. Though it was never made law in Canada, New France’s slaveholders applied the Code Noir when they thought it necessary. In 1685, when the […]
Read the rest of this entry »Elsie Law’s Dose Of The Law: The Franking Privilege
According to Black’s Law Dictionary, The Franking Privilege is: “The privilege of sending certain matter through the public mails without payment of postage, in pursuance of a personal or official privilege. The privilege granted to members of Congress to send out a certain amount of mail under signature without charge.” Tweet
Read the rest of this entry »Elsie Law’s Dose Of The Law: Evergreen Contract
According to Black’s Law Dictionary, an Evergreen Contract is “a contract which renews itself from year to year in lieu of notice by one of the parties to the contrary.” Tweet
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Texas is seeking to implement a requirement into their school system that mandates that all students wear a badge that contains a radio-frequency identification (RFID) chip. This chipped badge will track students’ physical locations while they are on school premises. The badges have been introduced into two Texas schools. However, there are future plans to […]
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“I remember reading a phrase once that said, ‘the freedom of the press belongs to those who own the press.’ We can thus reiterate that the constitution and the legal system in this soceity are not a neutral instrument, and that the law belongs to those who write it, and to those who use it […]
Read the rest of this entry »Elsie Law’s Dose Of The Law: Your Facebook “Friends” Can Grant The FBI Access To Your Profile
A New York City racketeering case garnered an interesting ruling that concerns facebook users. The defendant in the trial attempted to suppress evidence that was gathered from facebook to hand down his indictment. The defendant used the legal defense that the information, which was obtained via an informant giving law-enforcement investigators access to the defendant’s […]
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