Legal precedent comes from court decisions where judges are asked to interpret the law, and once a court rules on an issue, legal precedent becomes the law. This means that legal precedent and ...

Which legal decisions can be used as a precedent, and which cannot? The question was raised in a piece in The New York Times this week about the Bush v. Gore case that decided the 2000 election. Legal ...

Employee restrictive covenants are often a contentious issue, especially when employees leave to form (or join) competing firms. A recent Alberta Court of King’s Bench decision, People Corporation v ...

Legislation making its way around the Pennsylvania Capitol could add the Commonwealth to the list of seven states that require women to have an ultrasound before getting an abortion. The bill has ...

Helen Fraser does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The Supreme Court on Friday threw into question the future of climate and environmental regulation in the United States, scrapping a decades-old legal precedent that gave federal agencies leeway to ...

Kyle Rittenhouse being found not guilty on all counts after more than 24 hours of deliberations can be summed up with one simple phrase: White privilege. It’s an all too familiar theme we witness when ...