Litigation

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and his teammates recently mowed down California's ban on violent video games with fully loaded First Amendment precedents and barbed retorts to opposing arguments. In doing so, the U.S. Supreme Court reinforced a fundamental point: First Amendment protections do not depend on the medium of communication. Thus, video games are protected speech, and restrictions based on their content will be subject to strict scrutiny.

The U.S. Tax Court decided that fees received by international pro-golfer Retief Goosen for so-called "on-course" endorsement deals constituted both personal service and royalty income.

Attorneys may monitor jurors through online social networks as long as they do not contact the jurors or in any way make their monitoring known to them, the New York County Lawyers' Association said in a recent ethics opinion.

In-depth analysis of recent key cases.

This article discusses recent decisions regarding the use of copyrighted material in legal proceedings and the applicability of the fair use defense to allegations of infringement.

Recent amendments to DRL ' 236 Part B(9)(b) have changed the grounds for modifying a child support award. These changes have caused a profound shift in whether, and under what circumstances, parties should opt out of the Child Support Standards Act (CSSA).

Visitation and child support issues can become intertwined in extreme cases of visitation denial. In these cases, a noncustodial parent may petition to suspend child support. A look at relevant case law.

New York's recent passage of the Marriage Equality Act no more opened up the federal government to recognizing same-sex marriage than did passage of similar legislation in Connecticut or Vermont.