Oh hell. 58,000 gallons of fuel were spilled in the San Francisco Bay last week, and over 40,000 of the spill remains unaccounted for. The crew of the tanker, which crashed into the SF-Oakland bridge, will almost certainly …

I’ve been thinking about a particular situation that might arise as a result of police negligence and, as you might expect, it’s at once a sad and funny thing to think about.

As most of us know, since 1966 …

A new federal law is inadvertently making it impossible for illegal immigrants to get married in the United States. The law, which has been in the books for over a decade, requires couples to present their Social Security numbers …

The Hatch Act, 5 USC § 7324, states:
(a) A political employee may not engage in political activity –
(1) while the employee is on duty;
(2) in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official duties by an individual employed …

Yesterday, Shroma Hollywood Lang became the second man convicted under a new federal law, the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act, which prosecutes convicted sex offenders for failing to register as sex offenders when they move into a new …

I just read that the topic of federal preemption was considered arcane only a few years ago. This surprised me, since the issue seems to pop up all over the news these days, particularly regarding immigration, clean air laws, …