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Fire Insurance Claim – Beware Of Misrepresenting

Insurance companies will deny a fire insurance claim when policyholders misrepresent the contents of their home. Our experts provide policyholders with tips on how to protect themselves during the cl...

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Target Markets For Long Term Care Insurance

Insurers target their marketing of long term care insurance to people based upon fear or risk. Policies are not only sold to people for their own use, but also to their family members who fear that e...

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The Power of Jury Nullification

In the early years of American legal history, juries were often told that they were the judges of both the law and the facts. That began to change in the late 1800s, as judges came to regard themselve...

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Can You Be Jailed for Failing to Pay a Fine?

What happens when the person who was fined is poor and lacks the resources to pay? Does the law treat the indigent and the affluent differently? People with money avoid jail by paying the fine, while ...

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Is It Legal to Use Someone Else’s Code?

Media.net Advertising sued its competitor Netseer for copyright infringement, claiming that Netseer copied its HTML used to create a custom search results page for use in its own custom online adverti...

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Will You Be Judged by a Jury of Your Peers?

Selecting representative juries. That concept is easy to articulate as a theory but difficult to implement in practice. Choosing jury pools from voter registration lists, for example, assures that peo...

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DC Comics and Trademark Parody

DC has registered a trademark for the shield design for products including “adults' and children's clothing, including t-shirts.” DC has also licensed the shield trademark for use on t-shirts, i...

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Does "No Contact" Mean No Facebook Tagging?

Every state offers victims of domestic abuse and certain forms of harassment the ability to apply for a court order that restrains the abuser from harming or bothering his or her victim. States usuall...