Family court (by David Lat).On February 24, 2023, the Superior Court of Pennsylvania issued a ruling that should be highly troubling to LGBTQ+ parents everywhere. In the case, the court denied parenta...
Outside of the 2007 indie hit Waitress, Keri Russell has never had the movie career she obviously deserved--no, a small part in Mission: Impossible III and a laughable cameo in the worst Star Wars mov...
For decades, it has been generally agreed upon that while it may be a truly magical animated film, the racial politics of Disney's 1953 classic Peter Pan are, uh, not great. If you haven't seen it in ...
[photo1]A recent judgment from Connecticut's Judicial District of Hartford was disappointing, to put it mildly, for those interested in accountability in the reproductive field. Specifically, on Febr...
[photo1]Last week, a former Philadelphia Bar chancellor, Gaetan Alfano of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, was looking to find assets belonging to a cash advance company subject to a $191 ...
Alex Murdaugh (Joshua Boucher/The State/Pool/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)The murder trial of disbarred lawyer Alex Murdaugh has captured the attention of the country. The social media respon...
No. Uh-uh. Definitely not.Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Eileen Lawrenc...
Family court (by David Lat).On February 13, 2023, the Seventh Judicial District of the State of Oklahoma issued a pretty shocking Letter Ruling determining that a sperm donor was the legal parent to a...
[photo1]You ever come across the thumbnail of a recommended video and ask yourself why and how something like that could even be on the platform? Well, the internet's liability ward -- Section 230 of ...
Since 2016, social workers in a Pennsylvania county have relied on an algorithm to help them determine which child welfare calls warrant further investigation. Now, the Justice Department ...
Charter Communications was once on the hook for over $7 billion in a case involving a former cable technician who murdered an elderly customer in her home. But Charter is now on the verge ...
You may not have known that space needs tugboats, but now you do -- and Atomos Space just closed a $16.2 million Series A investment, which will enable the company to complete its demonstration missio...
[photo1]On January 23, Reps. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.), Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.), Julia Letlow (R-La.), and Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) introduced the Protecting Families From Fertility Fraud Act. The bill...
[photo1]This past week, I had to go to the dentist, which would have been a miserable experience, but my dentist is a good friend who I have known for almost my entire life. He made the process super ...
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We have some sad news to report out of the D.C. legal community, where one of the founding partners of a high-powered boutique recently passed away. William Consovoy, 48, made his...
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Loyal readers of this column know that I rarely pass up the chance to write about an interesting surrogacy case. This case, however, is not actually a surrogacy case, at its co...