by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 28, 2020 | Blog, Covid-19 Articles
It’s become trendy to vilify landlords in the time of COVID-19, with calls for rent strikes and vocal critics accusing landlords of preying on those worst affected by the economic downturn. Of course, residential landlords often are making payments of their own...
by NCLA | Jul 19, 2019 | Blog, Jay Schaefer
Photo by Ajay Suresh, Rights Reserved The current nondelegation doctrine may not be long for this world, evidenced by the concurrence and dissent in this term’s Gundy v. United States. In its present iteration, the doctrine allows Congress to give away legislative...
by NCLA | Aug 7, 2019 | Blog, Gelane Diamond
Billions of dollars over budget. Years behind schedule. Hundreds of acres of land taken from Central Valley farmers, who are still waiting to receive their compensation. How did a project to build America’s first high-speed railway become such a wreck? The...
by NCLA | Aug 8, 2019 | Blog, Ethan Beck
Answers Pet Food, a brand created by Pennsylvania-based company Lystn to provide high quality, organic pet food, is being targeted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for failing to comply with an unofficial, zero-tolerance policy toward naturally occurring...
by nclaadmin | Aug 8, 2019 | Blog, Haley Connor
The rule of lenity requires that if a criminal statute is ambiguous, courts must interpret the ambiguity in a manner favorable to the defendant. There are two primary reasons for the rule of lenity. First, criminal laws must provide people with fair notice so people...
by nclaadmin | Aug 27, 2019 | Blog
Taoism is a Chinese philosophy that is often represented by the yin-yang—a symbol of contrasting opposites in perfect balance with each other. From the Taoist perspective, “day” is only “day” in relationship to the night. In other words, all things are...
