The NLRB’s Humorless Insensibility

The NLRB’s Humorless Insensibility

The text of the National Labor Relations Act does not, so far as we can tell, require the National Labor Relations Board or its personnel to have their sense of humor surgically removed. Nor does it prohibit the NLRB’s judicial proceedings from considering context,...

EDITORIAL: CDC’s eviction moratorium on shaky legal ground

EDITORIAL: CDC’s eviction moratorium on shaky legal ground

Three months ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a national order that banned certain residential evictions until the end of this year. The move was intended to keep renters in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic. Americans have accepted...

The looming eviction crisis

The looming eviction crisis

Rick Brown is not Jennifer Pierson's landlord. He does own eight similar properties in Winchester, Va., mainly single-family homes in roughly the same price range as Pierson's. He tries to maintain those homes himself. He said half of his tenants aren't paying their...

IRS Seeks Dismissal of Cryptocurrency Records Seizure Lawsuit

IRS Seeks Dismissal of Cryptocurrency Records Seizure Lawsuit

The courts aren’t allowed to rule on a lawsuit alleging that the IRS’s seizure of cryptocurrency records was unconstitutional, the IRS said in a motion to have the case tossed. New Hampshire resident James Harper, in a lawsuit filed in July and amended in August,...

Mass. SJC rules against NCLA in Desrosiers v. Baker

Mass. SJC rules against NCLA in Desrosiers v. Baker

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rendered its decision in the Desrosiers v. Baker case upholding Governor Baker’s pandemic orders as consistent with the Civil Defense Act (CDA). The order delivers a blow to the plaintiffs who include mom-and-pop businesses,...