“The motion for a new trial shall be made promptly after the jury is discharged, or in the discretion of the court not later than 10 days thereafter.” Rule 59(b), SCRCP (emphasis added). Knowing the ...

In his Insurance Law column, Jonathan Dachs restates the "general, well-settled and widely known" rules for interpreting insurance policy provisions and uses case law to show how the courts are often ...

Section 801 of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (“Section 801”)[i], which is codified at 42 U.S.C. § 282(j) and took effect September 27, 2007, requires that sponsors of ...

Zachary S. Price is an Associate Professor at UC Hastings College of the Law. One of Justice Antonin Scalia’s many contributions to Supreme Court jurisprudence was to revitalize the rule of lenity – ...

A federal statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1461, prohibits “convey[ing] in the mails or deliver[ing] from any post office” any “article or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.” In July ...

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Monday in Pulsifer v. United States, one of the most important criminal law cases in recent memory. The issue in Pulsifer is very specific: the meaning of the ...