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April 27, 2020, Opinion, "Whenever we’re ready to re-open Covid-closed businesses, we’ll have to resolve some important questions about how to do so safely. One of them: what kind of measures should businesses take to keep employees and customers safe, and how should business owners be held accountable if they play fast and loose with others’ health?"
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Blue and Red States Must Work Together to Reopen. Noah Feldman, April 14, 2020, Opinion, "Yesterday, six governors from a string of contiguous eastern seaboard states stretching from Rhode Island to Delaware announced that they would form a working group to cooperate on reopening businesses in the region. This kind of state-level coordination is much needed. The federal government hasn’t taken the lead in ordering coronavirus lockdowns, and so…
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Bloomberg Opinion Radio: Weekend Edition for 3-27-20. Noah Feldman, March 27, 2020, Audio, "Hosted by June Grasso. Guests: Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion columnist: "How to Limit Hoarding and Keep America’s Hands Clean." Noah Feldman, Harvard Law Professor and Bloomberg Opinion columnist: "California’s Stay-at-Home Order Is a Legal Mess." Tara Lachapalle, Bloomberg Opinion media columnist: "ESPN’s Coronavirus Slate Seems Like a Stretch." Jonathan…
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Noah Feldman: Puerto Rico finds itself stuck in a colonial power struggle. Noah Feldman, July 9, 2015, Opinion, "On the surface, there was nothing shocking about Monday’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit to strike down a Puerto Rico law that would’ve let the commonwealth’s municipalities and utilities declare bankruptcy. A federal district court had already held in February that Puerto Rico’s proposed Recovery Act was…
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Noah Feldman / Can the Supreme Court rescue drowning homeowners? Noah Feldman, March 27, 2015, Opinion. "Critics of the Supreme Court's conservative wing like to say it's instinctively pro-business. The justices on Tuesday tested that proposition in a fascinating case about whether bankruptcy law instructs judges to void liens on underwater properties. On one side lie the interests of Bank of America, which is the petitioner and doesn't want the…
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Noah Feldman: Supreme Court gives direct marketing retailers a victory and then takes it back. Noah Feldman, March 9, 2015, Opinion. "The U.S. Supreme Court gave Amazon.com and other direct marketing retailers a victory last week with one hand -- then used the other hand to take it back. Formally, in Direct Marketing Association v. Brohl, the court unanimously reinstated a lawsuit brought by a direct retailer to block a Colorado law requiring…
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Class Action Case Could Bend the Law. Noah Feldman, October 7, 2014, Opinion. "Class action lawsuits are big business. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- admittedly, not the most objective source -- estimates that securities class actions alone cost shareholders $39 billion a year. When you add in all other class actions -- for accidents, accounting errors, you name it -- you can understand why potential corporate defendants as well as plaintiffs’…
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Fighting the IRS Just Got Harder. Noah Feldman, June 19, 2014, Opinion. "What do you dread more than a summons from the IRS? The tax authority is the closest thing to Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor that our democracy allows. And today the U.S. Supreme Court made the Internal Revenue Service just a little bit stronger, overturning an appeals court opinion that would have allowed you to examine the IRS agents who summon you to find out if they have…
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Bankruptcy Doesn't Have to Be So Messy. Noah Feldman, June 9, 2014, Opinion. "Bankruptcy courts are the mark of an advanced legal society. Think of the alternatives. Debt-slavery is inhumane. Debtors’ prison is inefficient. And breaking a trader’s bench and banning him from the market doesn’t get anybody’s assets back. But how far should the jurisdiction of special bankruptcy courts reach? The U.S. Supreme Court has been grappling with this…
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Affirmative Action Will Die Another Day. Noah Feldman, April 23, 2014, Opinion. "If the Supreme Court’s affirmative action jurisprudence were a Bond movie, it would be “Die Another Day.” Or “Live and Let Die.” Or … well, you get the point. For decades Justice Anthony Kennedy has been puzzling over how to kill affirmative action without delivering the death blow. Yesterday he got a step closer to an answer in the court’s decision to uphold a…