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On Thursday, January 27, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer (BA ’59) announced his plan to retire when the Court begins its summer recess this year, “assuming that by then my successor has been nominated and confirmed.” Here, Stanford Law faculty members discuss his legacy. Stanford Law Professor Jeff Fisher From Jeffrey L. Fisher, Professor of Law and Co-Director of Stanford’s Supreme Cour...

Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California judge decided this week to delay enforcement of part of a new farm animal welfare law that critics said would cause price hikes and supply shortages for bacon and other fresh pork products in the state. The law that went into effect Jan. 1 stemmed from a 2018 ballot measure where California voters set the nation’s toughest living space standa...

BOSTON — As part of her office’s ongoing efforts to advocate for the state’s immigrant communities, Attorney General Maura Healey announced that her office has ramped up efforts to inform and protect residents from fraudulent immigration law practices. The multilingual education campaign, first launched in 2018 by the AG’s Community Engagement Division, focuses on providing immigrant communit...

Bitcoin is money. That means it’s openly competing with the incumbent fiat monetary regime. A co-circulation of two types of money isn’t unprecedented, and the economic principle that describes the outcome is known as Gresham's law. Applying Gresham’s insight to the bitcoin-fiat dynamic, we find that HODLing is economically rational under current conditions. “Good and bad coin cannot circulat...

A bipartisan group of members from the U.S. House of Representatives called on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to clarify the language in the infrastructure bill signed into law in November around the definition of "broker." In a Wednesday letter, House Financial Services Committee ranking member Patrick McHenry and ten other representatives urged Yellen to reference the Keep Innovation in Am...

News Rutgers Law School faculty and students were invited by the White House to recount their efforts to halt pandemic evictions in Newark through pro bono work and an inventive outreach collaboration with community organizers and local artists. The Stop Evicting Newark Project began in the fall as a response to the Supreme Court ruling against eviction moratoriums imposed at the start of th...

President Barack Obama reads from his book, “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters,” during a visit by Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer and his family to the Oval Office, March 2, 2011. Joining them, from left, are Justice Breyer’s wife Joanna Breyer, grandson Eli Essiam Breyer and daughter Nell Breyer. (Photo/Official White House photo by Pete Souza) Justice Breyer was no tribal sover...

A California law that took effect this month is forcing Midwest farmers to make tough financial decisions. Proposition 12 requires farmers to increase the sizes of animal cages if they’re shipping pork, veal, or eggs to California. Iowa is the country’s number one pork-producing state, and California consumes 13% of U.S. pork. Animal activists say Proposition 12 is about humane treatment for ...

The National Association for Gun Rights filed a lawsuit against the city of San Jose, California, seeking to end a rule passed by city council which aims to reduce gun harm. The rule, passed on Tuesday, requires gun owners to purchase liability insurance and pay an annual "gun harm reduction" fee. Gun owners will also be required to pay city cost recovery fees related to the program's impleme...

FARMINGTON — A pair of bills that propose revisions to the Navajo Nation's tax law stalled at the tribal council's winter session on Jan. 26. Council delegates voted to table both bills, after several stated the proposals need input from small business owners. Together, the bills propose to raise the cap on the sales tax percentage to 10% and clarify and revise language in the tax law to hel...