As the nation in general, and Georgia in particular, reels from another fatal school shooting, many people are wondering with the 14-year-old shooter’s father, Colin Gray, has been charged with, among other things, 8 counts of Cruelty to Children?
DASHBOARD Act Requires Companies Disclose How They are Using Personal Data and for How Much – The DASHBOARD Act Explained
The newly introduced DASHBOARD (Designing Accounting Safeguards to Help Broaden Oversight And Regulations on Data) Act, introduced by Senators Mark Warner (Democrat from Virginia) and Josh Hawley (Republican from Missouri), requires companies to tell users not only exactly what they are doing with their personal date, but also to tell them how much their personal data is worth to the company.
Can Congress Override a Bill if the President Doesn’t Sign it and Doesn’t Return It with Objections? Vetoes Explained in Plain English
Given the current standoff between the House, the Senate (collectively ‘Congress’) and the President over the appropriations in the budget bill, we thought it appropriate to address exactly what is and isn’t a veto, a pocket veto, and a protective return veto or protective return pocket veto.
Attorney-Client Privilege and Confidentiality Explained in Plain English
The attorney-client privilege is, in essence, the right of both the client and the attorney to be sure that information that the client provides to their attorney cannot be accessed by third parties. Attorney-client privilege is actually an evidentiary rule, that is, a rule of law. This is different from an attorney’s duty of confidentiality to a client (i.e. to hold what a client tells them confidential).
Full Text of the Mueller Report on Presidential Obstruction of Justice – with Plain English Explanation
Below is the full, searchable text of the Mueller Report, Volume II, which is the section regarding whether or not President Trump committed obstruction of justice (Volume I is about whether Russia colluded with the Trump campaign). Here is what you need to understand before delving into the report.
Other Countries Can Now Spy on Their U.S.-based Citizens and Vice Versa: The CLOUD Act Explained in Plain English with Full Text
The Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act, or CLOUD Act, has been law for a little over a year now, and yet very few people realize the full ramifications of the CLOUD Act, if they know about it at all. A plain English explanation of the CLOUD Act follows, along with the full text of the CLOUD Act.
Why I am Explaining the Law
Hi! Welcome to Explaining the Law! I’ve been a lawyer for more than 25 years (see my CV here), and between my law practice, and teaching as a law professor, I’ve become pretty good at providing clear, easy-to-understand, plain English explanations of law, legal decisions, and other legally-related things.
I’ve been asked if there will be a specific topic, or practice area, on which we will focus here, and the answer is ‘no’. My areas of expertise are Internet and tech law and policy, and family law with an emphasis on the rights of children to have an ongoing relationship with both parents after the disuniting of the family (also known as ‘fathers’ rights’), however my background in legislative authoring and construction also provides me with an ability to tackle breaking down most anything from the legal realm into digestible, bite-sized chunks.