Protecting Creative Speech in Practice Let’s talk intellectual property. Not patents and trade secrets, not that “hard stuff.” I’m talking creative intellectual property. What some call “soft IP.” You are on-line and copy images or audio to use somewhere else—like a video presentation. Do you give credit to the original […]
Author: Mara Hatfield
The Florida state legislature failed our students miserably. They faced a crisis that has been in the making since even before Columbine: a disturbed person, a former student, who was out to make the record books, to make a point or simply to be violent pulled a fire alarm […]
We have all seen the catchy T-shirts for the Susan B. Komen walks “Protect the Tatas.” Few adult diseases have received as much fund-raising attention as Breast Cancer, and for good reason. Did you know that according to Florida law, your insurer must pay for reconstructive surgery if the policy provides […]
As adult-children, sisters, brothers, and friends, chances are you may be asked to be surrogate for a loved one at some point in your life. If not, someone probably will ask you to weigh in on what to do when medicine can neither comfort nor cure. What if the patient […]
This is in response to the article in the Daily Business Review, Opponents of New Expert Witness Rule Rely on Outdated Authority [COMMENTARY] by Christopher Johnson, Daily Business Review. This recent article claims that the opponents of the proposed New Expert Witness Rule rely on outdated authority as their basis […]
A clean bill of health: The not so difficult questions your doctor may not be asking because well, who really thinks about our exposure to what we put in, around and on our bodies anyway? “Does your child eat Brussel sprouts? If so, did you know that the residue on […]