Michael Smith's Law Blog

After writing yesterday's post on this story about a man arrested in Cedar Rapids, Iowa for allegedly driving while sniffing fumes fro...

I like to check in on what's happening in my old home state of Iowa, and in doing so today I was drawn to this KCRG story on an (allege...

"Pardoning Joe Arpaio Would Be a Constitutional Crisis" proclaims the headline of this article by Bob Bauer in Foreign Policy. Th...

The New York Times reports that Wells Fargo has been using arbitration clauses in its contracts with customers to defeat claims that the ba...

It's always a pleasant surprise to see legal disputes that involve fish for nonsensical reasons, particularly fish-related disputes tha...

One of President-Elect Donald Trump's priorities when appointing a Supreme Court Justice to replace Justice Scalia is to select a justic...

Behold!     From oral argument today in Beckles v. United States . H/T Josh Blackman , who helpfully notes here that Justice Breyer...