Legal Questions
Voting Day Cancelled in Some NH Towns: What Does The Law Say?
Voting day cancelled in New Hampshire? A number of towns across the state of New Hampshire postponed local elections in the face of a major snowstorm. State law establishes local elections on the second Tuesday of March, or in 2017, March 14. As weather forecasters predicted a Nor’easter, local election […]
Can you sue a Native American Owned Casino? Casino Law.
Q: We went to one of the casinos in Connecticut and my wife slipped and fell on a puddle of water that was coming out of a cooling unit in a restaurant. Can we bring a claim against, and potentially bring a lawsuit against, a Native-American casino for medical bills […]
Fools In The Law 2014
April Fool’s Day means my local newspaper column, usually answering legal questions or focusing on various laws, turns instead to what I call “Fools in the Law”. Here are some choice legal moments over the last year. Bedford, NH. A 25 year old man hailed a cab to take him home from a Manchester nightclub. […]
Health Care Decision or Court Review of Congressional Power?
In the major 2012 health care decision, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Constitutionality of sweeping federal healthcare legislation captioned as the “Affordable Care Act”. The decision sheds more light on how government claims a right of power than about heath care. Most observers expected the court to base its final determination […]
