What Modern Attorneys Can Learn from Lincoln the Lawyer: Author Guy Fraker
In an astonishing break from decades of False Claims Act (FCA) precedent, a Florida district court judge deemed the FCA’s qui tam provisions unconstitutional in United States ex rel. Zafirov v. Florida Medical Associates,...more
In 1980, Texas became the first state in the United States to recognize Juneteenth as an official state holiday, and today all 50 states and the District of Columbia have recognized Juneteenth as a state holiday or...more
On June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, making June 19 a legal public holiday. Juneteenth is the day that commemorates the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the...more
When Abraham Lincoln signed the False Claims Act (FCA) into law in 1863, it was a legislative reaction to a series of sensational congressional investigations into war profiteers’ sale of phony provisions and useless...more
On Wednesday, June 16, 1858, delegates of the Republican State Convention of Illinois gathered in Representatives’ Hall in Springfield. At about 5:00 p.m., delegate Charles L. Wilson submitted the following resolution...more
We’ve taken advantage of past Presidents Days to recount George Washington’s role in the history of U.S. Copyright law, specifically the birth of fair use. That role was not insubstantial, but it was posthumous and,...more
Some may know that Abraham Lincoln is the only president to apply for and be granted a U.S. Patent (No. 6,469 – “A Device for Buoying Vessels Over Shoals”), but few are aware that he was also an active patent litigator and a...more