The legal system includes rules, procedures and institutions that enable public initiatives and private efforts to be carried out by legitimate means. In other words, it is a system of interpreting and applying laws. Rights and obligations are developed in various ways. There are three major legal systems in the world are civil law, […]

Founder of the law firm of Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP in 1965, Doug retired from full-time law practice in 2013. During his tenure, Doug acted as lead counsel in over 90 intellectual property litigation and appeared before courts and appellate courts across the country. As head of the company`s calendar department, […]

Sometimes the beloved characters leave far too soon, and sometimes the bad guys get their deserts right. (New York Times) These deserts of the «Book of Eli» are the place where the imagination, no matter how bizarre or hideous, can undeniably become real. As these examples show, only the desert is used almost exclusively […]

Among these exceptions, the weapons used in the 2015 San Bernardino terrorist attack[104] were legal when they were originally purchased and then illegally sold to the perpetrators. [105] [106] The authors subsequently unlawfully altered these released weapons in a manner that violated other provisions of California law by allowing the DPMS Panther Arms AR-15 […]

If a parent is unwilling to voluntarily transfer custody, a grandparent has the right, in certain limited circumstances, to apply to the court to transfer custody of the grandparent. If a court finds that awarding custody to one parent would cause significant harm to the child, it may award custody to another person with […]