by Charles Horowitz | Nov 21, 2019 | Civil Rights & Tort Law
The ubiquity of social media has thrust the subject of free speech into the spotlight of late. Politicians, civil libertarians and tech giants struggle to balance the First Amendment’s speech protections against risks to our democracy and public safety by posed...
by Charles Horowitz | Nov 29, 2017 | Civil Rights & Tort Law, Contracts, Leases, & Disputes, Miscellaneous
Few would dispute that we live in politically and socially acrimonious times. Online social media broaden the reach of ever more vile rhetoric aimed at individuals, ethnic groups, products and businesses. Although some forms of hate speech are constitutionally...
by Charles Horowitz | Apr 19, 2017 | Civil Rights & Tort Law, Consumer Law
Minnesota was one of the last states to recognize a legal claim of invasion of privacy in the landmark opinion of Lake v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 582 N.W.2d 231 (Minn. 1998). The case involved employees in a discount store’s photo lab who circulated within the...