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The Boston City Council Gets It Wrong On Gaza
I’ve lived in the City of Boston for more than twenty years. I love Boston. I do not always love Boston’s City Council. That’s especially true today. Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson, whose prior antisemitic comments I am not going to detail here, offered a really unfortunate resolution on the Gaza war, and the City Council,……
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Event Announcement: Judicial Assistance for the Taking of Evidence Outside Quebec
Readers, if you are going to be in Montreal on June 3, I’d like to give you a heads-up about an event I’ll be doing with the Canadian Bar Association/Association du Barreau Canadien: “Judicial Assistance for the Taking of Evidence Outside Quebec.” Here is the CBA’s summary: Evidence relevant to a case before a Quebec……
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Case of the Day: Footprint International v. Footprint Asia
The case of the day is Footprint International LLC v. Footprint Asia, Ltd. (D. Ariz. 2024). Footprint International was an Arizona company that made fiber-based bowls, plates, and cutlery. It had a contract with Footprint Asia, a Chinese company, to manufacture its products in China. Footprint International brought a trademark infringement claim against Footprint Asia……
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What to Make of Khymani James
Khymani James, a graduate of Boston Latin Academy and former student representative to the Boston School Committee, who not too long ago was feted as a rising student leader in Boston and who has said he wants to be elected to Congress someday, has been one of the leaders of the protest encampment outside the……
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Proof of Life
Amid all the bad news in the world, I was overjoyed to read that Israeli-American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin is alive in Gaza. I don’t know Hersh or his family, but my daughter, like many Americans who have visited Israel in recent years, got to know him, and so my family has felt a closer connection……