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Have you ever wondered if a surveyor’s drawings are entitled to the same sort of protections afforded to an architect’s blueprints? You might think so but it turns out, it depends. The leading case on this issue comes out of New York. A…

That’s not a misspelling in the title. That’s an actual word. It stands for the punctuation mark or slash often placed between two words such as “pass/fail” or “yes/no”. You might ask, who cares – what does this have to do with me or my…

This actually happened. Admitting he had been convicted of certain drug-related crimes, including possession and intent to distribute, and stating that he had been sentenced to sixty months and was currently on supervised leave, an…

A Florida case, which reversed a conviction for trespass, illustrates well all the elements necessary to enforce a designated no trespassing area. Applicable statutes provide that it is a third-degree felony to trespass on a construction…

A warehouse owner hired a subcontractor to paint his roof, a subcontractor who had been at the warehouse many times and knew that the roof had skylights. He was also well experienced working on roofs. Caution: Danger Ahead Before the work…