June2015

June 30, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — The Fitbit came wrapped up in colored paper, as if giving it a festive appearance was going to conceal that its purpose was to keep track of the hard-fought inactivity...

June 30, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — The city of Seattle, Washington has decided to settle an excessive force lawsuit for $1.975 million to the plaintiff, Nathaniel Caylor, and which cost the city an additional $524,000 in...

June 30, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Drug prices remain a sore topic for many in the US. At the same time, most people rely on their insurance companies to do what can be done to negotiate the...

June 29, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Phil Rosen, partner at Weil Gotshal & Manges, talks with Lee Pacchia about how the rise in e-commerce and the decline of traditional retail has led to a big uptick...

June 29, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — There is a basic reason why 18-year-old Cory Gloe was indicted in Nassau County, New York. It wasn’t that he wasn’t the best kid around. It wasn’t that he personally...

June 29, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — If you have not yet seen this video, watch it.  Do it now. Video of the 2013 incident was released, not by the Chicago Police, but by a judge who was...

June 26, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Gaston talks about how an intellectual property dispute with Jawbone could affect the stock price of recent IPO Fitbit....Read More

June 26, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Down in Harris County, Texas (also known as Houston, or the “place where barbecue goes to die”), you can usually exercise your constitutional rights without much of a problem, so...

June 25, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Moments before the sentence of death was officially imposed on Dzohkar Tsarnaev, he did something few anticipated, and fewer still believed.  He apologized for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing....

June 25, 2015 (Mimesis Law) — Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis fancies himself a writer.  A writer of fiction, in fact.  Lewis has taken his real life experience as a judge and has penned three...