MAXWELL J. LEVINE – “Our goal when we created Tesla a decade ago was the same as it is today: to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport by bringing compelling mass market electric cars to market as soon as possible.” Tesla Motors’ (“Tesla”) mission statement constitutes a revolution in the global automotive industry, which generates over $2 […]
DAVID NEWFIELD – Since Argentina began the process of restructuring its debt on January 14, 2005, many complex and difficult legal issues involving the restructuring of sovereign debt have been debated and discussed. Possibly the most famous of these debates is the contested interpretation of the pari passu clause found in most sovereign debt contracts. […]
JESSALYNN RUBIO–The federal government mandates that California raisin farmers surrender large portions of their harvest each year. Despite this requirement, California raisin farmers often receive no reimbursement or compensation. The federal government collects these shares and stores them in a national reserve. The raisins are then sold internationally, donated to charities, or destroyed. To what […]
SAMUEL FALK – More than 3,000 people die, and an excess of a quarter-million are injured, in the United States each year because of texting while driving. Despite 44 states, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands banning texting and driving, 47 percent of adults still admit to partaking in that hazardous […]
