by Mark Stichel | Sep 9, 2024 | Business, Insights
On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a final rule prohibiting most non-competition provisions in employment agreements. The rule immediately was challenged in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas by Ryan, LLC and a...
by Mark Stichel | Mar 6, 2025 | Insights
On Thursday, January 25, 2024, Alabama executed an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia. This is the first time that this method of execution has been used in the United States. In 1994, I was instrumental in Maryland’s abandoning the gas chamber as its exclusive means of...
by Mark Stichel | Mar 6, 2025 | Insights
Students protesting at Columbia University on April 18, 2024Image credit: Emjackson42, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia CommonsSince Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023 and Israel’s reaction to it, campus protests have occurred at wide variety of colleges and universities in...
by Mark Stichel | Mar 6, 2025 | Insights
When I was growing up and I would complain to my mother that I wanted to do something that she would not allow or that my sister had done something to me, my mother often would respond: “Don’t make a federal case out of it.” Well, little did my mother know that I...
by Mark Stichel | Mar 6, 2025 | Insights
Photo Credit: Maize & Blue Nation, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsLate in the afternoon of Friday, November 10, 2023, while Coach Jim Harbaugh and the University of Michigan football team were in the air enroute to Penn State for a highly anticipated clash...
