Business, Law + Politics

Red-light cameras don’t reduce the number of traffic accidents or injuries at intersections where the devices are installed, according a new analysis by Case Western Reserve University. Touted by supporters as a way to increase public safety by ticketing drivers who continue through red lights, the...

All photos by Matt Shiffler. Current and former law students from Case Western Reserve University stepped in with legal services to help an Akron homeless shelter keep its doors open. Rebecca Sremack, a 2014 CWRU law school graduate who practices law with her father in Akron, heard the charity nee...

Sunday was Father’s Day—we honored those who helped to give us life and raise us into the people we have become. Mother’s Day, in May, presented the same opportunity. In our profession, we often have intellectual or inspirational mentors who are in many ways our professional progenitors. This is an ...

As part of its Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, Congress capped the personal deduction for state and local taxes at $10,000. Previously, there was no maximum deduction. Erik Jensen, the Coleman P. Burke Professor Emeritus of Law at Case Western Reserve University, said that despite claims to the cont...

Tension between the bottom line and efforts to improve society mirrors the conflicting neurological realities of our own brains Corporate programs aimed at offsetting the negative societal impacts caused by their profit-seeking tend to devalue the very people they intend to help. This unintended re...

Judge: Prison officials may not forcibly cut Rastafarian inmate’s dreadlocks, violating his religious freedom A team of Case Western Reserve University law students prevailed in a federal lawsuit arguing that an Ohio inmate should be allowed to keep his dreadlocks, protecting his religious freedom. ...

Statewide volunteer Patent Pro Bono initiative secures second patent, more on the way Securing a patent to protect an idea is time-consuming and expensive. Just ask Matthew Stephenson, who’s looking to patent his board game Battle Mound, bringing together chance and strategy—with “a measured level ...

Case Western Reserve University, along with Cleveland Marshall College of Law and the Metropolitan Bar Association, provides legal expertise in county’s Bail Task Force, which recently released its much-anticipated report Money shouldn’t be the only reason defendants are detained during bail hearing...

Law journal article raises the strategy’s legal, ethical implications To keep rising health care costs in check, many health insurers have adopted a strategy known as “step therapy,” a policy requiring patients to try cheaper drugs first—and find them to be ineffective—before approving pricier medic...

New games—now on display at MOCA—explore what's next in health care, transportation and finance From left: Professor Youngjin Yoo; Manoj Malhotra, dean of the Weatherhead School of Management; and artist Simon Denny at the opening of The Founder's Paradox Just as playing Monopoly helps illustrate ...