News item: Trump press secretary calls lies “alternative facts” I have mixed feelings about saying this: the law has long lived with “alternative facts.” And it’s lawyers and judges more than politicians who create them. Legal fictions, and fact-warping legalese, have been with us sin

[The following post derives from work on my forthcoming book, Legal Fictions & Presumptions, and Constructive, Deemed, Implied, and Imputed Entities: An Encyclopedic Desk Reference on Their Status at Law] It used to be that our law distinguished between attempts that were impossib

It is a useful coincidence that the 119th anniversary of Emile Zola’s J’Accuse occurs exactly a week before the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States. As viewed by the greater French writer, Anatole France, the trumped-up Alfred Dreyfus case (Zola ris