Wex Law

06/20/2025

California has lost its one gun a month quota.

On Friday, a Ninth Circuit panel affirmed the Second Amendment Foundation's lower court victory against California's one-gun-a-month law.

06/07/2025

05/08/2025

Ownership doesn't vanish because you entrust something to another party. Paper records stored in a safe-deposit at a bank still belong to you—and the government can't rifle through it without a warrant. Digital records deserve the same treatment. Many state laws already recognize this principle, and in 2023, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that Google users "own their Google content," including their search histories. Congress should bolster privacy rights by modernizing the 1986 Stored Communications Act, which allows warrantless access to many digital records older than 180 days. States could also pass clearer statutes declaring that digital records are personal property.

A Supreme Court case could determine whether Americans own their digital data—or whether the government can take that information without a warrant.

02/04/2025

A new law, the Corporate Transparency Act, would be about to crush small-business owners, invade their privacy and violate their constitutional rights, had it been allowed to take effect as intended on New Year’s Day. It’s a bad law that was smuggled into an unrelated defense bill in 2020 under the cover of Covid-19. Although a federal court has enjoined its enforcement, Congress should take no chances and repeal it immediately.

Congress shouldn’t rely on the courts to undo its mistakes.

02/04/2025

The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a lower court order that was blocking enforcement of the CTA. However, a separate national injunction issued earlier this month by a federal judge apparently remains in place and continues to block the law’s implementation.

A group of Republican lawmakers are attempting to repeal the Corporate Transparency Act, which requires companies to disclose their true ownership, proclaiming the law “a big government overreach.”

09/02/2023

04/01/2023

In this matter, by refusing to join the class action suit all of my my clients assets were returned, every penny. It’s important to have a federal attorney in federal court.

A federal judge ruled against a lawsuit that accused FBI and DOJ of misleading a magistrate for a warrant to search a facility and seize roughly $85 million from private citizens.