Author: Aron Solomon

By Aron Solomon Late last week, a court handed Apple a bunch of small victories, while handing Epic, maker of the insanely popular Fortnite, a big one.  Here is the epic Epic press release they never wrote: Dear Gaming Community, We are your gods. While no one thought anyone could compel Apple to change their AppStore model, we did, with a little help from the courts. Our historic victory against Apple in the part of our court battle most relevant to you is going to bring big changes in how you can buy games. It’s going to mean more competitive…

By Aron Solomon A personal injury law firm near Vancouver, Canada took to social media with an offer to sue people who spread COVID-19. Imagine having Covid-19. Being told you have Covid-19. Being told to self isolate and taking basic steps to protect others. But not doing so and harming others. You may be called a Covidiot. You may be sued. They also claim on their site that they trademarked two taglines: We Sue Covid Spreaders ™ We Sue Covidiots™ While their social media post was definitely noticed, from a legal perspective, how successful will future COVID-19 civil lawsuits be…

By Aron Solomon This week marks the long-anticipated trial of Elizabeth Holmes, founder of the startup Theranos. In U.S. v. Elizabeth Holmes, et. al., what was once a Silicon Valley startup drama, then a TV and film drama, now becomes a courtroom drama. But what unique questions of law are there and where is the case going to actually end up? The stakes have always been high with Theranos. The company once had a market cap of $9 billion. On Tuesday, jury selection begins in the trial of Stanford-educated Elizabeth Holmes, the Theranos founder, who could face 20 years in…

By Aron Solomon With the eyes of the nation and the world on the Supreme Court right up until midnight last night, the course of action the Court chose was inaction. As of 12:01 this morning, the Texas 6-week “fetal heartbeat” abortion ban took effect, essentially making abortion illegal in all practical terms. Why did the Court do nothing? The very short answer is because it might have been the best legal path for them to follow. While this is justifiably seen as a major setback for pro-choice advocates in Texas and every other state of the union, the Supreme…

By Aron Solomon Washington State launched the Limited License Legal Technician program in 2015, with the truly admirable goal of training practitioners to provide affordable, regulated, and skilled legal services to the people in the state who had family law issues but couldn’t afford a lawyer. Only five years after the launch of what was, on the ground, an overwhelmingly successful program, the Washington Supreme Court turned on the program and ended it. There is little in the legal innovation space more disappointing than putting resources behind a new program to give more people access to justice, seeing promising initial…

By Aron Solomon What a baseball season it has been. Major League Baseball just held their first Field of Dreams game in Dyersville, Iowa, a way to reconnect with their fans and harken back to an earlier time. The event was a massive success, garnering the best broadcast ratings in almost two decades. Meanwhile, Minor League Baseball, mere months after an MLB-led reorganization that saw a loss of around 40 teams, one of which took to the courts, made the news this season in far more visceral ways. Stories of players sleeping in their cars, needing to choose between food…

By Aron Solomon On Thursday afternoon, TMZ first reported that Jamie Spears would agree to begin the process to remove himself as conservator for his daughter, Britney Spears. To Ms. Spears and her fans, this is truly remarkable progress in the few weeks since the court allowed her to hire her own lawyer and move forward with the process of seeking to extricate herself from a 13-year conservatorship. For those unfamiliar with the legal process known as a conservatorship, under California Probate Code § 1801, it is a court case where a judge appoints a responsible person or organization (the…

Aron Solomon, editor for Today’s Esquire, joined host George Young on KFRU’s the Closers to discuss recent current legal issues surrounding the NFL and NCAA. Take a listen below!

By Aron Solomon Imagine you’re new to a city and adore coffee. Like borderline obsessed with it. Okay, not really borderline. How do you find the best coffee? I moved back to my hometown of Montreal in 2020 after almost four years in Berlin. In Berlin, a truly world-class coffee city, there are a few iconic coffee spots that anyone new to the city will quickly hear about. Montreal is different. The city is much more divided into neighborhoods and people tend to take their coffee more hyper-locally than they do elsewhere, at least in my experience. So once I…

By Aron Solomon I am a sneakerhead. I honestly don’t own a pair of shoes (aside from snow boots) that aren’t a sneaker of one type or another. I’ve been quasi-obsessed with sneakers for half a decade. I’m not alone, with close to $100B of sneakers sold globally each year. Sneakers have also been in the legal spotlight a lot over the past few weeks and that doesn’t look like it’s about to end soon. While we have seen decades of sneaker wars between the world’s major brands, now the battle lines are expanding and engaging new combatants. For years,…