Author: Errica Jensen

One type of legal error that appears almost predictable in hindsight is when you file a lawsuit to defend your reputation, only to have the very narrative you were attempting to suppress resurface. One of those is currently home to Kim Kardashian’s legal team. On March 30, 2026, a California judge decided that Kardashian and Ray J’s $6 million confidential settlement agreement, which was signed in 2023 and meticulously crafted to remain private, could not be hidden from the public. The agreement that was meant to put an end to the drama has now taken center stage. This situation is…

Imagine late afternoon on December 24, 2022, in a peaceful Florida neighborhood. On behalf of Patrick Reed’s lawyer, someone pulls up to a house, goes to the door, and delivers legal documents to the world’s best golfer, Rory McIlroy, who is spending Christmas with his family. The subpoena was a component of a civil antitrust lawsuit that attorney Larry Klayman filed against the PGA Tour, claiming that the tour had conspired with the DP World Tour to keep players from participating in LIV Golf. There was no lawsuit against McIlroy. He was being forced to testify regarding a player-only gathering…

A young Prince Harry co-founded a charity named after his late mother in the tiny nation of Lesotho in 2006. Sentebale, which translates to “forget me not” in Sesotho, was created to support HIV/AIDS-affected children in southern Africa. It was one of the more respectable things associated with his name for almost twenty years: real fieldwork, consistent funding, and a mission that seemed to go beyond formalities. His eventual donation of £1.2 million to the charity from the proceeds of his memoir Spare, which he described as “devastating,” appeared to be a rare instance of direct sincerity from a public…

It’s likely that a small postcard—easy to overlook, easy to mistake for junk mail, and easy to discard—arrived in your mailbox at some point in the last few weeks. It was sent by Kroll Settlement Administration LLC and included information about a data breach settlement and Lakeview Loan Servicing. You might have just missed out on money you are legally entitled to if you gave it a quick glance before throwing it in the recycling bin. The settlement is genuine. A $26 million settlement of class action lawsuits resulting from a cybersecurity breach in 2021 was reached by Lakeview Loan…

When you stroll through a dog park in a major American city on a warm afternoon, you’ll notice something that’s easy to miss until you pay close attention: the sound of dogs gasping for air. Flat-faced and charming, French bulldogs trot beside their owners with little wheezes of effort. Pugs are panting with a level of exhaustion that is out of proportion to the short distance they have traveled. These dogs are not ill, at least not in the sense that their owners have been asked. These breeds have won awards. The most popular in the country. They were also…

Using your opponent’s prior arguments to defeat them in court requires a certain level of legal audacity. It’s not very common. It’s usually decisive when it works. And in 1983, a lawyer by the name of John Kirby executed precisely that move on behalf of Nintendo, a then-small Japanese video game company, in a lower Manhattan federal courtroom. By doing so, Kirby may have saved the company’s entire American future. Nine months after Nintendo began selling Donkey Kong in the US, the conflict started in April 1982. The famous giant ape’s trademark was allegedly violated by Nintendo’s barrel-rolling gorilla, according…

A rain gauge at St. Louis Lambert International Airport recorded 8.64 inches of rain in a single day on the evening of July 26, 2022. In every neighborhood of the city, basements were flooded with water. Brown rushing water covered the roads. There were two fatalities. By the time the accounting was completed, the damage had reached a billion dollars. The term “1,000-year flood”—the statistical abbreviation for an occurrence so uncommon that it should, on average, only occur once in a millennium—appeared frequently in the news coverage that followed. The phrase was used by meteorologists. It was utilized by emergency…

A few days’ drive from the closest town of any size, deep in the Peruvian Amazon, there is a river that does something that rivers shouldn’t do. It boils. Not in a symbolic sense. The water temperature rises from a cool 20 degrees Celsius upstream to almost 100 degrees in the hottest parts, and steam rises in clouds through the overhanging jungle canopy, giving the impression that the air is inside a greenhouse. In just a few minutes, animals that fall in—such as frogs, snakes, and birds—are cooked from the inside out. The Asháninka people who live there refer to…

For the majority of its existence, the social cost of carbon was the kind of figure found in academic papers and regulatory impact assessments; it was meticulously calculated, constantly contested, and mostly unseen by those in charge of actual capital. It provided an answer to a question that was genuinely difficult to put into practice: how much economic damage results from releasing one more tonne of CO2 into the atmosphere? Climate models, damage functions, discount rates, and projections over centuries had to be integrated in order to provide the answer, and the final figure varied so significantly depending on the…

As you travel east from Port Elizabeth, which is now officially known as Gqeberha, into the Eastern Cape interior, the scenery changes in ways that are worth noticing. There are areas of land so damaged by decades of overgrazing that the soil has cracked into a grey crust that doesn’t hold water, doesn’t support crops, and hasn’t supported much of anything for a long time next to dense, ancient-looking stretches of thicket. From a moving car, the two can be distinguished from one another. What is hidden from view from the road is that some of that damaged land is…