Assignment: Write an essay on a three (3) current events that relates to Business law class. Your essay should include a citation to the article your current event information came from (informal citation/link is fine no need to follow MLA format), no more than one paragraph explaining/summarizing the current event, and the remainder should be an explanation as to how it relates to the law and legal theory. One page per event below, three pages total.
1 Mental Capacity and Legality and the conservatorship of Britney Spears. What is a conservatorship?
https://www.glamour.com/story/the-britney-spears-conservatorship-situation-fully-explained
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/britney-spears-conservatorship-explained/
2) Lawyer Tom Girardi and his celebrity wife, Erika Jayne of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, are accused in a lawsuit of embezzling settlement money and using divorce to hide assets.
https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/suit-accuses-lawyer-tom-girardi-and-his-real-housewives-wife-of-stealing-crash-settlement-funds
3) What is libel, slander and defamation (in the United States).
https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965699284/fox-news-asks-court-to-dismiss-2-7-billion-defamation-suit
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/25/us/politics/rudy-giuliani-dominion-trump.html
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-new-york-new-york-city-lawsuits-manhattan-59aefbe9100fcf703335a03f9ccf5d06
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/elizabeth-warren-beats-covington-students-defamation-suit
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/02/22/supreme-court-shuts-down-stormy-daniels-lawsuit-against-trump-but-other-defamation-cases-still-alive/?sh=5fa797703305