John Cannon

On December 18, 2024, the Delaware Supreme Court (the “Court”) held in LKQ Corp. v. Rutledge[1] that forfeiture-for-competition provisions in employee equity award agreements are enforceable in certain contexts. This article summarizes the Court’s ruling and what it means for employers looking to implement forfeiture or clawback provisions as a means of enforcing restrictive covenants in equity compensation arrangements under Delaware law.

The weight of the crises our planet faces can feel overwhelming and disempowering. And the books that made Mongabay’s annual list take a hard look at the challenges — deforestation and species loss, climate-driven fires and coral bleaching, and inequality and colonialism — and unflinchingly present the gravity of each situation. But they also examine humanity’s place in the fabric, frayed as it may be, of the planet that sustains us all. Those connections are sometimes tangible — the sustenance they provide, for example. But they are also spiritual, leveling with wonder those among us with the courage to engage. And it’s from that wonder that so many draw inspiration to “remain steady in this fight,” Cristina Mittermeier writes in Hope: “Standing with others shoulder to shoulder until there is nothing left to stand for.” 1. The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History By Manjula Martin Image courtesy of Penguin Random House/Pantheon Books. The wildfire crisis in the western United States has sparked several books in recent years examining the tangle of a changing climate, forest management and fire suppression that have led to the mega-blazes that seem to occur every summer in the Northern Hemisphere. But few are as personal as The Last Fire Season. In 2020, the coastal redwoods in California’s Sonoma county, where author Manjula Martin was living, began to burn, as did the forests further south near Santa Cruz, where Martin was born. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and her own health crisis, she and…This article was originally published on Mongabay

After getting a steal on defense, Maryland School for the Deaf’s Jacqundia Fuller scored on a coast-to-coast layup.

john cannon, the frederick news-post, md. After getting a steal on defense, Maryland School for the Deaf's Jacqundia Fuller scored on a coast-to-coast layup.

Falling to the floor as she got fouled on a driving layup, Thomas Johnson's Aniya Gee Thomas slammed the court hard with both hands before getting up.

Altering natural habitats for agriculture is the single biggest driver of extinctions. Land conversion is contributing to what scientists call Earth's sixth mass extinction.

Getting open behind the 3-point arc, one thought flashed through Frederick freshman Cyrah Crews’ mind.

john cannon, the frederick news-post, md. Getting open behind the 3-point arc, one thought flashed through Frederick freshman Cyrah Crews' mind.

COLLEGE PARK — Dribbling left to right across the upper part of the lane, Maryland women’s basketball player Saylor Poffenbarger threw an over-the-head hook pass to Mir McLean, who was

WALKERSVILLE — Midway through the first quarter of Tuesday’s game, Walkersville girls basketball player Mia Ogg got the ball at the high post and whipped a pass down low to