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A former Fox & Friends host has moved to Portugal in the wake of civil lawsuits filed against him for his involvement in Indianapolis real estate deals gone bad. Professor Jennifer Drobac discussed the legal matters involved for a news story published in the Indianapolis Star.

Clayton Morris, the former Fox & Friends host, was part the Oceanpointe company with Bert Whalen of Indianapolis. Investors have accused the business of being a Ponzi scheme. The business sold at least 700 homes in some of the city's most troubled neighborhoods.

Leaving the country doesn't absolve Morris of his legal responsibility, Professor Drobac said in the story, but he need not return to the United States to defend himself if he has attorney representation.

Professor Drobac is a Samuel R. Rosen Professor of Law, who, among her other specialties, teaches contracts and sales. Her latest book, Sexual Exploitation of Teenagers: Adolescent Development, Discrimination, and Consent Law, was published in 2016 by University of Chicago Press. Professor Drobac was a Visiting Scholar during the Spring 2018 semester at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, and Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Law, Brain and Behavior. She was there conducting research for her next book, The Myth of Consent, which she is co-writing with Professor Oliver Goodenough. That work will explore the neuroscience of adult decision making and how the science should influence law reform.