The educator's website says someone has visited it 48 times since 2003. Spicy!
Georgetown Law Professor Randy E. Barnett today pens an item for the WSJ. His subject? The now-underway Senate Judiciary hearings to confirm, or reject, the tapping of Second Circuit Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Blawgletter wrote in April about a Fifth Circuit decision that, to our surprise, made a big deal about its — the court's – greater openness to the same argument by one side (the defense side) than by the other side. The issue concerned whether a party waived a right to arbitrate a dispute.
The panel in the April case found that the plaintiff
You don't see a lot of mergers these days — unless you mean mergers with the infinite, acquisitions by oblivion, pacts with ferryman Charon. Deal lawyers all over find themselves brushing up on things like the Uniform Commercial Code chapters that concern the calling of notes, foreclosures upon collateral, and the undoing of fraudulent transfers.
So — to
Say you win an arbitration. The state law you based your claim on calls for the winner to get his or her attorneys' fees. The loser goes to federal court to vacate the award but loses that gambit, too. Can you recover your fees for fighting the effort to overturn the arbitration outcome?
Yes, the
Dear Ms./Mr. My Firm is Too Good For You:
Thank you very much for your recent letter explaining that, despite the fact I am a wonderful person and will likely win the Nobel Prize for Law someday, you were not able to offer me a callback interview and/or a position as a Summer Associate. I
Something, plainly, has roused the worry of dominant firms. Witness today's WSJ — that stalwart of bigness and friend of the status quo — which featured these headlines:
Section 2 of the Sherman Act: Back from the Nearly Dead
Deals of the Day: Obama's Aggressive Antitrust Stance
Video: Day Ahead: Telecoms Under Antitrust Scrutiny
Tech Today:
The Antitrust Division at the U.S. Department of Justice yesterday filed a brief that the Second Circuit asked for in a case involving "reverse payments" to settle a patent lawsuit. RPs let a brand name drug-maker delay or limit competition by a maker of a generic copycat. The brand name owner — who also holds a patent that relates somehow
Today the Seventh Circuit deflected a barrage of darts from an order that certified class treatment of Commodity Exchange Act claims.
The plaintiffs alleged that Pacific Investment Management Company drove up the price of 10-year U.S. Treasury notes. PIMCO did the deed by buying more than 40 percent of the note inventory. The cornering strategy hurt the plaintiffs because
I'll huff, and I'll puff!
Frank Churchill and Ann Ronnell wrote the lyrics to a Depression-era favorite, Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf. Walt Disney's Silly Symphony cartoon, "Three Little Pigs", featured the song.
The title reminds Blawgletter of an Obama-era antitrust probe, which features Google as the likely bad guy that may
This man sells lysine. He also wears a wire for the FBI.
Blawgletter enjoys the comedic stylings of Matt Damon. Even as a janitor at MIT, Damon made with the funny stuff. Dark funny, yes. But funny.
Now Damon stars as a bi-polar price-fixer who turns state's evidence on his employer, Archer