The sign owner dislikes needless racket. Nature abhors a vacuum. The law hates superfluity.
The Federal Circuit today held that a patentholder didn’t release future patent infringement claims despite release language that . . . released future patent infringement claims. The saving grace? That the parties’ lawyers, while drafting a settlement agreement that resolved patent
The Texas Lawyer’s Tex Parte Blog has a new post up — "Susman Godfrey on a roll at state’s high court".
Did this man pay the City of New York tobacco tax?
A 2-1 panel of the Second Circuit today reversed dismissal of claims arising from Internet merchants’ allegedly fraudulent failure to report sales of cigarettes to customers within the City of New York. The allegedly deceptive conduct deprived the city of tax money — dollars
Napoleon I (1769-1821) before St. Helena.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Membership on the Supreme Court of Texas has stabilized since mid-2005.
Wow. The High Nine in Austin opened the decisional floodgates today. Lookie here for the August 29 Weekly Orders.
Three of the 22 opinions involved Blawgletter’s law firm. Our dear clients prevailed in all three:
The Supreme Court of California — the most influential state high court in our nation — held this week (1) that, contrary to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling under the federal Arbitration Act, parties may contract for a searching review of arbitration awards under the California Arbitration Act and (2) that the CAA requires courts
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974).
In 1932, journalistic philosopher Walter Lippmann wrote of a presidential candidate:
He is a pleasant man, who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.
Our feed never dips its figurative pen in metaphoric vitriol.
Applying a combination of federal enactments arising from abolition of the gold standard during the Great Depression and current Ohio contract law, the Sixth Circuit today reversed a decision that struck down a lease clause requiring payment of rent "in gold coin of the United States of the present standard of weight and fineness." Such
Today Blawgletter again has the Great Honor of presenting Thoughtful Comments by an Eminent Lawyer on a Topic of High Interest. Ron Woessner — Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Zix Corporation — writes about what he sees as the incongruity between the American Bar Association’s approval of entrusting confidential communications to regular email
Pedants care about distinctions without differences. Or do we?
Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary offers five definitions (plus three sub-definitions) for the adjective "verbal":
1 a: of, relating to, or consisting of words <verbal instructions> b: of, relating to, or involving words rather than meaning or substance <a consistency that is merely verbal and
