Here Blawgletter sits on a Super 80 jetliner. The flight crew will soon — if the FAA doesn’t order a new inspection of the wire harnesses in the landing gear well — close the door and order us passengers to switch off of all electronic devices, including our laptop.
But before that happens we wanted
Yesterday Blawgletter received the Texas-only data from a recent essay on the "influence" of each state’s highest civil and criminal courts around the nation. We learned some tres interesting stuff.
Methodology. Let’s look at how the essay measured influence first. Jake Dear and Edward W. Jessen tallied all decisions, between 1940 and 2005, that
If you bought auction rate securities, you probably thought you could get a higher interest rate than with other highly liquid alternatives. You likely also believed you could get your money back, with interest, within a week. And Blawgletter bets you’ve gotten so mad that you almost can’t see straight when you learned recently
You’d be good if you had any speed.
Charles Bruton, star athlete at NHS, commenting circa 1974 on Blawgletter’s football-carrying prowess.
In January, Blawgletter posed this question: "Can Public Entities Hire Lawyers on a Contingent Fee Basis?" We got our answer today. The California Court of Appeal for the Sixth District said Yes — Yes, they bloody well can. County of Santa Clara v. Superior Court (Atlantic Richfield Co.), ___ Cal.App.4th ___ (Apr.
Last week, the Institute for Legal Reform — an arm of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — released results of a survey it commissioned on voters’ attitudes towards arbitration. It summarized the findings thus:
May a federal court impose sanctions for intentionally prolonging a lawsuit for the improper purpose of forcing a party opponent to cause transfer of a Redwood forest to the misbehaving party? Yes. May the court penalize conduct that occurs in collateral proceedings but involves the same opponent and arguably the same motive? No.
So the
The Eleventh Circuit today vacated a preliminary injunction because it deemed a presumption of irreparable injury arguably insufficient to establish the irreparable injury element. The court found the reasoning in a patent case, eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L.L.C., 547 U.S. 388 (2006), "applicable" to trademark claims but declined to rule on whether a presumption
At 1:00 p.m. Eastern on April 16, 2008, the American Bar Association will present a teleconference on "Current Developments in Business Litigation". Subjects will range from e-discovery and case evaluation to electronic exhibits and streamlining litigation. ABA members can participate for $9.75 and get an hour of CLE credit.
The ABA Journal previews the CLE
Blawgletter doesn’t much care for mushrooms. Or other kinds of fungi for that matter. A Federal Circuit decision two days ago confirms us in our bias.
Growing mushrooms, we learned as we read the opinion, produces a nasty byproduct — something by the name of "spent mushroom substrate". SMS’s nitrogen-richness creates problems, we also discovered
