My Symphony
To live content with small means;
to seek elegance,
rather than luxury,
and refinement,
rather than fashion;
to be worthy, not respectable,
and wealthy, not rich;
to study hard, think quietly,
talk gently, act frankly;
to listen to stars and birds,
to babes and sages,
with an open heart;
to bear all cheerfully,
The American Tort Reform Association published its Judicial Hellholes 2007, er, report. Imagine Blawgletter’s excitement.
Adam Liptak, in his Sidebar column at the NYT, points out a few shortcomings in the, ah, report — including that "[i]t has no apparent methodology."
[Meanwhile, the folks at Addicting Games have a series of HellHoles episodes
Beyonce Giselle Knowles.
The Fifth Circuit yesterday affirmed a summary judgment in favor of singer-songwriter-movie star Beyonce Knowles, whom Jennifer Armour accused of copying the "hook" in her "Got a Little Bit of Love for You". The hook, according to the complaint, found its way into Ms. Knowles’s "Baby Boy". The court affirmed the summary
NERA Economic Consulting released a study of trends in "shareholder class actions". It concludes that, after a sharp decline in 2006, filings have returned to 2005 levels. Most of the credit goes to cases against subprime lenders and their enablers, NERA reports.
Should you bother to read the consulting firm’s conclusions? No.
For one thing
Heracles holding Cerberus.
For those of you whose taste inclines to the intersection of ancient myth with modern law, Chancellor Chandler’s summary judgment opinion will thrill:
In classical mythology, it took a demigod to subdue Cerberus, the beastly three-headed dog that guarded the gates of the underworld. In his twelfth and final labor, Heracles journed
The Globe and Mail (Toronto) describes affidavits that Canadian antitrust enforcers used to get chocolate search warrants last month. The Competition Bureau filed the 24-page and 57-page affidavits with the Ottawa Superior Court of Justice. The WSJ has a similar article.
The affidavits tell of a price-fixing conspiracy lasting from 2002 until a few
We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence.
Joint Statement, Dec. 20, 2007, explaining that the two will recommence production of The Colbert Report and The Daily Show
The WSJ reports that the Delaware chancery court rejected United Rental Inc.’s bid to force Cerberus to consummate a $4 billion buy-out.
Blawgletter doesn’t have the details, but we imagine that Chancellor William Chandler shared our doubts about URI’s case. We "wonder[ed] whether [URI’s] lawyers read section 8.2(e) of the Agreement and Plan of Merger
The greatest judge since Solomon?
"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every
The NYT reports that the first-ever quarterly loss at Bear Stearns foretokens more agony on Wall Street. The article doesn’t explain why.
Blawgletter has heard that the subprime fallout won’t end until investors learn where the risk of subprime borrower defaults ended up. Apparently the subprime industry did such a terrific job of shifting risk