The Repubblica Italiana’s former national air carrier may not get a new trial.
What should happen after an appellate court decides that the trial court erred by putting the case to a jury instead of conducting a non-jury trial? Do the original trial and verdict count for naught? Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh
Blawgletter confesses that we don’t often think of Saudi Arabian judges as exemplars of magisterial integrity. Indeed, until recently, we didn’t know that the penisula nation had a functioning court system.
Whatever impulse we had in the direction of admiring Saudi justice died when we read about a Saudi court’s decision to disbar a lawyer
This steer would prefer not to serve as model for hog-tying.
In March of this year, Blawgletter invoked Chief Justice Marshall’s dictum about the power to tax as the power to destroy in the context of Texas Supreme Court decisions on class actions:
Blawgletter doesn’t see a new day dawning for class actions in the
Blawgletter has concluded after 22 years of preparing witnesses to give depositions and testify at trial that even the finest testifying techniques can do only so much if you — yes you, the lawyer
If you couldn’t see the Packers v. Cowboys showdown last night, blame your cable company.
What should we make of the National Football League’s refusal to let cable companies show pro gridiron matches unless they, in turn, let subscribers watch the games in their standard "bundle" of cable channels instead of only on premium "tiers"
Anne Reed proved once again today that she knows her stuff — specifically about persuading a jury. Her Deliberations blawg gently breaks the news that Blawgletter didn’t make the ABA Journal Blawg Top 100 list by asserting — without a scrap of a shred of proof — that "[a]nyone can see that Blawgletter [and several
Today the Second Circuit vacated an order certifying a class of freelance authors and approving a settlement with electronic publishers. The case involved claims that the publishers infringed the writers’ copyrights by using electronic versions of their works without express permission. The court held that the lack of registrations for "the overwhelming majority" of the
Michael Smith publishes the EDTexWeblog.com. He writes often about patent cases, which have proliferated in the Eastern District of Texas over the last several years. As Mr. Smith takes pains to explain, the Eastern District attracts important patent infringement suits not because patentholders usually win but because the judges there handle the litigation efficiently
In Elbex Video, Ltd. v. Sensormatic Electronics Corp., No. 07-1097 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 28, 2007), the court held that the defendant failed to show a "clear and unmistakable" disavowal of a patent claim’s literal scope during prosecution of the patent. The disavowal in Elbex concerned whether, in a closed circuit television system, a
Have Nestle, Cadbury, Mars, and Hershey bitten off more than they can chew?
There. Blawgletter said it. The it meaning the title of this post.
You’d have done the same thing in our place.
Our provocation? We learned today that Canadian antitrust authorities have started an investigation into whether multinational chocolatiers fixed prices on the