Federal income tax cuts expire at the end of this year. Or should we say that taxes rise on New Year's Day? Or that tax rates revive when that ball in Times Square reaches its nadir?
No matter what you call what will happen a few months hence tax-wise, Blawgletter cannot, for the life of us
[A] nerd is someone . . . who has more e-mail addresses than pants.
Damon Darlin, "Behind My Seven Phone Numbers", The New York Times, Sept.12, 2010.
(Note: The online version of the article changed the title to "Cellphone Carriers Are Turning to Wi-Fi, Too".)
The Second Circuit last week prescribed death for a class action alleging that Eli Lilly and Company fooled doctors into treating patients with Lily's anti-schizophrenia drug Zyprexa.
The plaintiffs — unions and others that pay all or part of patients' pharmaceutical bills — alleged that Lilly violated the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act by hiding and misrepresenting
Fresh from firing its CEO Mark Hurd, Hewlett-Packard has now sued him for going to work for Oracle.
So reports The Bottom Line blog. The post includes a link to the Civil Complaint for Breach of Contract and Threatened Misappropriation of Trade Secrets.
Something about inevitable disclosure of trade secrets. Paragraph 46 of
The Seventh Circuit struck a blow last month for certifying securities fraud cases as class actions — and against the Fifth Circuit's attempt, the panel believed, "to 'tighten the requirements' for class certification" in such cases.
The court held the district court did right by rejecting the defendants' "arguments that if accepted would end the use
Blawgletter recalls early on hearing about "the bow tie rule". People who wear bow ties, the rule supposes, want to stand out. They regard themselves as unique. They desire others to see visible proof of their disdain for norms, wardrobe-wise and otherwise. And you don't want them on your jury. They'll tend to disagree with other
The Third Circuit has ordered rehearing by the full court in a sprawling antitrust case against price-fixer and market-allocator DeBeers.
The order vacated a panel decision that mainly upheld denial of class certification. Blawgletter did a short review of the decision in Third Circuit Cuts Global Diamond Class. There we said:
DeBeers, the diamond behemoth,
You sell your company, including its "good will", to a competitor. Your buyer promises in the Purchase Agreement to hire you in a "generally comparable" position and to make you "eligible for participation in the Incentive Cash Bonus Plan". But the contract puts the "amount of the bonus . . . at the discretion of the Salary
Seldom does Blawgletter get the pleasure of reading an Intriguing and Forceful Analysis of a recent and important court of appeals decision. Our dear friend Sam Simon blessed us with his views about In re Ins. Brokerage Antitrust Litig., No. 07-4046 (3d Cir. Aug. 16, 2010) (post here), today. And, with his kind
The Third Circuit came out last week with a 200-page rumination on the post-Twombly plausibility of conspiracies under section 1 of the Sherman Act (and the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act). In re Ins. Brokerage Antitrust Litig., No. 07-4046 (3d Cir. Aug. 16, 2010).
The court upheld dismissal of hub-and-spoke conspiracy claims that