The NYT leads today with a piece — disturbing to Blawgletter — on the high cost of paying in advance for a debit card. It cites examples like these:
The MiCash Prepaid MasterCard docks cardholders a $9.95 activation fee. Like many competitors, it then charges numerous recurring fees, including $1.75 for each A.T.M. withdrawal, $1 for
Their latest portrait.
The U.S. Supreme Court started its October Term 2009 a day ago — although Their Honors did rehear a big case on September 9.
If you've waited the summer long to see how the Court would deal with your cert. petition, your mandamus application, your request for a writ of prohibition, your
A painting of Man Controlling Trade at FTC headquarters.
The Federal Trade Commission has given fresh advice on what it deems false plugs for goods and labor.
And the agency's new Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising for the first time covers weblogs!
The FTC's press release for the up-to-date GCUETA
Leland Stanford Junior (1824-93).
The Federal Circuit ruled last week that the Leland Stanford Junior University doesn't own rights in patents (involving methods to check effectiveness of HIV treatments) and therefore can't sue drug-maker Roche for infringement.
The inventor, Mark Holodniy, signed contracts with both the Junior University (in 1988) and Roche's predecessor-in-interest (in the following year). But, while the
Jerry Buchmeyer (1933-2009) — lawyer, judge, humorist, family man.
Jerry Buchmeyer, 76, passed away on September 21. Blawgletter — along with a great many others — will miss him.
Judge Buchmeyer aimed for an ideal in which lawyers got along with and, yes, even liked each other. He coaxed attorneys to squint to see their opponents' humanity and to act decently. He didn't always use
Blawgletter visited this building in a hurricane.
Class plaintiffs waited almost a decade — and within six weeks of trial – before asking the district court to delete the main defense firm from the counsel of record list. The district court, we'd all guess, denied the motion. It likely also scolded the lawyers for pushing such a diaphonously
The Antitrust Division said in May that it thought the Supreme Court shouldn't take the case — you know, the one that let the National Football League get away with conspiring to halt competition for fan headgear sales. The Court grabbed it anyway.
Today, the AD said vacate and remand. Will the Justices see things the agency's way
Boy howdy, those judges in the Tenth Circuit sure do know their antitrust! Yeeeeehiiiii!
That court mystified Blawgletter earlier this year in a like case. See "Authentic Ski Resort Gibberish; Tenth Circuit Boots Antitrust Claim".
The new ruling surprises us less, for it draws on verbal hijinks the Supreme Court performed a mere seven
Zoladex® suppresses sex hormones.
AstraZeneca told people it got an average wholesale price of $X for its Zoladex® drug when it in fact received a far lower AWP due to discounts and rebates. The falsely high AWP let Zoladex® fetch more money per dose, enriching doctors who charged the AWP but got discounts and rebates
Blawgletter's firm represents Kivalina, Alaska.
Blawgletter can make a fair guess why Connecticut v. Am. Elec. Power Co., Inc., No. 05-5104-cv (2d Cir. Sept. 21, 2009), came out after Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor cleared the Senate last month. Had it preceded the event — and had Her Honor joined with her colleagues in the