The same set of ugly facts can give rise to a welter of claims. And not just a welter — also a variety.
Take a securities fraud case. It alleges that somebody misled investors, who as a result overpaid for a stock, bond, or other security. But the bad facts that motivated the lying often
The Third Circuit today upheld class treatment of an antitrust case that alleged bid-rigging by insurance brokers and carriers. The panel also okayed two settlements — one for $121,800,000 and the other for $28,000,000 — and a fee-and-expense award of $29,500,000 to class counsel. In re Ins. Brokerage Antitrust Litig., No. 07-1759 (3d Cir. Sept. 8
Blawgletter will host Blawg Review No. 229 next Monday, September 14. The theme? Something about John Harvard, an English pastor and namesake of Harvard University. He died September 14, 1638.
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Frank Hoover Easterbrook's opinions suggest a healthy self-regard.
Blawgletter has asked if the Chief Judge of the Seventh Circuit cares what you think. The way we posed the question implied how we would come out on it.
Today His Honor performed a Britney Spears. Oops, he did it again.
The case raised a nifty issue:
Most everyone knows by now that the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 made winning a federal securities lawsuit a lot harder — including by setting a tougher test for pleading scienter, which in context means the defendant intended to defraud someone.
Fewer people have heard that the PSLRA also raised the stakes for a plaintiff
Peter Lorre (1904-1964).
Blawgletter never tires of watching Casablanca (1942). It has all you could want — gorgeous movie stars (Ingrid Bergman and Peter Lorre), lovely music ("As Time Goes By" and "La Marseillaise"), a noirish look (in black and white), a passionate romance (between Bergman's Ilsa and Bogart's Rick), and a surprise ending – in
By 1997, Bose Corporation quit making tape recorders and players. Four years later, its general counsel said under oath that Bose still used its "WAVE" trademark "in connection with" such devices.
The Trademark Trial and Appeal Board — a unit of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — deemed the statement a falsehood and declared
When Blawgletter first heard about "discovery", we thought it barb'rous. You have to give your files to your enemy — the one who loves to call you names, who wants to bankrupt you, who prays for your painful death, but who secretly envies you? WHAT?!!
Since then, we've come to like it . . . some. The
The U.S. Courts website features lots of helpful info on what it calls, grandly, The Federal Judiciary.
Here you can get, for instance, Statistical Reports on all manner of data. One such report, Judicial Business of the United States Courts, tries to order all the facts so as to give you an idea — a
Kevin "They" Trudeau.
Kevin Trudeau must like getting strangers to buy stuff . . . with claims that defy belief. He seems to have done well at drawing money from people who want to believe more than they do believe. So well that, since 1998, the Federal Trade Commission has tried to shut him up.
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