Writing for a unanimous panel, Second Circuit Judge John M. Walker, Jr, today gave half a dozen or more reasons why the district court shouldn’t have certified a class of "light" cigarette smokers. They included that:
Speaking on condition of anonymity, Chief Justice John Glover Roberts, Jr. — the "Glover" is silent — announced today that the U.S. judiciary will keep its opinions to itself for the duration of April Fools’ Day. Unidentifiable but independent sources verified the gist of the Chief’s secret press release.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82), commenting
The nutty Pacific Research Institute just came out with its latest goofy survey of the tort liability situation in these United States, the "U.S. Tort Liability Index: 2008 Report".
One may gauge the seriousness of the report by how it classifies states — as "saints", "sinners", "salvageable", and "suckers". Also by its referring
In the lore of antitrust class action litigation, indirect purchaser cases — as they say in East Texas — suck hind tit.
Why? Because they usually get into federal court on the hypothesis that the indirect purchasers need protection against future predations of the antitrust violators. They then harness to the injunctive relief claim a
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation heard arguments today at the Homer Thornberry Judicial Center in Austin, Texas. The Panel assigned 20 minutes each to more than a dozen motions to centralize before one federal judge cases pending in multiple federal district courts. Most of the arguments consisted of short bursts, often as terse
The Eleventh Circuit today reversed dismissal of misappropriation claims by a group of doctors against a "preferred provider organization" that contracted for their services and another company that sold "medical discount cards". The practitioners of the healing arts complained that the PPO improperly let the card-seller use their identities and practice information to market its
Nathan Koppel at the WSJ reports today that Melvyn Weiss, founding partner of the Milberg Weiss LLP law firm, will plead guilty in a case alleging improper kickbacks to class representatives in securities fraud cases. The plea deal requires him to serve 18 to 33 months in prison and to pay $10 million in
Remember The Iceman Price Fixeth? The post that reported a raid of Reddy Ice’s Dallas headquarters by federal antitrust enforcer types?
The raid now looks like the tip of a solid water object that floats and bobs in liquid water near the polar regions.
The Annual Report on Form 10-K of Reddy Ice Holdings
Last week, federal antitrust authorities raided the Dallas headquarters of Reddy Ice Holdings Inc., the biggest maker, packager, and distributor of ice in the United States. The other gargantuan ice vendor in North America, Arctic Glacier Inc., with main offices in Winnipeg, Manitoba, also reported a brush with the antitrust probe.
See the Reddy Ice
All the world knows that use of asbestos in the United States skyrocketed during World War II but took a nosedive after the public started realizing its health hazards. Between 1973 and 2005, total domestic consumption dropped from 803,000 metric tons to 2,400. So says the National Cancer Institute, a part of the U.S. National