Bill Lerach in happier days.
Nathan Koppel reports in the WSJ that securities class action lawyer William Lerach, 61, has agreed to plead guilty to a single count of conspiracy. If a judge accepts the deal, Mr. Lerach will serve one to two years in prison, according to the report, which also mentions that the
Hollywood turned Erle Stanley Gardner’s Perry Mason
into a hottie.
SAN JOSE DEL CABO, BCS: This morning Blawgletter attended a presentation about what jurors nowadays expect to see in trials. The event featured not only the Trial of Socrates but also video clips from Perry Mason, Judge Judy, CSI, Boston Legal, and Shark. Wow.
We
Blawgletter reminisced today about an odd-sounding tort that we vaguely recall as commercial in nature — trespass to chattels. You know, exercising dominion over movable property to which somebody else has a superior possessory right.
What brought the memory rushing back? Why, O.J. Simpson’s arrest in Las Vegas yesterday, of course.
O.J. now resides
Nominee Mukasey and President Bush.
Yesterday, Blawgletter posed a question: "Olson Out, Mukasey In as AG Nominee?" Today we got our answer.
Yes.
You can read President Bush’s remarks here. Plus a White House "Fact Sheet: Michael Mukasey: A Strong Attorney General" here.
Early news reports suggested that opposition will come,
Imagine Blawgletter’s surprise when we read this morning that a new front-runner for U.S. Attorney General has emerged — and that he stands a good chance of quick confirmation.
The Washington Post names former federal judge Michael B. Mukasey as "the leading candidate". The WSJ includes an Associated Press report that conservatives "believe [Mr. Mukasey]
A USB flash drive.
Yesterday, Blawgletter’s ears pricked up when we saw a WSJ report that the Antitrust Division has started probing possible anticompetitive behavior in the "flash memory" business. We also noted a story that somebody — a certain Mr. Go — already filed a civil lawsuit against flash memory chip makers
Yesterday, speaking to a law enforcement group in Iowa, Alberto Gonzales, who leaves office today, said:
We’re all human and all of us make mistakes, and the thing that’s important is to identify when those mistakes are made, acknowledge the mistakes, correct the mistakes and then you move on. So, you know, that’s what I’ve
Blue sky.
To Blawgletter, "repose" suggests tranquillity and sleep. But in law it also implies shuffling off the legal coil.
So it went today for a bankruptcy trustee. His claim arose from the bankruptcy debtor’s sale of stock in a company that he and his family owned. The trustee alleged that the corporation forced the
The Federal Circuit reversed dismissal of a pro se complaint for patent and trademark infringement, holding that it "met the minimal pleading requirements". The patent count sufficed because it asserted ownership of a specific patent, identified the infringer, cited the patent as the subject of infringement, "described the means" by which infringement occurred, invoked a
At a Defense Department briefing on February 12, 2002, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said:
Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we