As the National Rifle Association meets this weekend in Houston, our Solons in Austin ponder new laws that bear on your right to bear arms in the Lone Star State.
See if you can tell the real bills from the ones Blawgletter made up.
Rep. Dan Flynn (R-Van) sponsors HB 47, which would, for
[I]f people went around suing everyone who accepted a loan for less money than [he] actually needed, the courts wouldn't have time for anything else.
Matt Bai, "Thrown for a Curve", The New York Times, Apr. 21, 2013 (casting asparagus on Rhode Island's lawsuit against baseball great Curt Schilling and others for
Blawgletter admires good writing, no matter whence it comes. But we like it better when a judge produces it.
Last week, Fifth Circuit Judge Jacques Wiener did a fine piece of work. It kind of sings. And it tells the on-going tale of Dickie Scruggs, the rich lawyer who flew too close to the sun.
The WSJ today came out with an item on the mirage of law firms' hourly rates.
The author posits that clients often ask for dollars-off the firms' rack rates — a carry-over, she suggests, from the Great Recession. She also notes that bet-the-company cases and must-do deals still draw clients to the best legal talent
Guns, guns, guns
People up with which Blawgletter grew adored guns. They loved to look at them, handle them, clean them, buy them, hunt with them, display them, target-shoot with them, sight them, sell them, talk about them, load them, unload them, compare them, oil them, swap them, put scopes on them, make ammo for
People love dogs. At least some people do. Others adore cats. A few cherish both. Yet others go ga-ga over more exotic beasts. And they hate to see them suffer and grieve when they die.
The Supreme Court of Texas today shared the pain of critter-lovers across the Lone Star State, even citing a movie
In a review of Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts (3d ed. 2012), U.S. Magistrate Judge Randolph F. Treece writes about a chapter that Blawgletter co-authored:
Two chapters I hope readers would not overlook are "Techniques for Expediting and Streamlining Litigation" and "Litigation Technology". The former chapter is replete with commonsensical practical approaches to
Did we fight a war in Iraq?
Blawgletter’s raising the question may cause you to wonder whether we ate lead paint chips as a child. But the Fourth Circuit just treated the issue as a legitimate one. Why can’t we?
The controversy arose in a qui tam (False Claims Act) case against Halliburton and its
A brigantine making sail — perhaps to escape spoliation.
Have you noticed how many e-discovery pros have e-merged in the last decade to offer e-services? Some promise low, low prices, vow super se-cure review platforms in the cloud, and guarantee nearly-omniscient pre-dictive coding software? They call, text, or e-mail you e-very day.
You may treat
When Blawgletter did a stint in law school as a student-prosecutor in Brookline and Dedham, Massachusetts during the 1980s, district attorneys could use “peremptory challenges” to strike anyone from panels of potential jurors for any reason at all, including racial, religious, and gender bias. Many juries as a result did not come close to reflecting