The Fifth Circuit today reversed a summary judgment in an antitrust case. Wow! And great!! Tunica Web Advertising v. Tunica Casiono Operators Ass’n, Inc., No. 06-60305 (5th Cir. Aug. 13, 2007).
The court did so because the owner of an internet domain name — tunica.com — provided direct evidence that casino owners in Tunica
Carol C. Lam graduated from college with Blawgletter.
QUALCOMM announced today:
Lou Lupin has resigned his position as executive vice president and general counsel. Carol Lam, senior vice president and legal counsel, will serve as acting general counsel of QUALCOMM while a nationwide executive search is conducted for a new general counsel.
The company
Judges say ugly things about lawyers, and lawyers sometimes return the favor. Most of the time, the criticism stays in bounds, especially in the from-lawyer-to-judge direction. But what happens when the lawyer takes such offense that he protests to a higher court, which believes that "there appears to be some force to his arguments on
After 9/11, employees at a Honda dealership in Conroe, Texas, started calling a Muslim car salesman from India "Taliban" and "Arab". Managers made fun of what he ate and mocked his prayer rituals. When he asked why he had to attend a United Way meeting, his supervisor wrote him up for acting like a "Muslim
Yesterday, a federal judge in Salt Lake City ruled against The SCO Group on its claim to ownership of copyright in the UNIX operating system. The court held that SCO’s predecessor, Santa Cruz Operations, received only a license to use the UNIX copyright material in a 1995 deal with Novell, Inc. Ownership remains in
Edward Gibbon (1737-94).
The great Gibbon wrote in chapter 2 of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88):
This long peace, and the uniform government of the Romans, introduced a slow and secret poison into the vitals of the empire. The minds of men were gradually reduced to the same
Check your email this Monday for the July-August issue of award-winning Barnett’s Notes on Commercial Litigation.
In this Issue
Legal Mythology. Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns. Plus law stuff.
Did You Know? The hourly fee’s lethality.
Hydraulic Pressure to Settle. A myth bigger
Applying Ohio’s blue sky law, the Sixth Circuit today held that one who exchanges stock in company A for stock in company B qualifies as a "purchaser" of the company B stock and therefore has a right to rescind the transaction. Murphy v. Stargate Defense Systems Corp., Nos. 06-3980 & 06-4034 (6th Cir. Aug.
Today the Seventh Circuit vacated a temporary restraining order that froze all assets of a commodity-pool operator. The district court issued the TRO because the company failed to turn over records to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The appeals court held that the TRO couldn’t last more than 20 days without a preliminary injunction hearing.
Jessica Simpson in Daisy Duke mode for DIRECTV.
The Second Circuit today affirmed a preliminary injunction against DIRECTV’s television ads featuring Jessica Simpson (as Daisy Duke from The Dukes of Hazzard) and William Shatner (as Captain Kirk from Star Trek). The court held that the spots falsely implied that DIRECTV provided better high-definition