Ruth Marcus, at The Washington Post, makes the case against charging U.S. Attorney General Gonzales with perjury.
Blawgletter thinks she has a point. Mr. Gonzales may not have exactly, literally, purposely lied.
Plus nobody believes him. So he has that going for him.
Barry Barnett
The WSJ’s Peter Lattman says that KSR v. Teleflex has already caused at least one judge to change his mind about whether a patent flunked the traditional "obviousness" test.
Barry Barnett
As the Bancroft family ponders a $5 billion bid by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation for control of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal, they may wish to consider what happened to another newspaper family — the McCartheys, who once controlled The Salt Lake Tribune.
Today, the Tenth Circuit held that the McCarthey
The Sixth Circuit today guessed what the Supreme Court of Kentucky would do. It concluded that the Court would recognize a claim by an excess insurance carrier against a primary insurance carrier for stupidly failing to settle a case within primary policy limits. Nat’l Surety Corp. v. Hartford Casu. Ins. Co., No. 06-6168 (6th
An item in today’s Washington Post illustrates why a good anecdote beats facts and figures.
Barry Barnett
Blawgletter went to a seminar today. It concerned legal writing. Our old friend Bryan Garner presented it.
Mr. Garner underlined some points by playing video clips. The excerpts came from interviews, mostly of judges. Mr. Garner asked the questions in them.
Except the one of 96-year-old Lord Denning. We liked it a lot anyway.
In 1975, Woody Allen said:
I dont want to achieve immortality through my work. . . . I want to achieve it by not dying.
James Barnett
The Washington Post reports today on a July 21 poll in which 31 percent of respondents said they regard the U.S. Supreme Court as "too conservative". Two years ago, before the appointments of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito, only 19 percent expressed that view.
Barry Barnett
General Counsel for Intel Inc., Bruce Sewell, today challenged the European Commission’s allegation that the chip maker used discounts to hurt competitor Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
A spokesman for the EC responded, saying "yeah-huh".
End of transmission.
Barry Barnett
Why wouldn’t a ball peen hammer do? See the movie!
Blawgletter doesn’t like to brag. We don’t have a prideful bone in our body. Plus we’d never think of making anyone feel inadequate by mentioning our achievements.
But we did see The Simpsons Movie — on the opening day! How many people you know
