A claimant whose lawyers years before gave more than $25,000 to the sole arbitrator’s judicial campaign failed to persuade the Third Circuit that the arbitrator harbored “evident partiality” against him.
The basis for his claim of bias? That the other side had contributed $4,500 to her campaign.
You got that right, people. The losing claimant
Did you see the piece in the March 2013 issue of ABA Journal by Bryan Garner? The guy who edits Black's Law Dictionary? Author of books on American, legal, and American-legal prosel. He wrote "Why lawyers can't write".
Whoa.
Mr. Garner said the great mass of legal writers think themselves Far Better at pen- and keyboard-wielding than the
Scene: A gun range. Snappy fires a G31 .357. Bitey watches.
Bitey: Hey Snaps. Did you ever wonder if people who play video games also own guns? I mean more than other people?
Snappy: [Pow, pow, pow.]
Bitey: Good shot! What about mentally ill people? Do lots of them own guns?
Snappy: [Pah-ya.]
Bitey: How about people with
Does the new AA logo portend better things for AA customers?
Blawgletter lives near a huge hub for air travel — the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport — that one carrier, American Airlines, dominates.
As you likely know, AA's parent, AMR, filed for chapter 11 reorganization more than a year ago. The move struck us
Within a large area, we should depend upon the jury to bring to bear what happens and is happening in our culture because judges, more than anybody else, are cut off. We’re generally old. Our children are grown up so we don’t see what’s going on in their world. Our friends are rich and successful.
Clients of Blawgletter's law firm told an outside consultant not long ago that they have "fun" working with our lawyers.
The funny thing? She hadn't asked them whether they enjoyed working with us. They volunteered that they do. Insisted on telling her that. Demanded that she write it down.
That took the interviewer by surprise
The Third Circuit held today that a New Jersey law barring the sale of more than one "handgun" to any person (other than collectors, target-shooters, and others who claim an exemption) doesn't violate the due process rights of people who want to purchase at least two handguns in a month. Ass'n New Jersey Rifle & Pistol Clubs v.
The D.C. Circuit cites Edmund Randolph, the first Attorney General, on what "happen" means.
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Bitey: Mmmm, mmmm, good! I sure
Blawgletter thinks we can all agree that no lawyer wants to see this sort of reference to him or her in a court ruling:
The failure to [do something important] was entirely and indefensibly the fault of [litigant's] counsel.
Communications Network Int'l, Ltd. v. MCI WorldCom Communications, Inc. (In re WorldCom, Inc.), No. 10-4588(l), slip
A Jordanian bank objected to turning over records that it claimed it couldn't produce without risking criminal prosecution by the governments of Jordan, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Monetary Authority.
The plaintiffs accused the institution, Arab Bank, of aiding terrorist groups that had killed and hurt them and family members in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. They sued under