You don't get to meet the Chief Judge of a U.S. Court of Appeals every day. Unless perhaps you work for her or belong to his nuclear family.
Blawgletter had the honor of having a visit with Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs, who presides over the Second Circuit, at our firm's open house last week in
People who handle cases in all kinds of civil courts, whether state, federal, or both, get an odd feeling when they wander into a special kind of civil court — the U.S. bankruptcy court. The oddness comes partly from the strange ways bankruptcy law handles disputes. Often, the merits of a claim seem to take a
Being tall, approaching someone, and asking them questions (even in an accusatory tone) does not arguably satisfy the elements of any crime.
Ackerson v. City of White Plains, No. 11-4649-cv, slip op. at 14 (2d Cir. Dec. 4, 2012) (reversing summary judgment against plaintiff Ackerson, who charged that police officers falsely arrested him for "third degree
Blawgletter believes trial judges should set a limit on how long each side can take to try a case. Any time a lawyer for Side A has the floor as the jury sits in the box counts against Side A. The same applies to Side B. Our firm in fact includes a pact on trial
[Today we reprise our Thanksgiving Day post from four years ago, not long after the bottom fell out of financial markets.]
Even calamity ought not divert us from counting and giving thanks for our blessings, President Lincoln reminded Americans on October 3, 1863, in the midst of the War Between the States:
The year that
Blawgletter had the pleasure of trying a case in Louisiana state court last year. The subject matter — a fight over oil and gas rights and 3D seismic data — fit well within our legal wheelhouse. But something made us feel like a fish out of water.
The law in the Pelican State, you see, gets
Do you own a handgun? If so, did you yourself purchase it? Did you do so before you turned 21? And, regardless, do you believe a person in the 18 to 20 year-old range has a constitutional right to acquire small weapons that fire bullets?
Congress, in the waning days of President Lyndon Johnson, seems
Hairless CEO to Dilbert's pointy-hair boss: Did you know that poor people invented ethics to control rich people?
Hairless CEO to empty space: Nice try, poor people! It's not working!
Hairless CEO to pointy-hair boss: If they haven't killed me by now, a little trash talk won't make any difference.
Scott Adams, Dilbert, Sept. 14, 2012.
You don't see this sort of thing every day.
The CEO of Bridge Capital, John K. Baldwin, lives and works in the Northern Mariana Islands — "one of the two insular area Commonwealths of the United States of America, the other being Puerto Rico", per Wikipedia, Blawgletter's main source for facts whose accuracy doesn't
Captain Kirk goes dramatic.
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