Scapegoat. Gets blame for others’ misdeeds.
Last week, Blawgletter questioned former White House official "Scooter" Libby’s combination of an "I forgot the truth" defense to perjury and obstruction charges with a "the White House framed me" defense (here). Mr. Libby’s lawyer explained it, sorta, today:
Theodore Wells, Jr., said Libby’s actions were those
An English jury. Can America dispense with this inheritance?
A fascinating amicus brief (copy here) arrived on January 6, 2007, in the office of the Clerk, Supreme Court of Texas. The author, a law professor at Baylor University, submitted it pro bono. His purpose? To lament what he sees as the Court’s role in
Senator Franken?
Blawgletter learned today that a comedian will run for U.S. Senate in his home state of Minnesota, hoping to challenge incumbent Norm Coleman in November 2008. The news recalled a 1979 appearance by the candidate, Al Franken, on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update:
Jane Curtin: Well, the 1970’s are in their
One kidnapper totally silenced the
other — with an axe — in Fargo (1996).
Blawgletter never tires of watching Fargo. And you? Remember the scene when one kidnapper (Steve Buscemi) complains that the second kidnapper (Peter Stormare) doesn’t talk much? Then he says: "Two can play at that game, smart guy. We’ll just see
If these stones could talk, would they
whisper "go to Durrington Walls, nitwit"?
Stonehenge never fascinated Blawgletter much. Ancient druids? Tree-worshipers? Pish-paw.
But, according to the Los Angeles Times, Blawgletter should have shown more tolerance. A story reports that archeologists found a nearby site (at Durrington Walls) that may have housed solstice-celebrating human party
Did T.R. pull his antitrust punches?
Blawgletter has speculated that antitrust enforcement runs in cycles (see here). More support for the guess comes today from the pages of San Jose Mercury News (article here):
"Right now from a business perspective, it appears frankly that there has been a retreat from Section 2
Would President Homer Simpson subject
new federal rules to political oversight?
In episode 229 of The Simpsons, the local newspaper replaces its retiring food critic with Homer Simpson. Homer’s new power so corrupts him that he slams a dinner theatre performance of King Lear. Another negative notice prompts pizzeria owner Luigi
Economist Adam Smith during
his regrettable long-hair phase.
At least since college, Blawgletter has admired the exquisite contradictions of government regulation, which business trial lawyers encounter all the time. Economic theory, on the one hand, teaches that any meddling with market forces — whether by bureaucrats or private monopolists — hurts overall "consumer welfare", the
The First Circuit holds that debtors can’t rescind their loans on a class-wide basis under the Truth in Lending Act. If you want to rescind, the court concludes, you must do it individually. Opinion here.
Well, duh.
Did Blawgletter say painless? We meant less painful. Sorry. It still will hurt.
Partly because employees of business litigants can copy electronic files an almost infinite number of times and put them on many media (servers, local disk drives, floppy disks, USB drives, CDs, DVDs, PDAs, and so forth) in lots of physical
