Your lawyer writes to a Las Vegas casino — The Venetian, say. In his letter he asks "that all credit lines established by [or for you] immediately be terminated and that no further credit be extended to [you] under any circumstances."
Seems you may have some kind of gambling problem?
Seven months later find you
Happy 2011, y'all.
If you feel a wee bit sluggish on the first Monday of the New Year, don't fret. All of us have a touch of it. March forward. It will pass.
Blawgletter feels something else today. The red face thing. Blushing. Because before now we hadn't given you a link on our Blawgroll to
I listen to a lot of AM radio.
Bucky Katt, Get Fuzzy, Jan. 1, 2011 (responding to question "and where do you come up with all your wacko theories?").
Mr. Harcourt writes in two languages. The first you have already recognized as a servic[e]able kind of American. The second, just quoted, is the tongue indigenous to the race of college professors who inhabit Planet Tenure. One can tease out some meaning from this tribal patois, but only with application.
James Grant, "Price and Punishment"
You have to admire a group that feels so little need to persuade non-believers that it describes entire U.S. metropoli as "hellholes".
The American Tort Reform Association does just that, year in, year out.
Max Kennerly, in his Litigation and Trial, takes a look at the latest instance of ATRA's
How is Susman's Marfa office doing?
Happyoff, commenting on Above the Law, Dec. 13, 2010.
Bonus: Guest replied that "Marfa's way too hippy for Big Cat".
Blawgletter doesn't know what Big Cat refers to but likes the way it sounds.
On Saturday, the partners in Blawgletter's firm voted to make five associates partners as of January 1, 2011.
Congratulations to each of them:
Matt Berry (Seattle)
Daniel Charest (Dallas)
Ryan Kirkpatrick (Los Angeles)
Stephen Shackelford (Dallas)
Arun Subramanian (New York)
Do you read the law blogs on Blawgletter's Blawgroll? (You can see it on the left-hand side . . . a little lower . . . a bit more . . . there!)
Today we checked out Ernie the Attorney (by the fabulous Ernest Svenson) and saw a rave review of Ross Fishman and
You may recall, as Blawgletter fondly does, a Simpsons episode featuring a monorail that an itinerant huckster — Lyle Lanley — convinced the good people of Springfield to buy for $3 million. The money came from a fine the town assessed against power plant owner C. Montgomery Burns for dumping nuclear waste.
The decision to invest in
A panel of the Fourth Circuit joined sister circuits today in holding that courts "of" a state differ in a basic way from courts "in" the state.
A contract clause that speaks of the courts "of" the Commonwealth of Virginia means Virginia state courts and Virginia state courts only, the panel ruled; courts "of" a state
