Law, Strategy, and Risk in Commercial Disputes
Tech firms like Cisco, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM urge us to compute in the cloud.
What cloud, you say? The Internet, Blawgletter replies.
You can store vast amounts of information in the Internet cloud — millions of pages of your clients' documents, for instance. The info resides, electronically, on a physical server somewhere. You…
The New York Times published a fascinating article yesterday about fees in mega-bankruptcies — your Lehman Bros., your Washington Mutuals, and your General Motors, to name a few.
Compare Nelson D. Schwartz and Julie Creswell, "Who Knew Bankruptcy Paid So Well?" with "How Susman Godfrey Handles Cases".
A lawyer who takes a case on a bet that she will win a judgment or settlement risks more than do colleagues who bet nothing on the outcome. We call the latter hourly lawyers. And, more than ever after today, we may deem the former gougers or worse.
For on yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court…
A Taiwanese company with headquarters in Taiwan sued Apple, Inc., in Arkansas federal court. The claims related to digital music players and what the plaintiff deemed "abusive" litigation tactics by Apple in Taiwan and Germany. The district court declined to moved the case to the Northern District of California. The Eighth Circuit granted mandamus relief and ordered transfer. …
[A]n unwritten contract is not worth the paper it isn't written on.
Whittington v. Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation, Inc., No. 08-3352, slip op. at 9 (7th Cir. Apr. 14, 2010) (holding that man who claimed to have loaned 1979 Kremer Racing Porsche 935 K3 failed to prove ownership) (Kanne, J.).
Justice John Paul Stevens, who has served on the U.S. Sureme Court since 1975, wrote President Barack Obama to tell him he will retire at the of the current term in June. See The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York TImes articles.
President Gerald R. Ford appointed Justice Stevens…
A panel of the Seventh Circuit extended the court's status as the circuit that puts the most hurdles in the way of class certification under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. It held that district courts "must conclusively rule on any challenge to the expert's qualifications or submissions prior to ruling on…
The Federal Communications Commission sits at the cutting edge of just about everything — technological, commercial, litigational, competitional, sportal, social, moral. Even our mouse proclaims its Commission blessing.
Exciting stuff, yes?
Today, the fussbudgets on the D. C. Circuit held that the 3-2 Commissioners in 2008 stepped over their bounds in…
Blawgletter has stated our guess that credit default swaps — which insure against bad things that might happen to bonds and other securities — promote fraud. Inherently.
CDSs indeed strike us as akin to (i.e., the same as) gambling, most of all for people who buy CDSs even though they lack an interest in…
The Supreme Court of Texas today upheld a $1.48 million verdict and judgment for a man who sustained a skull fracture and brain damage in a bar-room melee between Sigma Chi fraternity brothers and members of a wedding party. The 6-3 majority ruled that the owners of the Grandstand Bar in the Del Lago resort…