Richard Burton, as Hamlet, fussed about "the law's delay".
The Ninth Circuit spans a vastness on our spinning globe — from Window Rock, AZ, to Merizo, GM; from Border Field State Park, CA, to Barrow, AK; plus a lot in between.
The biggest U.S. court of appeals also claims, oh, nearly 30 circuit judges.
Let's not advert to the
The first footnote in a Ninth Circuit opinion today tells why Vivendi's lawyers must love their client.
The French corporation . . . also has initiated litigation and arbitration proceedings in Poland, Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom related to this same alleged fraud.
Vivendi, S.A. v. T-Mobile USA, Inc., No. 08-35561
The Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery, and Enforcement Act grew out of the last big financial mess, this one during the 1980s and 1990s, when savings and loans and banks went belly up in large numbers. Speculation and shady practices, you'll recall, accounted for many collapses.
Congress granted the outfit that guarantees deposits, the Federal Deposit Insurance Company
So why do you beat up on people if you already know? I don't know, because I don't beat up on 'em. I refuse to participate. I don't like it, so I don't do it.
Clarence Thomas, Oct. 23, 2009 (explaining to a group of law students at the University of Alabama why he
May lenders to an Argentine consortium that won a concession to furnish sewer and water in Buenos Aires enforce choice of forum clauses against an outfit that succeeded to the concession after the first one went belly up? Perhaps, the Second Circuit held yesterday.
In Aguas Lenders Recovery Group LLC v. Suez, S.A., No. 08-1589-cv (2d
A lump of bituminous coal.
Thomas Hobbes wrote awhile back that, in the state of nature, "the life of man" tends toward the "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."
Kentuckian Merle Travis translated the Hobbesian view into the brief candle of a bituminous miner. Travis sang:
You load sixteen tons [of hard coal], what do you get? Another
The Dallas Morning News reports that long-time U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice passed away yesterday.
Update: Judge Justice served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas before taking the bench in 1968. Thirty years later, he took senior status and moved to Austin.
The Austin Statesman-American carries a mostly glowing obituary. Blawgletter
The First Circuit yesterday approved rulings by district courts coast to coast on the scope of Internal Revenue Service probes into potentially abusive tax shelters – in these cases involving write-offs of bad Brazilian debt. The court held that the merits of the tax deductions don't matter so long as the IRS offers a "legitimate tax determination purpose". Sugarloaf Funding LLC
Elihu Root (1845-1937).
I observe that there are two entirely different theories according to which individual men seek to get on in the world. One theory leads a man to pull down everybody around him in order to climb up on them to a higher place. The other leads a man to help everybody
The NYT leads today with a piece — disturbing to Blawgletter — on the high cost of paying in advance for a debit card. It cites examples like these:
The MiCash Prepaid MasterCard docks cardholders a $9.95 activation fee. Like many competitors, it then charges numerous recurring fees, including $1.75 for each A.T.M. withdrawal, $1 for