A painting of Man Controlling Trade at FTC headquarters.
The Federal Trade Commission has given fresh advice on what it deems false plugs for goods and labor.
And the agency's new Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising for the first time covers weblogs!
The FTC's press release for the up-to-date GCUETA
Jerry Buchmeyer (1933-2009) — lawyer, judge, humorist, family man.
Jerry Buchmeyer, 76, passed away on September 21. Blawgletter — along with a great many others — will miss him.
Judge Buchmeyer aimed for an ideal in which lawyers got along with and, yes, even liked each other. He coaxed attorneys to squint to see their opponents' humanity and to act decently. He didn't always use
The Federal Communications Commission denied an attempt by AT&T to block the agency from turning over papers that AT&T gave the FCC during a probe into the company's overcharging ways. AT&T cited Exemption 7(C) in the Freedom of Information Act, which makes many federal records open to the public. 5 U.S.C. § 552(b)(7)(C). The 7(C)
Jamie Lee Jones took a job in 2005 with Overseas Administrative Services, a unit of Halliburton Company/ Kellog Brown & Root. Within days of getting to her new home in the Green Zone, she alleges, co-workers drugged and raped her in her bedroom.
When she sued, Halliburton/KBR moved to compel arbitration of all claims. It
We are all in the same boat, you and me and ex-Gov. Palin and Rep. Joe Wilson, and wealth and social status do not prevail against disease and injury. And now we must reform our health insurance system so that it reflects our common humanity. It is not decent that people avoid seeking help for
Pointy-hair boss: I don't know how to be a lawyer.
Catbert: That only matters if you take cases on a contingency basis.
Scott Adams, Dilbert, Sept. 9, 2009.
Blawgletter will host Blawg Review No. 229 next Monday, September 14. The theme? Something about John Harvard, an English pastor and namesake of Harvard University. He died September 14, 1638.
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Frank Hoover Easterbrook's opinions suggest a healthy self-regard.
Blawgletter has asked if the Chief Judge of the Seventh Circuit cares what you think. The way we posed the question implied how we would come out on it.
Today His Honor performed a Britney Spears. Oops, he did it again.
The case raised a nifty issue:
When Blawgletter first heard about "discovery", we thought it barb'rous. You have to give your files to your enemy — the one who loves to call you names, who wants to bankrupt you, who prays for your painful death, but who secretly envies you? WHAT?!!
Since then, we've come to like it . . . some. The