A federal judge today sentenced Bernard Madoff to 150 years in a place where he can think about the men, women, children, charities, museums, and clubs he took billions from.
The event puts Blawgletter in mind of Dante, whose Divine Comedy consigned fraudulent advisors to the eighth — next-to-last — circle of Hell. (Satan himself occupied the
The U.S. Supreme Court today held that New Haven violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by ignoring test results in deciding which firefighters to promote. The city could not justify promoting black firefighters ahead of whites and Hispanics by citing fear of a "disparate impact" lawsuit under Title VII.
[T]he City
The Iron Horse took himself out of the lineup in what would have been his 2,131st consecutive game.
Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and
Employee hurt her back at work. She later signed a one-page "Arbitration Acknowledgment". It called for arbitration of disputes "with your particular employer." Later still, employee sued Macy's Texas, Inc.
Macy's Texas moved to compel arbitration. Employee replied that the one-pager didn't identify Macy's Texas as a party to the Acknowledgment and that it instead listed other
The U.S. Supreme Court issued three big decisions today:
In Forest
Remember the 19th-century Frenchie guy who wrote the long book about how much he loved America and Americans? Tocqueville? That one.
He said lots of surprising things. He wrote, for instance, that he saw trial by jury in America as more of a "political" institution than a "judicial" one. Huh?
Tocqueville explains:
I am so entirely convinced that
From the May issue of Barnett's Notes on Commercial Litigation:
Teddy Roosevelt's Department of Justice sued to bust up Standard Oil .
The signs of a tougher approach to bigness and badness have grown like . . . Google.
On May 18, 2008, presidential candidate Barack Obama said:
I will assure that we will
The U.S. Supreme Court today ambled toward the summer hiatus, trotting out four decisions. Two involved civil claims against businesses.
In Gross v. FBL Financial Services, Inc., No. 08-441 (U.S. June 18, 2009), the Court held that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 requires proof that age but-for caused a demotion. Showing
Gross Clinic (1875) by Thomas Eakins.
Blawgletter doesn't know where to come out on the pending health care debate. We hear about single payer, universal coverage, Harry & Louise, lobbyists, the AMA, Big Pharma, socialized medicine, taxing of benefits, cost controls, and lots of other buzzwords. Who can tell what to do?
One thing stands out for
Blawgletter hasn't posted a Just Funny Stuff thing in awhile.
Today, though, we make small amends by pointing you to a YouTube video about cats, which we like. It made us laugh. Go here.
