On Friday afternoons, Blawgletter's mind tends to drift. More than usual, we mean.
On this day, whose name honors the Norse goddess Frigg, our thoughts ran to lender liability. For today the First Circuit upheld a district court's rejection of same.
FAMM, which fabricated steel products, borrowed money from Sovereign Bank. FAMM's finances hit the
Blawgletter added set in style to our blawgroll awhile back. A recent visit reminded us why.
The post, "Recuse Who?", points out that the verb recuse — as a transitive one — requires not only a subject but also an object. A judge (subject) thus can't simply recuse. He or she (subject) must recuse
Drew Faust, the President of Harvard University, announced today that Harvard Law School professor Martha Minow will succeed Elena Kagan, now the U.S. Solicitor General, as Dean of HLS on July 1.
The Fifth Circuit today affirmed an order that kicked claims by subscribers against a big "reciprocal insurance exchange", United Services Automobile Association. The subscribers alleged that USAA's directors squirreled away billions in "surplus funds" that rightly belonged to the subscribers. The suit aimed to force disgorgement of the extra cash. True v. Robles, No.
You can't edit video depositions.
On Monday, Deliberations put up an interesting post on witness prep — Why Your Witness Didn't Get Better After Watching Herself on Tape. It cues on humans' trouble in reading our own body language. Blawgletter says check it out.
The study that the post cites looked at how well subjects
The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Supreme Court this afternoon lifted Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's stay of bankruptcy court orders approving the sale of Chrysler to Fiat.
SCOTUSBLOG has the two-page per curiam order, which notes that denial of a stay request "is not a decision on the merits of the underlying legal
Clockwise from back left, Justices Johnson, Medina, Wainwright, Brister, Green, Willett, O'Neill, Chief Justice Jefferson, and Justice Hecht.
Last month, the Houston Bar Association sent Blawgletter a copy of its 2009 Judicial Evaluation Results.1 How did the 1,003 HBA members who responded rate the nine justices of the Texas Supreme Court?
The Washington Post reports that the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will start hearings on the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor on Monday, July 13, 2009.
A statement on the Senate Judiciary Committee's home page says:
The confirmation hearings to consider the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to be an Associate Justice of the United States
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg today stayed bankruptcy court orders that approved the sale of Chrysler to Fiat.
UPON CONSIDERATION of the application of counsel for the applicants, and the responses filed thereto,
Justice Brent Benjamin refused to recuse.
The U.S. Supreme Court split 5-4 today in favor of forcing a state supreme court justice to recuse himself from ruling on a case. Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co., Inc., No. 08-22 (U.S. June 8, 2009).
The plaintiffs had won a $50 million verdict and judgment against
