Tom Toles cartoons for The Washington Journal.
I'll not only rescue your cat, but I'll get her a job, reduce her energy use, send her to college, get her affordable health care, decrease her debt, and end her war with the neighborhood dog. But let's start with the rescue.
Tom Toles, Feb. 26, 2009
The timing issue is the sad part of this. You know there are a lot of sad people out there.
The Bloomberg media empire keeps growing.
Now Bloomberg offers a variety of law reports. You can access the current issues via links here:
| Antitrust & Trade | Monthly | February 2009 |
| Asia Pacific Law | Bi-monthly | Jan/Feb 2009 |
| Banking & Finance | Monthly | February 2009 |
| Bankruptcy | Weekly | February 17, 2009 |
| Class Actions | Monthly | February 2009 |
| Corporate Law | Weekly |
The Treasury Department has taken a shine to administering "stress tests" on financial institutions. The exams will reveal the true state of their health — or lack of it. Thus saith The New York Times.
You don't have to read between the lines to sense the skepticism:
Bank executives reached over the weekend said that the
You know the Good Lord put all this oil into the ground, then someone comes along who hasn't been a success at anything else, and takes it out of the ground. The minute he does that he considers himself an expert on everything from politics to pettycoats.
Hat tip to Bryan Burrough, who wrote "Death
Hurricane Katrina did enormous damage — to homes, families, and lives; to commerce; and to political capital. Probably worse, plenty of folks compounded the immediate injury by spreading or prolonging it.
An instance of such compounding occurred, according to a qui tam case against several insurance companies, when the insurers collaborated to file fraudulent proofs
Bloomberg reports that Swiss bank USB AG will pony up $780 million "to avoid U.S. prosecution and settle regulatory claims that it helped thousands of wealthy Americans use Swiss bank accounts to evade taxes."
A Blawgletter sister publication, Barnett's Notes on Commercial Litigation, noted last year that Congress upped the contingent fee available for
Blawgletter scanned a Fourth Circuit decision last week. It looked dull.
Something to do with a bankruptcy trustee's power to undo pre-bankruptcy transfers from a debtor. Yowza!
But on second viewing, a wondrous thing twinkled from the electronic page – yet another way Congress aided and abetted the financially poison credit default swaps industry.
[Recall here that
Felix Frankfurter (1882-1965) joined the Supreme Court directly from the Harvard Law School faculty, serving from 1939 to 1962.
The correlation between prior judicial experience and fitness for the functions of the Supreme Court is zero.
Adam Liptak, Sidebar: Roberts Sets Off Debate on Judicial Experience, Feb. 16, 2009, The New York Times (quoting
An inchoate home at Champerty Shores, Lake Osoyoos, Washington. Who said realtors don't have a sense of humor?
Often a yoke companion to maintenance, champerty means . . . what?
Our law school Black's Law Dictionary (5th ed. 1979) defines the crime as:
A bargain by a stranger with a party to a suit, by which