Mister Thorne's set in style — a blog on legal writing — features an interesting interview of Dan Harris — who co-posts China Law Blog.
Mister Thorne elicits Dan's thoughts on blawging — what, why, how, who, when.
Dan's advice includes:
Ask for
Gas processing plants strip liquid condensate from raw natural gas.
The Fifth Circuit decided a straight-up breach of contract case today. It involved suspicious, and possibly illegal, goings on near the Texas border with Mexico.
Flint Hills Resources signed a contract that obligated it to buy about 1,000 barrels a day of natural gas condensate
Today marks the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth.
In his honor, Blawgletter reproduces President Lincoln's two most famous (and short) speeches:
Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation yesterday ordered In re Fannie Mae Securities and Employee Retirement Incomne Security Act (ERISA) Litig., MDL No. 2013, to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The Transfer Order brings to six the number of multi-district litigation matters the Panel has moved since
Some guy — who we'll refer to as "gun nut" – claimed that arming potential victims with gats causes violent crime to fall. A best-selling book, Freakonomics (2005), said gun nut may have faked his data and, even if he didn't, others who "tried to replicate" his work couldn't.
Obvious libel, right? Somebody find that man a lawyer!
The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation has commenced issuing transfer orders in the matters it considered at the January 29 session in Fort Myers, Florida:
MDL No. 2005 — In re Air Crash at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on May 30, 2008 (S.D. Fla.)
MDL No. 2006 — In re Chrysler LLC 2.7 Liter V-6 Engine Oil
In 1995, Congress went on the war path against securities class actions. It started with the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The PSLRA set a tougher test for pleading scienter (intent to defraud) and required "loss causation" (plaintiff bought high and sold low due to fraud).
Congress followed up the PSLRA with the Securities
The D.C. Circuit today upheld the Federal Communications Commission's authority to discipline a telephone service provider for wooing customers who decided to switch to a rival. Verizon received customer change requests from alternative service providers (i.e., cable companies) and used the knowledge of impending customer losses to sweet talk the customers into staying. The FCC concluded that Verizon's
The telephone company tells you it will give you low, low rates on your calls. It even says you'll get the cheapest charges of all.
The nice salesperson has no clue how your rate plan stacks up against other customers' plans. In fact, per the tariff it filed with the agency that regulates it, you will pay much
Blawgletter's unscientific survey of practicing lawyers confirms two things you would've expected — that mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions, and other deals have fallen off the table while bankruptcy work has picked up.
But even in the bankruptcy up-tick lies a negative subtrend: Our friends see more chapter 7 liquidations and fewer chapter 11 reorganizations.
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