Does others' happiness make us happier? (Try not to smile.)
People who are surrounded by many happy people and those who are central in the network are more likely to become happy in the future.
James H. Fowler & Nicholas A. Christakis, Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20
Blawgletter summons from our law school days a recollection about the relative prestige and reputation of the U.S. courts of appeals (now 13, then 11). The Second Circuit stood high on the list. It still does. And we think it deserves its standing.
The court's opinion yesterday in W. R. Huff Mgmt. Co., LLC v.
Smack Apparel apparently likes to confuse people.
The Fifth Circuit held last week that a t-shirt maker infringed trademarks of four big-time sports schools in their color schemes.
Smack Apparel slapped sporting garb with the colors of Louisiana State University (purple and gold), the University of Oklahoma (crimson and creme), Ohio State University (scarlet
You'd think Qualcomm must've known something bad would happen.
It sued rival semiconductor maker Broadcom for using video compression technology that Qualcomm claimed as its own. But Qualcomm had hornswaggled Broadcom.
It had induced the industry (and hence Broadcom) to adopt the (Qualcomm) technology by pretending that it (Qualcomm) didn't own (hadn't patented) the (Qualcomm) technology. In fact it held two patents
Inductive reasoning may produce false conclusions.
The plural of anecdote is data.
Raymond Wolfinger, Political Science professor at UC-Berkeley, responding to one student's criticism of another student's use of an example as reasoning by anecdote.
Cudd and its insurer hope to avoid Cudd's promise to indemnify for an oilfield accident.
A Master Service Agreement between Sonat Exploration and Cudd Pressure Control contemplated that Cudd would provide oilfield services to Sonat in several states, including Louisiana, New Mexico, and Texas. Th MSA required Cudd to indemnify Sonat for claims that Cudd employees
Even calamity ought not divert us from counting and giving thanks for our blessings, President Lincoln reminded Americans on October 3, 1863, in the midst of the War Between the States:
The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful years and healthful skies. To these bounties,
The Second Circuit held today that arbitrators can't force non-parties to produce documents under the federal Arbitration Act:
This appeal places squarely before us a question that has divided the circuits: Does section 7 of the Federal Arbitration Act ("FAA"), 9 U.S.C. § 7, authorize arbitrators to compel pre-hearing document discovery from entities not parties
An old-timey letter of credit. Does it really say "Sam Standfast"?
A letter of credit guarantees that the "issuer" will pay to the "beneficiary" a debt on which the "applicant" stiffs the beneficiary.
A Fifth Circuit decision yesterday suggests that Blawgletter should've put "guarantees" in quotes, too.
A Louisiana steel pipe buyer, PVF, ordered steel pipe from LaBarge
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) didn't study or practice law, but he did write about the state of nature. Which is similar.
Blawg Review styles itself a "blawg carnival" and each Monday features a blawg-writer who surveys the past week's blawg postings. Blawgletter did an installment a while back, but we have observed since a — shall we
