This Dondi had nothing to do with motions for sanctions.
In the Northern District of Texas, lawyers know what you mean when you say Dondi — behavior that only a jerk would stoop to.
Today Blawgletter got a reminder of the word’s provenance, intent, and effects. The refresher came in the form of a panel
Harold Barefoot Sanders, Jr., died on September 21.
Blawgletter admired Judge Sanders’s, well, judiciousness. A lot. Also his humanity and compassion. And we loved to hear that musical voice.
Barefoot Sanders embodied our ideal of a federal trial judge. Here follows his NYT obituary:
Judge Harold Barefoot Sanders, who early saw the political
Jonathan Weil says of the impending $700 billion bailout in his Bloomberg column today:
Whatever it takes to save our financial system from descending into oblivion, it will be tried, even if it all but guarantees we’ll have a bigger meltdown later. It’s not about principle. It’s about the money. And it’s about people like
Prof. Markham’s opus ranks a robust 1,210,641 on amazon.com. It also sports 0 amazon reviewers.
Fresh from Bloomberg, Florida International College of Law at Miami professor Jerry Markham said, in connection with an administration request for what the news service calls "unchecked power to buy $700 billion in bad mortgage investments from U.S. financial
Borat didn’t actually come from Kazakhstan. But you knew that, right?
The Second Circuit yesterday refused to compel a company to arbitrate its claims against an outfit that busted up a contract to buy 90 percent of a Kazakhstan oil and gas company. The purchase agreement required arbitration of "all disputes and disagreements arising from"
The American College of Trial Lawyers — which strangely consists of about three-quarters defense lawyers — recently published an Interim Report. The subject matter? A survey of ACTL Fellows on the dysfunction vel non of the civil system of justice. The report identified four "major themes" that emerged from the survey:
- Although the civil
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) didn’t deserve all the blame he got for the Great Depression.
The fundamental business of the country, that is, the production and distribution of commodities, is on a very sound and prosperous basis.
Herbert Hoover, News Conference Statement, on Friday, Oct. 25, 1929, the day after Black Thursday started the Wall
Lehman Bros. Holdings traded at $67.73 on Nov. 14, 2007. It opened this morning at $.26.
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. today filed a Voluntary Petition for bankruptcy in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York under Case No. 08-13555-jmp. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James M. Peck drew the assignment. Harvey R.
Yeah — but which zone?
Okay. Say you want to get a lube job for your automobile. You don’t know where to go for service because, frankly, you don’t take all that good of care of the vehicle. Plus you’re a cheapskate. But the vibration and rattle you’ve begun to experience worries you. And you’d
A Kerr-McGee platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Ike should reach it any day now.
The Tenth Circuit held today that "the transfer of information between a federal employee and a state government auditor who is under a duty of confidentiality is not a public disclosure and therefore does not deprive the courts of