Membership on the Supreme Court of Texas has stabilized since mid-2005.
Wow. The High Nine in Austin opened the decisional floodgates today. Lookie here for the August 29 Weekly Orders.
Three of the 22 opinions involved Blawgletter’s law firm. Our dear clients prevailed in all three:
The Supreme Court of California — the most influential state high court in our nation — held this week (1) that, contrary to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling under the federal Arbitration Act, parties may contract for a searching review of arbitration awards under the California Arbitration Act and (2) that the CAA requires courts
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974).
In 1932, journalistic philosopher Walter Lippmann wrote of a presidential candidate:
He is a pleasant man, who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President.
Our feed never dips its figurative pen in metaphoric vitriol.
Applying a combination of federal enactments arising from abolition of the gold standard during the Great Depression and current Ohio contract law, the Sixth Circuit today reversed a decision that struck down a lease clause requiring payment of rent "in gold coin of the United States of the present standard of weight and fineness." Such
Today Blawgletter again has the Great Honor of presenting Thoughtful Comments by an Eminent Lawyer on a Topic of High Interest. Ron Woessner — Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Zix Corporation — writes about what he sees as the incongruity between the American Bar Association’s approval of entrusting confidential communications to regular email
Pedants care about distinctions without differences. Or do we?
Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary offers five definitions (plus three sub-definitions) for the adjective "verbal":
1 a: of, relating to, or consisting of words <verbal instructions> b: of, relating to, or involving words rather than meaning or substance <a consistency that is merely verbal and
The Third Circuit held today that a dual U.S. and non-U.S. citizen who domiciles overseas fails to satisfy the requirements for "diversity" and "alienage" jurisdiction in federal courts. The defendant-in-question — Charles Lubar, a partner in Morgan, Lewis & Bockius — lives in London, where he holds British citizenship and serves as President of
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday popped Comcast Corporation for ice-picking Internet service customers that it suspected of watching non-Comcast video. The largest cable operator on Earth sent fake instructions that had the effect of aborting transmission and receipt of streaming movies and other programming. As the (frequently but not always clueless) FCC pointed out:
The Federal Circuit today upheld a summary judgment against the holder of a patent on a "Method and Apparatus for Ink Jet Printing on Rigid Panels". The court held that an earlier patent "anticipated" several claims in Leggett & Platt’s Patent No. 6,755,518 and that disclosures in the old patent made claims in the ‘518
How about a few coupons?
The Ninth Circuit today upheld a $3.5 million antitrust verdict and judgment against one of the two dominant publishers/arrangers of Sunday newspaper coupon inserts.
The fight involved an upstart company, Theme Promotions, that specialized in coupons linking product A (Equal sweetener, for example) and product B (Maxwell House Coffee, for