Blawgletter hesitates, prudently we think, to criticize the rulings of judges, especially those of the near-omnipotent federal kind. And yet yesterday a ruling by the Seventh Circuit tempted even the cautious us.
The case, we think, related to caps. The plaintiff, American Needle, once proudly stitched National Football League teams' logos onto headgear, but the
Antonin Scalia in judicial mode.
The online ABA Journal includes this quotation from Associate Justice Antonin Scalia‘s recent speech to a gathering of the American Society of Legal Writers:
It became clear to me [while an instructor at U. Va. law school], as I think it must become to clear to anyone who is
Yesterday, the Fifth Circuit affirmed an award of $446,777.12 in attorneys’ fees despite the fact that it included charges for an initial mistrial. The plaintiffs, eight employees of a railroad, sued for race discrimination. Their first trial ended in a jury deadlock, but they won the next time around. The second jury awarded each of
Can you name anything less attractive than than someone’s claiming justification for an opinion with something along the lines of I told you so?
Blawgletter can’t, off the top of our head, either. And yet we now juxtapose our post about the need to dismantle Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the following WSJ
Blawgletter once again learned something new today. The Federal Circuit — as it often does — furnished the instruction.
You’ve probably Googled your way to Wikipedia articles, right? And in the process you’ve likely also viewed images and listened to music that someone has granted an "open license" that permits people to use within limits.
The Wilsons sued over her outing as a CIA agent.
A 2-1 panel of the D.C. Circuit today upheld an order dismissing the claims of Valerie Plame Wilson and her husband against Vice President Richard B. Cheney, former Senior Advisor to the President Karl C. Rove, former Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff
Today, the Ninth Circuit reversed the dismissal of a securities fraud complaint for failure to plead "loss causation" adequately under Dura Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Broudo, 544 U.S. 336 (2005). The putative class of Gilead Sciences shareholders alleged that a decline in sales growth resulted from issuance of a Food and Drug Administration "warning letter"
Jason Lezak overcame a .6 French lead in 50 meters.
I just happened to have the swim of my life at the right time.
Jason Lezak, who anchored the gold-medal-winning U.S. 4×100 freestyle relay team yesterday at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
An ever-alert member of the Blawgletterati, Jeff Seely, today forwarded a link to a WSJ — no, a NYT — article about the horrible risk of taking a case to trial.
The linkage prompted Blawgletter to have a look at Jonathan D. Glater’s piece, "Study Finds Settling Is Better Than Going to Trial
