A lovely sea-going parcel tanker.
Parcel tanker shipping giant Stolt-Nielsen pitched a fit when the Antitrust Division in the U.S. Department of Justice revoked — or tried to revoke — an amnesty agreement between them. Under the Division’s corporate leniency program, the first-in bona fide seeker of amnesy gets, well, leniency; and Stolt-Nielsen still wanted
Anne Reed over at Deliberations links to her excellent TRIAL Magazine article, "What Can a Mock Trial Tell You?"
She dispels misconceptions. She demystifies the process. And she highlights the many benefits of mock trying your case.
Blawgletter says check it out.
Chico and Groucho Marx in A Night in Casablanca.
As visions of Sea Smoke start dancing in Blawgletter’s head — for tonight Oxford promises to uncork some — the time seems right to close out Groucho Marx’s epistolary feud with Warner Brothers over the then-impending release of A Night in Casablanca (1946).
We’ve
Groucho Marx (1890-1977) as Rufus T. Firefly.
Yesterday, Blawgletter quoted at full length a combative letter from Groucho Marx to Warner Brothers. The dispute centered on the studio’s belief that an impending Marx Brothers movie, A Night in Casablanca (1946), would impinge on the intellectual property that Warner Brothers embodied four years earlier in Casablanca
Today a unanimous panel of the Federal Circuit upheld a summary judgment of non-infringement in a case that prompted the district court to describe the behavior of lawyers as less professional than "vipers slithering around on hot coals." The suit accused several dozen companies of infringing a patent regarding "Character Pattern Recognition and Communications Apparatus".
Kimberly Kralowec at The UCL Practitioner has the story and links here.
An Agripool catcher bag.
The Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of the Sixth Circuit today upheld a bankruptcy judge’s failure to infer that missing emails would have hurt a creditor’s "ordinary course of business" defense. The trustee of the debtor, a lawn mower maker, sought to recover a "preference" payment that the debtor made to a catcher
Groucho Marx (1890-1977).
In 1942, Groucho Marx sent this letter after a studio threatened legal action over the impending release of A Night in Casablanca (1946):
Dear Warner Brothers,
Apparently there is more than one way of conquering a city and holding it as your own. For example, up to the time that we contemplated
The company Calisto Tanzi founded collapsed in 2003 when people learned its $5.4 billion bank account balance didn’t exist.
A 2-1 panel of the Second Circuit today upheld an order that allowed American-style securities fraud litigation to move forward despite the Italian bankruptcy of the principal defendant, Parmalat. The court held that 11 U.S.C.
The Federal Communications Commission suffered a setback today when the Third Circuit tossed the agency’s imposition of a fine for the baring of Janet Jackson’s breast during the halftime show for Super Bowl XXXVIII on February 1, 2004. The court held that the FCC disregarded its own rules for dealing with fleeting instances of "indecency"
