Lily Tomlin (1939-) snorted a lot as Ernestine.
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you’re still a rat.
Joy — the June 2008 issue of Barnett’s Notes on Commercial Litigation has taken wing. If you go here, you’ll find:
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Don’t trust this guy.
A pair of brain brainiacs, Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt, today trot out an op-ed on why people believe falsehoods — or, more specifically, why over time they start buying what they at initially rejected. See "Your Brain Lies to You".
They tell us, for example, that we first
This picture symbolizes electronically-stored information. We think.
The Sixth Circuit today took the extraordinary step of setting aside a district court’s discovery orders. But the district court itself had done something extraordinary — it had directed the State of Tennessee, Tennessee officials, and others to allow a consultant and a deputy U.S. Marshal to enter
A 5-4 Supreme Court today recognized an individual right to own weaponry under the second amendment to the Constitution. The Court thus struck down a District of Columbia law that severely limited handgun possession. District of Columbia v. Heller, No. 07-290 (U.S. June 26, 2008).
Justice Scalia wrote the majority opinion, in which Chief
The Simpsons parodied this Disney ride‘s theme song with: "Duff beer for me, Duff beer for you/I’ll have a Duff, you have one, too."
Over the years, Blawgletter has developed — shall we say — aversions to certain common phrases. When we see them, our eyes wish to avert from them. Why? Apart from
The Exxon Valdez.
Applying maritime common law, the Supreme Court today slashed a punitive damages award against Exxon Mobil to $507.5 million in the Exxon Valdez case. The Alaska federal jury originally awarded $5 billion (on top of $507.5 million in actuals), but the Ninth Circuit halved it to $2.5 billion. Adopting a 1:1
An American Express press release discloses that the company will receive from MasterCard up to another $1.8 billion — on top of up to $2.25 billion from Visa — to settle an antitrust suit alleging that MasterCard and Visa illegally blocked their card-issuing member banks from vending Amex cards. The release says:
AMERICAN EXPRESS SETTLES
A Wartsila diesel generator.
Applying Maryland law, the Third Circuit vacated a judgment on the ground that the jury award violated an "exculpatory clause" in the contract between a construction consulting firm and the builder of a power plant in El Salvador. Wartsila NSD N. Am., Inc. v. Hill Int’l, Inc., No. 06-3595 (3d
