Since (again) becoming a one-party bastion in 1999, the Supreme Court of Texas has lost influence with other states’ high courts. It has also drawn accusations of pro-business bias and undue delay.
The Court’s 5-4 ruling last Friday in Perry Homes v. Cull, No. 05-0882 (Tex. May 2, 2008), probably won’t help.
The
Blawgletter had the pleasure yesterday of alerting our gentle readers (Uniform Rates — Bah!) to a blog we hadn’t seen before — the inimitable f/k/a, by David Giacalone. The post, relating to the tort reform credentials of Barack Obama, reminded f/k/a fans of a four-part essay Mr. Giacalone wrote (sometime
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Our Alerts include items that mention "contingent fee" (or its yokely doppelganger, "contingency fee"). Most reference ads for personal injury lawyers, especially ones handling (still!) "mesothelioma" cases.
A claim of sameness. A more interesting
Anne Reed at Deliberations takes a helpful look today at Lawyers: So Certain, So Wrong. Her topic? "We all assume that if we like something, the rest of the world is going to like it too — and when we assume that, we’re usually mistaken. "
Ms. Reed goes on to relate the value
Let’s play Monopoly®! If a dominant manufacturer charges monopoly prices for its products, does it violate antitrust law? No. Of course not. Are you nuts?
What if it won its monopoly by deceiving a standard-setting organization (SSO) into adopting standards that embody inventions the monopolist secretly intended to patent? Um, er, probably.
But what
Yesterday Blawgletter received the Texas-only data from a recent essay on the "influence" of each state’s highest civil and criminal courts around the nation. We learned some tres interesting stuff.
Methodology. Let’s look at how the essay measured influence first. Jake Dear and Edward W. Jessen tallied all decisions, between 1940 and 2005, that
If you bought auction rate securities, you probably thought you could get a higher interest rate than with other highly liquid alternatives. You likely also believed you could get your money back, with interest, within a week. And Blawgletter bets you’ve gotten so mad that you almost can’t see straight when you learned recently
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In January, Blawgletter posed this question: "Can Public Entities Hire Lawyers on a Contingent Fee Basis?" We got our answer today. The California Court of Appeal for the Sixth District said Yes — Yes, they bloody well can. County of Santa Clara v. Superior Court (Atlantic Richfield Co.), ___ Cal.App.4th ___ (Apr.
May a federal court impose sanctions for intentionally prolonging a lawsuit for the improper purpose of forcing a party opponent to cause transfer of a Redwood forest to the misbehaving party? Yes. May the court penalize conduct that occurs in collateral proceedings but involves the same opponent and arguably the same motive? No.
So the
