The NYT reports that the monarch of Saudi Arabia may have pardoned a young woman whom the authorities accused of violating Islamic law by meeting a former boyfriend to retrieve an old picture of her. A group of men raped the woman and the ex-boyfriend.
A Saudi court increased the woman’s punishment
A Michigan district court declined to enjoin a former "restoration drycleaning" franchisee from continuing to ply its trade despite a non-compete clause in the defunct franchise agreement. The Sixth Circuit reversed, holding the clause unambiguous and the evidence sufficient to require enforcing the non-compete by way of preliminary injunction. Certified Restoration Dry Cleaning Network, L.L.C.
Less than half of Americans (47 percent) have Googled themselves, according to a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. A small majority (53 percent) have Googled other (non-celebrity) folk.
Two percent Google themselves regularly.
You can read the whole report, Digital Footprints, here.
Barry Barnett
The Honorable Benjamin N. Cardozo knew how to turn a legal phrase.
A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
Meinhard v. Salmon, 249 N.Y. 458, 464 (1928).
Barry Barnett
Blawgletter concedes in the Justia Blawg Search quest today for top honors.
We came in second, per Justia.
Congrats to Trial Ad Notes for first place.
Barry Barnett
Blawgletter’s bestest buddy from Boston Latin taught us a little joke — "semper ubi sub ubi". Semper means always, ubi means where, and sub means under. Hence: Always where under where. Get it?
Sub silentio signifies "under silence". So our title above means to convey that the Sixth Circuit today decided an ERISA question now
Blawgletter enjoys Sue Shellenbarger’s Work & Family column in the WSJ. Today, she writes about an area in which our profession totally rocks — clinical depression. She calls it "Even Lawyers Get the Blues: Opening Up About Depression". Kudos to her!
Also to the Oklahoma City lawyer, Dan Lukasik, who tossed caution to
The Sixth Circuit today tossed a summary judgment on the ground that the district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction. The decision turned on the requirement, under 28 U.S.C. 1332(a)(2), for "complete diversity" in suits that include "alien" parties. The case before the court involved one alien plaintiff (a Grand Cayman Islands corporation) and two alien
The Third Circuit yesterday denied a petition by Comcast Corporation for discretionary review of an order certifying a class of cable subscribers in the Chicago metropolitan area. The court previously declined to question the same district judge’s earlier certification of a Philadelphia-area subscriber class.
The case involves claims that Comcast violated sections 1 and 2
A hood latch assembly. Can you see any price-fixing on it?
A trial court in Toronto, Canada, has certified a class action against E.I. duPont Canada for fixing prices on engineering resins that go into automobile hood latches, dashboards, and other plastic parts. Apparently nothing quite like that has ever happened in a Great White
