"When I think about you, I touch myself."
In a statement today, responding to a consensus double-aught spy report that Iran quit trying to develop nuclear weapons in 2003, national security adviser Stephen J. Hadley stated:
Today’s National Intelligence Estimate offers some positive news. It confirms that we were right to be worried about Iran
If you and your defense client enjoy isolation, then by all means let the plaintiffs’ lawyers do this to you.
U.S. District Judge Phyllis J. Hamilton last week rejected a challenge to a judgment-sharing agreement. Makers of dynamic random access memory chips entered into the agreement in connection with the ongoing price-fixing litigation against them.
I think the problem here may be more of a question of getting rid of the bad Internets and keeping the good Internets. You know, ’cause I think we can all agree, there’re just too many Internets.
Barry Barnett
Our feed uses only good Internets. Except in emergencies. Like now.
This week out will come the first 2008 issue of Barnett’s Notes on Commercial Litigation.
The monthly newsletter will include the best material from Blawgletter® but will also add links to supporting evidence and even a honking funny cartoon.
Blawgletter will send the content lineup plus a link to the issue when the, ahem
The Repubblica Italiana’s former national air carrier may not get a new trial.
What should happen after an appellate court decides that the trial court erred by putting the case to a jury instead of conducting a non-jury trial? Do the original trial and verdict count for naught? Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh
Blawgletter confesses that we don’t often think of Saudi Arabian judges as exemplars of magisterial integrity. Indeed, until recently, we didn’t know that the penisula nation had a functioning court system.
Whatever impulse we had in the direction of admiring Saudi justice died when we read about a Saudi court’s decision to disbar a lawyer
This steer would prefer not to serve as model for hog-tying.
In March of this year, Blawgletter invoked Chief Justice Marshall’s dictum about the power to tax as the power to destroy in the context of Texas Supreme Court decisions on class actions:
Blawgletter doesn’t see a new day dawning for class actions in the
Blawgletter has concluded after 22 years of preparing witnesses to give depositions and testify at trial that even the finest testifying techniques can do only so much if you — yes you, the lawyer
If you couldn’t see the Packers v. Cowboys showdown last night, blame your cable company.
What should we make of the National Football League’s refusal to let cable companies show pro gridiron matches unless they, in turn, let subscribers watch the games in their standard "bundle" of cable channels instead of only on premium "tiers"
Anne Reed proved once again today that she knows her stuff — specifically about persuading a jury. Her Deliberations blawg gently breaks the news that Blawgletter didn’t make the ABA Journal Blawg Top 100 list by asserting — without a scrap of a shred of proof — that "[a]nyone can see that Blawgletter [and several