Herakles holding Cerberus.
Cerberus Capital Management takes its name from a mythical critter — a dog with three heads. Plus a serpent for a tail. Cerberus and other hellhounds guarded the gates of, well, Hades. They let souls in but not back out. Kind of a Hotel California thing.
You might think that a moniker
The First Circuit today decided an issue that it would have punted if it had its druthers. It reached the question (instead of referring it to an arbitrator) because the parties asked it to. The court ruled that, under the peculiar circumstances of the case before it, a ban on class arbitration did amount to
Blawgletter just heard Indianapolis Colts quarterback say, in reference to acquiring six-pack abs:
Unless you’re under 23 or a professional football player, it’s probably not going to happen.
I suggest you get bigger shirts.
Thanks, Peyton.
Barry Barnett
Blawgletter doesn’t know whether The Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin leans left or right, but we’d guess from today’s piece that he won’t likely get (or accept) a delegate’s slot at the Republican Party National Convention in Minnesota next year.
Mr. Froomkin entitles his November 16 offering as "Bush’s Other War: on the Courts
Blawgletter has noticed an inverse relationship between exercising and our girth. The revelation has led us to explore ways for exploiting it, preferably without any discomfort or other unpleasantness. And we think we;ve discovered a way.
The method, which we call the Starbucks diet, works best in suburban areas of your larger cities — your
Software pirates? Eh, probably not.
Two patents for preventing software piracy survived appeal to the Federal Circuit today. The patentholder, z4 Technologies, sued Microsoft for infringement by its "Office" application software group and "Windows" operating system. An East Texas jury found for z4 and awarded it $115 million. After trial, U.S. District Judge Leonard Davis
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Trademark law fascinates Blawgletter — as do many other aspects of commercial law. It took a personal turn though last month, when the Patent and Trademark Office added Blawgletter to its Principal Register of trademarks.
Our thanks to David McCombs and Jeff Becker (at Haynes and Boone) for prosecuting our application. You guys
We at Blawgletter pride ourselves on having a sense of humor.
We hope Barry Bonds has one too.
A San Francisco grand jury indicted Mr. Bonds today for perjury and obstruction of justice. Something to do with steroids and muscle mass.
We wonder why prosecutors waited so long to ask a grand jury for an
Today, the Ninth Circuit struck down the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s fuel mileage requirements for "light trucks", a category that includes lots of sports utility vehicles. The court held NHTSA’s rule "arbitrary, capricious and contrary to" the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975 in a bunch of ways. The agency’s CAFE ("corporate average
State attorneys general should shut up. At least they ought to quit filing lawsuits — per the WSJ today. The AGs’ sin? "Go[ing] Wild".
The Journal’s editorial page wants somebody to rein in the 50 AGs (43 of whom hold their office by virtue of popular election). The editors desire imposing "uniform rules governing [the
