Sleeping puppy with Haute Diggity Dog chew toys.
The Fourth Circuit today held that luxury designer Louis Vuitton Malletier, of Paris, barked up the wrong tree by suing Haute Diggity Dog, of Las Vegas. LVM howled in protest at HDD’s including a "Chewy Vuiton" handbag with its canine teething toy. The three-judge pack agreed
Blawgletter mentioned a new antitrust investigation last week, this one involving cathode ray tubes. What do CRTs do? We don’t know the science part but we have learned that CRTs graced the earliest television sets and today go in computer monitors and televisions. Their tubiness makes them bulkier than their flat-screen cousins (LCD, plasma, DLP)
A U.S. District Judge today ordered the White House to preserve any backup tapes containing emails, according to the LA Times. The restraint comes in a case alleging that the White House failed to, er, preserve emails, violating federal law. The administration said it’d save the backups without an order.
His Honor must have thought:
Linda Greenhouse reports in The New York Times today that the Supreme Court may take a key gun rights case as early as Thursday. The lawsuit challenged the District of Columbia’s strict handgun control law. The D.C. Circuit struck down the law because, the 2-1 majority held, the second amendment confers an "individual" right to
Blawgletter once heard that some people believe they have a constitutional right to buy knock-off handbags. Now we learn that they just about had it right. The Copyright Act of 1976, according to The Los Angeles Times today, doesn’t protect designer-label designs, only artwork; and we suppose that trademark law covers the labels themselves.
Today’s edition of The Washington Post includes a surprise — an op-ed by William S. Lerach, the long-time securities class action lawyer who pleaded guilty two weeks ago to a federal conspiracy charge. The piece lambastes Corporate America for paying "loser CEOs" huge sums after they run their companies into the figurative ground. The govment
Blawgletter never met Norman Mailer in person, but we did get to know him a little by reading The Armies of the Night (1968) and The Castle in the Forest (2007).
The former introduced us to a new word, micturate, which refers to making water (urinating). The latter dealt with the birth and pre-adolescence of
How can big cable operators get away with raising prices a whole bunch faster than the rate of inflation?
The NYT reports today that the head of the Federal Communications Commission wants to rein in the two largest cable operators, Comcast and TimeWarner, which together serve around 80 percent of U.S. subscribers. The article notes
Would this feline bite the hand that pets it (and puts a frog head on its noggin)? We hope so.
Blawgletter continues our hot-and-heavy love affair with the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal. Who could blame us?
Take today as a for instance. Under the heading "Tinkering With Toys", the
Antitrust authorities in Europe, Japan, and South Korea conducted surprise, er, inspections at companies that make cathode ray tubes or CRTs, according to our friends at Bloomberg. The agencies apparently want to find out whether the manufacturers agreed to limit competition in this fast-shrinking industry.
CRTs go into television sets and computer monitors of