In February of last year, Blawgletter posted this item:

Got Champerty?

Often a yoke companion to maintenancechamperty means . . . what? 

Our law school Black's Law Dictionary (5th ed. 1979) defines the crime as:

A bargain by a stranger with a party to a suit, by which such third person undertakes to carry on the litigation

The Robinson-Patman Act came out of the Great Depression.  It aimed to stop big department stores from using their buying power to crush mom and pop stores with lower retail prices.  But its language applied broadly, barring any substantial discrimination in price.  

Courts have tried to manage the reach of RPA by expansively applying statutory defenses, creating

If you've worked in the building trades, you've seen people trudging around with their feet up to a yard or more off the ground.  Blawgletter does not refer to self-levitation.  We mean instead the workers – often those putting up drywall — who walk on stilts so they can reach high spots at will.

Yesterday, the Federal Circuit used a case involving a

The Federal Circuit yesterday upheld almost all of a $240 judgment against Microsoft Corporation for willful patent infringement. 

U.S. District Judge Leonard A. Davis presided over a jury trial on i4i's claims.  He accepted findings of infringement and willfulness and the jury's verdict of $200 million in damages.  He also enhanced the award by $40 million, in part due to

The Seventh Circuit today upheld a forum non conveniens ruling.  The order under review sent a Bulgarian company's case against a Bulgarian bank and its American parent to Bulgaria.  Anecdotes about corruption in the Balkan state's courts didn't impress the panel, nor did Bulgaria's hefty filing fee, among other things that Their Honors found not enough to keep