The Dallas Morning News reports that long-time U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice passed away yesterday.
Update: Judge Justice served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas before taking the bench in 1968. Thirty years later, he took senior status and moved to Austin.
The Austin Statesman-American carries a mostly glowing obituary. Blawgletter
Arctic Glacier, the U.S. unit of a Manitoban outfit, pleaded guilty to violating section 1 of the Sherman Act. It confessed to conspiring with rival ice-makers not to vie for customers in Detroit and southeastern Michigan. The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice said:
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Attorney Lionel Hutz graduated from Princeton School of Law. He seldom won and cobbled shoes to pay the bills.
The Third Circuit today affirmed orders that awarded about $567 million in "common fund" fees. The money goes to law firms that helped win $6.44 billion in settlement funds. The claims asserted that Wyeth's weight loss drugs, fen-phen (fenfluramine
A painting of Man Controlling Trade at FTC headquarters.
The Federal Trade Commission has given fresh advice on what it deems false plugs for goods and labor.
And the agency's new Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising for the first time covers weblogs!
The FTC's press release for the up-to-date GCUETA
Blawgletter will host Blawg Review No. 229 next Monday, September 14. The theme? Something about John Harvard, an English pastor and namesake of Harvard University. He died September 14, 1638.
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