Law, Strategy, and Risk in Commercial Disputes
The Swiss company Swatch makes stylish watches but takes itself Way Too Seriously.
A couple of weeks ago, Swatch lost an appeal over whether the maker of low-end, cutie-pie Swap watches infringed the high-end, hoity-toity Swatch trademark. "Swiss Swatch Swings at Swap, Whiffs".
This week, Swatch lost an appeal having to do with an…
We had to save the banks in order to sue them.
Jonathan Weil, "Suing Banks is Next Best Thing to Letting Them Fail", Bloomberg, Sept. 8, 2011 (referring mainly to Federal Housing Finance Agency lawsuit against 17 banks relating to "sale of residential private-label mortgage-backed securities").
Blawgletter's favorite Bloomberg columnist, Jonathan Weil, today takes keyboard in hand to tell us why the Securities and Exchange Commission just sued Goldman Sachs for civil fraud – "Goldman Serves One Master Better Than the Others". He teases with this:
Who knew the folks at the SEC still had it in them to accuse
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