Your lawyer writes to a Las Vegas casino — The Venetian, say. In his letter he asks "that all credit lines established by [or for you] immediately be terminated and that no further credit be extended to [you] under any circumstances."
Seems you may have some kind of gambling problem?
Seven months later find you
Happy holidays!
If you find World of Warcraft's first parts tedious — and Blawgletter, in spite of never having played the massively multi-player online game, guarantees that you will — you can cheat your way to WoW skills, fame, and wealth by hiring a bot to do the work for you. Slackers everywhere rejoice!
But
California law favors class actions. So much so that Golden State courts have struck down class-action bans that show up in consumer contracts whether they apply to lawsuits, Discover Bank v. Superior Court of Los Angeles, 113 P.2d 1100 (Cal. 2005), or arbitration cases, America Online v. Superior Court, 108 Cal. Rptr. 2d 699
On Nov. 8 and 9, the Supreme Court will take up two cases that hold promise and peril for businesses. Blawgletter sees more cause for businesses to hope than fear.
The first of the pair, Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Omega, S.A., No. 08-1423 (U.S.), deals with the reach of copyright law's "first sale" doctrine.
The wacky world of litigating arbitration issues keeps getting wackier.
Witness today's Ninth Circuit ruling that, no, by golly, a party needn't include in its complaint an explanation of why it doesn't have to arbitrate.
The defendant, Fastbucks, which franchises "payday loan" stores in California and elsewhere, including its home state, Texas, urged that Golden
An 11-judge en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit today upheld certification of a sex discrimination case against Walmart. Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., No. 04-16688 (9th Cir. Apr. 26, 2010).
Chief Judge Kozinski and Circuit Judge Ikuta filed dissents.
The law gives its strivers an odd sense of reality. That goes double for those who work the courtroom.
You may put blood, sweat, and tears into a case for years, pressing to show and persuade the trier of fact that Thing A happened and that Fact A exists — and contrarily that Thing B didn't occur