1. Justices Playing Politics 15 hours ago   permalink

Justices Playing Politics
Www.nytimes.com

WHAT is it about those robes? They are only flimsy bits of wools, enlivened in a few cases by some very European lace at the collar. Yet the moment our Supreme Court justices put them on, a segment of the concerned public imagines that they have become priests consecrated to the sacred order of the Constitution.

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Rick Hasen / Election Law :   Amen

2. Merger lawsuits increase -- as do the legal fees 30 minutes ago   permalink

Westlawnews.thomson.com

WILMINGTON, Del./NEW YORK, Feb 11 (Reuters Legal) - Lawyers are pushing for a $4.5 million fee for their work for investors challenging a corporate merger. The recovery for shareholders? Probably zero.

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3. Pleading UCL Standing May Have Gotten Easier in Kwikset, But Certifying a Class for Restitution under the UCL Did Not ... 1 hour ago   permalink

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A number of commentators, including the UCL Practitioner and Bailey Class Action Dailey, were quick to report the California Supreme Court's recent decision holding that a plaintiff who pleads that he read a misrepresentation, relied on it in buying a product, and would not have bought the product but for the misrepresentation, has pled ...

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4. "Voting rights activist now ready to finally finish book" 1 hour ago   permalink

Rick Hasen / Election Law

The Montgomery Advertiser offers this report....

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Voting rights activist now ready to finally finish book   —  Unlike his contemporaries who took to the streets to pro­test racial inequities, Jerome Gray opted to use his organiza­tional skills and quiet persever­ance to do the same thing.

5. Nina Paley's 2 hours ago   permalink

Nina Paley's
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6. Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads 2 hours ago   permalink

Top 5 Tax Paper Downloads
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog

There is quite a bit of movement in this week's list of the Top 5 Recent Tax Paper Downloads, with a new #1 paper and new papers debuting on the list at #2 and #5: 1. [377 Downloads] The Fundamentals of Wealth Transfer Tax Planning: 2011 and Beyond, by John...

7. An Intervention: What Not to Write 3 hours ago   permalink

An Intervention: What Not to Write
Lyrissa Lidsky / PrawfsBlawg

I am conducting an intervention in which both the intervenor and the intervenee are one. I am notoriously slow at learning from my past mistakes, but I am going to try to make up for it by posting a list of writing projects to which neither you nor I should ever say yes in the future. 1. Do not agree to write anything that requires you to learn a ...

8. Egypt military dissolves parliament and scheduless elections but leaves emergency laws in place 4 hours ago   permalink

Egypt military dissolves parliament and scheduless elections but leaves emergency laws in place
Jurist.org

JURIST] The Egyptian military on Sunday announced that it has dissolved the country's parliament and will run the country until an election is held in six months. The television announcement [NYT report] marked the first time that the military had publicly disclosed its transition plan. The country's civilian cabinet will remain in power ...

9. CBO: Projecting Individual Income Tax Revenues 8 hours ago   permalink

Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog

CBO, Improving CBO's Methodology for Projecting Individual Income Tax Revenues: In preparing its annual report on the budget outlook, and updates to that report during the course of the year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects revenues from the federal individual income tax. This background paper discusses two possible ways...

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Improving CBO's Methodology for Projecting Individual Income Tax Revenues   —  In preparing its annual report on the budget outlook, and updates to that report during the course of the year, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects revenues from the federal individual income tax. This background paper discusses two possible ways to use information about tax collections to improve CBO's projections of tax receipts: ...

10. Ferrari changes name of F150 racer to nix Ford lawsuit - USA Today 11 hours ago   permalink

Ferrari changes name of F150 racer to nix Ford lawsuit - USA Today
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Wis.-Milwaukee 70, Ill.-Chicago 59 - CBSSports.com   —  Enter any valid publication number such as US6359159 to retrieve the INPADOC patent family with legal status.

11. Where the research goes: WSU aids employees with inventions, intellectual property - TMCnet 11 hours ago   permalink

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Patentaustausch zwischen Samsung und IBM - PC Games Hardware   —  These headlines do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the patent law firm v. Kreisler Selting Werner. Please also review the disclaimer

12. Corporate Tax Report Card: U.S. Gets an F 10 hours ago   permalink

Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog

American Enterprise Institute, Report Card on Effective Corporate Tax Rates: United States Gets an F, by Kevin Hassett & Aparna Mathur: At 35%, the U.S. statutory corporate tax rate is the highest among all the countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Since the 1980s, other OECD...

13. On Internal Corporate Investigations and Forum 13 hours ago   permalink

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The American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, Business Law Section, Health Law Section, Section of International Law and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education

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14. More on the Texas House Election Contest 15 hours ago   permalink

Rick Hasen / Election Law

Following up on this post, see this report of the Special Master (more documents here). It looks like this case raises questions about whether votes should be disqualified for election worker error (like the 6th Circuit case) and reliance on...

15. National Popular Vote Bills Fail to Pass in Mississippi 16 hours ago   permalink

Richard Winger / Ballot Access News

Bills to establish the National Popular Vote Plan in Mississippi failed to pass by the deadline for bills to pass committee, so the bills cannot pass this year. The bills, SB 2752 and HB 1244, had been introduced by Senator Eric Powell (D-Corinth), and Representatives Daniel Stephen Holland (D-Plantersville), and John D. Mayo (D-Clarksdale).

16. Judge orders stay on release of Tucson shooter mug shots 19 hours ago   permalink

Judge orders stay on release of Tucson shooter mug shots
Jurist.org

JURIST] Federal District Judge Larry Burns [Judgepedia profile] ordered [text, PDF] on Friday that the federal mug shots of accused Tucson shooter Jared Lee Loughner temporarily be kept from public view. Defense counsel for Loughner filed an emergency motion to bar release of those photos to the public, arguing that release of the photos would ...

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Judge orders stay on release of Tucson shooter mug shots Federal judge rules LA emergency evacuation program discriminates against disabled people   —  JURIST] A federal judge of the US District Court of the Central District of California [official website] on Friday held [summary judgment, PDF] that the city of Los Angeles violated the Americans With Disabilities Act [text] by not accounting for people with disabilities in the city's emergency disaster planning. Judge Consuelo B. Marshall [ ...

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Judge orders stay on release of Tucson shooter mug shots Federal judge upholds Wal-Mart firing of medical marijuana user   —  JURIST] A federal judge for the US District Court for the Western District of Michigan [official website] on Friday ruled [opinion, PDF] that Wal-Mart [corporate website; JURIST news archive] did not wrongly fire an employee who had been using medical marijuana to treat a brain tumor. In dismissing plaintiff Joseph Casias' lawsuit, Judge Robert ...

17. SNL parody of coupon settlements and attorney advertising 17 hours ago   permalink

Ted Frank / PointOfLaw Forum

(h/t D.F.)

18. The Shift in Focus from Proportionality to Necessity in the Law of War, and the Incentives Created by the Shift from ... 19 hours ago   permalink

Kenneth Anderson / The Volokh Conspiracy

(Kenneth Anderson) More than one participant in the Texas International Law Journal discussion that I posted on earlier (including leading scholars who do not necessarily share some other important views on the laws of war) broadly agreed that the locus of discussion in law of armed conflict issues, those issues on the avant garde margin, as it [..

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The Model Air and Missile Warfare Manual   —  (Kenneth Anderson) I’ve been privileged the last couple of days to be in Austin at the annual symposium of the Texas International Law Journal, which this year is a consideration of the model “Air and Missile Warfare Manual.” The model manual is the product of an expert group midwifed by the Harvard Humanitarian Policy and Conflict [...]

19. Prof. James Grimmelmann Guest-Blogging This Coming Week on “Sealand, HavenCo, and the Rule of Law” 20 hours ago   permalink

Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy

(Eugene Volokh) I’m delighted to say that Prof. James Grimmelmann will be guest-blogging this coming week about a fascinating topic — the history of Sealand and HavenCo, experiments in entrepreneurial off-shore government: In 2000, a group of American entrepreneurs moved to a former World War II anti-aircraft platform in the North Sea, seven ...

20. SCO's MORs for November. Hahahaha. 1 day ago   permalink

SCO's MORs for November. Hahahaha.
Groklaw

SCO's monthly operating reports for November are filed, and they fairly scream, "I've fallen and I can't get up." And nobody cares.