An exciting, well-played Super Bowl. It looks like some commentators are trying to tag Peyton as having choked; I disagree. It looked to me as though the Saints figured out that the way to beat him was to keep him off the field. It also looked to me like everyone on the field for the Saints was la ...

The title of this post is the headline of in the discussing the controversy that has been brewing ever since the legendary rock band "The Who" was announced as the entertainers for the Super Bowl halftime show.  Here are the details from the article: this recent article New ...

2009 has come and gone but the legal economy continues to struggle, a point made clear by today’s move at Wilson Sonsini.  The firm laid off 20 staff and is providing an unspecified amount of separation pay along with some transition support assistance.  Wilson Sonsini laid off 113 last year, ...

According to the Star Tribune a Minnesota car dealer called an otherwise satisfied customer to demand an additional $7,000 or the return of the car it sold her two weeks prior. “Walser Chrysler says it made an “administrative error” when it sold the crossover wagon to Townsend for ...

Offering a generous prize of complimentary registration to CLT's excellent one-day Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference on 28 January (brochure here), the IPKat -- whose blogging team is represented on the programme -- organised a competition for the best new intellectual property proverb. H ...

Friday pundits, end of week opinion. And a hat tip to the political blogosphere (including many Daily Kos diarists), who immediately started raising money and aid for Haiti. Tracy Kidder (NY Times): The earthquake struck mainly the capital and its environs, the most densely populated part of th ...

DERRICK GLOVER, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee/Cross-Appellant. Case No. 1D08-2194. District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District. Opinion filed January 12, 2010. An appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County, Charles W. Arnold, Judge. Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defe ...

DERRICK GLOVER, Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. STATE OF FLORIDA, Appellee/Cross-Appellant. Case No. 1D08-2194. District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District. Opinion filed January 12, 2010. An appeal from the Circuit Court for Duval County, Charles W. Arnold, Judge. Nancy A. Daniels, Public Defe ...

To win Massachusetts’ special Senate election, Republican Scott Brown will need a perfect storm. The good news for him and his campaign -- and for every conservative and spending-weary independent pulling for him -- is that the Bay State is seeing a lot of wind and some very choppy seas. But there’s ...

Source: New York Legislative Retrieval System (LRS), Search run January 10, 2010. To retrieve the text of any of the New York bills listed below, go to http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menuf.cgi PENAL LAW: Bill No.  A172 Aubry -- Relates to the accrual of merit time b ...