As detailed in , today a "federal appeals court upheld Arkansas' lethal injection procedure ... [by affirming] the dismissal of a lawsuit filed by three death-row inmates, including two who are scheduled to die over the next nine weeks."  The Eighth Circuit's panel ruling in , ...

Sunday post-snow funnies. WaPo: By delivering a paid keynote address at a convention other politicians had avoided because of allegations of profiteering, Palin displayed one of the traits that has electrified her anti-establishment followers: a talent for persistently and defiantly flouting the ...

A second victim of the nationwide outbreak of Salmonella linked to pepper in salami meats has come forward to file a lawsuit against Daniele International Inc., which produced the recalled salami, and against Wholesome Spice, which supplied the tainted pepper. The CDC reports that currently 207 are ...

If Illinois Primary Day snuck up on you, don’t feel bad. Until two years ago, it was held in March; the state moved up its primary to help out native son Barack Obama in 2008 and never switched back. Thus, this year’s crop of aspiring challengers had less time than usual to grab voters’ attention an ...

Geoff recently highlighted AAG Christine Varneys closing remarks at the Horizontal Merger Guidelines workshop and was fairly critical.   Thom intervened to suggest that we at TOTM, while fairly critical of the agencies from time to time, also give credit where it is due highlighting AAG Varneys RPM ...

U.S. District Judge Harold Baer Jr. reprimanded attorney Kristan Peters, lead counsel for Dorsey & Whitney in representing Wolters Kluwer Financial Services, finding that she was “the driving force” behind a series of woeful acts [...]

Articles 34 Air & Space Law: # Leading Articles # Harold Caplan, The Crime of Flying: The Way Forward to 1784, p.351 # Jason R. Bonin, Strategic Liberalization Policies in Bilateral and Multilateral Settings: The Case of China and Vietnam, p.371 # Hui Yang, Flight Accidents and Criminal Responsi ...

A recent decision of the Southern District of New York reminds us that even where the subject of the suit is a standardized contract, there can still be individual issues that preclude class certification. In Spagnola v. Chubb Corp., 2010 WL 46017 (S.D.N.Y. Jan. 7, 2010), some insureds sued their i ...

I received the following e-mail from a well-respected colleague of mine today. He said he had heard of this before but could never point to a specific incident of it occurring. He received the e-mail from a friend who was married to another friend of his.I knew about the red light on cars, but not t ...

by Chris Borgen by Chris Borgen See it here. As usual, it’s full of great panels. Also, Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Canadian Supreme Court and U.S. Department of State Legal Adviser Harold Koh will each give a keynote address.  A list of program highlights is here.  And, by the wa ...