From today's WSJ: Senator Prodded Fed to Aid Ailing Bank From Home State.  And from last Tuesday: Wealthy Face Tax Increase. For this I read the paper?  At least America's Finest New Source offers breaking news: Supreme Court Allows Corporations To Run For Political Office.  My favorite: "This ...

By –       Kurt R. Karst Two recent rulings out of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania stemming from allegations about antitrust violations from the submission of citizen petitions have once again raised the issue of so-called “sham” citizen petitions and, insofa ...

  In  CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION issued in late January, the U.S. Supreme Court indicated that the government has a very difficult burden to overcome before they can limit and punish free political speech. In this case the Supreme Court invalidated campaign finance laws that proh ...

UW Law School students will help Dane County homeowners facing foreclosure take their cases through a mediation process with their lenders, reports UW-Madison News. Beginning in February, Dane County Circuit Court will require lenders to tell homeowners they have an option to mediate their foreclosu ...

Clients, you can skip this one; it's just an observation on the reasons that there are too few decent jobs to go around in the United States.And this isn't a blog about macro-economics, because I'm just a bankruptcy lawyer, and I'm not smart enough for all that theory.But my understanding is that th ...

  Have you been injured in Washington, D.C. because of a Toyota malfunction? Greenberg and Bederman can help. Over the years, Toyota has developed a reputation as manufacturers of safe and dependable cars. This is why the two recalls that have occurred over the past four months have been so ...

The First Two Delaware Decisions. In the past two months, I have reported on decisions by two Delaware bankruptcy judges in the In re Washington Mutual, Inc. case and in In re Premier International Holdings, Inc. (aka, the Six Flags case), taking opposing views on whether Federal Rule of Bankruptcy ...

According to the Los Angeles Times, Robert Khuzami, the Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) director of enforcement, has initiated a new whistle-blower program to attempt to catch fraudsters in the act. This program hopes to stop the fraudster before they have caused too much damage and to at ...

You wait ages for an interesting legal costs decision from the Court of Appeal and then two come along together.Both cases concerned a similar issue as to the extent of a costs judge’s discretion to limit costs in a manner that appears to go beyond a strict reading of the final costs order.In Drew v ...

In a decision dated January 27, 2010, the Ontario Energy Board ruled that Toronto Hydro breached the Electricity Act by refusing to connect hydro service to the bulk meters of new condominium projects unless all units in the condominium are individually smart-metered by Toronto Hydro and become ...