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 ...

Source: LexisNexis, February 9, 2010. Lexis ID and Password Required for Online Access:   1. The Journal News (Westchester County, New York), February 9, 2010 Tuesday, NEWS; Pg. 5a wp, 282 words, Yonkers police captain injured in fight at bar, By, Will DavidCR ...

Motions in limine are flying in Utah like snowflakes in a winter storm, filed by both parties in SCO v. Novell. But there are a lot more from Novell than from SCO. Novell has filed 19 more motions in limine, all filed on February 8, for a total of 20, as well as motions for a Daubert hearing t ...

Thanks to Mary Sarah Bilder for pointing out this great story from the Boston Globe on a recent decision preserving easements on Martha's Vineyard (or perhaps as my Massachusettes relatives would pronounce it, Marthar's Vineyard). The story begins: Every Veterans...

Guam is an island located in the Western Pacific Ocean; it was controlled by Spain from 1668 until 1898 when it was surrendered to the United States as part of the Treaty of Paris, the treaty that ended the Spanish-American War. Thus, Guam is currently an unincorporated territory of the United State ...

I first got the idea of possible bias in Labor Certification processing when I noticed years ago that many of the NOFs (Notices of Findings) and Denials of labor certification applications were issued to Employers and Aliens with certain kinds of national origin. If you were to review labor certific ...

Well, everybody’s turning - Congress is at 18/78 approval/disapproval, which makes you wonder about the four percent who can’t make up their minds - but the Democrats have gone from 45% to 30% in a month, which … well, is this not a pretty graph? Particularly that 15 point drop ...

Novell has filed its first motion in limine [PDF], the full title of which is Motion in Limine No. 1 to Exclude Evidence and Argument Concerning Claims Not Included in SCO's Appeal or the Tenth Circuit's Limited Mandate. It's making me chuckle. Ah! The mandate rule. Since the judge, the Hon. Ted S ...

These are some of the things I've been tweeting about today:would you eat dog? ... in the new york times roger cohen writes opines about "dog days in china" http://j.mp/9vgLKOhow ridiculous! ... "nbc's revisionist history of conan o'brien's tonight show: it never existed!" http://j.mp/aYYrHWRT @n ...

How do I get there?Simple.Jobs are created in the private sector, not the public (government) sector. If somebody has a government job, the money to pay for that position came from the private sector. No private sector at all, no jobs at all. Except under socialism and communism, and the problem wit ...