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 ...

The Supreme Court has refused permission to appeal in Birmingham City Council v Qasim et al (our notes on the Court of Appeal and county court decisions are here and here, respectively). As our friends at the UKSC blog previously noted, it would be helpful if the Supreme Court would publish such inf ...

L’Accord commercial anti-contrefaçon (ACAC), objet de négociations secrètes, est aujourd’hui au centre des débats internationaux sur le droit d’auteur. Tel est aussi le cas d’un potentiel nouveau traité international sur l’accès pour les déficients visuels aux livres en ligne, qui s’inscrit dans le ...

In my previous post I pointed to an excellent analysis of liberal condescension and gave a couple of examples of it (and discussed a fabulous example of it here). This condescension, as many others have pointed out, is in large part a product of liberals’ faith in their superior morality and their s ...

Voir SEB (T-Fal) v. Montgomery Ward & Co. (Fed. Cir. 2010) Et le commentaire de Patently-o

Voir SEB (T-Fal) v. Montgomery Ward & Co. (Fed. Cir. 2010) Et le commentaire de Patently-o

Richard Knight a male hotel worker for the Columbia Sussex Corporation, settled his gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed on his behalf by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). According to the lawsuit, Knight who was a manager claimed that Columbia Sussex fired him fro ...

Richard Knight a male hotel worker for the Columbia Sussex Corporation, settled his gender discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed on his behalf by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"). According to the lawsuit, Knight who was a manager claimed that Columbia Sussex fired him fro ...

Sam_Shaulson_wrong_on_KingCast_professionalism Citibank claims they lawfully refused to open a bank account for me while they opened one for my Caucasian girlfriend because I became boisterous when they refused to cash Derrick Gillenwater's check. But I didn't, and that's the real reason Citibank r ...

This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. The Ruminations Series in 2009 produced a month long series of aphoristic (?f???sµ??) essays, meant to provoke thought rather than explain it. The hope was that, built up on each other, the ser ...