This story is one of the more scary items I've seen reported by the media. The New York Times ran a story about a nurse (Anne Mitchell) in Texas who informed state regulators that a doctor (Rolando G. Arafiles Jr., MD) at her rural hospital was practicing bad medicine. What did she get in return? H ...

This story is one of the more scary items I've seen reported by the media. The New York Times ran a story about a nurse (Anne Mitchell) in Texas who informed state regulators that a doctor (Rolando G. Arafiles Jr., MD) at her rural hospital was practicing bad medicine. What did she get in return? H ...

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 ...

Image via CrunchBaseAfter a two-month production delay, New York-based bookseller Barnes & Noble, Inc. expects its Nook electronic book reader to be available for purchase in most of its bookstores this week, Reuters reports.Until now, the rival to Amazon.com, Inc.'s Kindle reader could only be had ...

On January 29, 2010, ten religious folk were taken into custody after trying to smuggle a gaggle of Haitian children (nearly three dozen) across the DR border.  Just two days later, several men were arrested in Periamet, India, for stealing panchaloha idols.  No connection worth mentioning, really, ...

Yesterday the FAA published it's Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("ANPRM") titled New Pilot Certification Requirements for Air Carrier Operations which I discussed in my February 4, 2010 post. According to the ANPRM, "[t]he purpose of this notice is to gather information on whether current el ...

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Are the general characteristics of a snowman a fit subject for judicial notice? The Second Circuit Court of Appeals says yes in the copyright infringement case of Eden Toys, Inc. v. Marshall Field & Company, 675 F.2d 498 (1982). The Court did a thorough job of comparing two snowman toys by dif ...

In the current takeover battle between Air Products and Airgas, lawyers at Cravath, Swaine & Moore are increasingly seeing their names in print in ways that aren't entirely flattering.

While motor vehicle accidents caused by drunk or impaired drivers seem to grab the headlines, few people are aware of the dangers of driving while sleepy. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration says there are just as many accidents caused by sleep-deprived drivers as there are in ...