In Sorcery and "Risk" Craft in Back Door Rescue to Single Claimant IRC 468B QSF" we discussed Dick Risk's "magic potion" for the rescue of the single plaintiff qualified settlement fund project. The NSSTA has pounced with all the fervor of an unleashed Maxine Nightingale lyric:"...And if you ...

Wired Magazine is reporting that the Judicial Conference of the United States, the body that develops policy for federal courts in that country, has proposed new model jury instructions that explicitly ban the use of applications like Facebook and Twitter: “U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson o ...

ProtectMarriage.com - Yes on 8 v. Courage Campaign, 2010 U.S. Dist. 10045 (E.D. Cal., 2010) Plaintiff sought a preliminary injunction based on trademark infringement.  The court denied the injunction, holding that Plaintiff was “unlikely to overcome the conclusion that defendant’s use of ...

In our January 19, 2010 post, we examined Chacon v. Litke, Case Nos. A122026 & A123889 (1st Dist., Div. 2 published Feb. 8, 2010), which was unpublished at the time. This decision established that the lodestar analysis was the presumptive method for gauging special fee-shifting provisions, ...

Kirby Morgan Dive Systems v. Hydrospace Ltd. et al, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9657 (C.D. Cal., 2010) Plaintiff entered into a distribution agreement with Defendant wherein defendant would promote, market, and sell Plaintiff’s products in the Brittish Isles and Defendant would not participate in th ...

As might be expected, the number of lawsuits over Toyota vehicles has grown sharply. According to a Bloomberg news report, several different groups of plaintiffs have filed at least 29 suits in California, Texas and South Carolina. It is likely that, as the suits advance and others ar ...

Winter conditions can make travel along Arkansas roads dangerous. The Arkansas Highway Department recommends that motorists stay off Arkansas roads during ice and snow storms. However, sometimes that is not an option for some people. The following winter driving tips were listed on the Department' ...

Another national settlement planning firm, has tripped over the use of an absolute descriptive in their advertising. Despite common industry knowledge that a principal of the firm does defense work, the firm's website proclaims " We are solely retained by the injured party to create settlement pla ...

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 ...

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty NASA published a notice of a Meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (PDF) in today’s Federal Register (74 Fed. Reg. 6407-6408): SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, as amended, the National Aeronautics a ...