On my first, and concededly very rough, cut through Justice Kennedy's opinion in Citizens United, I was interested in his justification for overruling Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce--a decision rendered just twenty years ago. By my read, he deploys a reasonably diverse set of modal arguments ...

Now, having gotten that out of the way (unbidden), on to a few brief, and probably socially unacceptable, words about a Congressman and Ex-Marine who passed away yesterday: John Murtha. In the interest of time, space, and not prolonging nausea, I won’t delve into this corrupt late Congressman& ...

Perhaps I should address Paul Ryan's shadow budget, proposed on behalf of the House Republicans (although in public they are keeping as far away from it as they can).To see the details, check out the first 4 pages of this CBO letter scoring it.Key features, with my reaction to them, are as follows:1 ...

In Dan Helcher, et al. v. Dearborn County Board of Zoning Appeals (SD Ind., Barker), a 36-page opinion, Judge Rovner...

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 ...

First the White House National Security Advisor, John Brennan, said Republicans were briefed on the FBI detainment of the Christmas Day panty-bomber, including that the terrorist had been mirandized. In fact, that was not true. Now John Brennan says critics of the White House are serving ‘th ...

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 John Christoffersen, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – Authorities launched a criminal investigation Monday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a power plant under construction, saying they couldn’t rule out negligence. The powerful explosion blew apa ...

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 ...