How many tort cases are tried in Tennessee in the last year?   The Annual Report of the Tennessee Judiciary gives us the answer.   Here is the data for the year ended June 30, 2009: Total jury trials in all tort cases:   260 Total number of medical malpractice trials:  26 Tot ...

KURT SCHLICHTER: Get Over It: Birtherism Is Not Journalism. Nope, it’s as if somebody who called himself a journalist developed a sick fascination with Sarah Palin’s uterus. And nobody wants to think about what that would represent. Then again, “According to a new book by John ...

I’m going to sum this entire thing up, because the sooner we move past this the happier everybody’s going to be. Republican Party* (in the person of House Republican Leader John Boehner & House Republican Whip Eric Cantor): Mr. President, you claim that you want bipartisan health ...

What should have been a routine laparoscopic surgery has proved fatal for Rep. John Murtha of Pennsylvania. The 77-year-old died from complications when doctors “hit his intestines” during the minimally invasive gallbladder procedure at National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. His intestine was da ...

Put some bleachers out in the sun And have it out on Highway 61. --R. Zimmerman John Dawson Winter III, b. Beaumont, Texas (1944- ). Note to "no guts no gospel" weenies born after 1965: Johnny Winter is a straight-up Boomer Hero. Listening to him could make you tougher. Make you ready ...

As those who have been following my tweets know, I have been at the American Bar Association's House of Delegates and midyear meetings. There's lots of substance to these meetings and you can certainly follow along with the ABA Journal. Among the topics discussed today, was the Paycheck Fairne ...

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 ...

My class in private equity and venture capital doesn’t know it yet, but I think I might have them read Harvard Law School’s John Coates’ new empirical paper on the effects of ownership on M&A, or at least some important sections of it.  I’ve just been through it and think it’s terrific, with rob ...

Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. He was 77. The Pennsylvania Democrat had been...

President Obama continues to "reach out" to conservatives and moderates. The benefits of this approach, however, are dubious at best. Ben NelsonObama, for example, secured support for healthcare reform legislation from Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska by giving his state millions of dollars in Medicai ...