Last week it was announced that the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board would invest  $400 Million in a “fund of funds” concept.  That is, it looks like they are proposing to deploy $400 Million to existing private equity and venture capital firms so that they may, in turn, deploy that ...

Mo money, mo money.  The  US Supreme Courts decision a couple of weeks back in Citizens United v. FEC,  which allowed corporations (and unions) to make unlimited expenditures on behalf of candidates, got approval this week from an unlikely quarter:  Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Tom Moyer. There ...

Another blog from Canada today - The Canadian Business Law Blog is brought to you by Shane McLean, a Canadian business lawyer based on Ottawa. He's discussing topics such as business structure, cleantech, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, and more.

It seems as though laws banning handheld devices and texting while driving are not producing expected results, according to a latest study released. Findings from the Highway Loss Data Institute show that crash/accident rates did not go down before and after distracted driving laws were enacted in ...

The title of this post is the headline of by Tony Mauro in .  The sub-head of this piece is "The ' ' opinion, they reason, may drive more money into judicial races and turn off the public," and here is how it gets started: I suspect that folks who litigate criminal cases a ...

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Once again, where one stands on the political spectrum seems to dictate where one stands on the question of whether President Obama was right to call out the Supreme Court for last week's decision in Citizens United. The divide is less partisan over whether Justice Alito acted properly in mouthing/m ...

Shane and Danielle Lambert are suing McLean Hospital for their children’s Massachusetts wrongful deaths. Kaleigh, 5, and Shane, 4, died on January 11, 2008, when their aunt, Marcelle Thibault, carried them onto Interstate 495 where the three of them were fatally struck by two motor vehicles. Thibau ...

The Caperton v. Massey saga is cause for retired Justice O'Connor's concern over the Court's recent decision in Citizens United v. FEC. According to a report in the Washington Post this evening by Robert Barnes, O'Connor told law students at...

January 18, 2010 - January 1, 2010 To view the full-text of cases you must sign in to FindLaw.com. All summaries are produced by Findlaw Supreme Court, January 19, 2010 Wellons v. Hall, No. 09–5731 In a capital habeas matter, the petition for certiorari is granted and the court of appeals' order i ...