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 ...

Career Democrats (not just "outsider" liberal critics) are beginning to criticize President Obama's senior staff. The Hill, for example, reports that liberal and moderate Democrats in Congress blame Rahm Emanuel for the Obama administration's poor performance on healthcare reform.Although both sides ...

The debate over the safety of hydraulic fracturing continues. The Environmental Working Group, a Washington-based non-profit environmental advocacy organization, has issued a white paper, "Drilling Around the Law," calling for fracking to be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act and to require ...

The Board granted plaintiff's summary judgment motion in this Section 2(d) opposition/cancellation proceeding involving two entities owning registrations for the mark DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS for various clothing items. Applicant Richard Tucker admitted that TxDOT had priority of use (TxDOT proved it a ...

Is a prior burglary of a vending machine a "crime of violence" that triggers the draconian mandatory-minimum and guidelines of the Armed Career Criminal Act? It can be in the Ninth, thanks to a very disappointing decision in United States v. Terrell, 2010 WL 347914 (9th Cir. Feb. 2, 2010), decision ...

Is a prior burglary of a vending machine a "crime of violence" that triggers the draconian mandatory-minimum and guidelines of the Armed Career Criminal Act? It can be in the Ninth, thanks to a very disappointing decision in United States v. Terrell, 2010 WL 347914 (9th Cir. Feb. 2, 2010), decision ...

It takes some chutzpah for a Village blogger like Jon Cohn to insist that progressives clamor for the Senate health bill. Cohn writes: I should probably reiterate what I've said before. Nobody--not the president and not the members of Congress--are going to move if progressives don't push for [th ...

President Barack Obama Friday tapped Democratic National Committee member Tim Purdon as North Dakota’s next United States Attorney, landing the president in the same political minefield once occupied by Democratic Senator Max Baucus after he nominated his girlfriend for a similar federal post. ...

RETRACTO THE CORRECTION ALPACA pays a call on Max Blumenthal of Salon. For a camelid, he’s surprisingly relentless.

Recently, on January 29, 2010, the Pennsylvania issued a 2-2 per curiam split decision in the attorney-client privilege case of Nationwide Mut. Ins. Co. v. Fleming, 2010 WL 336171, No. 32 WAP 2007 (Pa. 2010). Only four Justices took part in the decision because Justices Debra M. Todd and Seamus McCa ...