Supreme Court Justice David Souter will speak at Harvard University’s spring commencement ceremony. Souter is scheduled to speak on May 27 2010 (the school’s 359th commencement) in the Tercentenary Theatre of Harvard Yard. He was a Rhodes Scholar and earned his law degree from Harvard Law in 1966. S ...

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 ...

A few months back, the Student Bar Association at Northwestern University School of Law got its panties in a bunch over inappropriate language and the "unthinking use of stereotypes." Saying that you were "raped" by an exam, for example, was offensive to some on campus, said the SBA. (They preferred ...

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 ...

Adam Liptak has an excellent piece in the New York Times about . Hopwood, who is now working as a paralegal, got his job with a reference from former Solicitor General Seth Waxman. Shon Hopwood, who transformed himself in Federal prison from a bad bank robber to an excellent jailhouse lawyer ...

A Chicago car accident along Interstate 80 resulted in one death on Sunday night. The accident occurred about three miles east of the convergence of I-80 and I-355 in the Chicago suburb of Mokena, IL. The Chicago area car crash claimed the life of a 57 year-old University Park man. According to repo ...

Holocaust insurance claims. The plaintiffs, relatives of victims of the Holocaust, sought to recover insurance proceeds from policies purchased by the victims. The Second Circuit, agreeing with the District Court, held that the state law claims were preempted by the United States foreign policy, w ...