Competition 1: midnight last night was the closing date for the haiku competition for which the prize is complimentary admission to CLT's conference on IP in the Educational Sector, next Thursday 19 March 2009 (click here for full programme). There was a better-than-usual crop of entries, so the IPK...

That's the title of Gretel Kovach's portrait of Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller in today's New York Times.  LINK If Sharon Keller, the presiding judge of Texas’ highest criminal court, has ever doubted her judgment, she has not shown it. In 1998, Jud...

I've been a bit busy the last couple days, so this will be brief. Included in this post is one opinion out of the other Washington, the Supreme Court opinion in Wyeth. Because there's a lot to do though, I will keep it boiled down to the bare essentials: March 3, 2009 Div. II City of Gig Harbor v. N...

I have heard that Bookmarks is experiencing its own, painful credit crunch at the moment, and needs to raise approximately ten grand in a very short period of time. Bookmarks is one of the few socialist bookshops in the UK, contains a lot of material that you would otherwise find hard to get hold of...

We all have to spend, even in a recession, so why not bank with Citibank and spend smarter? That's the premise of a new commercial in which folks share everyday examples of fiscal prudence. Citigroup has seen better days (I'm a finance scientist, obviously): the company's splitting in two on the hee...

That's the title of Dahlia Lithwick's article in the March 9 edition of Newsweek.  It's subtitled, "Judges are not gods. But we must trust them to do their jobs, or do away with the institution itself." February was a spectacularly bad month for the judging business. Last...

Three new opinions out of Div. II today. Unfortunately, I have no time today for smarmy comebacks, so I will instead point you here.   In re Det. of Sease It must be the week for SVP challenges. Sease claimed that the jury was not instructed on unanimity, and did not unanimopusly find which con...

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has struck down as unconstitutional a California statute purporting to ban the sale or rental of violent video games to minors. In a 30-page decision (PDF), in Video ms-dos Dealers syndicate v. Schwarzenegger, the federal app...

"Formal Proceedings Initiated Against CCA Presiding Judge Sharon Keller," is Mary Alice Robbins' report for Texas Lawyer. Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller faces a public hearing over what the State Commission on Judicial Conduct alleges was her decision not...

Limited Brands, Inc., Bath & Body Works, Inc., Henri Bendel, Inc., and Bath & Body Works, Inc. doing business as The White Barn Candle Co. (collectively, “Limited�) appeal from the final judgment of the United States District Court for the......