The Right Staff is Key I have to excerpt almost this entire posting from Above the Law, because you have to read it to believe it.  This might just make a good comment at the blog, but unfortunately the comments section at ATL — which is still, in many respects, a remarkable thing, as David L...

In Long Island federal court today, I lost hard, I lost bad, and I lost big. Did I lose fair? If you’ve got the stomach for it, read this and decide. Your thoughts and comments (there) will be appreciated. One more thought.  I once wrote about how a leading big-firm light of the trademark lit...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times! In one city (New York), a judge determines that an Internet retailer’s use of thumbnail product images, even those published by a manufacturer to sell its own products, is permissible “fair use” when used by the Internet retailer...

The thing about the nuts that fall from Obama’s tree, it seems, is you get a good luck at the unappetizing meat in ‘em when they crack open on the hard ground. Tales from the Unreality-Based Community: A homosexual man who has a blog on Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign website is suing...

O’Connor federal courthouse Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman Yesterday I was here, in the stupidestly-designed courthouse on God’s brutally-baked brown desert earth — the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse in sunny Phoenix, Arizona. It is truly a marvel of arrogance. Imagine be...

“Asking for Coffee Not Grounds for Sex Harassment Suit”: [Judge Berle M. ] Schiller found that plaintiff Tamara Klopfenstein failed to allege even a prima facie case of sex discrimination because she cannot show that she was treated differently from any “similarly situated” m...

The New York Law Journal: Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward H. Lehner today gave the Legislature and Governor David A. Paterson 90 days to adjust the pay of the state’s 1,300 judges to reflect the rise in the cost of living since their last raise nearly 10 years ago. Justice Lehner found that...

Shoe shine Originally uploaded by Ron Coleman. So far, so good. I had two early court dates this morning, in two cases where I represent plaintiffs in trademark infringements. Amazingly, and quite coincidentally, they were scheduled an hour apart in the same courthouse, the U.S. District Court for t...

TaxProf Blog reports on a potentially huge case, wherein an orthodox Jewish couple is challenging the IRS’s policy of permitting tuition writeoffs for the Scientologists and no other religion — an utterly preposterous position. He quotes the New York Sun : Our own view on school vouchers...