I was one of the thousands upon thousands of people who registered to get back a pittance from the music companies for sticking it to consumers with artificially high CD prices. My take: $13.86.
I was one of the thousands upon thousands of people who registered to get back a pittance from the music companies for sticking it to consumers with artificially high CD prices. My take: $13.86.
The New York Times is reporting that Geltzer, a bankruptcy trustee for the now-defunct magazine Lingua Franca has been sending letters to freelance writers threatening to sue them if they don't return fees they received in return for articles they wrote. Joanna Smith Rakoff, a writer who worked as a Web editor and wrote for […]
Bush is standing by his decision on barring certain "allies" from being primary contractors rebuilding a country they didn't think was important enough to liberate from a brutal tyrant. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder apparently made some comments that "international law must apply to awarding of contracts." International law? International law dictates how the American taxpayers […]
If it's possible to give trial lawyers a bad name, then Erin Brockovich and Edward Masry are doing a dang good job of it.
And that's a lawsuit from the Center for Individual Rights. If you're looking for some background on the issue, you can check out my blog posts here, here and here. You can also check out some work on the case done by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education here. Cal Poly will lose this […]
Sometimes I wish I'd been struck in the head with a sledgehammer hard enough to make me believe crazy things could happen in this world -- I'd be able to predict things like this. Talk about a waste of time. Seriously, if the Saudis are going to sue us in United States' courts over Sept. […]
Texas executed a Mexican-national cop-killer earlier today. The following line in the Associated Press story caught my eye. Besides raising claims about the treaty violations in their appeal to the Supreme Court, Suarez's lawyers said his 14 execution dates since his 1989 conviction amounted to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment. Why has there been 14 […]
The idea of personal responsibility is disappearing from our culture. Why? Well, parents aren't teaching it to their kids. Arizona English teacher Elizabeth Joice got a letter from a lawyer representing one of the students she failed. The letter asked her to take "whatever action is necessary" for the student to graduate or else the […]