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7 Jun, 2007 1:17 pm
Yesterday, Judge Patricia Blackmon served as a visiting Judge at the Ohio Supreme Court, taking the place of Justice Robert R. Cupp, who
recused himself in the case captioned Paul Fisher v. Emma Hasenjager, Case Nos. 2006-1815 and 2006-1853. The Fisher case asks whether a trial court has to first make a finding that
there has been a material "change in circumstances" of a child and/or of an affected parent in a court-approved shared parenting plan prior to issuing an order that changes the ...
1 May, 2008 2:47 pm
If you're by a television tonight, you'll want to check out Douglas Blackmon's interview with Tavis Smiley about his new book, Slavery By
Another Name. It's about convict labor. Here's a description from the webpage for Slavery by Another Name. Based on a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, SLAVERY
BY ANOTHER NAME unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of ...
24 Feb 8:43 am
... district court properly counted as relevant conduct for the money laundering guidelines the cocaine conspiracy that defendant was involved in. Blackmon pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute over 5 kilos of cocaine, and to money laundering. The ... Ex packages of cocaine from California to
conspirators in Philadelphia, in exchange for packages of cash that the coconspirators sent back to Blackmon. The FBI arrested the
coconspirators, who began cooperating. FBI then set up a sting in which one ...
2 Sep 4:36 pm
... third parties WorldGate Communications, Inc. and Senior Vice President of Engineering for WorldGate, Whitney Blackmon (collectively,
"WorldGate"), seeking to quash or limit certain subpoenas served by Respondent Monolithic Power Systems, ... WorldGate was necessary since, in response to a subpoena from Complainants,
WorldGate produced an unsolicited declaration from Mr. Blackmon relating to the functionality of an accused product; (2) its discovery requests
relating to WorldGate are limited to the ...
12 Oct 10:00 am
... merits of the disposition. The Supreme Court is trying to bring some sense from the stupidity swirling around." According to Blackmon,
Mississippi is the only state to have a tort reform statute so "draconian." "Other states have ruled this kind of ... life and a case where a surgeon accidentally cuts off the wrong
finger of an adult." What's happening instead, Blackmon said, is Mississippi is reverting to "the dark days when it was a crapshoot whether
parties could even get in the courthouse." As ...
12 Aug, 2008 10:15 am
... . The video lasts about 27 minutes, and is well worth the time. The supervisors are seated from left to right as follows: Robert Blackmon,
Mike Pickens, Lloyd Oliphant, Ray Sockwell, Jr. and Johnny Morgan. Appearing frequently on the far right ... that their positions are elected ones) because you will see that they
proceed to force the decision forward despite the protests of Blackmon and Pickens. Be warned, this video may cause you to become exceedingly
angry with Oliphant, Sockwell and Morgan. ...
7 Sep 2:12 am
... District Court for the Southern District of Texas 2008), the court applied the exception to an email sent by a Silverhawk employee. Blackmon, a Canatxx employee, called Gardner, a Silverhawk employee, to tell him Canatxx "did not want to move forward ... Silverhawk, supra. "As soon as" the
call was over, Gardner "sent an e-mail . . . relating my conversation with Blackmon" to other Silverhawk employees. Canatxx v. Silverhawk,
supra. During the litigation, Canataxx challenged the admissibility of the ...
25 Jul, 2007 5:31 pm
Is it the Shoes? Is it the Shoes? Is it the Shoes? ... it's gotta be the SHOES!" -- Mars Blackmon, from Spike Lee's 1986 film, "She's Gotta
Have It" Great article over at Slate, entitled, "Female Weightlifters, Spanish Basketball Stars, and Kim Jong-il: The strange world of Chinese sneaker endorsements." It's by Jacob
Leibenluft and it is on the strange and evolving world of athletic shoes and endorsements in China. Article concludes by saying that "for Nike and Adidas, those may be lessons ...
11 Aug, 2008 1:39 pm
Is it the Shoes? Is it the Shoes? Is it the Shoes? ... it's gotta be the SHOES!" -- Mars Blackmon, from Spike Lee's 1986 film, "She's Gotta
Have It" Adidas pays around $80 million to be a sponsor of the Olympics and Li Ning gets to carry in the torch, figuratively burning much of that $80 million. This is just so analogous
to the legal treatment of foreign companies in China. China laws/rules are generally the same and for both foreign and domestic companies (at least with respect to those ...
12 Jun 4:29 am
... also relevant to whether a product is in "essentially the same condition." The most significant case to analyze this factor is Mickle v. Blackmon, 252 S.C. 202, 166 S.E.2d 173 (1969), an automotive collision case in which the plaintiff ... and tear" and the passage of time, and more to do with
the manufacturer's choice of material. From a reading of Mickle v. Blackmon, it is apparent that courts have applied the lapse of time factor
in different ways, depending on the issues arising in the case. On ...
24 Jan, 2007 2:42 pm
They do it the old fashioned way -- bribery. As explained there, First American recently agreed to pay $10 million to settle claims brought by regulators in California that First
American was inappropriately paying agents, builders, and lenders to use First American as the title insurer for their transactions. This follows on the heals of a report from the
Washington State Insurance Commissioner regarding similar practices there. The report is a wonderful primer on the industry and its less- ...
17 Jan, 2007 5:02 pm
There's been some discussion lately in the news about whether or not a buyer should pay points in order to buy down the interest rate on the loan. The short answer? Probably not. As
indicated in the link, a fairly comprehensive study (3785 mortgages from 1996-2003) found that only 1.4% of those buyers who paid points actually came out ahead, and only 1.5% of those
buyers who chose not to pay points made the wrong decision. As to be expected, most people overestimate the time they will spend in ...
19 Dec, 2006 12:58 pm
In many parts of the country, a closing is handled by an escrow agent. It is the excrow agent's job to insure that each party performs his or her obligations under the contract. Thus,
the escrow agent is a neutral third party who works for both buyer and seller. In addition to the terms of the purchase and sale agreement, the exact scope of the work to be done by the
escrow agent is determined by the escrow instructions, which both parties sign as part of the closing documents. Typically, an ...
27 Jun, 2006 3:56 pm
Typically, a real estate agent will charge a seller a 6% commission to market and sell the home (the systems of agent compensation can vary significantly). Over the last several years,
the price of homes has far outstripped inflation. Therefore, the standard 6% commission represents a significantly larger fee than it did many years ago. Accordingly, more and more
people are trying to sell their homes by themselves, aided by the growing power of the internet. If you sell a $400,000 house by ...
27 Jun, 2006 3:55 pm
The FSBO process does not differ significantly from the process when using an agent. However, the buyer or seller obviously will be more involved and therefore should have a good
understanding of it. Different issues take on significance depending on whether the sale is viewed from the buyers perspective or the sellers perspective.
27 Jun, 2006 3:54 pm
"For Sale By Owner" is an increasingly popular way to sell or buy a home. When you buy or sell For Sale By Owner (FSBO pronounced fizzbo) you save a lot of money in real estate
agent fees. However, youre entering a legal transaction worth hundreds of thousands of dollars , so an understanding of the process is essential. This site provides FSBO buyers and
sellers with insight on that legal process. Because laws vary from state to state, this site provides general information only that ...
31 Jan, 2007 8:45 am
On Zillow's blog today, there is a post about the growth of property listing on Zillow. With 30k listings so far, a house listed for sale gets 200x the traffic of one that is not. So,
assuming only an owner looks at a house not for sale, I'd be willing to assume that a listing on Zillow gets seen by 200 potential buyers. Not bad for the cost (which, of course, if
free)... On another note, anyone who is selling their home FSBO absolutely should list on Zillow, not only for immediate personal ...
7 Feb, 2007 11:01 am
In a recent post on Rain City Guide, an excellent Seattle-based real estate blog, one of the contributors, an agent, confessed to rebating nearly $69,000 last year to her clients. Why?
In order to charge a fee that she "perceived to be a fair value for the services rendered". A cursory review of her posts on RCG (as well as her own blog) indicates that she is a very
experienced, knowledgable, and sophisticated agent. Certainly, she is to be admired for refunding fees beyond that which she ...
27 Feb, 2007 1:19 pm
In the last couple of days, there's been a lot of discussion in the blogosphere in regards to a recent announcement by Redfin, a discount brokerage based in Seattle (but operating in LA
and SF, I believe, with plans to further expand nationally). The Redfin model is geared towards buyers, where an agent will provide limited services focused primarily on writing and
negotiating an offer, and the buyer will get a rebate of a portion of the buyer's agent's commission. This past weekend, Redfin ...
28 Feb, 2007 11:47 am
... 1. Mean Joe Greene throws jersey to young fan (Coke) 2. Tiger bounces golf ball (Nike) 3. Bo knows (Nike) 4. Jordan & Bird go head to head (McDonald's) 5. Uecker: "I must be in
the front row" (Miller Lite) 6. Michael Jordan and Mars Blackmon (Nike) 7. Be Like Mike (Gatorade) 8. Yao, Yogi and "Yo" (Visa) 9. Barkley
& friends at Shady Rest Retirement Home (Charles Schwab) 10. Maddux/Glavine: Chicks dig the long ball (Nike) 11. Bubba Smith, Dick Butkus at the opera (Miller Lite) 12. Bird ...
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