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Happy birthday to my good friend, esteemed co-blogger, musical guru and all around good guy Bryan D. Brown! I confess, I don't know what the "D" is for, so I have fun thinking of possibilities like "Dashiki." I confess to falling behind on blogging his awesome radio show (this week's is really good), mainly because of end-of-term insanity and bizarre and untimely predilection towards wintertime diseases, ...

... food on indigenous people for the sole purpose of proving... that McDonalds sucks. How about this? Both hamburgers suck, and people shouldn't eat either of them. Where's that fucking taste test? Not to mention the whole video has an air of "oh, look at the silly brown people in their funny costumes trying to eat a hamburger. Aren't they so... cute?" To hell with it - it's not "culturally insensitive", it's fucking racist. It's like something that would be on the Chappelle Show as a joke. Did I ...

... Tom Baker (UConn Law) and Sean Griffith (Fordham Law) fall into that category. The article explores the relationship between D&O insurance and corporate governance. Much of the evidence in the piece comes from interviews with D&O underwriters ... is a nicely done article, raising more questions than it answers (as a good piece often should). My impression is that D&O underwriters are increasingly recognizing the value of governance in pricing decisions and will continue to do so. Moreover ...

... and unsubstantiated." In reply, Barnaba vigorously disagrees. In so doing, he provides considerable insight into the terms of the D&O insurance policies applicable in this case. Total coverage is $50 million, with the first tranche exhausted in ... per month burn rate. As the memorandum provides: the impending exhaustion of these funds is neither speculative nor unsubstantiated. The D&O Policy in question provides four layers of coverage-a total of $50 million. It provides coverage to a ...

... so months after the indictment, there is still no trial date and the parties are sweltering in more than 12 million documents. As for the D&O policy, the fourth and last tier has been exhausted. That insurance spigot has run dry. A ... also become clear that the concern raised by Solomon Wisenberg (Wisenberg & Wisenberg), counsel for Paul Barnaba, about the burn rate of the D&O insurance has in fact come to fruition. Abramowitz noted that the issue of reimbursement was "getting to be a ...

THEY'RE RALLYING AGAINST OBAMACARE AT THE L.A. FEDERAL BUILDING this afternoon. Reader Lowell Brown sends this pic.

... announced in August 2003 that he and Hynie were separating. So it seemed Brown did not want to leave anything to Hynie. She was not mentioned in the will or trust. ... not have been valid? And the second question -- apparently first raised by Brown himself before he died -- is whether James II was really his son. ... Hynie (with an acknowledgment that she was a lawful widow), and the final quarter passing to some of Brown's adult children. The settlement also recognized James II as a legitimate child ...

On October 6, 2009, a jury in the District of Columbia decided in favor of D.C. Whistleblower Colin Browne in the case of Browne v. University of District of Columbia. In the suit, Colin Browne alleged that his former employer, the University ... 's at-risk program, and his supervisors were intentionally misreporting the retention rate of UDC's program for at-risk students. Despite Browne's repeated disclosures to management, UDC's Board of Trustees and even to the President of the University, UDC ...

... other programs across the hospital as well. The audio file of my interview with Doug Brown runs about 18 minutes and is available for download/podcast. A transcript of the interview is available ... were identified by your outside experts? Doug Brown: I think those were definitely part of a report but I'd say the key aspects were issues that I noted ... itself for those negotiations or experiences or whether you see this as more discrete. Doug Brown: Yeah, it's a very good question, and I'm sure you're ...

... 922(g) was charged, and the suppression motion was denied. Brown took a conditional plea. [Ed. Note: Why is the N.D. Cal. U.S.A.O. the only office in the United States that categorically bars conditional pleas?] Issue(s): "Brown contends that [Rishel's] consent was not voluntary, and furthermore that her consent was ... is mere speculation." Id. at *6. Judge Tallman also reassures us that "it is possible that Brown would have granted his consent" to the search, so it is of less concern that he ...