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... off their own extended warranty contracts as those offered or supported by Sky. It was claimed that Crane and Reynolds did this (i) by using company names that icluded the word "Sky" or were otherwise confusingly similar to their own ... customer said or did that the customer was under a self-induced misapprehension that the trader was, or was connected with, the earlier monopolist and did nothing to correct the customer's mistaken belief, that behaviour constituted misrepresentation by conduct. * ...

... Glenn until I ran across the infernal Glenn Kenny, who calls his blog "In the Company of Glenn." But let's see what the problem was yesterday with the second-worst Glenn: ... you look at those who have this obsession -- the Chris Matthews and Glenn Reynolds and Jonah Goldbergs and Victor Davis Hansons -- what one finds in almost every ... Greenwald started out by mocking Chris Matthews for the analysis of sexual feeling in politics, and then he ended up analyzing sexual feelings in politics. I think he ...

... arbitration, then the clause, again according to the plurality, might reasonably be construed to waive the company's rights to select different arbitrators for some or all of its individual disputes with putative ... contract and a party cannot be required to submit to arbitration any dispute which he has not agreed so to submit." Howsam v. Dean Witter Reynolds ... Federal maritime law requires courts to interpret maritime contracts in light of custom and usage. See Stolt-Nielsen, 435 F. Supp 2d at 385-86 ...

A TALE OF two ethanol companies.

... scholarship without taking into account the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and the proliferation of law professors' personal websites. When I write a draft of a new article, I put ... political discussion. A few months later I had dinner with Glenn Reynolds and Eugene Volokh (who began his blog in April 2002). Glenn said, "Jack, you' ... most of the technical work, but it's not very difficult. Blogger (a hosting company now owned by Google) provides the software we use; it takes a bit of effort ...

MORE BIG MEDIA FINANCIAL PROBLEMS: "The New York Times Company plans to borrow up to $225 million against its mid-Manhattan headquarters building, to ease a potential cash flow squeeze as the company grapples with tighter credit and shrinking profits." Plus, Hey, conservative billionaires, wanna buy a newspaper? And calls for a journalist bailout. UPDATE: Tribune Company files for bankruptcy. Notice how ...

REMEMBER, IT'S ONLY BAD WHEN COMPANIES DO IT: Social Security spends $700,000 on Phoenix conference. "Costs for the conference at the Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa included airfare, hotel entertainment, dancers, motivational speakers, and food, an administration official said."

IN THE MAIL: From Joe Calloway, Becoming a Category of One: How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy Comparison.

GENEROUS PAY for new Freddie Mac CFO. "The government-controlled mortgage finance company is giving CFO Ross Kari compensation worth as much as $5.5 million. That includes an almost $2 million cash signing bonus and a generous salary that could top $2.3 million." It's okay to pay him a lot. He works for the government. "Freddie Mac is not just another company. It's alive today, and nearly 80 percent owned by the government, only because almost $51 billion in taxpayer funds ...

... April 2008 decision in Bradstreet v. Wong, the Court of Appeal for the First Appellate District held that owners, officers, and managers of an insolvent company, which later filed bankruptcy, were not personally liable for unpaid wages, overtime, vacation pay ... this new decision, and the California Supreme Court's 2005 decision on similar issues in the Reynolds v. Bement case, it's possible that directors and officers may still face a risk of individual liability under other California Labor Code ...