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(Pix © Larry Catá Backer; Tauluseinä Tavelväggen, Wall of Printings (1977); Nörrköping Art Museum Turku Findland))Every year for almost 25 years, the Corporate Practice Commentator (with great thanks to Robert Thompson (Georgetown)) announces the results of its annual poll to select the ten best corporate and securities articles. [read post]

Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/

New PatentlyO Law Journal article: Colleen Chien, Deferring Patentable Subject Matter

29 Jan 2019, 11:48 am by Jason Rantanen

To avoid this harsh consequence, Department of Homeland Security prosecutors administratively closed some cases, immigration judges granted continuances for unusually long periods in hopes that the law would change, and US Customs and Immigration enforcement officials granted requests for deferred action. [read post]

Patently-O - http://patentlyo.com/patent

Papa Johns, Corporate Risk Management, and the Social Responsibility of Enterprises in the Shadow of Corporate Law--"Schnatter v. Papa John’s" and Director Authority to Inspect Corporate Books and Records

28 Jan 2019, 8:18 pm

Kelley, GLASER WEIL LLP, Los Angeles, California, Attorneys for Plaintiff.Blake Rohrbacher, Robert L. [read post]

Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/

Neutral Data and Strategic Transparency: The Legal Battles Over the Political and Governance Effects of a Census Question On Citizenship Status in "U.S. in New York v. U.S. Dept. of Commerce" (file 15 Jan. 2019)

15 Jan 2019, 6:51 pm

Perhaps now is a good time to re-read in the quite different light of the second decade of the 21st century an interesting foreign observation of American political culture written in the beginning of the third decade of the 20th century--Édouard Lambert, Le Gouvernement des juges et la lutte contre la législation sociale aux États-Unis. [read post]

Law at the End of the Day - http://lcbackerblog.blogspot.com/

Affirmative Defense of Quasi-Estoppel

2 Jan 2019, 2:55 pm by MOTP

Frost Nat'l Bank v. [read post]

Texas Causes of Action Blawg - http://causeofactionelements.blogspot.com/

On Originalism and the First Amendment

18 Dec 2018, 9:02 pm by Edward A. Fallone

(Keith Whittington, “Originalism: A Critical Introduction,” 82 FORDHAM L. [read post]

Faculty Blog - http://law.marquette.edu/facultyblog/

There is no "mandate." Oh, and by the way, Judge O'Connor didn't enjoin enforcement of any provision of the ACA, let alone "strike down" Obamacare in its entirety.

15 Dec 2018, 10:04 am by Marty Lederman

Contra Judge O’Connor, they’re probably right about that—but it doesn’t matter whether or not they are. [read post]

Balkinization - http://balkin.blogspot.com/

Fifth Circuit finds right to arbitration waived where adjudication on the merits had already been sought in court and had succeeded in part - Forby vs. One Technologies, L.P., No. 17-10883 (5th Cir. Nov. 28, 2018)

4 Dec 2018, 10:29 pm by MOTP

The district court's order granting One Tech's motion to compel arbitration is VACATED. [read post]

ADR Law Texas - http://texas-arbitration-case-law.blogspot.com/

Agency Bad Guidance Practices at the Patent and Trademark Office: a Billion Dollar Problem

3 Dec 2018, 8:46 pm by Dennis Crouch

(GrayLeCozDuan) Robert L. [read post]

Patently-O - http://patentlyo.com/patent

What the Watergate 'Road Map' Reveals about Improper Contact between the White House and the Justice Department

19 Nov 2018, 7:13 am by Jim Baker, Sarah Grant

President Nixon and other White House personnel also had contacts with other Justice Department officials, such as Attorney General Kleindienst and Acting FBI Director L. [read post]

Lawfare - http://www.lawfareblog.com/

The “Rothman” Amicus Brief in Daubert v. Merrill Dow Pharmaceuticals

17 Nov 2018, 12:10 pm by Schachtman

Rothman was encouraged to target these three issues by the lower courts’ opinions in the Daubert case, in which the courts made blanket statements about the role of absent statistical significance and peer review, and the illegitimacy of “re-analyses” of published studies. [read post]

Tortini - http://schachtmanlaw.com/blog/

Russia’s Response to the DNC Lawsuit

16 Nov 2018, 5:55 am by Anthony Gaughan

Department of Justice, Robert S. [read post]

The Faculty Lounge - http://www.thefacultylounge.org/

Texas Theft Liability Act mandates award of attorneys fees to the prevailing party, whether plaintiff or defendant

9 Nov 2018, 9:02 am by MOTP

See In re Corral-Lerma, 451 S.W.3d 385, 386 (Tex. 2014) (no damages recovery needed); Air Routing Int'l Corp. v. [read post]

Texas Causes of Action Blawg - http://causeofactionelements.blogspot.com/

Pittsburgh synagogue massacre- How to address such hate and violence

4 Nov 2018, 8:02 am by Jon Katz

Pittsburgh – Bigoted murders and massacres themselves must not be accepted as commonplace Pittsburgh is among the latest places to experience a mass murder, this time with Robert Bowers’s massacre at the Tree of Life/Or L’Simcha synagogue. [read post]

Underdog Blog - http://katzjustice.com/blog/

Argument analysis: Court quiet, but potentially skeptical, on immunity for international organizations

31 Oct 2018, 11:34 am by Amy Howe

Jeffrey L. [read post]

SCOTUSblog - http://www.scotusblog.com/