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19 May 2013, 7:05 am
Turkey's military struck targets inside Syria on Wednesday in response to a mortar bomb fired from Syrian territory which killed five Turkish civilians, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's office said in a statement.
Our armed forces in the border region responded immediately to this abominable attack in line with their rules of engagement; targets were struck through artillery fire against places in Syria identified by radar, the statement said.
"Turkey will never leave unanswered such kinds… [read post]
19 May 2013, 6:54 am
Turkish artillery hit targets near Syria's Tel Abyad border town for a second day on Thursday, killing several Syrian soldiers according to activists and security sources, after a mortar bomb fired from the area killed five Turkish civilians.
Turkey's government said "aggressive action" against its territory by Syria's military had become a serious threat to its national security and sought parliamentary approval for the deployment of Turkish troops beyond its borders.
"Turkey has no interest in a… [read post]
19 May 2013, 5:30 am
Some had hoped that the Court would use Bowman as an opportunity to address the extent of a patent owner’s monopoly over other self-replicating technologies in the areas of biotechnology and information technology, such as human cell lines or computer programs. Certainly, the Court hinted at the possibility of situations where the patented article’s self-replication is truly outside the purchaser’s control, or where the self-replication is an essential step in using the patented… [read post]
19 May 2013, 5:22 am
The Social Costs of Choice, Free Market Ideology and the Empirical Consequences of the 401(k) Plan Large Menu Defense, by Mercer Bullard, University of Mississippi - School of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Regulatory reforms... [read post]
19 May 2013, 1:00 am
Tyler, Texas attorney and State Bar of Texas President Buck Files has written an informative essay on conflicts of interest which appears in the April 2013 Voice for the Defense (page 15). The essay uses the federal case U.S. v.... [read post]
18 May 2013, 11:58 pm
Over the years my law firm has been called in a number of times to try to get rid of an out of control Legal Representative of a WOFE. Typically, the company calling us thinks that it ought to be able to rid itself of its WFOE Legal Representative simply by issuing a resolution making it so.
Wrong.
The last time we executed a change of Legal Representative for a Beijing WFOE, we had to draft/provide the following:
Amendment of the Articles of Association in Chinese. Four… [read post]
18 May 2013, 10:55 pm
Last week I told my colleagues that I did not want to hear anything more about the damn “Farm Bill.” It’s taken up more time than the Korean War did, and I was sick of hearing about it. Then they caught my attention by telling me about the catfish amendment. Yes, after assigning catfish inspection to USDA in the 2008 Farm Bill, Congress in this new Farm Bill appears set to return that responsibility to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
It’s these little… [read post]
18 May 2013, 3:42 pm
Guest post by Jeremy Richler
May 18, 2013
It seems almost everyone has a cell phone, simply unable to live without one. We rely on our mobile phones not just to communicate with others but to email, surf the net, text, download movies and music, and catch the headlines.
But virtually all Canadians, hooked as they are to these irresistible devices, complain that they are being gouged, with unreasonable prices, interminable three-year contracts, and poor service. Desperate to seek a more reasonable… [read post]
18 May 2013, 1:52 pm
Mindy Chen-Wishart's "Legal Transplant of Undue Influence: Lost in Translation or a Working Misunderstanding?" has appeared on SSRN:
Is legal transplant possible? The stark bipolarity of a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answer
attracted by such a question is much less interesting and revealing than the
question: what shapes the life of legal transplants? The answer to the latter
question is contingent on a wide range of variables triggered by the particular
transplant; the… [read post]
18 May 2013, 12:31 pm
Turkey is carrying out a big aid campaign, led by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for Somali who are suffering in the grip of drought.
In an effort to position himself as the leader of Muslim countries in the Middle East region, Erdogan is trying to show the slamic World that he is not indifferent to the Muslim Somalis. He stands up to Israel in order to gain sympathy of Muslim countries.
However, he is ignores those of his own citizens who are trying to lead their lives under very difficult… [read post]
18 May 2013, 10:27 am
In 2011, and in response to the “robo-signing” scandal that would eventually lead to the National Mortgage Settlement, Nevada became the first state to do something legislatively that served to reduce the number of foreclosures dramatically.
The bill, AB 284, required banks to sign affidavits stating that the person signing had personal knowledge of all documents related to a foreclosure, and it provided for a monetary fine for recording false documents in the county recorder’s… [read post]
18 May 2013, 9:14 am
As briefly discussed above, Peteski brought this action against Deadspin because Deadspin copied the Dr. Phil show that had an exclusive interview with Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Tuiasosopo is the brains (and voice) behind the hoax that was played on Notre Dame football player Manti Te'o. What was the hoax? A fake online girlfriend for the football player. On the first part of Dr. Phil's two-part show, Tuiasosopo talked about how the hoax worked, and toward the end of the show, Dr. Phil asked Tuiasosopo… [read post]
18 May 2013, 8:50 am
Bhuvaneswari Raman of the French Institute of Pondicherry has published The Rhetoric and Reality of Transparency: Transparent Information, Opaque City Spaces and the Empowerment Question, Journal of Community Informatics, 8(2), article 866 (2012).
The paper reports results of, among other things, an ethnographic study of an Indian project to digitize land title records.
Here is the abstract:
This paper examines the purported links between transparency, citizens’ participation and empowerment… [read post]
18 May 2013, 1:40 am
The 18 states designated as being those “hardest hit” by the foreclosure crisis were given a total of $7.6 billion in February of 2010. The money was to be used by the states to help homeowners through various programs designed by the states and approved at the federal level.
As last year ended, “about $1 billion” of that money had been spent, according to the Treasury Department, and after trying to understand Treasury-speak for the last five years now, the fact that… [read post]
17 May 2013, 5:48 pm
Here’s what can happen when people get lulled into a false sense of security listening to the news stories about how our housing markets have rebounded and foreclosures are down… we risk losing the things that are helping homeowners.
When the foreclosure crisis began, and for the first few years as foreclosures continued unabated, foreclosure mediation programs were unheard of… in fact, it wasn’t until people realized that HAMP wasn’t really working as advertised and… [read post]
17 May 2013, 3:40 pm
We all know what happened as a result of the mortgage market melt down that began during the summer of 2007… we’re still nursing our wounds, millions have lost homes, millions are still at risk of foreclosure.
We all remember TARP and the taxpayer funded bailouts of Wall Street’s largest investment and commercial banks almost like it happened yesterday. And in 2009, what happened to homeowners that applied for assistance under President Obama’s Home Affordable… [read post]
17 May 2013, 1:07 pm
The controversial cancer treatment drug Avastin (bevacizumab) has one more warning attached to it – the drug has been associated with two deaths and 52 cases of flesh-eating disease.
The drug’s maker, Hoffman-LaRoche Ltd., identified the cases of necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating bacteria) occurring worldwide from 1997 to 2012. Both the FDA and Health Canada are warning about this latest turn for Avastin, which remains on the market.
Those most at risk are patients who have a… [read post]
17 May 2013, 8:23 am
Abstracts have been posted of papers presented at the Conference: The Many Faces of Contemporary Philosophy and Theory of Law, held 23-24 March 2013, at Jagellonian University, Cracow, Poland. The conference included a special working group on Bayesian analysis in law, abstracts of papers of which begin on page 6 of the abstracts volume and are excerpted below:
Dr Jeroen Keppens: Bayesian Perspectives on the Value of Evidence. Abstract:
Given the interdisciplinary audience, I would like to introduce… [read post]
17 May 2013, 7:53 am
Professor Nina A. Mendelson of University of Michigan Law School has posted Private Control Over Access to Public Law: The Puzzling Federal Regulatory Use of Private Standards, forthcoming in Michigan Law Review.
Here is the abstract:
To save resources and build on private expertise, federal agencies have incorporated private standards into thousands of federal regulations – but only by “reference.” An individual who wishes to read this binding federal regulatory law cannot access… [read post]
17 May 2013, 4:55 am
I wrote something incorrect about SPE Len Tran and for that I apologize to him and to the USPTO and to readers who were lead astray. The fact is that if you do a simple Google patent search you will see that since the time he became a SPE in 2008 he has signed many hundreds of patents. SPE Len Tran is not an examiner or SPE that refuses to issue patents. To the contrary, he has issued many patents for a variety of different technologies and seems to be an example of a good supervisor.
Related… [read post]