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3 Oct 2010, 11:01 pm
In recognition of the 40th anniversary of her October 4, 1970 death, this edition of Blawg Review is dedicated to Texas*-born blues wailer Janis Joplin. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 10:10 pm
A contrarian view [Esenberg] Update: jury finds “caffeine killer” guilty in wife’s death [CBS, earlier] Not an Onion story: “New Orwellian Tax Scheme in England Would Require All Paychecks Go Directly to the Tax Authority” [Dan Mitchell, Cato] “The Fight Over Fire Sprinklers in New Homes” [Popular Mechanics via Fountain, earlier] Pre-Miranda interrogation of (no relation) Jimmy Olsen [another legally-themed comic book cover from the series at Abnormal… [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 9:02 am
UPDATED: I'd missed my colleague Larry Ribstein's post and his link to local blogger Tom Kirkendall. [read post]
16 Sep 2010, 7:09 pm
Update: Here’s Tom Kirkendall’s post on the above events, with some important links. [read post]
23 Aug 2010, 3:35 am
Blawg Review is a blog carnival that rotates to a different law site every week, usually emphasizing a specific theme. [read post]
19 Aug 2010, 2:34 pm
Federal prosecutors are going after Clemens because of his star power, not because he poses some terrific threat to the public, or for that matter to anyone but a batter on the receiving end of a beanball.UPDATE: Tom Kirkendall rightly delcares that "These witch hunts, investigations, criminal indictments, morality plays and public shaming episodes are not advancing a dispassionate and reasoned debate regarding the complex issues that are at the heart of the use of PED's… [read post]
8 Aug 2010, 1:40 pm
It forecast revenue of $32.5 billion to $32.7 billion, in line with expectations Jeff Matthews says (tip Tom Kirkendall) Wall Street’s Finest remain easily distracted by the inflated earnings figures at HP that became a fixture under Mark Hurd. * * * [A]s we see it, a guy who can fool all of Wall Street’s Finest all of the time—by among other things, turning 75 cents worth of earnings into $1.08 worth of earnings through the magic of numbers prepared using accounting… [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 6:03 am
On a related subject, Tom Kirkendall has more on the personal toll of the Enron prosecutions. [read post]
23 Jul 2010, 6:06 pm
. * * * Tom Kirkendall asks whether the Apple Rule or the Enron Rule will be applied to Michael Dell. [read post]
10 Jul 2010, 10:05 pm
[Bainbridge] DOJ “entered into undisclosed agreement with Amex to freeze out the employment of exec who ultimately was cleared of wrongdoing” [Podgor, Kirkendall via Steele] Easter egg in financial regulation bill could result in new pressure for gender, ethnic quotas across wide sectors of economy [Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Real Clear Politics; Mark Perry with some figures on the degree of gender balance in Dodd's and Frank's committees] Tags: Australia, campaign… [read post]
7 Jul 2010, 2:49 am
Ellen Podgor and Tom Kirkendall analyze how the DOJ entered into an undisclosed agreement with American Express to freeze out the employment of an executive who ultimately was cleared of wrong-doing. [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 10:10 pm
[Kirkendall; press release] The McSweeney's piece about a young lawyer preventing a foreclosure through his willingness to sit on hold on the telephone for his client has gotten a lot of blogosphere attention, but I'm not sure I see the injustice about a family being forced to leave a home they knew they couldn't afford after lying about their income on the mortgage forms—or the justice of taxpayers subsidizing their staying there. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 2:42 pm
Houston lawyer Tom Kirkendall has been at the forefront of the fight against criminalizing agency costs. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 6:35 am
More on this theme in my March 2008 blog entry, Jeff Skilling is Innocent, and Tom Kirkendall’s excellent Skilling Wins at the Supreme Court. [read post]
25 Jun 2010, 4:15 am
United States; NYT; WSJ; SCOTUSblog; Ribstein; Bainbridge; Fisher @ Forbes; Sandefur; Kirkendall; Hurt] [read post]
24 Jun 2010, 10:46 am
It was bloggers, notably including Tom Kirkendall, who told the real story. [read post]
24 May 2010, 4:05 am
Tom Kirkendall notes that this “high bar” unfortunately didn’t stop the government from prosecuting business executives “who did nothing other than be involved in transactions with AIG have already had their careers ruined and their lives uprooted by dubious criminal prosecutions,” or for ruining the lives of many who were unlucky enough to be with Enron rather than AIG (or Bear, for that matter) – all cases involving hindsight prosecutions of disclosures… [read post]
20 May 2010, 5:50 am
"Judge shopping for defense counsel that won't seek her recusalMark Bennett says Houston Judge Nancy Johnson shopped around for defense counsel in cases involving illegal immigrants looking for lawyers who would waive detention hearings that might force her to recuse herself because her husband is the acting US Attorney.Jails as the new mental hospitalsRead Tom Kirkendall's post reacting to news that the number of mentally ill housed in prisons outnumbers those in hospitals.A… [read post]
3 May 2010, 2:10 am
" There is Absolutely No Cause for Alarm: Tom Kirkendall on the Houston’s Clear Thinkers blog recently linked to the classic Monty Python Skit, "How to Irritate People: Airplane" which reminded me in certain air travel woes to which I have been subjected. [read post]
29 Apr 2010, 8:54 am
Tom Kirkendall reviews some recent expert critiques of TSA and concludes: The wasteful airport security process that we have allowed the Transportation Security Administration to impose on us continues unabated at a substantial direct cost and an even greater indirect one. [read post]
