Calk had hoped then-President Trump would name him to a powerful government post, including treasury secretary, defense secretary, or ambassador to France or the United Kingdom. [read post]

Law firms with blogs or lawyers blogging (Click link to go to list of blogs by that firm): Akerman Senterfitt Akin Gump Alston & Bird Andrews Kurth Arnold & Porter Baker & Daniels Baker & Hostetler Husch Blackwell Sanders Blank Rome Bracewell & Giuliani Brown Rudnick Berlack Israels Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Bryan Cave Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Carlton Fields Cadwalader Cozen… [read post]

Table of Contents Key Points Introduction A Short History of Excise Taxes — Pigouvian Taxes All Tax Policy is About Trade-offs General Design Considerations — Tax Base — Tax Rate — When to Levy — Revenue Allocation — Regressivity — Principles for Excise Tax Design Traditional Excise Tax Categories — Tobacco — Alcohol — Motor Fuel Excise Tax Trends — Recreational Marijuana — Sports Betting — Vaping — Sugar-Sweetened… [read post]

A court in the Northern District of California in Google LLC v. [read post]

The most recent reference to the law of patents being wholly statutory are the words of Lord Walker in Synthon B.V. v. [read post]