Heather Gerken is the dean of Yale Law School, and is playing “the buck stops here” as if she’s being bold and responsible for the fiasco of falsely calling a student’s email invitation to a party, the now-infamous “Trap House” email, a “racist” message which her “muscle,” Associate Dean Ellen Cosgrove and Diversity Director Yaseen Eldik condemned “in the strongest possible terms. [read post]

Judge Koh - http://bit.ly/OD3Vy2 (Alison Frankel) Back to Basics: What You Thought Everyone Knew About Legal Holds - http://bit.ly/OAgtDH (Dennis Kiker) The Method Behind Apple's Patent Madness - http://rww.to/OD35RW (Dan Rowinski) Jurors Hear Competing Claims in iPad Copycat Case - http://bit.ly/OD3iV1 (Amy Miller) Proposed Spoliation Rules Would Impact Apple-Samsung Trial - http://bit.ly/QQTeoI (Henry Kelston) On the Eve of Trial with Apple, Samsung is Dealt Adverse Inference Sanction -… [read post]

Key Findings By driving changes to the climate, carbon emissions will impose major long-term economic costs, both here in the U.S. and around the world. [read post]