Blawgletter

Blawgletter covers developments in business trial law, including recent court decisions, with a sense of humor.

Author: Barry Barnett is a partner at Susman Godfrey in Dallas.

Blawg Related Categories: Trials & Litigation • Partner • Business Law

Quote of the Day: Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) thought writing hard. All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (quoting…
Ten Years Ago, a Brave Judge Did a Good Thing
On November 5, 1999, United States District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued an order, spanning 412 paragraphs, that constituted his findings of fact in United States v. Microsoft Corp., 98-1232 (D.D.C. Nov. 5, 1999). In…
Power to Veto Doesn't Equal Power to Pick Under PSLRA, Ninth Circuit Says
The case involved NVIDIA stock, which didn't do too well. The Ninth Circuit chided a district court today for usurping a right that the panel held belongs to the "lead plaintiff" in cases under the…
Quote of the Day: David E. Mills
A man and his lawyer stand outside a building that looks like a courthouse: Client: What's wrong? Why aren't we in court anymore? Lawyer: I just got Twombleyed in the Iqbals. David E. Mills, Courtoons,…
Motion to Vacate Arb Award Draws Sanctions in Tenth Circuit; Our "National Policy Favoring Arbitration"
A panel of the Tenth Circuit today affirmed an order that denied a motion to vacate an arbitrator's award in favor of Qwest, the telephone company. The movant, DMA International, accused the neutral of misdeeds…