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
Recent Posts from Blawgletter
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Quote of the Day: Abraham Lincoln
The first Republican president.Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business…
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Nine Thoughts About Mock Trials
Mock trials don't usually involve mock turtles. Blawgletter just returned from two days of mock trying an antitrust class action. So we thought we'd share a few thoughts about the experience: Fear of embarrassing yourself…
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Judge Posner Elucidates "Big Boy" Clauses; Negating Reliance on Negotiational Fibs
The Hon. Richard Posner had a different Big Boy in mind. A Seventh Circuit panel split today on the question of whether a "no reliance" -- or "big boy" -- clause defeated a claim alleging…
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Drafting Error in Release Saves Patent Claims, Federal Circuit Holds
The sign owner dislikes needless racket. Nature abhors a vacuum. The law hates superfluity. The Federal Circuit today held that a patentholder didn't release future patent infringement claims despite release language that . . .…
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Tex Parte Blog on SG
The Texas Lawyer's Tex Parte Blog has a new post up -- "Susman Godfrey on a roll at state's high court". Hey-ya!
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Second Circuit Upholds RICO Smokes Tax Claims
Did this man pay the City of New York tobacco tax? A 2-1 panel of the Second Circuit today reversed dismissal of claims arising from Internet merchants' allegedly fraudulent failure to report sales of cigarettes…
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Quote of the Day: Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon I (1769-1821) before St. Helena.Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. That goes double for lawyers.
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Lone Star Supremes Issue 22 Opinions; SG Goes Three for Three
Membership on the Supreme Court of Texas has stabilized since mid-2005. Wow. The High Nine in Austin opened the decisional floodgates today. Lookie here for the August 29 Weekly Orders. Three of the 22 opinions…
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Golden State Supremes Rap Arbitration. Again.
The Supreme Court of California -- the most influential state high court in our nation -- held this week (1) that, contrary to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling under the federal Arbitration Act, parties may…
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Quote of the Day: Walter Lippmann
Walter Lippmann (1889-1974). In 1932, journalistic philosopher Walter Lippmann wrote of a presidential candidate:He is a pleasant man, who, without any important qualifications for the office, would very much like to be President. Our feed…