I've got a new piece just up at City Journal in which I examine last week's boomlet of interest around the liberal blogosphere in the notion that by riling up campaign crowds about Obama's links to Bill Ayers, John McCain...

An indispensable explanation of the current financial crisis.

We've posted regularly at Point of Law on FACTA, the federal law on credit-card-receipt privacy that's given rise to a large volume of opportunistic litigation by and for the benefit of entrepreneurial attorneys. Now Randy Maniloff of White & Williams...

A new Bloomberg report by Jonathan Salant minces no words on the Joe Biden candidacy: Joe Biden has been an ally of trial lawyers throughout his tenure in the U.S. Senate, opposing every effort to curb lawsuits against businesses and...

David Bernick, an attorney for defendant/debtor W.R. Grace, tells the bankruptcy court about the mechanics of asbestos litigation....

Not to take attention away from pressing matters like the collapse of the world economy and the end of life as we know it here on earth, but . . ....

In Rownak v. Rownak, 2008 WL 4491823 (Ark. App. Oct. 8), a divorcing couple agreed "that the minor children be raised in the Protestant faith," which apparently meant to them that...

Diana Olick of CNBC reports that lenders have slowed the efforts to workout discounts on nonperforming mortgages in anticipation of the government bailout:...

Many of you know about Miami Herald v. Tornillo (1974), in which the Supreme Court unanimously struck down on First Amendment grounds a requirement that newspapers publish replies to criticisms...

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