Brodeur v. Atlas Entertainment, Inc. Makes For Entertaining Reading. Sometimes I stumble across a case having nothing to do with the subject of this blog, yet I feel compelled to share. “The principal issue in this case is whether a statement made by a ‘slightly unhinged’ character in a motion picture, American Hustle (Columbia […]
Mandatory Mediation And Conciliation Is A Curio. The reason I post on this case is I thought it a curiosity, for those of use who do not practice in the area of union negotiations, that the California Labor Code, sections 1164 et seq., enables a process of “mandatory mediation and conciliation” (MMC) between a […]
In a March 29, 2016 post, Debra Cassens Weiss, writing for the ABA Journal, quotes the esteemed appellate judge Richard Posner: “The first thing to do is burn all copies of the Bluebook, in its latest edition 560 pages of rubbish, a terrible time waster for law clerks employed by judges who insist, […]
From Queen Padmé Amidala To Ruth Bader Ginsburg . . . Every now and then we get the irresistible urge to blog about something that has nothing whatsoever to do with mediation and arbitration. Today, the “off topic” item comes from Amy Howe’s Monday round up on SCOTUSblog, reporting Natalie Portman is about to […]
Damn Those Hyperlinks That Rot In Cyberspace ! Jill Lepore, Professor of American History at Harvard, has written a fascinating article in the January 26, 2015 edition of the The New Yorker. Her subject, which interests and plagues every blogger, is archiving the Internet before the information vanishes into cyberspace. If you have […]
The Old And The New. Puck. Library of Congress.
The Article Is About Two Extraordinary Cases In Which Judges Exercised The Summary Contempt Power. Thanks to the generous permission of California Litigation, The Journal of The Litigation Section, State Bar of California, “Summary Contempt and Due Process: England, 1631, California, 1888” is now available on my website by clicking here. An abbreviated […]
Quotation of the day I know, I know, this has nothing whatsoever to do with the subject of my blawg. And yet I couldn’t resist passing on this tidbit to you from one of yesterday’s unpublished cases decided by our local Court of Appeal: “There is one matter that requires minor modification of […]