- Bank Lawyer’s Blog: FDIC Continues To Hamstring Private Equity – As the article notes and we've been hearing repeatedly, the FDIC is favoring regulated bidders by imposing stricter capital requirements and putting other hurdles in non-regulated bidders' ways.
- Gawker Exclusive: Letterman Said to Pay Assistant’s Law School Bill – David Letterman – Gawker – Awesome. She actually looks familiar from the various sketch appearances she made. Anyone go to class with her?
- The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times : Judge Wants Answers After Patent Company Voluntarily Dismisses Suit Against Foley & Lardner – It can't be a good thing when the judge won't let you walk away from your own case. The plaintiff is a former Fish & Richardson associate.
- Teen Wins $150K Over Amazon’s Kindle Clawback of Orwell E-Book | ABA Journal – Law News Now – The teen actually gets nothing beyond what Amazon is giving everyone who was affected. Debevoise and Stoel Rives defended Amazon, which is paying the plaintiff's firm $150k, "a portion of which" the firm will donate to some charity of its choice. Those lawyers apparently added exactly zero to what Amazon had already agreed to do.
- Judge Tosses Blind Lawyer’s Suit Claiming Prostitute Overcharged Him on Credit Card | ABA Journal – Law News Now – Why not write off the $8600? Oh wait, that doesn't work either. Or he could have just tried to maintain some privacy and not sued…
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