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Keep up on Europe with EUobserver Blogs

Posted on March 12, 2010
Keep up on doings in Europe with these blogs from EUobserver.com: Neighbourhood Nicu Popescu Europe not EU Bruno Waterfield Europa-Transparent Hajo Friedrich Behind the Scenes Honor Mahony Brussels and  beyond Ole Ryborg A View from the  Outfield Peter Sain ley Berry Vive l?Europe Tobias Gräs Poland in  the EU Dominika Pszczolkowska Merchant of Venice Roberto Foa Belarus Reloaded Maryna Rakhlei State of the Union Jamie Smyth The Digger Stephen Gardner Watchdog Brigitte Alfter Geopolitics Alexandros Petersen Ukraine and  Post-Soviet Space Olena Prystayko Safer Cities? Gemma Galdon Clavell Feeding the habit Nick Jacobs Progressive  Change Vasilis Margaras Political Economy  101 George Irvin Euro maverick Edin Mujagic

Impervious Slim is World's Wealthiest at Forbes: "me es impermeable" - Mexico's Carlos Slim is world's richest person - latimes.com

Posted on March 11, 2010
Mexico's Carlos Slim is world's richest person "'This is a number brought out by a magazine that doesn't concern us, or worry us,' Elias Ayub said, echoing Slim's 2007 comment about the top spot that had eluded him for years: a Spanish phrase -- 'me es impermeable' -- that roughly translates as 'I'm impervious to that...

Global Trade Declined by 12% in 2009 - Business - The Atlantic

Posted on March 11, 2010
Daniel Indiviglio writes at The Atlantic that Global Trade Declined by 12% in 2009 - Business - The Atlantic. This is the same 12% drop we just posted in college donations. What is the economic connection?

Secretary Grace Groner Donates Her Fortune to Alma Mater - But College Donations Down 12% Overall

Posted on March 11, 2010
Secretary Grace Groner Donates Her Fortune to Alma Mater - But College Donations Down 12% OverallWhat a great story.Hat tip to a Twitter posting by Chris P. O'Leary

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Go, Go, Golfers: Car of the Year 2010 : Garia? Mercedes Audi Aston Martin Lamborghini Bentley Land Rover Jaguar Porsche Shelby Allard Aileron BMW

Posted on March 10, 2010
The current issue of the Robb Report is a feast for car drivers not only with its Car of the Year 2010 competition - plus its unrivaled Car of the Decade - but also because of additional photographic feature reports on the long-awaited Lexus LFA, Maserati and, for the golfers of this world, the incomparable Go, Go, Garia: "The Danish-designed Garia Golf Car (www...

In re Omnicom: The Second Circuit Continues to Raise the Bar to Proving Loss Causation in Securities Fraud Cases

Posted on March 10, 2010
The international law firm Paul, Weiss et al. headquartered in New York City has a March 10, 2010 law alert on a significant court decision yesterday in In re Omnicom: The Second Circuit Continues to Raise the Bar to Proving Loss Causation in Securities Fraud Cases (...

The Devil Wears "Google" as Blogger Shuts Down FTP Blog Publishing: LawPundit Feed now at http://feeds.feedburner.com/blogspot/kUbm

Posted on March 09, 2010
Due to the chaos caused by Google's Blogger shutting down FTP publishing to the original Blogger users -- who helped build PyraLabs -- the company that Google bought and mangled, we can only say that- the Devil wears "Google" -so please use the following RSS feed address for the LawPundit blog in the future:http://feeds...

Law Translators and Professional Language Translation : A Call to Resist Discount Rates

Posted on March 09, 2010
Legal or other language translation is by nature a competitively rough business where competent translators are very poorly paid to begin with, so that the following posting is of value to professional translators in the field:Are you a professional translator? If so, do NOT lower your translation rates! « Marcela Jenney's Blog"Clients are asking for discounts, and translators are honoring their requests more and more every day...

Rules, rules, rules: Modern Golf is Being Destroyed by USGA and R&A : Now Grooves on Irons Being "Rolled Back" : Absurd!

Posted on March 09, 2010
For someone who yearns to play golf the way the game was played in days of yore, there is the laudable Hickory Tour of the Hickory Golfers, where players play tournaments with hickory-shafted clubs and otherwise bask in golf nostalgia. Nothing wrong with that...

Today is the Birthday of Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Born on March 8, 1841 in Boston

Posted on March 08, 2010
Via the Britannica Facebook feed for today March, 8, 2010, we are informed that the great judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., also known as "The Great Dissenter" was:"born March 8, 1841, Boston died March 6, 1935, Washington, D.C.Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr...

EDGE: "Europe, Where the Idea of Competition in the Internet Space Appears to Focus on Litigation, Legislation, Regulation, and Criminalization"

Posted on March 08, 2010
Does Europe especially need to reconsider their approach to the Internet? EDGE would say yes:Edge: TIME TO START TAKING THE INTERNET SERIOUSLY By David Gelernter: "Introduction: Our Algorithmic Culture" by John Brockman:"Edge was in Munich in January for DLD 2010 and an Edge/DLD event entitled 'Informavore' ? a discussion featuring Frank Schirrmacher, Editor of the Feuilleton and Co-Publisher of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Andrian Kreye, Feuilleton Editor of Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich; and Yale computer science visionary David Gelernter, who, in his 1991 book Mirror Worlds presented what's now called 'cloud computing...

This blog has moved

Posted on March 07, 2010
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Mobile Patent Lawsuits Increasing Dramatically

Posted on March 07, 2010
Nick Bilton at the New York Times Bits Blog discusses the Explosion of Mobile Patent Lawsuits in the last year, writing inter alia:"On Tuesday when I spoke with Eric Von Hippel, a professor of technological innovation at M.I.T.?s Sloan School of Management...

Paranoid on Privacy: Legitimate Law Enforcement Data Retention in the European Union Dealt an Extreme Blow by Germany's Constitutional Court

Posted on March 07, 2010
EU DATA RETENTION for LAW ENFORCEMENT PURPOSESThe European Union EU Data Retention Directive, Directive 2006/24/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 March 2006 on the retention of data generated or processed in connection with the provision of publicly available electronic communications services or of public communications networks and amending Directive 2002/58/EC requires telecommunications data storage by EU Member States for law enforcement and anti-terrorism purposes...

Are you a Connector? Patenting Influence at the USPTO

Posted on March 07, 2010
1201tuesday.com has a posting at Claiming Under the Influence (of Bilski) referring to a "System and method of identifying individuals of influence" which was issued as U.S. Patent No. 7653568 and which is abstracted as follows:"This invention relates to a system and method for identifying target individuals who possess certain characteristics statistically indicative of their ability to influence others in their decision making regarding consumer goods, consumer products, political issues or candidates, financial matters, investments, real estate, insurance, travel and leisure, by non-limiting example...

A Thirst for God : When Former Skinheads Convert to Judaism, You Know Something Big is Under Way for Religion in Europe

Posted on March 07, 2010
Dan Bilefsky at the New York Times reports on theChanging Face in Poland [where] Skinhead Puts on Skullcap"Hundreds of Poles, a majority of them raised as Catholics, are either converting to Judaism or discovering Jewish roots submerged for decades in the aftermath of World War II...

LawPundit Migration to a Google Blogger Custom Domain to be Attempted Today : If it Fails You Will Have to Shift Your Reading to LawPundit at Blogspot

Posted on March 05, 2010
We are now starting our migration of the LawPundit blog to status as a Custom Domain at Google's Blogger. We do this unwillingly, however, for as we wrote previously at LawPundit, Google and Blogger will no longer support FTP publishing of blogs - they have now set a deadline of May 1, 2010, even though the original PyraLabs Blogger, before its purchase by Google, in fact started out with FTP blogging ONLY...

The Antithesis of Justice : Criminal Convictions in Italy of Google Execs Point to Flaws in European Union (EU) Law

Posted on March 05, 2010
We posted about this absurd case previously at LawPundit.Struan Robertson, editor of out-law.com, writes on March 3, 2010 in Google convictions reveal two flaws in EU law, not just Italian law inter alia as follows regarding the inexcusable criminal convictions of Google execs - made in absentia in Italy - for alleged untimely takedown of criminally offending video material posted online by youthful criminals in Italy and totally unknown to Google execs at the time for which their criminal conviction for non-action applies:"Web hosts are unfairly exposed all across the EU and two legal changes are needed...

Mobile Patent Lawsuits Increasing Dramatically

Posted on March 05, 2010
Nick Bilton at the New York Times Bits Blog discusses the Explosion of Mobile Patent Lawsuits in the last year, writing inter alia:"On Tuesday when I spoke with Eric Von Hippel, a professor of technological innovation at M.I.T.?s Sloan School of Management...

The Antithesis of Justice : Criminal Convictions in Italy of Google Execs Point to Flaws in European Union (EU) Law

Posted on March 05, 2010
We posted about this absurd case previously at LawPundit.Struan Robertson, editor of out-law.com, writes on March 3, 2010 in Google convictions reveal two flaws in EU law, not just Italian law inter alia as follows regarding the inexcusable criminal convictions of Google execs - made in absentia in Italy - for alleged untimely takedown of criminally offending video material posted online by youthful criminals in Italy and totally unknown to Google execs at the time for which their criminal conviction for non-action applies:"Web hosts are unfairly exposed all across the EU and two legal changes are needed...

New's New News! Intellectual Property Watch reports Release of New Senate Patent Reform Bill Details

Posted on March 04, 2010
Intellectual Property Watch reports that New Senate Patent Reform Bill Details ReleasedWilliam New writes ("New's new news"):"United States Senate Judiciary Committee bipartisan leaders today released details of much-anticipated compromise legislation aimed at reform of US patent laws...

German Nationals Forming a UK Company

Posted on March 04, 2010
German Nationals Forming a UK CompanyForming a private limited company in the UK is a simple process and has a low set up cost. If you are intending to trade in the UK, it appears to your customers and suppliers as though they are dealing with a UK based entity...

New's New News! Intellectual Property Watch reports Release of New Senate Patent Reform Bill Details

Posted on March 04, 2010
Intellectual Property Watch reports that New Senate Patent Reform Bill Details ReleasedWilliam New writes ("New's new news"):"United States Senate Judiciary Committee bipartisan leaders today released details of much-anticipated compromise legislation aimed at reform of US patent laws...

German Nationals Forming a UK Company

Posted on March 04, 2010
German Nationals Forming a UK CompanyForming a private limited company in the UK is a simple process and has a low set up cost. If you are intending to trade in the UK, it appears to your customers and suppliers as though they are dealing with a UK based entity...

So Where?s Your Originalism Now, Justice Scalia? - Law Blog - WSJ

Posted on March 03, 2010
So Where?s Your Originalism Now, Justice Scalia? - Law Blog - WSJ

Car and Driver and Professor Bainbridge write that The Problem is the Driver, not the Pedal

Posted on March 03, 2010
Professor Bainbridge writes that The Problem is the Driver, not the Pedal and quotes Car and Driver: "Every man, woman, and child in the U.S. has approximately a one-in-8000 chance of perishing in a car accident every year. Over a decade, that's about one in 800...

Utah's Matheson Nominated as a Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit

Posted on March 03, 2010
Former Law Dean, Gubernatorial Candidate Picked for 10th Circuit - The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times"Scott Matheson Jr. [Stanford, Rhodes Scholar, Yale Law]", a former law dean at the University of Utah and the runner-up in that state's 2004 race for governor, has been nominated for the U...

Are POTUS Obama's Winning Ways Being Sidetracked by the Predominantly Left-of-Center Ideology of His Staff?

Posted on March 03, 2010
Jonah Goldberg at the Los Angeles Times has a useful scribble on the Obama Presidency which hits upon two key points (winning and transformation - highlighted below).At the extreme, there are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to be right, and those who want to win...

So Where?s Your Originalism Now, Justice Scalia? - Law Blog - WSJ

Posted on March 03, 2010
So Where?s Your Originalism Now, Justice Scalia? - Law Blog - WSJ

Car and Driver and Professor Bainbridge write that The Problem is the Driver, not the Pedal

Posted on March 03, 2010
Professor Bainbridge writes that The Problem is the Driver, not the Pedal and quotes Car and Driver: "Every man, woman, and child in the U.S. has approximately a one-in-8000 chance of perishing in a car accident every year. Over a decade, that's about one in 800...

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