Constitutional Law

Ben W. Heineman Jr. - Wired GC Seminar
The Wired GC continues its new seminar series, Wired GC-Off The Meter. The second edition is Wednesday, September 24, 2008 at 1:30 p.m. EDT/10:30 a.m. PDT. The subject is “A Short Course on High Performance with High Integrity and features former General Counsel GC Ben W...

My State's High Court is Better Than Yours!
Profs Choi, Gulati, and Posner have posted on SSRN their new article, Which States Have the Best (and Worst) High Courts?, which ranks the high courts of the fifty states based on their performance between 1998-2000...

IRS Reverses Course in § 162(m) Ruling
Section 162(m)'s $1 million limit on the amount that a public company can deduct for compensation to high-level executives does not not apply to "performance-based compensation." To qualify as performance-based, compensation must be payable only if pre-established, objective performance goals...

More Coverage of Texas Criminal Justice Integrity Unit
The Dallas Morning News carries an updated AP dispatch, "Texas high court creates integrity unit." Key issues to be considered include: _Improving eyewitness testimony. Experts say unreliable testimony is the No...

The Economics of $4300
Tyler Cowen invokes Klein and Leffler (1981) to explain the the apparently high price of paid by Client #9 for sex, arguing that high price in combination with the repeat purchase mechanism were part of a self-enforcement mechanism designed to assure performance (in this case, presumably, sex and secrecy)...

German High Court Defines New IT Basic Law Curbing Online Searches
By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch MUNICH - Germany's Federal Constitutional Court this week decided that infiltration of personal computers, laptops or other information technology devices of possible suspects by law enforcement violates the basic right of "confidentiality and integrity of IT systems...

BMW Faces Class Action over High Pressure Fuel Pumps
BMW Faces Class Action over High Pressure Fuel Pumps

Majestic High Chairs
Recall Expanded

Envision High Chairs
Recalled by Evenflo

Air Pollution
Directly Linked to High Blood Pressure

Herbal Medicines
Contain High Levels of Toxic Metals

Bead Bazaar
Children's Jewellery High in Lead, Recalled