Election-Campaign Law

Worst Practices: Residual Interest
Professor LoPucki's APR issue might not be two-cycle billing as many of the commentators think. Just as likely, it is residual interest (a/k/a trailing interest), the often ignored, but just as potent cousin of double-cycle billing...

As Approval Rate for U.S. Patents Drops, Applicant Shift to Appeals
Jon Dudas, Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office has (proudly?) highlighted the fact that the allowance rate for patents is currently 42%...

Goldman Sachs Pockets $10b in Federal Bailout Funds, Pays 1% Tax Rate
Bloomberg: Goldman Sachs?s Tax Rate Drops to 1%, or $14 Million, for 2008, by Christine Harper: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which got $10 billion and debt guarantees from the U.S. government in October, expects to pay $14 million in taxes...

NuCel Labs is Recalling Eye Drops and Eye/Ear Wash Products
NuCel Labs, in conjunction with the FDA, is recalling of all Eye Drops and Eye/Ear Wash. The product has been recalled after an FDA inspection found that the product tested positive for bacteria and particulate matter, which deemed these products non-sterile...

Stock Market drops 500 points in first minutes. Federal Reserve Makes Emergency 0.75% Rate Cut
Jan. 22, 2008 - Hold onto your seats, this could be a bumpy ride.  Stocks Open Sharply Lower Despite Interest-Rate CutWithin minutes of the opening bell in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 500 points, or 4 percent, and other major indexes also slid...

VOTE, VOTe, VOte, Vote, vote, votE, voTE, vOTE, VOTE...
or you have much less moral authority for complaining about the nature and direction of American laws and society!! In my sleepy little Ohio hamlet, I had to wait in line for nearly an hour to cast my vote on...

US Patent 7423287 - Measuring residual stress in MEMS
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7423287.htmlDuring the manufacture of MEMS devices stress can develop along the movable microcomponents being fabricated. This patent from Qualcomm teaches providing several electrical connection portions in the MEMS structure designed to break based on predetermined stress levels in order to monitor the stress...

Truth In Lending Act
Consumer Loans and Consumer Credit Protection Act

Concentrated Acetaminophen Drops
Recalled by Brookstone Pharmaceuticals

Mylicon Baby's Gas Relief Drops
Urgently Recalled Nationwide

Auction Rate Securities
ARS stocks purchased from a brokerage

Nail Guns
Injury Rate More Than Doubles in Three Years

JP Morgan Chase & Co
Faces Lawsuit Over Hikes in Credit Card Interest Rate

Nobel Biocare Nobel Direct
alleging dental implants have a high failure rate.