Intellectual Property Law

Georgia spending more than a billion dollars on its prisons
As detailed in this interesting local article, the state of Georgia is continuing to spend more than a billion taxpayer dollars on its prison system every year. Here are the particulars: The $21 billion budget currently awaiting Gov...

Fed Announces 180 Billion More Cash
“The US Federal Reserve announced a 180-billion-dollar cash line to fight the racing fires of global financial crisis Thursday, as leading central banks said they would join in...

Rep. Elijah Cummings: They were getting manicures, facials, pedicures and massages while American people were footing the bill
At today’s Oversight Committee hearing on AIG, the Committee discovered that a week after the government spent $85 billion dollars bailing out AIG, executives went on a retreat at a luxury resort, spending $443,343...

Woman Sues Chiropractors for Half a Billion Dollars After She Is Left Paralyzed
Just recently, an unlicensed chiropractor snapped the neck of a man and was arrested, here. Now a Canadian woman, Sandra Nette, has filed a class action the Alberta College and Association of Chiropractors and the provincial government for half a billion dollars after she was left paralyzed after an upper spine manipulation procedure...

April 15: Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go
Following up on this morning's post on Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go? -- Americans United for Change reports: The Iraq War has already cost U.S. taxpayers a staggering $526 billion in direct costs and roughly $1...

if I had two billion dollars . . . on lawyers, law firms, and priorities
Law firm breaks the two-billion-dollar mark in revenues . . comments from the blog Law 21. Apparently serving clients is secondary to money-making and "being a player" . . . see the quote from the linked ABAJournal article...

Billion Dollar Ice Market
Probed for Price-Fixing

Antitrust
Price Fixing Could Cost Consumers up to $300 Billion Annually

Canadian Government
former RCMP officer claims thousands of disability dollars clawed back.

US Settles Indian Lawsuit for $3.4 Billion
US Government Settles Indian Lawsuit for $3.4 Billion

Frank Bluestein, The Maximum Financial Group, Inc., Questar Capital Corporation, and Gunnallen Financial, Inc.
alleging schemed investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Couple Awarded Nearly One Million Dollars in Lawsuit
Condo Lawsuit Gets $1 Million Award