In 2003, Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a set of Department of Justice (DOJ) policies designed to curtail federal prosecutors’ discretion to plea bargain. The new DOJ rules sought to ensure uniform criminal punishments and prevent criminal offenders from cutting deals to avoid deserved punishment. Yet the would-be ban on bargaining seems to [...]
How can I convey to you the disgust which your name awakens in me? The merger with Warner was a catastrophe. But the hitherto unimagined stupidity, the blind arrogance of your deal with Case simply beggars description. How can you face yourself knowing how much history, value and savings you have thrown away on your [...]
In September 2005, three former Apple Computer executives launched a new high-tech venture called Acquicor Technology (Acquicor). Acquicor raised $172.5 million in its March 2006 IPO on the American Stock Exchange. Although the amount Acquicor raised in its initial offering was unremarkable for a high-tech company with a prominent management team, Acquicor was [...]
A rarely challenged assertion among appellate court judges, lawyers who engage in appellate work, and scholars who teach and study appellate practice is the following: oral argument is an important, if not key, element in the process of successfully appealing a case. Textbooks on appellate practice routinely declare that lawyers must adequately prepare for oral [...]
Popping your favorite band’s new disc in a work computer can result in security compromise of your employer’s computer network. Playing this disc in your home computer can result in your identity being stolen through financial data stored on your machine’s hard drive and your machine becoming a remotely controlled spam zombie. Consumers worry about [...]
