Bill Sjostrom talks on TOTM about agreements for group blogs. First I suggest brushing up a little on partnership law, possibly by looking at my Law and Economics of Blogging (revision coming soon), and more optimally at Bromberg & Ribstein on Partnership and Ribstein & Keatinge on LLCs, depending on the form of organization. Bill […]
READ MOREDumping and suing
Moin Yahya has posted The Legal Status of Dump and Sue. Here’s the abstract: There is some evidence that plaintiffs and their attorneys are profitably short-selling the stock of the companies they intend to sue. The status of such short sales is undecided in the law. Lawsuits against companies can cause large drops in market […]
READ MORESecurities Offering Reform: Well-Known Seasoned Issuers
Reforms to the registered securities offering process adopted by the SEC in August of this year go in effect tomorrow (click here for the adopting release). I’m not going to describe all the reforms here; there are many law firm memos on the web that do. See, e.g., here. I do, however, want to discuss […]
READ MOREBad Week for Bronx Attorneys
Last week was a bad one for Bronx Attorneys. In one case, United States Attorney Mary Jo White removed Special Assistant United States Attorney Vincent Heintz off of the Junior Gotti case for talking to the press. Heintz, who is a Bronx Assistant District Attorney assigned to the United States Attorney’s Office, has been working […]
READ MORERudolph agrees to plea agreement
Accused serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph will avoid a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to a string of attacks in Alabama and Georgia, including a deadly blast during the 1996 Olympics, the U.S. Justice Department announced Friday. Rudolph, 38, will be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in exchange for […]
READ MOREKirk Bloodsworth was sentenced to death for a 1984 rape-murder
Kirk Noble Bloodsworth, a former Marine discus champion, was exonerated byDNA in 1993 of the rape and murder of nine-year-old Dawn Hamilton — a crime for which he was sentenced to death in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1985. After Bloodsworth’s conviction was reversed in 1986, he occupied a cell directly above that occupied by Kimberly […]
READ MOREGo indirectly to jail
Mike from Satan’s Laundromat gets arrested On August 27, 2004, approximately 5,000 bicyclists met in Union Square Park for the kick off of that month’s “Critical Mass” ride through the streets of Manhattan. Police arrested over 250 people who were held in lock-up for 24-hours — some longer. New York’s then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg didn’t want […]
READ MOREFama, Thaler and the ordinary investor
Today’s WSJ summarizes the debate between Thaler, a leading skeptic of market efficiency, and Fama, the leading defending of the efficient capital markets hypothesis. As the article notes, the debate could have implications for privatizing social security. It quotes Thaler as saying, “[i]f you give people 456 mutual funds to choose from, they’re not going […]
READ MORENEW YORK CRIME TRENDS Index Crime in New York State: 1994 – 2001
New York City Index Offenses Reported to Police: 1994-2001 Counts 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 Index Total 530,827 442,532 383,603 356,573 323,441 299,522 287,995 263,764 Index rate per 100,000 7,235.7 6,045.9 5,226.5 4,807.9 4,395.9 4,031.7 3,717.7 3,287.6 Violent Total 136,571 114,180 98,728 92,866 85,915 78,983 75,739 68,274 Violent rate per 100,000 1,861.6 […]
READ MOREANOKA COUNTY: Man shoots car, loses permit
Anyone looking out their window on July 5, 2003, in Anoka County Minnesota may have been convinced they were watching a re-enactment of a Grade B movie where the protagonist blows away his car with a shotgun. Damian Petersen, 34 plead guilty that August. The July afternoon had seen him but 11 bullets into the […]
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