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An intellectually disabled man successfully proved that he was intellectually disabled and thus ineligible for execution by the State of Louisiana. It’s been a long voyage through the courts, but unless Louisiana would like to take this up to SCOTUS for a second time, it looks like Mr. Brumfield has escaped state administered death. First-Degree […]

FindLaw columnist Eric Sinrod writes regularly in this section on legal developments surrounding technology and the Internet. An appellate court in Paris has ruled recently that Facebook can be sued in France and a case thus can proceed against the social media giant in France with respect to Facebook’s decision to remove the account of […]

It was just another day for family lawyer Cindy Harrington Napier when she got a phone message from a Lt. Yates of the Sheriff’s Department, who left an urgent message for her to call him back. When she did, she was shocked — and terrified — to hear that she had failed to appear for […]

When Justice Scalia passed away last Saturday, talk turned immediately to his potential replacements. And we mean immediately. Before the paper of record had even uploaded Justice Scalia’s obituary, DC insiders were declaring that they would rush or block a replacement. And if you’ve been following those discussions, you’ve probably heard one name over and […]Read More

Have you ever considered an advertising or marketing idea but dismissed it because you thought it crossed the line of good taste? We have news for you: whatever the idea was, somebody probably already beat you too it. The Internet is full of lawyer marketing stories that make you laugh, cringe, and then later admire […]

Futures rise as oil gains hold steady (Reuters) China promises economic stability as G20, parliament loom (Reuters) Obama scolds Senate Republicans for Supreme Court threat (Reuters) China Deploys Missiles on Disputed South China Sea Island (WSJ) China Ramps Up Rhetoric, Plans New Steps to Juice Up Economy (BBG) China Loses Control of the Economic Story […]

Back in October, Quebec put taxpayers on the hook for a $1 billion bailout of planemaker Bombardier, which was having one hell of a hard time creating a buzz around its CSeries commercial jet program. Bombardier has been around for nearly 8 decades and employs more than 40,000 people in the province. The company’s role […]

One of the most critical lines to watch is the 12-month moving average for stocks. Historically this line has served well as a proxy for determining if stocks were in a bull or bear market. When stocks rallied above this line, they were in a bull market. When they fell below this line, they were […]

Submitted by Michael McDonald of OilPrice Downturn Now Hitting The Refining Sector As all energy investors know, it has been a terrible year for oil and natural gas companies. Many stocks are down half or more from their 52-week highs. Yet amidst the carnage, one energy group has held up very well – refiners. Companies […]

Producer Prices (ex food and energy) jumped 0.4% MoM – the biggest rise since Oct 2014 (and dramatically hotter than the 0.1% rise expected). Rubbing salt into Fed mandate wounds still further is last month’s print was also revised higher and YoY (+0.6%) is the highest since Sep 2015. Across the range of PPI data, […]Read More

Following the December 2 horrific mass shooting in San Benardino, Judge Sheri Pym of U.S. District Court in Los Angeles said on Tuesday that Apple must provide “reasonable technical assistance” to investigators seeking to unlock data on – in other words hack – an iPhone 5C that had been owned by Syed Rizwan Farook, one […]

Today’s batch of housing data, namely the January update of housing starts and permits, which as a reminder has a quite substantial “confidence interval” of between 10.5% and 28.3%, was largely uneventful. Total housing starts of 1099K was the second consecutive drop from last month’s downward revised 1,143K, and a miss to the 1,173K expected. […]Read More