Res Ipsa Blog

When it comes to losing important data, it has been said that there are only two kinds of people: those who have lost important data, and those who will. Files are lost due to accidental deletion, theft, natural disaster, and hard drive crashes. For those in the practice of law, losing a document could mean missing a deadline, failing to file a timely response, or worse. Fortunately there are easy ways to back up documents. 1. Email yourself the document. With many of the ... Read More

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia will be featured on the CBS News show "60 Minutes" April 27 in connection with the publication the next day of the new book he has co-authored, called Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges. Link [digg=http://digg.com/politics/Supreme_Court_Justice_Scalia_is_going_to_be_on_60_Minutes] Read More

On Friday, the Ninth Circuit, in United States v. Stringer, reversed a district court ruling that limited the use of financial records submitted to the SEC, as part of a civil suit, in a parallel criminal proceeding. The district court held criminal indictments were to be dismissed, and that subpoena responses from SEC response could not be used in a criminal trial against defendants because the government had engaged in deceitful conduct by using a civil investigation to develop the criminal investigation, ... Read More

How any county in Texas would even be on the list after the massive tort reform Texas has gone through is beyond me. There was a time when "[t]hat venue probably add[ed] about 75% to the value of the case." That time is just a distant memory now though. In fact, as the article points out in passing, the Texas legal system was given the 18th highest score in the nation for the best overall tort system in the nation, as ranked ... Read More