Volume Liver Transplants

(Concurring Opinions)
... recent reporting on volume liver transplants, those concerning property law may be the least salient. But the questionable behavior of Amadeo Marcus, the former director of clinical transplantation at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), reminded me of the infamous ... is a source of both profits and prestige that UPMC leverages to attract star doctors and build its other businesses, which include a health-insurance arm. Hospitals charge $400,000 to $500,000 for a liver transplant. ...
November 25, 2008 06:40 pm
... Please use the comments to this thread as a place to share info about callbacks and offers for the law teaching market. And feel free to note any errors and omissions. ... multiple callbacks) Elon (health, IP) Emory (multiple) Florida (2) (family law) Florida Coastal FSU (multiple offers made, multiple callbacks still scheduled) ... Oklahoma City U. (contracts) Oregon (multiple) Penn State (criminal) Pittsburgh (tax, business) (finished with callbacks?) Quinnipiac (2) Roger Williams San Diego (multiple ...
November 11, 2008 10:25 pm
... note that the following coaching "secrets" are not secrets to people who are already good head coaches, whether in sports, law or business. Indeed, the reason that we have such an extraordinarily high opinion of the head coaching abilities of someone like ... drill, as a main reason for their overwhelming success." The result of that philosophy is awesome. Milan Simonich writes at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: "He works for perfection," said Matt Caponi, a senior defensive back and a Baldwin High ...
November 8, 2008 01:56 pm
... 2008 David L. Lawrence Convention Center 1000 Fort Duquesne Blvd. Pittsburgh, PA 15222 K&L Gates partner David Cohen is co- ... first presentation, "The Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and Recent Case Law" will be held at 9:45 a.m. and will address the most recent amendments to the Federal ... affect practitioners. The second presentation, "Electronic Discovery in the States and Recent Case Law" will be held at 11:00 a.m. and will address how different states are handling a myriad ...
November 7, 2008 10:15 pm
... : Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. "The panel decision actually reaffirmed what Judge [Gary] Lancaster had done in Pittsburgh," Sirkin told AVN, referring to Lancaster's landmark opinion dismissing obscenity charges against Extreme Associates - ... "The emerging problem now is local ordinances, some of which are beginning to include special categories of adult novelty businesses and severely regulate them," DeWitt continued. "The problem, of course, is that novelties are not protected by the First ...
November 6, 2008 05:44 pm
... palpable. We in Pennsylvania have felt the incredible responsibility of delivering to the next President the state described as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between. The upside of this has been that we have been treated as sort of a temporary charity case by ... ethnic communities that was in bitter contention for the Kenyan Presidency in last year's election. While of course business minded Kenyans have made the most out of the Obama craze, it has been a welcome moment of national ...
November 4, 2008 11:48 pm
... the internet's top English-speaking cybercrime forum was secretly run by the FBI from this building on the banks of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh. Photo: John Monroe Butler/ Wired.com The FBI on Friday boasted that its two-year long undercover operation against users ... rippers of the world, and we have established DM as the premier English speaking forum for conducting business. Such is life..... when you are on top.... people try to bring you down. Although we have eliminated the rippers, ...
October 17, 2008 04:20 pm
... for refusing to allow her to open a dance studio featuring pole-dancing classes on the grounds it’s a sexually oriented business. Babines other offerings - which are all taught and performed fully clothed - include power lap dance, strip tease, ... approved a settlement with Babines. Though the settlement won't become official until it is approved by a federal judge, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the board agreed that Babines can open her studio immediately. "It's great that Adams Township ...
October 15, 2008 09:24 am
... legal publishers kept trotting out. Rather than go back to practicing law I wanted to help other lawyers achieve their dreams. But how to get the word ... find on blogs and every article on blogs out there. Then lawyers in Pittsburgh and Orlando called me for advice on Internet marketing, particularly as to consulting on blogs. ... blogs, I walked out of the garage to the dinner table and announced I was going to start a business providing a blog service to lawyers. Colin, our oldest, responded 'Oh my ...
October 14, 2008 04:36 pm
... the internet's top English-speaking cybercrime forum was secretly run by the FBI from this building on the banks of the Monongahela River in Pittsburgh. Photo: John Monroe Butler/ Wired.com DarkMarket.ws, an online watering hole for thousands of identify ... , DarkMarket allowed buyers and sellers of stolen identities and credit card data to meet and do business in an entrepreneurial, peer-reviewed environment. Products for sale ran the gamut from specialized hardware, to electronic banking logins ...
October 13, 2008 08:20 pm
... after pictures of him vacationing in Monte Carlo surfaced in the newspapers. He was with a powerful coal-company executive who had business before the court. A second justice has called the executive, Don L. Blankenship, stupid, evil and a clown ... undermines public confidence in an independent judiciary." More from the story: The respondents in the second case, Massey Energy v. Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation, No. 08-218, are also represented by Mr. Olson [Theodore B. Olson]. His brief is ...
October 12, 2008 04:59 pm
... neighborhood savings and loan (Friendly). Commercial banks did very little mortgage business in those days. Mom and Dad filled out Friendly's loan application ... what John McCain says, were quite small and did no retail business whatsoever (Freddie Mac, for example, has only 3,000 employees). In accordance with ... realistically afford. Douglas M. Branson holds the W. Edward Sell Chair in Business Law at the University of Pittsburgh and is the author of Corporate Governance (1993). His newest book, ...
October 9, 2008 11:26 am

Salute Your Shorts

(The Journal of the Business Law Society)
... the point of bankrupting a firm seems almost remote, given the likelihood of liability and the ability of firms to disclose the truth. When acting lawfully, shorters serve an enormously important role in markets. V. In Short… Shorters serve an important function in markets. They ... ] 1934 Act § 9(a)(4). [18] Len Boselovic, Short Selling Shouldering Disproportionate Amount of Blame for Crisis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 28, 2008, [www.post-gazette.com]. [19] Id. [20] James Chanos, Op-Ed, Short ...
October 1, 2008 11:29 pm

Textual Obscenity?

(CYB3RCRIM3)
... agoraphobic, was sentenced to five years probation after she pled guilty to violating federal obscenity law. According to a story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, she has spent the last seven years in her home, unable ... U.S. Code § 1466(a). This is the federal statute that makes it a crime to distribute obscene material: "Whoever is engaged in the business of . . . selling or transferring obscene matter, who knowingly . . . possesses with intent to distribute any obscene book, magazine, picture, ...
September 26, 2008 12:16 pm

Defamation and Disparagement

(Gauntlett on Insurance)
ABM Indus., Inc. v. National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA, Nos. 06-16939, 06-17144, 2008 WL 3992334 (9th Cir. (Cal.) ... of any moment. However, this juxtaposition of the underlying case with the coverage case is contrary to applicable law. In Aurafin-OroAmerica, LLC v. Federal Ins. Co., No. 04-56681, 188 Fed ... libel because an allegation that D & W was a patent infringer - a pejorative allegation of shady business practices - was implicit in OroAmerica's statement to QVC that D & W's ...
September 23, 2008 09:17 pm

Defamation and Disparagement

(Gauntlett on Insurance)
ABM Indus., Inc. v. National Union Fire Ins. Co. of Pittsburgh, PA, Nos. 06-16939, 06-17144, 2008 WL 3992334 (9th Cir. (Cal.) ... of any moment. However, this juxtaposition of the underlying case with the coverage case is contrary to applicable law. In Aurafin-OroAmerica, LLC v. Federal Ins. Co., No. 04-56681, 188 Fed ... libel because an allegation that D & W was a patent infringer - a pejorative allegation of shady business practices - was implicit in OroAmerica's statement to QVC that D & W's ...
September 23, 2008 09:17 pm
... Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). 08a0342p.06 2008/09/09 University of Pittsburgh v. David Townsend Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville COLE, Circuit Judge ... explain why they have raised prices, while the Commonwealth says that the new law prevents them from doing so. No one disputes Kentucky's authority ... one disputes the providers' right to raise prices to account for this additional cost of doing business. The question is whether the Commonwealth may permit providers to raise prices but prohibit ...
September 14, 2008 08:10 pm
... scale. Check it out. Debra Cassens Weiss in the September 10, 2008 ABA Journal Law News Now reports that Being a Lawyer and Male Makes You a Top Earner, ... line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers - $51,700 Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes - $51,400 Claims adjusters, appraisers, ... 700 Interviewers, except eligibility and loan - $32,600 MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME Pittsburgh city, PA - $32,363Insulation workers - $32,300 Jewelers and precious stone ...
September 14, 2008 01:00 pm
... foreign bribery. A state-owned aluminum company in Bahrain filed a suit against Alcoa in federal court in Pittsburgh, alleging that Alcoa had long been overcharging it for alumina, a precursor ingredient for aluminum, by paying kickbacks to a ... today calls a "global crackdown on companies that use bribery to advance their foreign business interests. . . . thanks to a spate of new anticorruption laws that has fostered growing international cooperation." The latest example: Former Halliburton exec ...
September 12, 2008 09:19 am

Pole Dancing: The New Pilates?

(Concurring Opinions)
... dispute between a pole dancing instructor and a local zoning board in a suburb outside Pittsburgh. The instructor was denied a permit to operate her business, which offers instruction in "pole dancing, power lap dancing, salsa and other forms ... the instructor may have a viable First Amendment claim (in addition to a statutory one regarding application of the zoning law itself). Contrtary to the popular portrayal of this case as one concerning the expressiveness of pole dancing, note that the ACLU ...
September 4, 2008 09:06 pm
 
 

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