The Merchants of Wall Street: Banking, Commerce, and Commodities – Saule T. Omarova, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, November 24, 2012 Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 98, 2013 “This article examines the principal legal, policy, and theoretical implications of a transformative – but so far unrecognized – change in the banking… Continue Reading
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NYT – Measuring Us Against the World
Measuring Us Against the World – “The United States is one of the richest nations on earth, but on a number of social and economic measures, it is more typical of a developing country. Compared with other advanced nations, it ranks consistently among the worst performers in matters of economic equality and child welfare.” Related… Continue Reading
Facilitating Better Law Teaching
Facilitating Better Law Teaching, Martin Katz – University of Denver Sturm College of Law – August 2, 2013 Emory Law Journal, Vol. 62, No. 823, 2013 U Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-37 “This Essay is about solutions – real solutions that law schools can deploy right now to improve the education we provide.… Continue Reading
Commentary – The New Sick-onomy?
The New Sick-onomy? Examining the Entrails of the U.S. Employment Situation – Blog Post by Daniel Alpert, on July 23, 2013 “Over 69 percent of the jobs created in Q2 2013 and over 57 percent of all the jobs created in the first half of 2013 were created in the three lowest wage sub-sectors of… Continue Reading
DOJ Proposes Remedy to Address Apple’s Price Fixing
News release: “The Department of Justice and 33 State Attorneys General today submitted to the court a proposed remedy to address Apple Inc.’s illegal conduct, following the July 10, 2013, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York decision finding that Apple conspired to fix the prices of e-books in the United States. The… Continue Reading
Surveillance Order Reporting Act
CDT: “On the heels of the introduction of the “Surveillance Transparency Act” in the Senate, a bipartisan coalition in the House of Representatives led by Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren has just introduced its own bill pressing for more transparency around government demands to Internet and telephone companies about their users data. As with the bill in… Continue Reading
NYT – Sarbanes-Oxley Changed Corporate America – Room for Debate
NYT Op: Room for Debate – with commentary by four contributors. Attorney Michael W. Peregrine states: “… the law has been spectacularly successful. Sarbanes-Oxley has forever changed the landscape of corporate governance. It has increased the accountability expectations we have of directors and officers, and their legal and accounting advisers as well.Sarbanes-Oxley seized the center… Continue Reading
WSJ – FBI Taps Hacker Tactics to Spy on Suspects
Law-Enforcement Officials Expand Use of Tools Such as Spyware as People Under Investigation ‘Go Dark,’ Evading Wiretaps: “The FBI develops some hacking tools internally and purchases others from the private sector. With such technology, the bureau can remotely activate the microphones in phones running Google Inc.’s Android software to record conversations, one former U.S. official said. It can… Continue Reading
Infographic – Student Debt on Borrowed Time
Shahien Nasiripour and Jan Diehm – via Huffington Post: College students and their families are set to enjoy lower borrowing costs this fall at the expense of future borrowers under a measure approved by Congress and to be signed into law by President Barack Obama. The proposal overwhelmingly passed the House of Representatives on Wednesday with nearly 400 votes.… Continue Reading
What is Gluten-Free? FDA Has an Answer
“People with celiac disease can now have confidence in the meaning of a “gluten-free” label on foods. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a final rule that defines what characteristics a food has to have to bear a label that proclaims it “gluten- free.” The rule also holds foods labeled “without gluten,” “free of… Continue Reading
BLS – July payroll employment increases; unemployment rate edges down
Employment Situation Summary, July 2013 “Total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 162,000 in July, and the unemployment rate edged down to 7.4 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment rose in retail trade, food services and drinking places, financial activities, and wholesale trade. Household Survey Data Both the number of unemployed persons,… Continue Reading
AP – USPS photographs each piece of mail processed
AP – “The Postal Service takes pictures of every piece of mail processed in the United States — 160 billion last year — and keeps them on hand for up to a month.” Continue Reading
