Author: nick
Amazon can steer market-wide prices without ever colluding-exposing a gap in antitrust law that the FTC is now fighting to close. Source link
Whenever a new petition is granted, I always check the counsel of record. I keep a running tally of how many cases leading members of the bar argue. When the Court granted cert in T.M. v. University of Maryland Medical System Corporation, I took note. The Counsel of Record for the Petitioner was Kannon Shanmugam of Paul Weiss. This was (likely) a pro bono case, as T.M. sued the hospital system for medical malpractice. The Counsel of Record for the Respondent was Lisa Blatt of Williams & Connolly. I remember looking forward to seeing Shanmugam and Blatt argue. These two…
Last week, President Donald Trump commemorated income tax payments being due by having DoorDash deliver food from McDonald’s to the White House. The delivery was intended to highlight the first year of tax-free tips. Removing tax on tips was part of the 2025 Big Beautiful Bill (BBB). As the sponsor of the first No Tax on Tips legislation introduced in Congress, I was obviously pleased to see this change in tax laws included in the BBB. The bill also included other good tax changes such as removing tax on overtime and extending the 2017 tax cuts. Unfortunately, the bill also…
U.S. Is in the Middle of a Stealth Manufacturing Boom Source link
From today’s decision by Chief Judge Andrew Gordon (D. Nev.) in Patel v. Stewartson (for more on the $100K compensatory damages + $100K punitives default judgment, see this post): Kashyap Patel and the Kash Foundation, Inc. sued Jim Stewartson for allegedly defamatory statements Stewartson made on Twitter (now, X) and Substack between June 2021 and May 2023…. Stewartson did not defend against the suit, and I entered default judgment against him. Stewartson now moves to set aside the default judgment … and to dismiss the case for lack of personal jurisdiction …. He argues that he was not properly served…
End of EPA Endangerment Finding Is a Big Deal Source link
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The US government under Donald Trump has twice used disingenuous negotiations with Iran to provide cover for attacking it, in June 2025 and again before launching the current war in February. Now it is trying to do so for a third time. On April 8, the US and Iran began a two week ceasefire, after Trump accepted a ten point peace plan drawn up by Iran as “a workable basis on which to negotiate.” But Vice President Vance and US negotiators rejected Iran’s plan out of hand at talks in Pakistan on April 11, and instead demanded that Iran must…
A Great American Statesman: MLK and the Next 250 Source link
The Yale committee looked at a 2025 Pew Research Center survey that found 70% of Americans say higher education is heading in the wrong direction. Source link