Author Archive | Todd Zywicki

Marcus Cole and I have been working on an article on the Anna Nicole Smith bankruptcy case and the negative incentives it creates for forum-shopping in bankruptcy. I’ll be posting our working paper in the next few days. In the meantime, Marcus, Ron Rotunda, Todd Brown, and I have filed a amicus brief in the […]

Keith Hylton, Geoffrey Manne, and Josh Wright here.

I’ll be speaking to the Federalist Society’s Greenville, SC Lawyers’ Division on Monday about the Mortgage and Foreclosure Crisis. We’ll probably touch on Chrysler and various other aspects of the financial crisis as well. Details here.

John Hinderaker has some of the documents obtained pursuant to a FOIA Request about how Treasury bullied banks into taking TARP money back in the fall. The documents were obtained by Judicial Watch, discussion here. Check out this interesting tidbit from Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request about the […]

For those who are interested in hearing more about “Chrysler and the Rule of Law” in additional media formats I’ll be on Lou Dobbs’s radio program this afternoon about 3:30 and I’m slated to be on Neil Cavuto’s tv program on Fox Business this evening sometime in the 6:00 hour (exact time to be determined).

Today’s Wall Street Journal has my column on “Chrysler and the Rule of Law” here.

I don’t read the New York Times, but my local newspaper (The Falls Church News-Press) republishes some of the columns each week (why, I don’t know, but that’s a topic for another day). Anyway, this means that I am usually about a week behind everyone else when it comes to NYT columns. Most of you […]

Says it is an issue of Catholic culture, more than Catholic politics. An interesting thesis and one that seems intuitively correct to me: You could cut the irony with a knife: It’s only demonizing when conservatives do it. Still Fr. Himes joins Douglas Kmiec, and America, and Commonweal, and the administration of Notre Dame, and […]

David Skeel says the Chrylser deal would “Horrify a New Dealer.” Of course, one needn’t be a New Dealer in order to be horrified by the Chrysler deal!

Interesting article in Fortune on litigation hedge funds: Launched in December 2007 by two lawyers, Richard Fields and Timothy Scrantom, Juridica gives money to Fortune 500-size companies or their lawyers in the early stages of corporate lawsuits in exchange for a share of the payout if the plaintiffs win or settle. (Think of it as […]

Since my tête-à-tête with John Engelman responding to his challenge that I produce evidence that Dartmouth used to have a speech code (see here and here) I’ve received several emails asking me about various strange anonymous postings on various blogs and websites that have led people to wonder whether those too are from John Engelman. […]

The big issue in Chrysler now is whether it will be able to do a quick sale under section 363 or will have to go through a more formal plan approval process before it can do so. Steve Jakubowski has detailed analysis here. David Skeel says: But the U.S. government is essentially planning to commander […]

Dartmouth readers will be vaguely aware that there is an ongoing Dartmouth election that ends tomorrow, May 6. There are two elements. The first is the election for the Association of Alumni Executive Committee, which is running unopposed, to reelect the incumbent leadership. I know it must seem like a strange system to some people […]

What do I say about Justice Souter (I’m sure you were on the edge of your seats)? I have little to say about Justice Souter, actually. But since Souter is now departing from the scene I bless you with a little pet theory of mine. Every once in awhile, through pure accident of history, an […]

These guys say billable hours are being replaced by flat rates and other more cost-effective means of buying legal services.