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Securities Law Prof Blog
Stipanowich on the Delaware Arbitration Program
In Quest of the Arbitration Trifecta, or Closed Door Litigation?: The Delaware Arbitration Program, by Thomas Stipanowich, Pepperdine University School of Law, was recently posted on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
#openpacer
By Greg Lambert
"To provide the public with open access to electronic federal court records." That is the plan for The Open PACER Act being pushed by OpenPACER.org. Today there was a cross-posting…
PropertyProf Blog
Georgia Closes State Archives
By propertyprof
I love state archives. They are valuable resources for my genealogical research, but they are also wonderful sources of information for those interested in issues at the convergence of legal…
Securities Law Prof Blog
Court Rules that Delaware Chancellors Serving as Arbitrators is Unconstitutional
A federal district court ruled that a Delaware law that allows the Chancellors to conduct arbitrations in business disputes is unconstitutional. The judge ruled that since the proceeding "is essentially a civil trial,"…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Chancery arbitration procedure ruling handed down
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
A Federal District Court in Philadelphia just handed down a ruling in the challenge to Delaware's Chanery arbitration procedure, which I wrote about some months ago (November Post: More Thoughts…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Thoughts on challenge to Delaware arbitration procedure
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
I've been giving some more thought to the recent challenge by the Delaware Open Government Coalition to Delaware's new arbitration procedure. It's a very interesting issue and won that I…
M & A Law Prof Blog
Arbitration system challenged in Delaware (updated)
By CorporateAcquisitions MergerLawBlogger
Reuters is reporting that the Delaware Coalition for Open Government has sued the Chancery Court in the federal district court in Delaware for holding "secret hearings." The secret hearings they…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Let public see executions”
Main August 31, 2011"Let public see executions"The title of this post is the headline of this editorial from Newsday. Here are excerpts: Executions in the United States used to be…
Legal Profession Blog
Access A Maybe
The New Jersey Appellate Division has held that a court must consider a number of factors in determining public access to unfiled discovery:In this appeal we consider whether unfiled discovery…
Sentencing Law and Policy
Should all letters to a sentencing judge in high-profile controversial case be made public?
Main August 8, 2011Should all letters to a sentencing judge in high-profile controversial case be made public?The question in the title of this post, concerning which I have mixed feelings,…