Third Circuit agrees: South Carolina judge can’t put local lawyer in charge of out-of-state companies. legalnewsline.com/newsletter/thi…
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Daniel Fisher
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Daniel Fisher
@DanielDFisher
Sailor, writer, CFA, Yale Law Knight fellow, ex- Forbesie, husband & father of 2. In no particular order.
Guilford, CT Se unió Haziran 2009
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@CliffordAsness Out of the box thinking: Let’s tax the people who can’t vote against the tax!
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So your major complaint is some people invest a ton in NYC real estate and don’t use much City services? Therefore you should go back on your pledge and tax the hell out of them?
Dumb as a stump and twice as dishonest. Yes, in this example the stump is also dishonest.
Governor Kathy Hochul@GovKathyHochul
Let me paint this picture: A fairer New York City where everyone pays their part.
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Gee, and there’s 200 years worth of gas just across the border in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Wonder why we’re not using it? “New England, which relies more on liquefied natural gas imported by ship than other parts of the country…”nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTOpinion
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Perfect case study of how regulation that claims to rein in the biggest companies actually protects them. Many such cases. A constant threat.
Adam Thierer@AdamThierer
truly one of the most amazing developments in trans-Atlantic tech policy over the past 20 years is the way that Europe set out to regulate US tech giants into the ground, but only made them more dominant as a result. This Economist headline really says it.
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@ProfSchleich @CSElmendorf Given the stated desire of his housing czar to bankrupt private owners so it can be taken over by the state, this makes perfect sense.
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If the point is to threaten things the financial community (and all reasonable people) dislike even more than tax hikes, this does the trick!
John Arnold@johnarnold
Deferring pension contributions is the Pandora's box of municipal finance, where a seemingly harmless action unleashes a legacy of complications. Once that seal is broken, NYC will start the descent into the same liability-fueled spiral that has hollowed out so many other cities.
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Just in: @PacificLegal's Coastal Property Rights group gets a unanimous victory curbing the California Coastal Commission's claim to unchecked power.
pacificlegal.org/press-release/…
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"Negotiated" from both sides of the table..."has a large unionized work force that has historically negotiated attractive retirement packages." nytimes.com/2026/04/23/nyr…
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Justice Thomas warned against extending Plaquemines Parish to climate suits, but states may take care of that anyway. legalnewsline.com/newsletter/sta…
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It’s 2037 and the 51-member Supreme Court has reversed its stance on abortion once again with a majority opinion, 11 concurrences, four partial concurrences, 17 dissents, five partial dissents, and 12 resignations. Media are reading the rulings and promise an analysis for the public next month. Six copies of the various rulings were leaked in the days leading up to the decision or decisions.
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@GregoryMcNeal @OrinKerr @FoxNews It’s their sheeplike behavior, faithfully following the playbook of authorized protest that got them into law school, that is depressing.
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I was the moderator for this discussion. The protests were planned days in advance and coordinated on Signal and Whatsapp. They started disrupting before the introductions were complete, they weren’t there to hear, listen, or question, they were there to disrupt in a coordinated manner.
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No ICE, No KKK, No Fascist U.S.A.”
NEW VIDEO shows profanity-laced chants filling the air outside UCLA while protesters inside heckle a DHS attorney speaking to law students.
The agitators interrupted the conservative campus event by calling the guest speaker a “Nazi” and staging a walking out mid-speech.
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(Un)intended consequence? Great reporting here. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/… via @NYTimes
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Are there any editors left at the Times? This is absurd: “It was a stark reversal for a party that has decried partisan gerrymandering for years.” nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/… via @NYTimes
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California Democrats push a fuel tax that would also enrich lawyers - what’s not to like? legalnewsline.com/northern-calif…
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What happens when trial lawyers twist the meaning of a centuries-old law? Businesses get hit with a lawsuit while plaintiff’s attorneys profit. Owners, employees, and consumers are left footing the bill. Read about the manipulation of public nuisance law: bit.ly/4cblyoJ
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@EdWhelanEPPC If the source was a sitting justice with life tenure, hard for the reporters to say they had to protect them against retaliation...
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NYT has obtained and published seven internal memos by Supreme Court justices in February 2016 regarding application for stay of Obama administration's Clean Power Plan.
I'm skeptical that the memos are as newsworthy as NYT maintains, but the fact that *someone* leaked them to NYT is very newsworthy.
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Freudian slip? No elected officials wrote or voted for this "legislation": "Craft a signature piece of environment legislation..." nytimes.com/2026/04/18/us/…
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watching seat-back videos in “2001” on an Airbus 350 with seat-back videos in 2026
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@jfleming2870 You have a very strange understanding of the word collusion. As well as ignoring the main point of the article, which is - wait for it - settling for the limits of insurance. Useless to continue this dialogue.
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@DanielDFisher That has nothing to do with the dumb conspiracy theory you were floating whereby plaintiffs' lawyers were negotiating with defendants over the fee or, indeed, doing anything that would reduce the total recovery for the class
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This guy has made a career out of complaining about something he doesn’t even understand. Securities class actions aren’t claims-made. It’s a fixed common fund. So there is no negotiation with defendants about the fee. They’re indifferent. The court sets the percentage award.
Daniel Fisher@DanielDFisher
And strangely, the settlement nearly always equals the limit of insurance, with the main topic of negotiation how much of that the plaintiff lawyers keep as fees.
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@jfleming2870 Tom Baker, infamous right-wing conspiracy theorist, on settlements and insurance limits: “In this murky environment, plaintiffs and defendants collude to pressure the D&O insurer to settle on terms that may not reflect the ultimate merits of the claim…”ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/faculty_schola….
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