Billy Merck


Posts by Billy Merck

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  • Lawyer of the Day

    Lawyer of the Day: Former Senator Looking for Love

    Dean Barkley, fomer U.S. Senator from Minnesota (Nov. 2002-Jan. 2003) as a member of the then Minnesota Reform Party (he was appointed by Gov. Jesse Ventura after the death of Paul Wellstone in a plane crash), is apparently looking for love online. Here is his profile from Match.com. Girls, don’t worry about getting hurt, because […]
  • Benchslaps, SCOTUS

    More Squabbling from the Tellabs Opinion

    We missed this separate benchscuffle from the Tellabs opinion in our haste to look at all three earlier, but Scalia and Stevens, the lone dissenter, went at it as well. Stevens told Scalia that he was “clearly wrong”, and Scalia responded with “it’s you who is ‘mistaken'”. Steven then said “nun uh”, and Scalia said, […]
  • Antonin Scalia, Benchslaps, SCOTUS

    Scalia Gets Snarky Over Scienter Standard

    At issue in the SCOTUS’s decision today in Tellabs, Inc. v. Makor Issues & Rights, Ltd.[SCOTUSblogvia How Appealing] was the definition of the term “strong inference”, and therefore what the standard is for determining whether a plaintiff has met the pleading requirements as to scienter in a securities fraud case. Some mildly saucy benchslaps insued. […]
  • Biglaw, Money, Skaddenfreude

    National Pay Raise Watch: California

    From Vegas we take a short drive through the desert into the beautiful state of California. Since Los Angeles, San Francisco and Silicon Valley are regularly covered on ATL, this open thread will be for the rest of California: San Diego, Sacramento, or any other not-regularly-covered market in the Golden State that you care to […]
  • Non-Sequiturs

    Non-Sequiturs: 6.20.07

    * Where do gay men look first? [Huffington Post] * Vigilante justice is alive and well in Texas, but this innocent passenger is not. [BBC] * Walter Reed rent-a-cops get all belligerent with each other. [CNN] * Hawaii’s gonna blow. [AP via Yahoo!] * File another one in the “ridiculous reasons for Muslims to be […]
  • CIA

    Career CIA Guy Is OK With Torture; Who Knew?

    Ok, that’s not exactly right. Technically, he’s not ok with torture, he just defines torture in a manner that allows him to be ok with stuff that most of us would call torture. Would you expect anything less of a CIA lawyer? John Rizzo, acting GC for the CIA and Bush’s nominee for the permanent […]