This weekend we had a historical moment. A moment we will all remember. One that will impact our future. Justin Bieber got into his first fistfight. I wish I was kidding. Don’t pretend you didn’t already hear about this event. In case you are living under a rock (or have more intellectual pursuits), here is […]
One of the most common questions I hear about insider trading is, “how do they get caught?” The New York Times answered that question for us today, in this article about the new enforcement efforts at the SEC. The article focuses on our favorite insider trader, Garrett Bauer. For those readers that are new students, […]
The Rutgers student convicted of several privacy crimes as a result of video recording his gay roommate having sex with another man, posting the video online, and tweeting about it, has been sentenced. From my perspective, he received an extremely light sentence of only 30 days in prison, plus probation, community service, and other programming. […]
I recently had a student lie to me. I am quite confident that students lie to me all the time, but I caught this lie. I took it very seriously, although the underlying reason for the lie was not something all that important. Here is why: despite the daily barrage of stories of executives cheating, […]
The Sixth Circuit has been asked to decide an interesting trademark question: whether Jose Cuervo tequila can use a red wax seal on its bottles. Makers Mark bourbon is arguing that the seal is too similar to the seal on its bottles, and a reasonable drinker might be confused. In other words, I might think […]
Here is another interesting article about the Facebook IPO. It says that the company plans to make more shares available to regular old people, like you and me. So who is in for our LA 245 share?
One of your classmates was kind enough to share this uplifting article about a veteran that bootlegs movies and sends hundreds of DVDs of current movies to soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Totally illegal, but totally nice. A utilitarian analysis would certainly find this ethical, as the greatest good for the greatest number is […]
