If you didn’t grow up in a household influenced by a Swedish grandmother, or haven’t been to Sweden, you may not know what a smörgåsbord is. Certainly none of the American efforts to establish smörgåsbord restaurants here appear to have survived contact with Americans. A smörgåsbord is “a celebratory meal and guests can help themselves…
Thou hast committed fornication . . . But that was in another country and, besides, the wench is dead. — Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta Insys Therapeutics is the company that gave America Subsys, a powerful, quick-acting Fentanyl product. Insys’s management team was convicted of RICO activities arising out of its abhorrent marketing practices and…
This end of the month follow up only comes a week and a half late. WC blames it all on spring migration. Anyway, here’s a look back at developments involving earlier blog posts. More proof, if you needed it, that WC is not a journalist. Drug pusher Insys, who senior management team was recently convicted…
It’s a been a while since WC wallowed in some geekiness. This is admittedly a long post, and involves both geeky law and technogeekery. But this will affect every cell phone in the United States and most of the phones abroad. Here we go: Qualcomm is a San Diego, California-based microchip manufacturer. For more than…
Congressman Justin Amash (R, Michigan) recently did a remarkable thing. He not only read the Mueller Report, he understood it, understood the evidence presented and concluded that President Donald Trump should be impeached for obstruction of justice. None of that would be remarkable, except Rep. Amash is the only Republican member of Congress to do…
As WC noted yesterday, Cloud Peak Energy has filed Chapter11. The promises, actual and implied, Cloud Peak made in its mining plan and environmental impact statements are in very serious jeopardy, because the continued existence of Cloud Peak itself is doubtful. What are the lessons to be drawn from all this? First, and most obviously,…
Cloud Peak Energy used to be the nation’s third largest coal producer. Last year it slipped to fourth place. This year it quietly slipped in to Chapter 11. How’s that coal thing working for you, Donnie? Cloud Peak had nearly no cash, was hundreds of millions of dollars in debt and sold less coal in…
