Notices by Ann Lipton (annmlipton@esq.social), page 2

All who pass must first answer these questions three.
#caturday

It's really remarkable to me how every single Boeing deconstruction begins and ends with its shift in emphasis from mechanical engineering to financial engineering to please Wall Street.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-01-14/boeing-737-max-9-crisis-trust-in-airline-safety-will-take-years-to-repair

okay, a new hypo for my next exam on fiduciary obligations and director conflicts

https://teslanorth.com/2023/12/17/tesla-removing-disney-plus-app-vehicles/

"John Schmidtlein, Google’s main litigator, visibly cringed when Murphy said the number, which was supposed to remain confidential."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-11-13/apple-gets-36-of-google-revenue-from-search-deal-witness-says

https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1698833970022998313

If they were really apologetic...

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Delaware is increasingly deciding the contours of federal rights.

Anyhoo, here's my paper on why all this is a bad thing. Just call me Cassandra:

https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4256316

Not my area but this jumps out at me. No mention of legacy, donations, etc. This contributing to the impression that race is the only factor distinct from specific accomplishments that contributes to admissions.

“I was incredibly uncomfortable throughout both videos, and was in shock that she would do something illegal like that,” the student wrote, adding parenthetically “I am pretty sure a teacher talking about systemic racism is illegal in South Carolina.”

https://www.thestate.com/news/local/article276257911.html

https://twitter.com/SMTuffy/status/1666165182807040009

@nytimes Sorry, kind of obligated at this point:
https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4442029

"The designer snuck ACAB in there. 🤣🤣"
https://twitter.com/FilmThePoliceLA/status/1664755922495844357

This will end poorly.

(also the phrase "climate change" does not appear in this article)

https://www.nola.com/news/business/louisiana-homeowners-embrace-less-regulated-insurers/article_3b250db8-fbe4-11ed-bc6c-ff3e2911801d.html

@jciv I posed that question to my M&A students this year :-)

@jciv Oh it was really more to raise the issue, not actually proposing solutions.

hoo boy
"The U.S. Chamber [says]... mandatory disclosure [of stock buybacks] 'not only risk the public airing of important managerial decisions but also compel speech in violation of the First Amendment,'"
https://www.law360.com/securities/articles/1607431

They have ... really decided they've got the judges in place now to go out and make some new law.

I went and did the thing.
https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=4442029

@axios Was that before or after it banned Pornhub?