New Orleans All last week we endured the media frenzy of Henry Paulson, current of the Treasury Department and formerly of Wall Street, and President Bush, currently in charge of Iraq, but presumably now looking for a job running the Stock Exchange, trying to claim that they were jawboning the industry to provide “relief” …
Month: December 2007
Union Busting in Sports
New Orleans Fay Vincent, the former commissioner of Major League Baseball from 1989-92 is right: stop the union busting in the Hall of Fame! Writing in of all places the New York Times as a guest columnist, Vincent told it the way it really is by pronouncing the verdict on the recent voting …
Judicial Philanthropy
New Orleans Based on our experience with several class action suits, ACORN has come to know a little something what is called cy pres money. Cy pres comes from the French expression “cy pres comme possible” meaning “as near as possible.” The derivation comes from the law of charitable trusts and how assets are …