District Court Properly Dismissed Securities Fraud Class Action Without Leave to Amend because Class Action Complaint Failed to Satisfy Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA) Pleading Requirements Eighth Circuit Holds Plaintiff filed a class action complaint against Possis Medical and
Usually, when your offense scored 3 runs in 5 innings, that wouldn't be looked at as great. But, when the pitcher you are facing is the Indians' young star, Fausto Carmona, it looks pretty good. Coming into the game, Carmona
President Bush sent three new nominees to the Senate yesterday for confirmation to the Federal Election Commission, but he refused to yield to Democratic objections on another nominee that have left the agency at a standstill.
Former Sen. George McGovern, who backed Hillary Rodham Clinton, is urging her to drop out of the Democratic presidential race. McGovern said Wednesday he has decided to endorse Barack Obama.
Georgia executed a convicted murderer on Tuesday, the first person to be put to death in the United States since the Supreme Court ended a de facto moratorium on capital punishment last month.
Shellshocked House Republicans got warnings from leaders past and present Tuesday: Your party's message isn't good enough to prevent disaster in November, and neither is the NRCC's money.The double shot of bad news had one veteran Republican House member worrying
Hillary Rodham Clinton says she will remain in the presidential race "until there's a nominee." The former first lady declined to say whether that meant through the roll call of the states at the Democratic National Convention this summer.
The Utah company EnergySolutions wants to import large amounts of low-level radioactive waste from Italy. If approved, the company would ship up to 20,000 tons of metal piping, sludge, wood, contaminated clothing and other mildly radioactive material from Italian nuclear-power
The state that pioneered the quickie divorce is witnessing a potentially ugly breakup that has the governor of Nevada fighting to get back into his own mansion. Republican Gov. Jim Gibbons filed for divorce last week after moving out of
From my Inbox: LiveJournal Advisory Board Nominations Begin.This morning we are opening the nomination process for the user-representative positions on the LiveJournal Advisory Board ... Everyone here at LiveJournal is looking forward to this first-ever User-Representative election!A motherfucking LiveJournal election.
Having learned my lessons, I'm not going to blog much about my job but I will say this — the CEO of the company I work for was featured on the cover of Fast Company this morning. This photo looks
I'm not actually that interested in wildlife or having encounters with wild animals. I am interested in how language constructs nature and how the stories we tell about nature — whether this be in the vein of "frontier gothic" or
I've been seeing a lot of criticism of "elites" lately. And it seems to me like there is some sort of concerted effort to redefine the word. Its current definition is this...1.(often used with a plural verb) the choice or
It looks like Obama's supporters are doing more than buying into his "Change begins with you." meme. It would appear that they are implementing it. Over at Donors Choose, a site that lets teachers post their projects and donors choose
