First, Robert Blake’s wife was murdered, then he was found “not guilty” of the crime. Next came the civil suit by his wife’s family (different Court, different burden of proof — civil not criminal case) resulting in a finding that Blake intentionally caused her death. Damages were awarded in the amount of 30 [...]

Back to the occasional statistical review for the blog:

Last month, we had 851 visits to the blog, with 8,644 hits. Wednesdays are the busiest day for visits, with the other business days of the week being about even with each other and the weekends are, as expected, less than that. Ten and eleven a.m. [...]

In light of the Sosa opinion (cited here at the time of its release) authored by Judge Monroe, a well respected Bankrutpcy Judge in the Western District of Texas, here is a letter drafted by the President of the Austin Bar:

From: “AustinBar” AustinBar@austinbar.org
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 16:53:36 -0600
Subj: Our Responsibility as Lawyers

You may be [...]

Here is a link to an interesting web site, the US Census Bureau’s fact finder page. You can insert a name of a city and get a one page fact sheet for that place. Here is the link, with Fort Worth data:

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFFacts?_event=Search&geo_id=16000US3673000&_geoContext=01000US%7C04000US36%7C16000US3673000&_street=&_county=fort+worth&_cityTown=fort+worth&_state=&_zip=&_lang=en&_sse=on&ActiveGeoDiv=geoSelect&_useEV=&pctxt=fph&pgsl=160&_submenuId=factsheet_1&ds_name=DEC_2000_SAFF&_ci_nbr=null&qr_name=null&reg=null%3Anull&_keyword=&_industry=

Mike

In a recently-decided en banc opinion by the Fifth Circuit, the Court held that crop disaster relief payments authorized by legislation enacted after a debtor files for bankruptcy are not property of the estate and therefore belong to the individual debtor, not the Trustee.

Following the debtor, Edward Burgess’, Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing and [...]

The U.S. Trustee’s office today released Census Bureau Data, the IRS Data, and the Administrative Expenses Multiplier to be used for bankruptcy means testing and for calculation of monthly expenses the actual administrative expenses of administering a chapter 13 plan.

The data includes median income and IRS national and local standards for living expenses.

This information is [...]

The nations No. 2 airline is expected to announce its emergence from Chapter 11 today. The nation’s No. 2 airline has 30 percent fewer employees, 20 percent fewer airplanes and 20 percent lower operating costs, than it did when the bankruptcy began on December 9, 2002. Labor costs have been reduced by more [...]