Michael Giberson Warren Meyer at Coyote Blog cites news from Colorado of a successful $1.4 million lawsuit against a grocery retailer that granted discounts on gasoline to consumers that spent over $100 on groceries. The suit was founded upon the state’s “Unfair Practices Act” and filed by, you guessed it, competitors of the discounting retailers.
Michael Giberson On Sunday, the Washington Post published a short piece by S.R. Sidarth, the political volunteer who was the object of George Allen’s “macaca” mocking. Allen’s remarks probably would have passed unnoticed, relatively speaking, but for Sidarth’s capturing them on video and the video later showing up on Youtube. That moment, more than any …
Michael Giberson KP readers who come here for our bits of energy policy commentary may also like Ken Maize’s Energy Blog. To get you started, try “Texas sings restructuring blues” or “Across the pond: Lights out in Europe.”
Michael Giberson In a story widely reported in news and on the web – we humans like our confirmatory data – a study finds that a compound in red wine may help fight the ill effects of obesity and aging. On the front page of the Washington Post today: A substance found in red wine …
Michael Giberson At Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cower links to a year-old paper asking and trying to answer the question: Should hedge funds be regulated? [PDF] Generally the authors dismiss consumer protection reasons for hedge fund regulation, but do express some concern over systemic risk. (Systematic risk explained via Wikipedia; here is an NBER paper saying …
Michael Giberson Is now a good time for investors to get into solar energy? A story from the Wall Street Journal raises that question (article available here via the Washington Post): Shares of solar energy companies in the United States and Asia have fallen about 25 to 50 percent in recent months as declining oil …
Michael Giberson An L.A. Times story reports on the struggles of the United Network for Organ Sharing to oversee its member organizations, a job it seems not to pursue too energetically. The little-known organization that oversees the nation’s organ transplant system often fails to detect or decisively fix problems at derelict hospitals — even when …
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Michael Giberson A detailed investigative report published last month by industry newsletter Inside FERC’s Gas Market Report suggests that a Texas intrastate gas pipeline company may have systematically attempted to manipulate spreads between physical and financial gas contracts trading at the Houston Ship Channel pricing point. The intrastate gas transportation market in Texas is lightly …
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Michael Giberson As the fine folks at the Energy Legal Blog report: Illinois Considers Continuation of Retail Rate Freeze. Back in 1997, Illinois politicians cooked up the Illinois Electric Service Customer Choice and Rate Relief Law, no doubt with ample input from industry and consumers in the state. The law mandated retail rate reductions of …
Michael Giberson From the musical section of the “who’da thunk it” department comes this little footnote (from a law journal article [PDF] on the uses of popular music in legal writing), attached to a remark that Justice Samuel Alito “once attended a ska music festival”: [15] Becker & Russakoff, supra note 13, available at 2006 …
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