Humorous (Yet Respectful) Irreverence
Blawgletter bills itself as "Business trial law with a sense of humor." Anyone doubting this description should take a look at author Barry Barnett's two most recent posts.
In the first, Barry reviews Friday's Texas Supreme Court decision in Citizens Insurance Co. v. Daccach in light of Chief Justice John Marshall's immortal observation from McColloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819): "That the power to tax involves the power to destroy [and] that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create . . . are propositions not to be denied." In Barry's view, by sending the class plaintiffs back to square one after eight years in the court system, with another interlocutory appeal likely, the supreme court has "taxed" the Daccach class into oblivion.
In the second post, Barry simply observes that the defendants won every case handed down with last week's orders. Something is left unstated; Barry leaves it to the reader to figure out what that is.
