by ClayDeanThomas | Nov 4, 2024 | Blog, Legal
This month, November 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on the exemplar contract matterthat needlessly wasted the financial resources of the litigants. In Ultra Deep Picasso Pte.Limited v. Dynamic Industries Saudia Arabia Ltd. and Riyad Bank, the Circuit...
by ClayDeanThomas | Oct 20, 2024 | Blog, Legal
In recent decades, state legislatures have encouraged the profligate expansion of business entities available to be registered in their respective states. Unfortunately, many of these business models may be so easily formed and registered that they qualify for a new...
by Clay_D Thomas | May 31, 2015 | Blog, Legal, Mental Illness
Mental Illness Or Meanness We live in a world far removed from the one I experienced as a child. We are now even more angry and cynical than we were during the Vietnam War. Criminality is commonplace and its connection with mental illness is a rarity in discussion....
by Clay_D Thomas | May 27, 2015 | Blog, Contracts, Legal
From May 2015: It’s abundantly normal that we think of contracts as something that only occurs in business. But a law professor once told me that if I watched the movies and afterward did not think differently of the subject of contracts, I had learned nothing about...
by Clay_D Thomas | May 26, 2015 | Blog, Insurance, Legal
Even before we start picking up the pieces from the central Texas and Hill Country floods, telephones of insurers in distant states must stand in watchful anticipation of the deluge to come. Much like those affected by the central Texas fires just a few years ago,...
by Clay_D Thomas | Oct 21, 2014 | Blog
In October 2014, Brittany Maynard announced that she is going to end her own life on November 1, and many people are supportive of her decision. Brittany is suffering from a brain tumor which will eventually kill her and is causing severe headaches in the meantime....