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Thursday, May 27, 2021

No. 422: An Excellent Book about How Bill Garrett Broke the Color Line in Big Ten Basketball

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Many people know Jackie Robinson of the Brooklyn Dodgers broke the color line in major league baseball. However, few people know Bill Garret...
Thursday, May 20, 2021

No. 421: William Barr Is in Trouble Again

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Statement by Former DOJ Employees In No. 358 (posted March 2, 2020), I reported on a February 16, 2020 statement signed by about 2,700 form...
Friday, May 7, 2021

No. 420: The New York State Department of Financial Services Suffers a Setback on Regulation 187

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Regulation 187 (Reg 187), issued by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), relates to the marketing of life insurance po...
Monday, May 3, 2021

No. 419: Update on Transamerica's Appeal in the Lebbin Case

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No. 414 (March 23, 2021) discussed a strange twist in the appeal to the federal Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals by Transamerica Life Insu...
Monday, April 26, 2021

No. 418: More on Caro's Little Book

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In No. 312 (May 15, 2019), I discussed Robert A. Caro's magnificent 2019 book entitled Working and subtitled Researching, Interviewing...
Friday, April 16, 2021

No. 417: Genworth Terminates Its Agreement with China Oceanwide

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On October 21, 2016, Genworth Financial, Inc. (Genworth) entered into a merger agreement with China Oceanwide (Oceanwide). Since then, the p...
Monday, April 12, 2021

No. 416: An Interesting Beneficiary Dispute

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On January 22, 2021, a three-judge panel of a state appellate court in Georgia unanimously upheld a trial court ruling in an interesting ben...