Douglas Baird Quotations

That you've essentially built a terminal exclusively for them, that's a problem. There is an old business saying that if you lend a little to someone, you are a creditor. If you lend a lot, you are a partner.

This voyeuristic aspect of this case that the rest of the world likes is not something the court is interested in.

This claim is saying that this is an administrative expense claim. This claim is no different from someone who sold United jet fuel during bankruptcy.

They're concentrating more on international routes, they've restructured their domestic operations and now they're going to cross their fingers, ... Do they have a business model that works? The answer is that we don't know.

They're going to continue the business they have now and hope that it makes money on an ongoing basis,

It's common in a bankruptcy to have these charges -- you're cleaning house.

by substituting the personal judgment of the governor for that of the patient, the act deprives every individual who is subject to its terms of his or her constitutionally guaranteed right to the privacy of his or her own medical decisions.

The effect of bankruptcies is to give all the workers so much of a hair cut that they are still willing to come to work, but they are just willing to come to work,