My rule is to write about decisions in the last couple of months and quite often I stick with the last couple of days, but the passing of Doctor Joyce Brothers has inspired me to get in the way-back machine and dust off Bank of Stockton v.
His stint lasted for a year and a half, until his cousin engineered a sale of the company to Vivendi Universal (nyse: V - news - people ), a former water company that bought its way into the record and film business.