DC sniper Lee Malvo shoplifted the rifle he used from a Tacoma store, which is now subject to a lawsuit, as is Bushmaster Firearms, the gun manufacturer that sold the rifle to the store. (And why not the coal miners that supplied the steel manufacturers that supplied Bushmaster Firearms?). Update Sept. 25, 2004: case settles.
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Point of Law- San Francisco's asbestos court, cont'dThe county's creation of a court department devoted specifically to asbestos litigation gets a thumbs-up from Alex Tabarrok [Public Nuisance Wire, earlier]... […]Walter Olson
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- New column: "Canada's Labor Law: An Example for the U.S.?"Many provisions of the proposed Employee Free Choice Act, the centerpiece of organized labor's agenda in Washington, D.C., were modeled on pro-union legal arrangements familiar north of the border in Canada. How have they worked there? Are they popular and... […]Walter Olson
- Around the web, November 9Small favors dept.: managers of House health bill agree to amendment reducing incentive for states to repeal existing fee/award limits, but states without such limits would still be accorded new incentives not to adopt them [Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Pero]... […]Walter Olson
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- When the Berlin Wall Came Down, Twenty Years AgoI was a freshman in college, watching this Peter Jennings broadcast with my roommates in 75 Holder Hall with a sense of complete astonishment that the world could shift so suddenly– all the while trying to adjust the rabbit ears of our early 1970s TV to try to get better reception. Copyright © 2009 [...] […]Orin Kerr
- Supreme Court Skeptical of Business Method PatentsThe Supreme Court held argument this afternoon in an important case on the scope of patentable subject matter, Bilski, et. al. v. Kappos. The Justices were very skeptical of business method patents during the argument; read a summary here or the transcript here. I personally agree with the Federal Circuit’s standard, so I [...] […]Orin Kerr
- I Wasn’t Paying Attention When the Wall Came DownI’m sorry I wasn’t and I don’t quite know what happened. I don’t say this to be flippant in the least. I knew that big things were happening, but unlike many others’ experiences, it all seemed very gradual to me and finally anti-climactic. It seemed like something that was gradually sliding into place that had [...] […]Kenneth Anderson
- Pfizer Corporation Plans to Abandon New London Headquarters that Led to the Kelo TakingsThe Pfizer Corporation has announced that it will close down its headquarters in New London, Connecticut. [HT: my former student Josh Blackman, and other VC readers]. As our regular readers may recall, Pfizer played a key role in instigating the notorious condemnations that led to the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the taking of [...] […]Ilya Somin
- Reflections on the Fall of the Berlin WallToday is the 20th anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall. In several ways, the Wall and its collapse are fitting symbols of communism. They demonstrate several truths about that system that we would be wise not to lose sight of. First and foremost, Cold War-era Berlin was the most visible demonstration of the superiority [...] […]Ilya Somin
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I saw a bumper sticker the other day that said, “Guns don’t cause crimes any more than flies cause garbage.”…
BULL’S EYE / GUN SUITS
Some lament the judge’s failure to dismiss the lawsuit against Bull’s Eye Shooter Supply, the source of the beltway sniper’s Bushmaster Rifle. “[W]hy [shouldn't] the coal miners that supplied the steel manufacturers that supplied Bushmaster Firearms [b…
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