“Increasingly, Australians live in a society in which it is always someone else’s fault; in which perpetrators masquerade as victims; in which personal responsibility has been replaced, all too frequently, by a readiness to lie, to sue, to redirect blame or, worse, to find scapegoats. … It is a cruel irony of modern life that the only people who can regularly be relied on to accept — indeed, to claim — responsibility for their actions are terrorist bombers.” Cites a certain website where “many examples of the lunacy of litigation are to be found”. Our special section on Australian cases, covering stories since June of this year, is here; for stories before that date, use our search function. Our section on personal responsibility is here, with older items here. (John Huxley, “Not my fault”, Sydney Morning Herald, Oct. 4)
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
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Point of Law- "Spano's Suicide: Housing Plan Doomed County Exec"The New York Post has now picked up a slightly shortened version of my City Journal piece on the housing lawsuit that contributed to a voter revolt in Westchester.... […]Walter Olson
- "Chloroform for tort reform"The Washington Times assails as "dishonest" and a "poison pill" the House health bill's provisions bribing states not to enact limits on malpractice awards and attorneys' fees.... […]Walter Olson
- Federal paid sick leave mandate?The H1N1 virus could provide a foot in the door, observes Daniel Schwartz.... […]Walter Olson
- Small business Sarbanes-Oxley exemptionRahm Emanuel, for one, is said to be pressing for it [Bloomberg] The New York Times's Floyd Norris is predictably having a fit.... […]Walter Olson
- Revoking telecom immunity"Well, we changed our mind" doesn't strike Carter at ShopFloor as a very good reason for Congress to yank back a former liability protection. Earlier here, here, here, etc.... […]Walter Olson
- "Spano's Suicide: Housing Plan Doomed County Exec"
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- MarineTraffic.com Is Also Really CoolI’m sure many people saw this over at Instapundit, and maybe it’s not as cool as Sketch2 below, but I spent a while messing with this today and thought it was fascinating ... MarineTraffic.com, with a live GoogleEarth map of marine shipping worldwide. Copyright © 2008 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The [...] […]Kenneth Anderson
- Sketch2PhotoLooks extremely cool, if it works. From Andrew Mager (ZDNet): What if you could draw some stick figures on a screen and somehow magically create a beautiful image montage? Well, it’s possible. A group of students in China have created [Sketch2Photo], a project that does exactly what I just described: it takes a rough, hand-drawn sketch, scours [...] […]Eugene Volokh
- California Withholding Tax Hike — Can Someone Explain the Legal Basis to Me?I started out legal life in California, clerking for the California Supreme Court and, already being a tax geek, was handed many of the state tax issues. So I have some familiarity with California’s tax law. It is complicated and in many policy aspects problematic, but also, to be clear as a lawyer, it is [...] […]Kenneth Anderson
- Much Better Than Being Cited for Our Substance — Being Cited as a Generic ExampleFrom the Chronicle of Higher Education: Americans tend to have fewer close confidants today than they did two decades ago — but that isn’t because they’re all huddled over their computers playing World of Warcraft or reading the Volokh Conspiracy. In fact, we like to think that reading the Volokh Conspiracy will give you more close confidants, [...] […]Eugene Volokh
- Scenes from the Meat MarketMy colleague Jacqui Lipton has posted some photos from the AALS faculty recruitment conference. Copyright © 2008 This feed is for personal, non-commercial use only. The use of this feed on other websites breaches copyright. If this content is not in your news reader, it makes the page you are viewing an infringement of the [...] […]Jonathan H. Adler
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Connecting with Australians
In news from some place other than BloggerCon 2003, Walter Olson has found a connection with Australia’s citizenry….
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