Asbestos: "UK Advisory Panel Advises Against Treating Pleural Plaques as a Compensable Industrial Disease" [Hartley, see also] MI's Heather Mac Donald on Ricci, Sotomayor, and the "race industry" [City Journal] TJX will pay $9.75 million to settle state AG's... […]
It seems Gotham smokers just haven't been hectored enough, so City Hall's nanny brigade wants to force shopkeepers to post grotesque photos of the disease process. Same thing with fattening foods or booze? They're not ruling it out.... […]
Jonathan Adler at Volokh continues his scrutiny of various much-circulating memes about the presently constituted Supreme Court (earlier here and here).... […]
When practicing a bit of law on the side during her time with the Manhattan D.A.'s office and at a larger law firm, the nominee called her very small practice "Sotomayor & Associates" even though it had no lawyers but... […]
Justice Ginsburg thinks she would be. Given that Sotomayor was born in the Bronx, I assume she means that Sotomayor would be the first Justice whose grew up in... […]
Today the Senate Judiciary Committee posted a letter supporting confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court signed by over 1,100 law professors from around the country. Organized... […]
I am going to be on lite-blogging status for a while, due to a pinched nerve and muscle tear caused - everyone please take careful note - not by my Athletic... […]