Good response to clueless Marie Cocco column that celebrated tenth anniversary of corrupt, undemocratic multi-state tobacco settlement [Sullum, Reason Hit and Run] New details on Philadelphia prosecution of ring that allegedly helped itself to class action proceeds by filing...

Beck and Herrmann: Initially, wed invite anybody who doesnt think that plaintiffs in product liability litigation arent asking state courts to ignore FDA decisions to read the statements of fact in either of these briefs. The causation claims plaintiffs advance...

My post yesterday on a San Francisco jurys vindication of the oil companys conduct drew notice at LexMonitor and ShopFloor (with a second post linking to NAMs briefs in Alien Tort cases). And at National Review Online, Andrew McCarthy covers...

Discussion of medical malpractice law in the blog world is likely to heat up soon, what with University of Texas law professor David Hyman having joined the Volokh Conspiracy as a permanent contributor. One of the areas in which Prof....

Securities Docket: University of Michigan Law School Professor Adam Pritchards recent proposal to reform securities class actions via shareholder proposal has moved from a purely academic discussion to the real world. Prof. Pritchard reports today that a shareholder in Alaska...

Radley Balko has an excellent article on tomorrow's upcoming 75th anniversary of the repeal of prohibition by the Twenty-First Amendment. He notes some important parallels between the failures of Prohibition...

The best law book I read this year is Philip Hamburger’s Law and Judicial Duty, recently released by Harvard Press. At 700 pages, it is a thorough examination of the history...

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As many of you know, "patent trolls" are parties that buy up issued patents for the sole purpose of using the patents offensively to collect licensing fees (or, failing that, to...

is foreclosed by Seventh Circuit precedent, and late 1800s Supreme Court precedent, rules the district judge in NRA v. City of Oak Park City of Chicago:...