The U.S. Chamber-backed West Virginia Record critically summarizes the tortuous course of the state's lawsuit against Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma, often raised by critics as symbolic of their objections to Attorney General Darrell McGraw's handling of his office. More here,...

Now Chestnut Hill Hospital is closing its 1,000-babies-a-year maternity unit (via Pero). More background here....

Another study helps put to rest a litigation-driven canard. And, also via Orac, Ira Flatow interviews Paul Offit, author of the important new book hitting the bookstores this month, "Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for...

Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, president-elect of NAAG, says he's not sure he's ever hired outside counsel on contingency and says colleagues should be "very, very careful" of doing so [Legal NewsLine] More Bruning, discussing absence in Nebraska civil...

A call sounded in Mitt Romney's speech (via Genova)....

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit handed down Milavetz, Gallop & Milabetz v. United States yesterday, in which the majority held unconstitutional a provision that barred debt...

Yesterday's Investors Business Daily reports on the Chicago chapter of Public Allies, a group with trains and pays stipends to community organizers and other youthful volunteers. According to IBD, "Barack...

Bad news for you McCain supporters (including those of you who took me rather forcefully to task for having the temerity, in earlier posts, to suggest that Sarah Palin is...

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Last week, while everyone was saying that the Democrats were not getting a bounce from their convention, I was one of the first people to note that there were hints...