Chris Newman reports: “Opposing counsel has served a request for judicial notice of facts contained in a Wikipedia article. If you understand the operative terms in that sentence, you probably understand why I’ve been chuckling all morning.”
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Overlawyered
Point of Law- Around the web, December 4Good 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...Walter Olson
- Preemption and SSRI/suicide suitsBeck 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...Walter Olson
- Chevron, Nigeria and EFF, contdMy 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...Walter Olson
- Med-mal: David Hyman joins Volokh ConspiracyDiscussion 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....Walter Olson
- Tryout for Pritchard securities proposalSecurities 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...Walter Olson
- Around the web, December 4
- Volokh
- Creative Commons:...Orin Kerr
- Patenting Patent Trolling: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...David Post
- Argument for Incorporation of the Second Amendment Against the Statesis 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:...Eugene Volokh
- NYU Law School's New Curve:...Orin Kerr
- Interesting Conclusion to the Trinity Racist Post Controversy:I posted about the controversy a month ago; to recap, quoting from a Hartford Courant story,...Eugene Volokh
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