The practice was common and unremarkable during the Golden Age of Radio, yet somehow the Republic survived (John Hood, “Warning: Coke, Though Refreshing, Is A Sponsor of This Program “, Reason, Nov. 22).
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
Point of Law- Autism-Vaccine Attorney Bill Tops $2 MillionKathleen Seidel is applying more scrutiny to bills submitted to the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Earlier at Overlawyered here and here....Walter Olson
- Medical device preemptionA big defense victory in the Medtronic cardiac defibrillator litigation. (Beck Herrmann/Miller)....Walter Olson
- Litigation Issues Arising from the Credit CrisisAllen Farrell (Harvard), Jennifer Bethel and Gang Hu (both Babson) have this paper on SSRN which is part of a forthcoming Brookings volume on the credit crisis (Harvard Corporate Governance Blog via B. Janell Grenier at BenefitsBlog, who notes the...Walter Olson
- A site called Asbestos.comBill Childs does some digging into whos behind an ostensibly independent source of information on the dangerous mineral....Walter Olson
- Around the web, January 8Once the lawyers get through suing over Madoff feeder funds, Big 4 auditing firms might get winnowed down to 3... 2... 1? [Salmon citing NakedShorts and Bronte Capital] Leading advocate of laws to ban workplace bullying, a cause weve...Walter Olson
- Autism-Vaccine Attorney Bill Tops $2 Million
- Volokh
- Lori Drew Hearing Update:This morning Judge Wu of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles held a hearing on our motion to dismiss in the Lori Drew case. I argued for the defense, and...Orin Kerr
- New Federal Power Case, Likely Heading to the Supreme Court:In United States v. Comstock, a unanimous panel of the Fourth Circuit (consisting of a Clinton appointee, a George W. Bush appointee, and a senior district court judge appointed by...Eugene Volokh
- The Holdren Pick:One of the few Obama appointments that has me particularly concerned is his selection of John Holdren to be his top science advisor. It's all well and good that Obama has...Jonathan Adler
- Sunstein as Regulatory Czar:I agree with Todd and Eugene that President-elect Obama has made a good choice to pick Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein to head the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (and...Jonathan Adler
- Volokh Conspiracy Guest-Blogger Nominated to High Government Office:Well, OK, his guest-blogging isn't what he's famous for, but allow me to be parochial here, and point to Cass Sunstein's posts from last year. I agree with Todd...Eugene Volokh
- Lori Drew Hearing Update: