- Get in car with drunk driver, sue manufacturer and win $18.6M when you get hurt; lawyers fight over lottery-victory fees. [Andrews; Journal Star]
- LA Times decides that maybe preventing prison race riots isn’t so bad after all. [Patterico]
- Why LA jail cells are revolving doors. [LA Times]
- Popular coffee stand shut down because of government-mandated preferences for blind. [NYT]
- The special interests behind the call for additional hedge fund regulation. [Cafe Hayek]
- The ethical practice of legal scholarship. [Prawfsblawg]
- The Wag-Time/Stephanie Mencimer arrest scandal keeps getting weirder and weirder. [Murray Waas @ HuffPo; Circumlocutor]
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