- In “State of the Economy” speech, Bush says litigation and regulation harm U.S. financial competitiveness, praises enactment of Class Action Fairness Act [Reuters; his remarks]
- How many California legislators does it take to ban the conventional lightbulb in favor of those odd-looking compact fluorescents? [Reuters, Postrel, McArdle first and second posts]
- Levi’s, no longer a juggernaut in the jeans world, keeps lawyers busy suing competitors whose pocket design is allegedly too similar [NYTimes]
- Clinics in some parts of Sweden won’t let women request a female gynecologist, saying it discriminates against male GYNs [UPI, Salon]
- Is the new Congress open to litigation reform? Choose from among dueling headlines [Childs]
- Anti-SLAPP motion filed against Santa Barbara newspaper owner McCaw [SB Ind’t via Romenesko]
- Uncritical look at Holocaust-reparations suits against French national railway [Phila. Inquirer]
- Deep pockets dept.: court rules mfr. had duty to warn about asbestos in other companies’ products, though its own product contained none [Ted at Point of Law]
- Lawyering up for expected business-bashing oversight hearings on Capitol Hill [Plumer, The New Republic]
- “King of vexatious litigants” in Ontario restrained after 73 filings in 10 years, though he says he did quite well at winning the actions [Globe and Mail, Giacalone’s self-help law blog]
- Sen. Schumer can’t seem to catch a break from WSJ editorialists [me at PoL]
- South Carolina gynecological nurse misses case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever — that’ll be $2.45 million, please [Greenville News via KevinMD]
- Five years ago on Overlawyered: we passed the milestone of one million pages served. By now, though our primitive stats make it hard to know for sure, the cumulative figure probably exceeds ten million. Thanks for your support!
February 1 roundup
In “State of the Economy” speech, Bush says litigation and regulation harm U.S. financial competitiveness, praises enactment of Class Action Fairness Act [Reuters; his remarks] How many California legislators does it take to ban the conventional lightbulb in favor of those odd-looking compact fluorescents? [Reuters, Postrel, McArdle first and second posts] Levi’s, no longer a […]
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“Deep pockets dept.: court rules mfr. had duty to warn about asbestos in other companies’ products, though its own product contained none [Ted at Point of Law]”
Does this mean that we can sue those that sit on the security committee of congress, because they should have had known some wild arabs would be flying planes into buildings?
“The Jeruchims are among more than 100 Americans who have joined a groundbreaking legal action in Paris against the French state-owned railway, Societé Nationale des Chemins de Fer, which shipped thousands of Jews to transit hubs on their way to liquidation. It is the same railway that now carries French commuters to their jobs. About 76,000 Jews in France were transported to German death camps; only 2,500 survived.”
How about the 3 million or so civilians killed by the US mostly by bombing or unlawful death of US servicement serving there? Unlike France you can file class action suits in the US. This guy rebuts the “Holocaust Industry” pretty well http://www.normanfinkelstein.com
“Clinics in some parts of Sweden…”
What, you mean those laws about gender equality that do away with all-male schools and all those other evil male things actually applies to WOMEN, too? The indignity of it all!
Congratulations, feminists, on reaping what you have sown. May your harvest be bountiful, that you may learn your lesson thoroughly and leave wll enough alone in the future.