• French court acquits satirical weekly that printed Mohammed cartoons (see Feb. 7) [DW]


• Subprime panic: “Does no one remember what it was like to get a mortgage before they were so easily securitized?” [Coyote channeling Tabarrok, Kirkendall and our own Ted]


• Food safety regulators have their eye on Amish bakers at farmers’ markets [AP/Ledger-Enquirer]


• Attorney Harpreet Singh Brar, notorious for mass filings against small business (Jun. 4, 2006, etc.), ordered “inactive” by California bar [Calif. Wage and Hour Law]


• “The litigation was much thicker than the music”, hence the downfall of 60s girl-group The Shangri-Las (Remember, Leader of the Pack) [NY mag, Althouse]


• Our comments section hits the big time [Chicago-Sun Times quotes Richard Nieporent on South Park]


• Special-needs teen brutally murders fellow student in affluent Boston suburb; did school officials keen on “mainstreaming” him downplay signs of trouble? [Globe, more, AP]


• New Mexico is 49th state to ban cockfighting, sport beloved of early American presidents [Walker @ Reason, Zincavage]


• Rudy Giuliani still vividly remembers defending NYC hospital lawsuits [Point of Law]


• “[Plaintiff husband] denied that he had been abducted by aliens, but stated that his [plaintiff] wife had been” [Cernovich]


• Forced marriage: don’t assume it only happens a world away [Dalrymple, Spectator]


• Lawyers stage sham trial aimed at inculpating third party [five years ago on Overlawyered]

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