- Business groups have signed off on dreadful ADA Restoration Act aimed at expanding disabled-rights lawsuits, reversing high court decisions that had moderated the law [WSJ; more here and here]
- U.K. man to win damages from rail firms on claim that trauma of Paddington crash turned him into deranged killer [Times Online]
- Patent cases taken on contingency lead to gigantic paydays for D.C.’s Dickstein Shapiro and Wiley Rein [Kim Eisler, Washingtonian; related last year at Eric Goldman's]
- Fort Lauderdale injury lawyer disbarred after stealing $300K in client funds; per an ABA state-by-state listing, Florida has not enacted payee notification to help prevent/detect such goings-on [Sun-Sentinel; more]
- I’ll pay top dollar for that spot under the bridge: tech firms hope to outbid patent trolls for marginal inventor rights [ABA Journal]
- Enviro-sympathetic analysis of Navy sonar case [Jamison Colburn, Dorf on Law, first and second posts via Adler @ Volokh]
- Obama proposal for youth national service “voluntary”? Well, schools will lose funds if they fail to meet goals [Goldberg, LAT; bad link fixed now]
- Not-so-independent sector: under pressure from Sacramento legislators (Feb. 6, PoL May 30), California foundations pledge to redirect millions toward minority causes [CRC]
- James Lileks on lawyer-friendly Microsoft Minnesota settlement [four years ago on Overlawyered]
July 8 roundup
by Walter Olson on July 8, 2008
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RE: Fort Lauderdale injury lawyer–”In his mind, he fully intended to pay back each and every one of his victims.”
Thanks public defender. I needed a real hearty laugh.
Obama and ‘service’?
Now that’s rich. A black man calling for unpaid forced labor from white people.
Payee notification wouldn’t be necessary if payments were made to the party rather than to the lawyers. Lawyers are in a better position to track payment than their clients are, and if clients frequently fail to their lawyers, payee notification of lawywers can always be instituted.
I’m sure Obama’s appointees will find a penumbra somewhere that allows slavery if the beneficiary is a government agency.
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