Pennsylvania Department of Labor launches probe on whether reality-TV show “Jon & Kate Plus 8” violates child labor laws [Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog, Hirsch/Workplace Law Prof via Ohio Employer’s Law]
Dispute over termination of Navy aircraft contract called “Jarndyce v. Jarndyce of U.S. legal system” [WSJ Law Blog]
Medical tourism, cont’d: “It appears that ‘we’re easier to sue’ is the uniquely American defense to medicine outsourcing.” [KevinMD]
New Oklahoma law protects farmers from neighbors’ suits complaining of nuisance from farm activity [Enid, Okla., News]
For unusually bad advice on how to save GM and Detroit, Michael Moore as usual comes through [Popehat]
Lawyer reprimanded for telling party she should be cut up, shipped overseas [NJLJ, ABA Journal]
Call for reform of UK laws banning press interviews of jurors after verdict [Times Online first, second articles and commentary]
Coming soon: campaign against depiction of smoking in Raymond Chandler books, Edward Hopper paintings [CEI “Open Market”]

2 Comments

And lawyers wonder why the general public has such a distrust of lawyers policing lawyers; any idea why this case took nearly eight years from the date of the incident to the “punishment” handed out by the disciplinary committee?
- June 07, 2009 11:47 AM
- By Melvin H.
‘we’re easier to sue’ has also been used by proprietary software advocates such as Microsoft to discourage use of free/open source software.

Yet, while Windows failures are legion and related damages pile up daily, I don’t see anyone suing Microsoft…
- June 14, 2009 7:59 PM
- By Toby