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Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
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Point of Law- "Tuesday's Biggest Loser: the Union Agenda"Michael Barone in the WSJ: The unions' unprecedented political push in 2008 has not been unnoticed by the voters. Mr. Corzine's cozy relationship with public employee union heads proved a liability in New Jersey, and in Virginia Mr. McDonnell campaigned... […]Walter Olson
- After a housing-suit settlement, Westchester voters rebelI've got a new piece up at City Journal on Tuesday's sensational Westchester County upset, in which GOP challenger Rob Astorino knocked off Andy Spano, the longtime Democratic incumbent county executive, by a convincing 58-42 percent margin. Taxes were a... […]Walter Olson
- John Endean, "Canadianized Labor Law?" (Forbes)New at Forbes.com: John Endean has an important article demonstrating that while American unionists seek to use Canada's pro-union labor laws as a model for their proposed Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), they seldom mention that Canadians themselves have found... […]Walter Olson
- Lawprof's suit against U. of Miami dismissed in record time...In what must be the quickest slapdown of a lawyer-filed suit that I have ever seen, the lawsuit filed by a University of Miami prof against a blogger for Above the Law, described by me earlier, has been dismissed. ATL's... […]Michael Krauss
- Jones v. Harris, cont'dGiven the public choice considerations, Larry Ribstein is not sure there are any scenarios in which mutual fund investors as a group are really going to win. P.S.: Much more on the case from Prof. Bainbridge.... […]Walter Olson
- "Tuesday's Biggest Loser: the Union Agenda"
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- Off to AALSLike many others, I’ll be off to D.C. tomorrow to attend the AALS faculty recruitment conference. Perhaps I’ll see you there. […]Jonathan H. Adler
- The Deputy Who Helped Himself to the Defense Attorney’s CasefileA lot of people have e-mailed me asking for my thoughts about a disturbing video that Radley Balko posted recently. The video shows a criminal court hearing in which a deputy assigned to court security walks over to the defense attorney’s papers on the counsel table and starts to look at the papers. Eventually [...] […]Orin Kerr
- What Does Warren Buffet Know?While Congress considers legislation to impose a cap-and-trade regime on emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, Warrne Buffet makes “a huge bet on coal.” Either Buffet’s made a blunder, or he realizes any cap-and-trade legislation that can pass Congress will do little to reduce coal consumption. (HT: Roger Pielke Jr.) […]Jonathan H. Adler
- Italy Convicts Twenty-three CIA Agents in AbsentiaUnfortunately, I don’t have time to say anything substantive about this now, but AP reports on the conviction of twenty-three CIA agents in absentia in Italy in a trial over an extraordinary rendition. The AP story is unusually detailed for a wire story and bears reading. I am in the middle of something and can’t [...] […]Kenneth Anderson
- Prof. Jones Drops Lawsuit Against Above The LawAbove The Law reports: There was NO SETTLEMENT in this case. Above the Law has made no changes to our prior posts, and we have paid no money to Professor Jones. The case was dismissed by the plaintiff without anything from our side, except a letter from our lawyer. UPDATE (3:35 PM): We have offered Professor Jones [...] […]Eugene Volokh
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Is this a rhetorical question?
Well, duh. Of course it is. That’s the whole point of it. The rhetoric of people like President Obama notwithstanding, statists dislike innovation and entrepreneurialship because they’re both disruptive factors that make statist control of society more difficult or impossible. If you’re in the business of telling other people how to live and how to run their affairs, innovation and entrepreneurialship are problems that need to be fixed, not virtues to be encouraged.
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