• More criticism of $671 million California nursing home verdict [Tracy Leach/Examiner, California Civil Justice, earlier]
• Community service as precondition for college tax credits? [Charlotte Allen/Minding the Campus, earlier]
• Casket-making monks vs. Louisiana funeral regulators [Ken at Popehat]
• Careful about repeating claims that bad stuff in the environment is causing children to go through puberty earlier [Sanghavi, Slate]
• Grilled chicken: “California Restaurants Lose Appeal On Cancer Warnings” [Dan Fisher/Forbes, earlier]
• Randy Maniloff on the uncertain foundations of insurance bad faith law [Mealey’s, PDF]
• “Why Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Fashion” [Raustiala/Sprigman, NY Times, earlier on design “knockoff” legislation here, here, and here]
• On a personal note, this week I completed my relocation from the New York to the Washington, D.C. vicinity. I look forward to seeing more of my friends both at the Cato Institute’s offices and elsewhere around D.C.

Filed under: Design Piracy Prohibition Act, insurance, Louisiana, national service, nursing homes