• More on CPSC’s crib ban train wreck [Commissioner Anne Northup, more, earlier]
• One man’s nightmare of false accusation [LA Times via PoL]
• How many plaintiff’s-side flicks is HBO going to air this summer, anyway? [“Mann v. Ford,” Abnormal Use]
• Apple granted “incredibly broad patent” over screen gesture technology [Tabarrok]
• Will Congress reverse this term’s much-attacked SCOTUS decisions? [Alison Frankel] Podcast on Wal-Mart v. Dukes with Brian Fitzpatrick [Fed Soc] “Wal-Mart ruling no knock-out blow for class actions” [Reuters] Contrary to some assertions, current law does strongly incentivize individual job-bias claims [Bader] More on case: Dan Bushell, and welcome Craig Newmark readers.
• Mississippi stops proceedings in $322 million asbestos case to consider judge’s possible conflict [JCL, earlier here, here]
• Nice coat, where’dja get it? [annals of incompetent crime, UK Daily Mail]

Filed under: CPSC, environment, Ford Motor, Mississippi, patent law, recusals, Wal-Mart v. Dukes