- Ninth Circuit panel strikes down California’s Prop 8 [Volokh, Kerr, Magliocca, Lithwick, Steve Chapman]
- Judge dismisses PETA “killer whales enslaved” case [Caroline May/Daily Caller, CNN, earlier]
- “Patent Troll Claims Ownership of Interactive Web – And Might Win” [Joe Mullin/Wired, earlier; more on testimony by Web father Tim Berners-Lee] Update: Ding Dong! Jury rejects claim;
- “Further Analysis of the Bottle-Rocket Case” [Lowering the Bar, earlier]
- As patients suffer: “The War Over Prescription Painkillers,” start of a Radley Balko series [HuffPo parts one, two so far]
- Richard Epstein on federal fiat and Yale disciplinary procedure [Defining Ideas] Under new-style rules at Yale, will a professor even be aware he’s been accused and henceforth is to be “monitored”? [KC Johnson]
- Jim Copland testimony on abuses in government contingent-fee litigation [Manhattan Institute, PDF] “Parens patriae” proposal to replace class actions with state attorney general suits, but with private entrepreneurial bar still in saddle [Adam Zimmerman/Prawfs on Myriam Gilles/Gary Friedman, SSRN]
Filed under: animal rights, attorneys general, class actions, colleges and universities, Ninth Circuit, patent trolls, pharmaceuticals, same-sex marriage, Yale
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In regards to the butt bottle rocket, not sure anyone would do this? Go to youtube and search for “bottle rocket in ass.” One of the funniest videos of stupidity in action.
Is Walter still involved in the Prop 8 litigation?
I was amused by the defendant “expert witnesses'” fear of being seen on video making ridiculous arguments about how their lives could be ruined by the legalization of gay marriage. Could a judge, as a compromise, be persuaded to release the videos with witnesses’ heads obscured by blue dots, like the accuser in the 1991 William Kennedy Smith rape prosecution (he was acquitted).
Wrong Olson. Theodore Olson, who argued the Prop 8 case, is no relation.