• OSHA cracks down on a shooting range with punitive fines. A coming trend? [Kopel, earlier on David Michaels here, here, here, etc.] Gun control lobbying on the public dime, courtesy Mike Bloomberg & Co. [Ron Arnold, Examiner]
• Scheme to use eminent domain to seize underwater home mortgages advances [Future of Capitalism, Felix Salmon]
• One lawyer for every 257 Americans [Funnell]
• Posner knows it: court appointment of experts can head off hired-gun arms race [Josh Wright, Truth on the Market]
• New Canaan, Ct.: “Mom Arrested for Letting Her 13-year-old Babysit Siblings” [Lenore Skenazy, Free-Range Kids]
• John Stossel show on lawsuit abuse, warning labels and related topics;
• Phillies Phanatic: “The most-sued mascot in baseball is heading back to court” [Time, earlier]

Filed under: baseball, eminent domain, expert witnesses, guns, John Stossel, mortgages, OSHA, Philadelphia, Richard Posner