• L.A. County assessor, though in jail, will keep drawing $197K salary plus raise [LAT]
• IRS lowers the regulatory boom on tax preparers [Institute for Justice video, auto-plays]
• On Wal-Mart Mexico bribery, NYT has a bit of a blind eye of its own [Stoll; earlier here, here, etc.]
• Another painful CPSIA regulation: CPSC on testing “representative samples” [Nancy Nord]
• “Popcorn lung” couple “won a $20 million judgment. Now, they’re broke.” [ABC]
• From Todd Zywicki: Libertarianism, Law and Economics, and the Common Law [SSRN via Bainbridge]
• If the courts disapprove of throttling internet speeds, what do they think of throttling class action claims redemption rates? [Ted Frank]

Filed under: class action settlements, CPSC, CPSIA, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, Los Angeles, taxes, Wal-Mart