Overlawyered: Chronicling The High Cost Of Our Legal System

July 29 roundup

  • Former NYT Peking correspondent Richard Bernstein, who now co-owns two nail salons, challenges Times blockbuster on prevalence of labor exploitation at NYC salons [New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Nolan Brown and followup, Times rebuttal. More: Bernstein rejoinder]
  • More details on how studios used Mississippi attorney general’s office as cut-out against Google [Mike Masnick, TechDirt, earlier here and here, more on AG Jim Hood]
  • Of course licensing laws “are only there to protect consumers and are enforced in a totally neutral way that has nothing to do with viewpoints or political pull (lol).” [Coyote on Boston mayor’s “not welcome in our town” message to Donald Trump]
  • Speaking of Donald Trump, would his lawyer threaten litigation to intimidate reporter Tim Mak? Only in a totally classy way [Daily Beast, S.E. Cupp/New York Daily News (Cohen, 2011: “I’m going to come at you, grab you by the neck and I’m not going to let you go until I’m finished”), earlier from the vaults on Trump’s use of litigation]
  • Things class-action lawyers sue over: “Beggin’ Strips Don’t Have Enough Bacon” [Reuters, New York Post]
  • As Lois Lerner targeting scandal drags on, time for Congress to impeach IRS officials? [Mike Rappaport, Liberty and Law]
  • Welcome to AFFH-land: Bharara, on behalf of feds, says Westchester County should pay for not squeezing Chappaqua hard enough to approve housing project [Journal-News, earlier here and here]

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8 Comments

  • Is the Begging Strip lawsuit being pressed by one of the partners in Shyster, Beagle, & Shyster?

  • So Paul Kacocha thinks Beggin’ Strips Don’t Have Enough Bacon?

    The ads for it clearly say “It’s Beggin!”

    And “Dogs don’t know it’s not bacon!”

    Nor, apparently, does Paul Kacocha. Or his attorney.

    Arf. Arf.

  • – Things class-action lawyers sue over: “Beggin’ Strips Don’t Have Enough Bacon”

    THEIR ADVERTISEMENTS LITERALLY SAID “DOGS DON’T KNOW IT’S NOT REAL BACON!”

    *facepalm*

  • I guess they’re suing on behalf of the dogs.

    Bob

  • No, Hugo. It’s the firm of Dewey Cheathem and Howe

  • Welcome to AFFH-land: Bharara, on behalf of feds, says Westchester County should pay for not squeezing Chappaqua hard enough to approve housing project ,,,

    Because he needed to take a break from issuing grand jury subpoenas against Reason Magazine.

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