Early years of site
- “Massive lawsuit against bloggers is reined in”
- Update: charges dropped against Kiera Wilmot
- Rather die than be a girl?
- IRS scandal, cont’d: “It was pretty much a proctology exam through your earlobe”
- “Portland sued for workplace fragrance use”
- 15,989 views yesterday on Overlawyered
- Regulating across national lines
- “Law Student Sues Law School For Implying He’s Litigious”
- Labor and employment roundup
- The Daily Caller fires a blank at Lois Lerner
- “No Benefit Seen in Sharp Limits on Salt in Diet”
- Schools roundup
- Was the IRS scandal a surprise?
- Donations please: Sebelius jawbones health care execs
- Matt Welch on Benghazi and speech
- Traffic-cams: they’re at it again
- Medical roundup
- Want to cut the line at the Disney park? Call my disabled friend
- “Alarm fatigue”
- “Keep Calm and Carry On” copyright controversy
- Feds unveil new, drastically restrictive, campus speech regime
- May 14 roundup
- “Derek Boogaard’s Family Is Suing The NHL For Wrongful Death”
- Government is simply the name for the things we do together…
- Texas and industrial accidents
- Class action roundup
- Dale Carpenter on same-sex marriage and religious liberty
- “Copyright troll Righthaven finally, completely dead”
- “S.F. homeowners pine for sane tree policy”
- Lululemon shareholder suit cites too-sheer garment
- Michigan teachers’ union fails in lawsuit to block dues change
- “21 to drink coffee?”
- May 10 roundup
- Unblock international adoption
- Pending ADA regulations menace Internet freedom
- “Self-Driving Vehicles – How Soon and Who Will Bear the Liability Costs?”
- Maricopa County settles another Arpaio-Thomas raid case
- Police and prosecution roundup
- NYC proposes expansion of black market
- Postal code lookups on websites
- Environment roundup
- “Report: CFTC Exploring Bitcoin Regulation”
- “A child-custody catastrophe”
- World’s grumpiest patent lawyer goes for Round Two
- May 7 roundup
- Correctional officers’ “bill of rights” and the Baltimore jail scandal
- Card counting in casinos
- The high, high cost of the Jones Act
- Disabled rights roundup
- Great moments in immigration law (UK division)
- Airplane child seats
- NYC battle: can employers consider job applicants’ credit records?
- Man gets into drunken fight with friend, is injured
- Mandatory nap rooms in offices?
- “Oregon police officer fired after drunken driving crash sues city, cites disabilities law”
- Judge Posner and the elusive confidential informant
- Scales of justice: lawyer represented fish after its demise
- Manhattan attorney admits “addiction to lying”
- Parents check infant out of hospital against medical advice, CPS swoops down
- “As Health Law Changes Loom, A Shift To Part-Time Workers”
- May 2 roundup
- You were wrong to pay out that money. Now disgorge it.
- “Disabled woman who couldn’t afford to take pet to vet is convicted of felony and jailed”
- Florida: Teen Faces Felony Charges for Science Experiment
- “Pennsylvania Firefighters Sue Over Hearing Loss From Sirens”
- Dumb ways to get caught in disability fraud
- Free speech roundup
- Legal threats against “Retraction Watch”
- In Belgium, hate speech law converges with blasphemy law
- Revisiting the Charles Cullen case
- NYT breaks open Pigford case, cont’d
- “Student Who Sued GVSU Over Campus Pet Rule Honored”
- “It’s good to know that Ignatius J. Reilly is alive and well, and working in customer service”
- Overlawyered joins Cato: some reactions
- Food roundup
- U.K.: bags of nuts recalled for lack of “Contains Nuts” warning
- 33 boxes of cigars on board
- Senate to consider Labor nominee
- A reminder (evergreen post)
- NYT: “Federal Spigot Flows as Farmers Claim Discrimination”
- Overlawyered: now a Cato Institute blog
- “Lance Armstrong Lied, Cheated, Doped…”
- “Going naked” in S.F.’s Summer of Love
- April 26 roundup
- “Math on Trial: How Numbers Get Used and Abused in the Courtroom”
- Criminal background checks… for dog owners?
- Banking and finance roundup
- HUD, Westchester approach showdown
- Suing BP, that cozy Mississippi way
- More on “soft” paternalism
- Police and prosecution roundup
- “If this was another country, we’d have to tell you that this coffee may be hot.”
- Constitutional amendments to overturn Citizens United
- Attorneys’ fees roundup
- Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl and the Indian Child Welfare Act
- U.K.: Tourist boss threatens to sue weather service
- “Provoke bar fight; get beat up in parking lot; sue bar — and maybe win”
- “I don’t understand why more winemakers aren’t libertarians”
- Labor and employment roundup
- “Edge developer celebrates as Tim Langdell trademark finally cancelled”
- Judge fines self for cellphone violation
- “Churn that bill, baby” dispute settles
- April 20 roundup
- Will loser-pays bring down notorious copyright troll?
- Michael Greve on Kiobel
- Gun control roundup
- “City to Store Owner: You May Not Sell Brillo Pads”
- “Executive Branch Review”
- Scarecrows for speeders?
- Environment roundup
- SCOTUS: U.S. can’t play tortmaster-general to the world
- Seller sues customer over accurate eBay feedback
- “Woman buys Kalamazoo home for $3,200, gets $115K settlement”
- D.C. vs. campus due process: the consequences
- April 17 roundup
- “Convicted killer suing murder victim’s family” (unsuccessfully)
- Workplace impunity a la francaise?
- “Colorado jury awards $11.5M to family in helmet lawsuit”
- Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl: the Court revisits ICWA
- “EU pours millions into groups seeking state control of press”
- Teen throws concrete onto highway, truck driver gravely injured
- “The divorce from hell, the battle for alimony and emptied pockets”
- Law schools roundup
- Feds demand ideologically confessional “corrective ads” from tobacco companies
- “Plaintiffs’ Experts Disavow Work in $19 Billion Chevron Case”
- “Actress Loses Suit Against IMDb for Posting Age”
- A nudge too far: “Proposed soda ban likely to backfire”
- Prenda Law story hits the bigger press
- Not-so-new frontiers of privatization
- Schools roundup
- Rules against employee fraternization — and how they can backfire
- When a litigant pleads the Fifth Amendment
- “Get the government out of marriage”
- April 11 roundup
- “Here, I’ve got your G*d-d*mn*d ring.”
- Maryland braces for “rain tax”
- Food and farm roundup
- NFL concussion litigation in court
- $1.6 million “due to phobia of frogs”? No, probably not
- “Animal rights groups to pay attorney fees after losing suit against Ringling Bros. producer”
- Constitutional law and Supreme Court roundup
- Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013
- How much political clout do liquor wholesalers have?
- Weiss: “Do you know who I am?”
- Medical roundup
- “Knapsack heated rice footsie”? No go, Dr Oz
- Hans Bader on the Maryland cyber-bullying bill
- Couple sue Ohio county recorders over racial covenants in deeds
- Maryland’s speech-chilling new “cyberbullying” law
- HUD vs. Westchester: what’s at stake
- Labor and employment roundup
- Query: what sites should I be linking more?
- A Letting Kids Walk Around Legal Defense Fund
- Wisconsin voters confirm their court’s course
- Eleventh Circuit slaps down Department of Labor power grab
- Intellectual property roundup
- “Dihydrogen monoxide is coming out of your tap!”
- S.F.: police push customer surveillance, bar resists
- Cleaning supplies in the classroom? Your papers, please
- Autos roundup
- Great moments in law school outreach
- Should the Bob Jones case trouble liberal pluralists?
- NPR report on Social Security Disability makes waves
- New York City Gothic
- Our wayward bench and bar
- “Maryland considering mandatory helmets for drivers”
- Kansas couple: indoor hydroponics prompted “pot” raid
- Great moments in litigation journalism
- U.K.: “Policewoman sues man who called 999″
- Banking and finance roundup
- When lightning strikes at the high court
- Echo-mill diagnostic skills, on contingency
- Class action against NYC’s Met Museum
- How not to cover the disabled-treaty fight
- Comcast Corp. v. Behrend
- Class action roundup
- “O’s doctor becomes defense target in Angelos asbestos case”
- Star-Ledger: “N.J. is missing the basics on bullying”
- Man stranded on “It’s a Small World” wins $8,000 from Disney
- Talking used cribs
- C-SPAN2 video of today’s marriage panel
- “Three cheers for autonomy”
- Free speech roundup
- Hollingsworth v. Perry oral argument
- “Churn that bill, baby”
- Welcome Fox Radio listeners
- Environment roundup
- Supreme Court marriage cases: the week ahead
- OMG NYT OKs GMOs
- Prosecution, depression, and the Aaron Swartz case
- Maryland pit bull law: “Lawyers will have the last bite”
- Guns roundup
- Same-sex marriage at the Supreme Court: a scorecard
- Ted Cruz offers “Bloomberg Amendment”
- Hurricane Sandy, meet Mighty Wind
- “15 Mid-Century Modern Dream Homes that will Kill Your Children”
- SCOTUS: courts should defer to agency’s interpretation of its own regs
- Kentucky disbars Stan Chesley
- March 22 roundup
- Weekend reading: Chevron-Ecuador
- Subtitle letdown dept.
- Two makes a trend: Reddit “Ask Me Anythings”
- “Driverless Cars May Avoid Accidents, But Not Headlines”
- Schools roundup
- Court: reselling foreign editions here doesn’t infringe copyright
- Judge’s order: “Do not say the word ‘Bingo’ for six months”
- Maryland roundup
- Supreme Court applies stage hook to artful class action dodgers
- “Six Myths About the Law That Bans Gun Lawsuits”
- Claim: depictions of rights violations in pop entertainment may violate U.N. guidelines
- Food roundup
- No, it wasn’t “activist” to strike down Bloomberg’s soda ban
- Class action confidential
- March 18 roundup
- Could you get the door, honey? It’s probably the smoke inspector
- The drone debate and the traffic-camera debate
- If you think complying with Dodd-Frank is complicated…
- Drug-originator liability for generic-drug injuries
- WSJ investigation on asbestos claims fraud
- Time to fix copyright on sound recordings
- Law schools roundup
- Toward a more uneducated electorate
- Religious liberty and anti-discrimination laws
- FDA declines to approve new tobacco products
- International law roundup
- Bloomberg’s Soda Grab and the Separation of Powers
- Court: ADA might cover employee’s chronic tardiness
- Welcome Ralph Bristol, Ray Dunaway listeners
- Labor and employment roundup
- Judge strikes down Bloomberg soda ban, cont’d
- 67 leading law profs: time to reform legal education
- “University settles student’s lawsuit over emotional-support guinea pig for $40,000″
- CEQA and California’s “reputation as a lousy place to do business”
- Guns roundup
- Judge to Bloomberg: unhand that soda
- Update: NIH distances itself from Stanton Glantz tobacco-influence study
- DoJ suddenly drops high-profile New Orleans prosecution
- N.M.: “Driver who killed 2 sisters suing restaurants, friend”
- Judge dismisses ideological bias case against Iowa Law
- Free speech roundup
- John Carney on the Heinz merger deal
- Judge (and bloggers) want answers about copyright mill
- Judge: plaintiff’s bar leafs through WSJ each morning looking for scandal
- Suing for admission to Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority
- Prof’s “lobby for nannyism” classroom assignment: some reactions
- Disabled rights roundup
- Nevada bill: let patients sue docs, drugmakers over addiction
- Alabama: state judge enjoins legislature from sending education bill to governor
- Assigning students to lobby: John Banzhaf’s latest
- March 7 roundup
- Mark Bittman’s sugar correction
- Baltimore judge: county’s traffic-cam contract pays unlawful bounties
- Torts roundup
- Letting the nurse perform CPR? Against our policy
- Duke subpoenas KC Johnson
- “If I started today… Subway would not exist”
- Police and prosecution roundup
- Tales of competition through regulation III: pharma v. compounding pharmacies
- School offers counseling to kids traumatized by pastry incident
- To corral health care costs, look at medical liability
- Lawyers roundup
- Bloomberg soda follies, cont’d
- EU to curb bankers’ pay?
- Further light on bicycle-helmet laws
- “Smothered by safety”
- Dodd-Frank and small banks, cont’d
- Environment roundup
- Gabelli v. SEC: statute of limitations on alleged undiscovered fraud
- Congress set to expand Violence Against Women Act
- To be jailed in Arizona for driving under the influence…
- Canada high court upholds hate speech laws
- Labor and employment roundup
- Better stay home with your parents, kid
- New York Times Magazine versus snack foods
- Judge orders man to take down Facebook comments critical of McDonald’s class action settlement
- Koop on the medical-phthalate scare
- Update: “slain in the Spirit” church suit settles
- Watch what you say about Sheldon Adelson, cont’d
- February 26 roundup
- Tales of competition through regulation, cont’d
- Proposals to make gun owners carry liability insurance
- Business law roundup
- “Chili finger lady” of 2005 hoax back in court
- Judge’s order: do not write about this public official ever again
- Tales of competition through regulation
- “Petty Misdemeanors Would Trigger Asset Forfeiture in New Hawaii Bill”
- “Holmes scholar files suit to put Sherlock unambiguously into the public domain”
- Police and prosecution roundup
- Pending Hawaii law “could punish anyone who takes a photo of a celebrity in public”
- Remembering the anti-flirting campaign
- Constitutional law roundup
- Update: “Albino Rhino” beer brand withdrawn following human rights complaint
- Want your annual meeting to go off with no trouble? Pay up
- At Duke on Friday
- Land use roundup
- Mayor Bloomberg as paladin of civil liberties?
- EEOC sues law firm over 75-lb. lifting requirement
- Class action reform proposed in Arizona
- Free speech roundup
- Obama on patent trolls
- “5 Bizarre Workers’ Comp Claims That Were Actually Successful”
- Next, Col. Sanders’ grandkids bankroll PETA
- February 17 roundup
- FMLA easy to comply with for employers?
- “NCAA sued over rule barring felons”
- “Online dating regulatory wars”
- “Reflections on gun control by a Second Amendment advocate”
- Politics roundup
- “Fairfax County schools place new playground apparatus off limits to kids”
- Ronald Dworkin’s life and work
- Annals of tasteful lawyer promotion
- February 14 roundup
- “A macabre federal agency in Colorado…”
- Bicycle helmet law, cont’d
- #SOTU
- Torts roundup
- “Lehigh U. student sues over grade, seeks $1.3 M”
- Easterbrook on judges and economics
- Podcast on NFL concussion suits
- Labor and employment roundup
- Drunk driver leads cops on high-speed chase; 21 local residents sued
- Live-tweeting President Obama’s State of the Union address
- Sign squabble ruins HOA community
- Technology and intellectual property roundup
- “If you have four people hurt, you suddenly will have four attorneys after you”
- NYT op-ed: sic the International Criminal Court on “unregulated…capitalism”
- NYC: Bloomberg mulls ban on Styrofoam cups, containers
- Pro-safety, yes; pro-safety-law, no
- Massive new mandate for schools to provide disabled sports
- Chicago judge not guilty by reason of insanity
- Law schools roundup
- Donald Trump v. Bill Maher
- “When can the U.S. kill one of its own?”
- February 7 roundup
- Feds’ case against Standard & Poor’s
- Union violence and legal impunity
- Food and farm roundup
- “Bred more disrespect for the law than respect”
- Welcome WTIC listeners
- Minnesota doctor loses suit over consumer review
- Guns roundup
- The “self-funding,” unaccountable CFPB
- Samsung Super Bowl ad
- One in ten California drivers has disabled placard
- When does product liability reform improve economic well-being?
- Ethics roundup
- Cop takes disability at 33, traumatized by crime scenes
- Steve Chapman on pro football litigation
- Trans fat in frozen pizza class action
- Recess appointments, shmecess appointments, we’ve got the power
- Indiana: “Couple Faces Jail Time For Nursing Deer Back To Health”
- Medical roundup
- AP/WaPo on Chevron maneuvering
- Paul Krugman on expanding disability rolls
- Jeffrey Toobin on recess appointments
- Banking and finance roundup
- “Canada tried registering long guns — and gave up”
- Someone hitchhikes on grandma’s unencrypted wi-fi…
- Plastic bag bans: $87,000 per seagull saved?
- Schools roundup
- Goodbye to Transportation Secretary LaHood
- Law school applications plunge
- “How Newegg crushed the ‘shopping cart’ patent and saved online retail”
- Great moments in unionized public employee tenure
- January 29 roundup
- Sensational new fraud allegations in Chevron-Ecuador case
- How Massachusetts spends its tobacco money
- Even more dangerous than tripping over pets
- Loyalty oaths with religious affirmations…
- Class action roundup
- “Guns are largely forbidden in Bermuda…”
- Judge dismisses Motel Caswell forfeiture action
- Jeopardy: “New York Times editorials” for $100
- Now that combat roles are open to women…
- Defending the filibuster, and being consistent about it
- Class action suits against Subway over “Footlong” sandwich
- Lip-syncing scandals
- Waterkeeper Alliance won’t appeal Hudson Farm defeat
- Product liability roundup
- Why I liked “Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall”
- Ex-Palm CEO: Steve Jobs threatened patent suit if we kept recruiting his employees
- Should the state pay the legal defense costs of acquitted criminal defendants?
- Discrimination law roundup
- Can treaties confer on Congress powers otherwise not conferred by the Constitution?
- Report: marker for concussion brain damage found in living NFL veterans
- Nice raisin crop you’ve grown there. Now hand over 47% of it to the state.
- Law schools: “a remorseless, above-the-law attitude that enables it all”
- Labor and employment roundup
- “One side pretends to more sophistication and the other to fewer funds…”
- Big federal push for electronic medical records
- Torts roundup
- “Gun control’s Potemkin village”
- “A Risk of Relapse Is a Disability, Court Rules”
- “A helpful reminder…”
- Alternative (really alternative) dispute resolution
- January 20 roundup
- Lance Armstrong as litigant
- “I learned not to have kids…It will make you go broke”
- “Failing Law Schools” at Cato
- Lawyer billed client “for time they spent having sex”
- Red Bull energy drink class action
- Free speech roundup
- “San Antonio Spurs sued by lawyer for resting top players”
- Orin Kerr on the Aaron Swartz case
- “CNET rescinds positive review because parent company is suing manufacturer”
- “Living with Guns: A Liberal’s Case for the Second Amendment”
- Environment roundup
- “Brooklyn attorney disbarred for ‘severe and gross’ violations”
- The family that crashes together
- January 16 roundup
- Menace of the grotty bouncy-seat
- City of Boston vs. fun
- Supreme Court roundup
- Mayor Bloomberg vs. painkillers
- “Plaintiffs lawyers in Skinnygirl margarita case have no class”
- “What the Aaron Swartz case says about our justice system”
- Banking and finance roundup
- “Teacher claims discrimination over her fear of kids”
- Expensive corn
- ADA: Sixth Circuit rules for deaf lifeguard
- ASPCA reactions
- “Discrimination against the unemployed” reaches Portlandia
- R.I.P. Jeffrey O’Connell
- Law schools roundup
- Police taping, with a HIPAA twist
- Great moments in legal marketing
- “Michigan Justice Announces Retirement After Accusation of ‘Blatant and Brazen’ Misconduct”
- Police and prosecution roundup
- An in-faux-graphic on rape statistics
- New produce safety regs, and the cost to small farmers
- Pursuing check-cashing stores through zoning
- January 9 roundup
- As IOLTA shrinks, its advocates get creative
- Permission to link: the theory that won’t die
- Mysteries of modern health care
- Food roundup
- The “lurid, tragicomic” back story behind Standard Fire Insurance Co. v. Knowles
- Civil liberties roundup
- The ASPCA’s lawsuit debacle
- January 6 roundup
- N.J.: Red light ticket camera class action
- “Former Law Student Sues Head Shops for Selling Him Nitrous Oxide”
- “Stop clinging to the Constitution”
- Feds rewrite college cafeteria menus under ADA
- On Eighth Avenue, the caffeine terror strikes
- “What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on January 1, 2013?”
- Labor and employment roundup
- Brian Tamanaha (Failing Law Schools) at Cato Jan. 16
- How principled are your political co-thinkers?
- Asset unfreeze
- 2012: most popular and most commented-on posts
- “Idaho inmates: The beer made us do it”
- New legal post at EFF
- Royalties demanded over purloined crystal skull
- Not-about-the-money watch, dateline Newtown
- Best of 2012: December
- Best of 2012: November
- December 31 roundup
- Best of 2012: October
- State of Kansas hits sperm donor for child support
- Best of 2012: September
- Elephant sized payout in Ringling Bros. abuse of process case
- Medical roundup
- “Family blames ‘inconsiderate’ phone call for grandmother’s death, wins $1.75 M lawsuit”
- Maryland law clinic follies
- Best of 2012: August
- Penelope Trunk: “How To Hack Public School”
- Electronic communications intended “to annoy” with “no legitimate purpose”
- The Newtown blame chain
- Best of 2012: July
- Doormat warning
- December 26 roundup
- “Drowsy Driving Cases Do Not Require New Laws”
- Best of 2012: June
- Overlawyered highlights of Christmas past
- Mentioned in WSJ
- Best of 2012: May
- Long Island: “Woman who drowned children seeks part of their estate”
- Three lawyers depart embattled Chesley’s firm
- Social media: pass it on
- Best of 2012: April
- Katz’s Bagel Bakery to Chelsea, Mass. authorities: “Hands Off My Dough”
- Judge finds for chicken farm, rebukes Waterkeeper, U. Md.
- Labor and employment roundup
- Best of 2012: March
- Bork and his adversaries
- Free speech roundup
- Best of 2012: February
- Robert Bork, R.I.P.
- Libertarians and right to work laws
- U.S. Budweiser vs. Czech Budvar
- Public employment roundup
- Best of 2012: January
- Don’t
- Cato’s new and improved website
- Disposing of obsolete law
- Disabled rights roundup
- “Lawyers of Reddit…”
- Do commercial property owners have a duty to keep defibrillators on site?
- Slow-cooking crockpots: there’s been a change
- December 17 roundup
- Entrenched business uses regulation as tool against upstarts
- Obituaries for man who invented bar code scanner
- Great moments in jury service
- “Checking Facebook at Work Could Be Illegal”
- SEC chief complains her agency is not “self-funding”
- Torts roundup
- “Why Betting You’ll Win Minorities on Social Issues Is the GOP Cargo Cult”
- “Unpaid Bloggers’ Bid to Reopen Huffington Post Lawsuit Rejected”
- Hemingway museum needs zoo license for cats
- “Concussion Liability Costs May Rise, and Not Just for N.F.L.”
- International law roundup
- “Can attorney committed to state psychiatric hospital still practice law?”
- Great moments in labor arbitration
- Prosecution and police roundup
- Michigan prepares to enact right-to-work law
- Will lawmakers slip disparate impact, punitive damages into Title VI?
- Staring down in-state protectionism
- International free speech roundup
- Bus shelters: an ADA vignette
- Chicago law firm benefits from tax whistleblowing
- IP and technology roundup
- Tarullo: Don’t use Glass-Steagall as scapegoat
- “Drug Supplier Not at Fault for Teen’s Overdose on Stolen Xanax, Court Rules”
- Supreme Court agrees to hear DOMA, Prop 8
- LAPD: “Is there any way you or your crew could make a few arrests…”
- “Bootlegger will continue to thrive” after Repeal
- George Zimmerman sues NBC
- December 7 roundup
- Preliminary injunction orders takedown of Yelp posts
- Taking the heat off?
- Baltimore considers banning Formstone
- Labor and employment roundup
- Welcome NPR “Talk of the Nation” listeners
- A win for property rights at SCOTUS
- Aux armes, old Citroëns!
- Safety roundup
- U.N. disabled-rights treaty fails in Senate
- Welcome BBYO students
- Dodd-Frank “say on pay” litigation
- December 4 roundup
- Stay alert
- Bainbridge on clinical legal education
- Homeless man wins $200K for exclusion from L.A. buses
- Medical and pharmaceutical roundup
- Washington: “high court allows lawsuit over 911 response”
- NFL punter blames seam in turf
- How GOP votes carried same-sex marriage to victory, cont’d
- Harasser loses wrongful-termination suit
- Overlawyered makes the ABA Blawg 100 again
- Environment roundup
- Must be a case for Child Protective Services
- “Beware of sharks swimming in your office lottery pool”
- Foreign liquors that you can’t buy here
- Prosecution and police roundup
- Evading CAFA, class action lawyers also put ethics at risk
- Corrected by their own former lawyer
- With gun and camera through darkest Kristof-land
- Law schools roundup
- Governments forcing out private editors: it’d never happen here. Right?
- CFTC: InTrade prediction market is selling options, and requires our permission
- Compelled-wedding-photography case reaches New Mexico Supreme Court
- Do French administrations even pretend to observe the niceties?
- Torts roundup
- Baleful brownstones: serial ADA complainant hits Upper West Side
- New Jersey: taking land to save it?
- November 26 roundup
- Class action law, for export?
- Neighbors’ trees block his view
- “Wounds That Will Not Heal: Affirmative Action and Our Continuing Racial Divide”
- Moving company sends nastygram to critical Yelp reviewer
- The Right rethinks prisons
- We *told* you UN treaties were a problem
- Small-bank CEO: I spend 50-60% of my time dealing with regulatory issues
- Hostess’s pension liabilities
- The ADA in the workplace: a radio debate
- Don’t
- Federal fat tax?
- “Calling Liberal Pro-Business Judges”
- Discrimination law roundup
- “Female Cop Gets $1 Million After Colleagues Trolled Database to Peek at Her Pic”
- Copyright and D.C. lobbying: that was fast
- The quest for asbestos defendants, Chapter CCXXXIII
- Class action roundup
- Anti-smoking authoritarianism
- Ontario court: man’s 120 lawsuits are enough
- Justice Alito’s speech at the Federalist Society
- Hawaii vs. online vacation rental markets
- Step 1: Buy house next to golf course
- Food roundup
- Update: telecommuting-as-accommodation and perfume-sensitivity ADA case
- Federal flood insurance: the Sandy next time
- November 15 roundup
- “‘I Am Not Allowed Moisturizer,’ Complains Mass Murderer”
- Convicted Maryland delegate prepared to sue to regain seat
- Banking and finance roundup
- To grow up a young naturalist…
- Hurricane Sandy recovery and occupational licensing
- November 13 roundup
- “‘Legally Insane’ Judge Wins Re-Election in Chicago”
- George Mason conference, “Unlocking the Law”
- Supreme Court roundup
- “Britain’s crackdown on Web comments sparks free-speech debate”
- Schneiderman vs. market-clearing prices
- My new HuffPo piece: GOP votes carried Maryland Question 6 to victory
- Don’t
- “Lawyer who sued 90-year-old Greenbrae shooting victim calls social-media criticism unfair”
- “Should the US lower the minimum drinking age?”
- More election notes
- Forfeiture antics curtailed
- Feds launch ADA lawsuit campaign against NYC eateries
- “Mississippi Jury Rules Helmet Maker Not Liable for High Schooler’s Injury”
- Colorado vs. Bloomberg’s NYC
- Notes on the election
- “Costa Concordia captain sues for wrongful termination”
- “ObamaCare Encourages Shift to Part-Time Workers”
- Election roundup
- Liberty and the judicial activism debate
- “3 of every 4 states that have enacted a ban on texting while driving…”
- Lawsuits snarl Ohio high school football playoffs
- Public employment roundup
- Seawalls for New York City?
- Welcome parents to our third grade Thanksgiving celebration
- A Facebook observation
- Ontario: “Neighbor wants $25,000 for compensation over noise of boy playing basketball in his driveway”
- Florida: “Trial lawyers who frequent the Supreme Court also financing pro-justices ads”
- Buckyballs maker gives up
- “Lawyers Extract ‘Merger Tax’ From Shareholders, Study Says”
- The threat from Michigan’s Proposal 2
- “Why Firing a Bad Cop Is Damn Near Impossible”
- Interviewed on Wagner case
- “Cinemark Agrees to Provide Audio Description at All First-Run Theaters”
- Labor and employment law roundup
- “It Was the Curb’s Fault”
- Why New Jerseyans, Vermonters can’t enter NatGeo photo contest
- Woody Allen movie quotes William Faulkner, Faulkner estate sues
- October 31 roundup
- “‘Doe’ Wins Challenge to CPSC Database”
- Giuliani speaks on litigation reform at Chamber summit
- Free speech roundup
- Note on Hurricane Sandy
- “ADA issue keeps new Metro card machines under wraps for all”
- “Get ready to fight the inevitable attempts to restrict food sent from home.”
- Environment roundup
- Maine Question 1, Maryland Question 6, Washington Referendum 74, Minnesota Amendment One
- “Ceglia Arrested over Claims in Facebook Lawsuit”
- Politics roundup
- If a massive storm KO’s turnout in the Northeast…
- “Offense 101″
- October 26 roundup
- Mistrial in Teresa Wagner case
- “Yale’s New Low and the Sad Saga of Wendy Murphy”
- Economic incentives and the Aqueduct horse deaths
- Law schools roundup
- Update: New York high court rules 4-3 that lap dances are not “art”
- “‘Donations’ to state agency let landlords avoid charges”
- “Try your hand at making six hundred dollars in some other way”
- “International monitors at US polling spots”
- “Chief Judge KOZINSKI, disagreeing with everyone”
- Italy: scientists sent to prison for faulty earthquake predictions
- The foreign policy debate
- Pharmaceutical roundup
- New Orleans Saints class action
- “German woman fails to prove atom-smasher will end world”
- NLRB and labor law roundup
- Judge rejects Groupon class action settlement
- “Should Industry Face More Cybersecurity Mandates?”
- “New Labor Dept. Rule Would Require Employers To Out Their Own Lawyers”
- Attacks on an independent judiciary
- Yuba City bribes George Louie to go away
- “Free Online Education Is Now Illegal in Minnesota”
- International law roundup
- Feds’ scheme: have cops peer down into cars from overpasses
- Judge Jacobs strikes down DOMA sec. 3
- Fact-checkers AWOL on Obama’s pay-gap, Ledbetter remarks
- Podcast on constitutional law
- October 18 roundup
- The Buckyball resistance
- Town Hall presidential debate
- Product liability roundup
- War on coal? Maybe not so much
- Biden on ObamaCare religious exemptions
- NLRB welcomes “micro-unions”
- Intellectual property roundup
- Live-tweeting tomorrow’s Presidential debate for Cato
- Settling disabled-rights complaint, Netflix agrees to 100% content captioning
- “Pandora defeats privacy suit over Facebook integration”
- October 15 roundup
- Foreign talent: kill ‘em with disclosures
- University of South Carolina School of Law
- Maryland roundup
- Bias against conservative lawprofs: Wagner case heads toward trial
- Church maintenance laws in Britain
- Feds’ dodgy tactics in housing-disparate-impact case
- “Hospital OKs Language-Discrimination Settlement of $975K”
- Free speech roundup
- VP debate: the Tweets
- “Inmates denied lawyer for now for dental floss lawsuit”
- Gallaudet U. diversity officer suspended for signing marriage petition
- Prosecution and police roundup
- Update: judge dismisses Oglala Sioux alcohol case
- Lines that made me laugh
- Schools roundup
- Must avoid offense (on penalty of …)
- Varieties of “you lack jurisdiction” eccentricity
- Banking and finance roundup
- “Middle Schooler Forced to Take Drug Test to Join Scrapbooking Club”
- Sander and Taylor, “Mismatch”
- “DOJ Intervenes In LSAT Disability Bias Class Action, Says ‘Flagging’ of Tests Violates ADA”
- Gov. Brown starts vetoing
- October 8 roundup
- “Pulpit Freedom Sunday”
- Mandatory bike-helmet laws
- Blogger Patterico is sued…
- Politics roundup
- Garden tour slip and fall
- Do as NYC says
- Belated debate commentary
- Class action lawyers: lipstick and lip gloss do not last for hours as advertised
- “Former Copyright Boss: New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise”
- The multiple “Hammers” of injury advertising
- DoJ: recreation program discriminates against disabled
- “Fee Request Found ‘Grossly Inflated’ Denied in Entirety”
- Federalization of everything, cont’d
- A revolution in asbestos litigation?
- “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”
- University of Richmond drops men’s soccer and track/field
- How they got that photo
- “You want to protect people who don’t have the knowledge or the information.”
- “Parents Face Jail Time For Kids’ Drinking Parties”
- A CALPERS power grab for private pensions?
- Big Questions Online discussion concludes
- The terrible things that can happen in drug labs
- October 2 roundup
- Labor and employment law questions for White House candidates
- “Unique Texas class action law scuttles $0 shareholder derivative settlement”
- Illinois Supreme Court: moving train presents obvious danger
- Product liability roundup
- Dear “Big Bucks Are Spoiling Politics” Movement…
- “Ed Crane: An Appreciation”
- “Don’t Go To Law School!”
- “New California law kickstarts home-based food businesses”
- “Scapegoating Free Speech”
- “Motorcyclist who hit Florida panther sues state over warning system”
- Don’t
- Medical roundup
- “I believe that the primary responsibility at this point rests with Cinemark”
- Speeches in October
- Environment roundup
- Americans cling bitterly to free speech rights
- The school lunch program flop
- Elizabeth Warren law license flap
- September 26 roundup
- “Boogaard’s Parents File Lawsuit Against the N.H.L. Players’ Association”
- Labor and employment roundup
- Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) challenge at the Supreme Court
- Medical liability and health care quality
- Groupon customer “remedy”
- Classic litigation headlines
- Law schools roundup
- Humpty Dumpty…
- Watch Cato Constitution Day online
- About that “GMO food causes rat tumors” report
- Colorado: $7.2 million award in claim of “popcorn lung”
- Great moments in hospital quality regulation (and age discrimination law)
- Wheeled to the hospital exit
- Rhode Island bans discrimination against homeless persons
- Politics roundup
- Prop 37 and GMOs, cont’d
- No, Indian tribes aren’t the rightful owners of North America
- Free speech roundup
- Randy Barnett on Obamacare decision
- The magic of expungement
- “Cranston, RI Schools End Father-Daughter Dances After ACLU Complaint”
- September 19 roundup
- “Does Cabbie’s Fear of Dogs Trump Requirement to Allow Service Dogs?”
- Prosecutors lend letterhead to debt collectors
- Property rights roundup
- Cato’s Constitution Day today
- Law school caveat emptor
- Accuser recants in case that sent four women to prison
- “How Many Law Firms Does It Take To Sue An Egg Company? 34, Apparently”
- September 17 roundup
- Annals of California wage and hour law
- Bradley Birkenfeld’s $104 million bounty
- “Buckyballs vs. the CPSC”
- The White House calls YouTube: how about yanking that video?
- Club owners: lap dancing deserves tax status as “art”
- NYC approves ban on large sodas
- Beef processor sues ABC News over “pink slime” story
- Torts roundup
- Chicago teachers’ strike
- Markets in everything: kid non-supervision
- Ambassador’s murder fuels calls for hate-speech bans
- Lawsuit: crossbow maker knew it was dangerous to get fingers in the way
- Law enforcement and prosecution roundup
- AALS letting its biases show
- Taxable employment-law settlements
- Senator decries detergent pods as hazard
- Constitution and Supreme Court roundup
- Blogging’s loss…
- “NLRB Goes Back to the ‘80s To Justify A Union-Notice Rule”
- Food roundup
- BATF’s new asset forfeiture powers
- Hamowy on Hayek and the English common law
- “Recent Unsent E-mails from Antonin Scalia to Richard Posner”
- “Obama *did* ‘let Detroit go bankrupt’”
- September 10 roundup
- Lawmaker tries to shut up linebacker, cont’d
- Concord, Mass., bans single-serving plastic water bottles
- “For the moment, football will go on as always…”
- Del. Emmett Burns to Baltimore Ravens: silence that troublesome player
- Right to interpreter services at hospitals
- How some police unions jerk around California towns
- ADA vs. the Nook, cont’d
- Politics roundup
- Overlawyered’s Facebook page…
- Deadline for ABA best-blog nominations is tomorrow
- Finally: California moves to curtail ADA shakedowns
- Asset forfeiture horror stories: the podcast
- Sued if you do dept.: unhappy town hall in New Jersey
- Pharmaceutical roundup
- CFPB recruits for “surveillance activities”
- “Talk about my past lawsuits? See you in court”
- Asset forfeiture roundup
- Rent to you? Sure. Meet you? Heck, no
- Comcast v. Behrend: class actions at the Supreme Court
- Back to school roundup
- Erin Brockovich in Fridley, Minn.
- Upcoming October travel
- “Federal judge dismisses claims in fatal mountain goat attack”
- Peter Diamandis interview, Wired
- Victories for Ted Frank’s Center for Class Action Fairness
- Window warning
- Great moments in financial employment regulation
- Guestblogger thanks
- Clint Eastwood: the long ramp to the empty chair
- Thanks!
- Self-Funding Civil Legal Aid
- This guy isn’t playing dead for the police.
- Scalia: Write better laws: no more garbage in—garbage out
- EPA again
- EPA, 0; Federalism, 1
- Law—Made in Germany: global – effective – cost-efficient
- Caveat Craigslist
- Scalia: Common Law is a School for Misrule
- Unintended Consequences in Financial Regulation
- 33 questions @ $31.8 million—That’s a lot of apples
- Foreign Clients Want U.S. Court Reform
- And wait till they find out about the traps
- Goodbye to metal bats?
- Long-necked beer bottle maker not liable for barroom assault
- International law roundup
- Working from home may be ADA right
- Splashback: NYC beverage firms defend themselves against Bloomberg
- August 23 roundup
- Blistering black marble bench leads to suit against Dallas Cowboys
- Unshuffled decks at the mini-baccarat table
- Environmental roundup
- John Steele Gordon in Hillsdale “Imprimis”
- Phyllis Diller’s family suit
- NYT vs. White Coat on undiagnosed sepsis case
- Financial roundup
- Detroit water and sewer dept. employs “horseshoer” but keeps no horses
- Media-chasing lawyers
- “Plaintiffs’ lawyers to receive all the cash in Moody’s derivative settlement”
- August 20 roundup
- Because all the more serious civil liberties problems have been fixed
- NYT on California food labeling suits
- Volvo: “the ‘sexy Swedish models’ were cars, not escorts.”
- Draining of disabled and elderly persons’ estates
- Claim: smart meter wi-fi caused ear infection
- August 17 roundup
- Zimmerman lawyer: “Stand Your Ground” isn’t our defense
- Taking names and addresses
- Labor and employment roundup
- Harassment complaints by male Homeland Security employees
- Freedom for Canadian wheat farmers
- California’s Prop 37: Prop 65 in organic garb
- August 15 roundup
- “Deaf girl’s family sues Girl Scouts for disbanding troop”
- Gun control through government purchasing?
- Maryland roundup
- Bloomberg Law: “The End of Law Reviews?”
- CPSC’s Buckyballs ban
- Australia: “Student loses appeal over 99.95 HSC mark”
- Torts roundup
- Department of “punished enough”
- Trayvon Martin: the civil litigation
- “Suspect In Wild N.J. Car Chase Now Suing Bergen County Police For $17 M”
- New at HuffPo: Bryan Fischer, the Miller-Jenkins case, and kidnap apologetics
- Feds’ crusade on disproportionate minority school discipline rates
- Law enforcement roundup
- Michael Greve on the state fiscal crisis
- “Sheldon Adelson and the fine art of libel litigation”
- Onward and upward with law reviews
- Australia: Great moments in discrimination law
- Maternity support pillows: the regulatory costs
- Gibson Guitar agrees to $300,000 fine
- Disabled rights roundup
- Maryland’s maritime tax mistake
- Inspector general: “IRS Did Not Follow Law in 22% of Seizures of Taxpayers’ Property”
- Consumer Action responds
- Labor roundup
- Guestblogging season
- “Rule out every possibility…a dangerous way to practice medicine”
- August 6 roundup
- “Federal asset forfeiture continues to skyrocket under Obama”
- “French Demand Compensation for Plantagenet Murder”
- U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Free speech roundup
- “Court Revives Discrimination Lawsuit against … the EEOC”
- Claim: recitation of prayer at public meetings caused Ontario man $5,000 damages
- Chicken scraps
- NRA versus property and contract rights
- Police didn’t furnish adequate care to gunfight adversary
- Politics roundup
- Mississippi: “$75M suit blames casino for death”
- “Consumer Action,” chez Sturdevant
- New York: “Lawsuits extract $1B from localities a year”
- August 1 roundup
- Police drones in the sky, cont’d
- NYC: hospitals going bare
- On the Gibson Guitar raid
- Labor and employment roundup
- Drones overhead, snapping law-enforcement pics
- Promoted from comments: the money from Prop 63
- July 30 roundup
- Freebie phones everywhere
- Farewell to the Ravenna flagpole?
- “Why Does the U.N. Still Exist?”
- Teacher’s union threatens to sue private schools that accept vouchers
- New Hampshire passes jury nullification law
- Or mandate earplugs for DJs?
- July 27 roundup
- A “judicially sanctioned extortion racket”
- When regulators retaliate
- Food roundup
- “‘C+’ in Chemistry Leads To Lawsuit Against School District”
- “We’re not going to protect you”
- By reader acclaim: first suit filed in Colorado theater shooting
- July 25 roundup
- Cy pres: Ninth Circuit tosses breakfast deal
- Don’t “possess” it or “sell” it — but do pay $29 million in taxes on it
- Intellectual property roundup
- Jack Daniels non-nastygram
- “10 Days in the Police Academy, 14 Years on Disability”
- The ways of licensing boards
- July 23 roundup
- “Warning labels can act as nocebos”
- “Sock Puppets: How the Government lobbies itself and why”
- No, Mayor Menino…
- Abuse in tax lien sales
- Big Questions Online discussion
- July 20 roundup
- “We’re in a national park.” “We’re giving it away.”
- “Choc ice”
- Torts roundup
- About that “gay parenting” study
- When government tells untruths — for our own good
- Disabled rights roundup
- Litigation, humility, and character: join me at Big Questions Online
- Cameras and contradictions
- “Lose one child … then lose them all.”
- July 17 roundup
- Product warnings in English only
- “Little League teams lose court battle to play championship game”
- “Rasmussen poll: only 7 percent of public supports principle of Wickard v. Filburn”
- Maryland town de-activates cameras after crashes increase
- Labor and employment roundup
- It’s cold/hot in here
- Litigation kills gas can manufacturer
- July 14 roundup
- “OMG Swiss bank accounts” flap
- L.I. woman: county should have prevented cop’s affair with me
- $9 million award to student who developed OCD after car crash
- Chuck Close vs. Chuck-Close-like art-making
- NYC: drinking beer on a stoop
- Medical roundup
- TSA should explain — or end — its body scanner program
- Complaint: restaurant’s church-bulletin discounts violate bias law
- The costs of the FDA, compounded
- Idaho judge: newspaper must disclose info on anonymous commenter
- Judges roundup
- EEOC settles complaint over heavy equipment operator with epilepsy
- Lawyer: woman will stop suing School for the Deaf over frequent flyer miles
- Usage note
- Free speech roundup
- “The quiet scandal of the HIV home test kit”
- Warning: matches emit carbon monoxide when struck
- More reactions to “Abolish the Law Reviews!”
- Law schools roundup
- Welcome New York Post readers
- Miami-area cop jailed three times, fired six
- Michael Kinsley: Citizens United was “correctly decided”
- T-shirt message: “I picked out my beverage all by myself”
- Scheme to seize underwater mortgages by eminent domain
- Prosecution and police roundup
- “Declaration of Internet Freedom”
- “Op-Ed: Supremely Unsecretive”
- Environmental law roundup
- Challenge to California foie gras ban
- Loser-pays law, in Texas and elsewhere
- Torts roundup
- Reactions to “Abolish the Law Reviews!”
- “Abolish the Law Reviews!”
- From the Globe and Mail
- July 5 roundup
- Annotated Declaration of Independence
- A Fourth of July thought
- New mixed drinks, in honor of The Case
- Did Maryland farmer pay a price for criticizing federal prosecutors?
- American lawyers: a disintegrating guild?
- Food roundup
- HIPAA impedes medical research
- “Legalize AirBNB!”
- July 2 roundup
- Our blog-iversary
- ObamaCare decision roundup II
- ADA and law schools: Down with timed exams?
- “Parade of horribles”
- International law roundup
- Dear genie
- “Lawyer: Suspend murder trial so I can compete in Hemingway look-alike contest”
- ADA regulations for miniature golf courses
- Obamacare decision roundup
- N. H. med-mal: “early offers,” with a side of loser-pays
- Roberts as military strategist
- Very good lines
- NFIB v. Sebelius quote of the day
- “Wow. Now even fortune cookies have warnings.”
- SCOTUS upholds ObamaCare mandate as tax
- Baltimore push to restrict liquor stores
- Eric Goldman on the Netflix decision
- June 28 roundup
- Great moments in government dietary advice
- Cops: This guy’s face assaulted our fists
- Say what?
- “NY gives prosecutors too much power”
- Constitutional law roundup
- House Judiciary hearing on class actions
- Don’t
- “Thanks for saving my life. That’ll cost you $5 million.”
- Intellectual property law roundup
- A global financial-transactions tax?
- Judge: Netflix can be sued for streaming uncaptioned films
- “Woman arrested after trying to reunite dog with owner”
- By reader acclaim: woman hit by wild throw sues 13-y-o Little Leaguer
- June 25 roundup
- “Kids Severely Sunburned at School Because They Didn’t Have ‘Prescription’ for Sunscreen”
- “Art scholars fear lawsuits in declaring works real or fake”
- “Woman chasing ex-husband loses slip-and-fall lawsuit”
- The taxi medallion system
- “Heavy Hitter” lawyer ads
- Suit blames smartphone app maker for bicyclist’s death
- California Bar: illegal immigrant should be admitted to practice
- Knox v. SEIU
- Here’s some money. Now ban cellphones in cars.
- Maryland pit bull ruling: careful what you ask for
- Free speech roundup
- “Factual Free-Market Fairness”
- EEOC goes to bat for superannuated lifeguards
- Mayor Mike, soda snatcher (cont’d)
- By reader acclaim: cardiologist should have warned cop of sex spree
- Memo to: Liberty County, Texas police
- Environmental roundup
- FunnyJunk lawyer sues charity recipients
- Roger Clemens acquitted on all counts
- Philosophy, not gender, drives SCOTUS decisions
- Labor and employment roundup
- When prosecutors threaten to sue over criticism
- Those “creeping sharia” fears
- June 18 roundup
- Who snatched the light bulbs?
- “The new workplace revolution: wage and hour suits”
- Very funny lines
- ADA plus ATMs
- Taco-copters: the serious side
- Torts roundup
- “No Eviction After Renter Didn’t Pay for 9 Years”
- City of the slumped shoulders
- “Sears lawsuit only benefits plaintiffs’ lawyers – 7th Circuit”
- In Birmingham tomorrow
- “Refugees from the soda tyranny in NY will have sanctuary in London.”
- FunnyJunk menaces The Oatmeal with nastygram
- Free speech roundup
- Institution-closing litigation: who speaks for the disabled?
- Motorcycle helmet laws
- What Wyeth v. Levine did
- Gun owners as new protected class in employment discrimination law
- Libertarians and religious liberty
- A paradox of privacy class actions
- “Think carefully about ‘friending’ co-workers.”
- June 11 roundup
- Department of Things You Hope Are a Joke
- Self-proclaimed NYC “Queen of Torts”
- Shareholder lawsuits: “Shark Attack”
- “Angela Corey threatened to sue Harvard Law over professor’s criticism, educator says”
- Iditarod musher sues knife maker
- Attention! Citizens of Portland!
- Prosecution roundup
- Mississippi AG transparency
- Abraham Lincoln’s career-making patent case
- “Discrimination lawsuits double as definition of ‘disability’ expands”
- “Publicity-hound lawyer: Cannibalism is bad”
- June 7 roundup
- “Bloomberg’s Long History of Nannying”
- 9-0, 9-0, 9-0
- Labor and employment law roundup
- “Click it or ticket,” extended
- EPA’s aerial surveillance of farms
- Bloomberg’s soda Waterloo?
- Diversity hiring on law school faculties, cont’d
- AEI, “Global Governance and the Challenge to the American Constitution”
- “Woman sues dead pilot for plane crash allegedly caused by drunken passenger”
- Judge Easterbrook vs. the attitudinal model
- Mayor Bloomberg’s future appointees?
- June 4 roundup
- KNUS Denver radio this afternoon
- Police misconduct report map
- Ninth Circuit judge tees off on colleagues’ environmentalism
- Dear Mayor Bloomberg…
- “Fan Sues Pittsburgh Penguins For Sending Him Too Many Text Messages”
- Neiman Marcus sued in personal-shopper triangle
- Bloomberg’s soda grab: reactions
- Debate on law school faculty diversity
- June 1 roundup
- Update: South Mountain Creamery settles structuring charges
- D.C.: regulating secondhand shops as pawnshops
- Feet hurt from “repetitive walking?” Claim compensation
- Food law roundup
- Hey, EEOC….
- “A trap for small business”: Welcome Baltimore Sun readers
- Environment roundup
- ADA: pool open a while longer
- Apple: a company with little use for Washington, D.C….
- Employee “loses track of time” due to disability
- “McMahon’s wrestling company threatens JI with libel lawsuit”
- May 29 roundup
- Never use electric razor while sleeping
- Great moments in damages calculation? Nope
- “Texas honor student jailed for missing too much school”
- “School Nurse Denies Inhaler, Watches Student Lose Consciousness”
- Judge: text-sender can’t be sued for recipient’s crash
- Senate votes to continue gun-toting FDA raids
- Historic preservation as tactical bludgeon
- Reluctant to recant rape accusation
- Free speech roundup
- NLRB ALJ: restaurant can’t fire workers over false posters claiming its food is unsafe
- Judge: flashing headlights to warn of speed trap is protected speech
- More on the John Edwards prosecution
- Labor and employment law roundup
- “The only times I saw her (Allred) was when the media was there.”
- Church’s defamation suit against critic, cont’d
- Jim Vance on overprotected childhood
- “Top Ten Reasons Why Companies Are Leaving California”
- Disabled rights roundup
- The trouble with Nicholas Kristof, cont’d
- “Lawyers Intentionally Inflicting Emotional Distress”
- May 22 roundup
- Hands up: this is a civil asset forfeiture
- Feds charge South Texas DA with racketeering
- Medical roundup
- “Wisconsin Cops Confiscate Families’ Bail Money”
- LaHood’s cellphone crusade, cont’d
- Law professor anagram names
- The FTC’s sketchy Skechers settlement
- Nicholas Kristof vs. Anheuser-Busch
- Toobin on Citizens United
- May 18 roundup
- “Why France Has So Many 49-Employee Companies”
- Maryland pit bull ruling, cont’d
- “‘People’s Rights Amendment’ Would Knock Out People’s Rights”
- “He couldn’t prove it was legitimate”
- Wal-Mart sued over teen’s bogus P.A. announcement
- Law schools roundup
- Man says custody battle cost life savings
- New Jersey woman sued over sending text to someone who was driving
- May 15 roundup
- DoJ: Wells Fargo biased in maintenance of foreclosed properties
- Don’t cooperate with Washington reporters!
- Crime and punishment roundup
- “Usually, to avoid detection…”
- “Beaverton church sues family after they criticize it online””
- U.N. enlists U.S. lawprof to scold U.S. on Indian land rights
- Which states are most friendly/hostile toward small business?
- Motel owner 99% liable for murder
- International law roundup
- Onboard-recorder trucker mandate
- Consumer finance arbitration
- Unclear on the First Amendment in Albany
- “Obesity is not the result of market failure.”
- FMLA leave meets ADA “reasonable accommodation”
- But there’s no more room to cut the budget
- Patent troll vexes municipal transit agencies
- Education roundup
- State tobacco bonds begin to wobble
- A case against municipal ownership of utilities
- Judge dismisses “Three Cups of Tea” book fraud case
- Against North Carolina Amendment One
- Maryland appeals court: all pit bulls dangerous
- New server; missing emails and comments
- A universal driver-cellphone ban?
- The legal decline of football?
- May 7 roundup
- No constitutional right to punitive damages, cont’d
- Your right to food choice
- Disagree with your AG? Sue him.
- Labor and employment roundup
- Good news for farm families
- FCPA: a success
- I had no authority to do that
- May 3 roundup
- My Jim Bohannon Show appearance on Schools for Misrule
- Nutella maker settles class actions, cont’d
- Free speech roundup
- Law schools begin to shrink
- “48 hours after a fender-bender…”
- “Your seven-day pill box is illegal”
- Showdown: Protected birds vs. protected fish
- Interested in a legal academic career?
- Motorcyclist blames BMW for unsought excitement
- Only 71 percent of West Coast restaurants found to violate wage/hour law
- April 30 roundup
- Conscience, t-shirts and coercion
- At the sound of English bell-ringing…
- NYC issues $300 tickets for ornamental birdbaths
- Lawyer-dad: so what if my son cheated?
- Reminder: “like” Overlawyered on Facebook
- “Diversity Training Doesn’t Work”
- Instant regulatory-agency celebrity of the week
- More re: FCPA, Wal-Mart and Mexico
- Bank sues itself; nothing new there
- “Vague and bumptious legal threats”
- Labor and employment law roundup
- Punitive moralism and Wal-Mart’s Mexico mess
- NHTSA to mandate accelerator overrides
- Prop 65′s bounty bar still thriving
- April 25 roundup
- WalMex and the mordida, cont’d
- Is that a whistle in your pocket?
- Chimp mauling victim wants to sue state
- Medical roundup
- John Edwards trial begins
- Wal-Mart and FCPA
- You or your cat…
- Monday afternoon: “Stand Your Ground” at Cato
- April 23 roundup
- Ethnic foodways vs. state regulation
- Michael Greve on administrative law
- Update: Baltimore City Paper on South Mountain Creamery case
- Class action lawyers vs. “Three Cups of Tea”
- “Structuring”: who can get away with it, and who can’t
- April 20 roundup
- North Carolina Amendment One
- EEOC: Employers have no right to ask what prescription drugs employees are on
- Drew Curtis of FARK: How I beat a patent troll
- “Iowa judge rejects theory of ‘implicit bias’”
- “Ex-Worker Sues City Over Service Dog For Paprika Allergy”
- Debunking the “food desert” myth
- California’s court-developed Stand Your Ground law
- “Chapel Hill Cell Phone Ban Draws Ire of Business Owners”
- The Times covers ADA filing mills
- April 18 roundup
- Self-defense, black on white
- Alienation of affections in North Carolina
- Hair-raising
- Because what could go wrong?
- Labor and employment law roundup
- Bus accident video footage
- FDA and regenerative medicine
- “We know only one category as prosecutors, and that is a ‘V.’…It’s ‘V,’ for victim”.
- April 16 roundup
- Tanks but no tanks
- Teasing in social media
- Finally, like and tweet buttons
- Victory against overbroad “hacking” law
- Martin/Zimmerman: the Murder Two rap
- Misleading audio clips and media transparency
- Dad lets kids, 9 and 6, play in park for two hours
- Lawyers who “continue to make irresponsible statements to the media”
- Near the landmark vacant lots, a landmark gas station
- Zimmerman in custody, charged with second degree murder
- Lilly Ledbetter back in news
- Arizona update: Thomas faces disbarment
- Cato internships for graduating law students
- Spanish professor says recording industry group violates antitrust law
- Martin/Zimmerman civil suit
- April 11 roundup
- At Vanderbilt tomorrow
- Spokane: we won’t pay off cop over DUI hit-run
- A further note on justifiable-homicide stats
- International law roundup
- Washington Post keeps missing point on Stand Your Ground
- Legal woes of “invisible” man
- “James Bovard: The Wrong Way to Help the Disabled”
- April 9 roundup
- High cost of law schools, cont’d
- “Bounty Hunters and the Public Interest – A Study of California Proposition 65″
- Obstetrician not liable for trying to save baby’s life
- Podcast on “Stand Your Ground” laws
- Think tank confidential
- The other variety meat
- Judge tosses Happy Meal lawsuit
- April 6 roundup
- Traffic-cams and accident responsibility
- Staffer asks $1.75 M for exposure to difficult WA lawmaker
- Labor and employment roundup
- Cook County jail lockdown settlement
- Judicial activism for me, but not for thee
- April 4 roundup
- “Employers grow reluctant to offer internships following complaints”
- Unfair to persons with albinism?
- April 3 roundup
- Madison County: no more trial dates for unfiled cases
- Lawyers’ and law schools’ mission, cont’d
- Feinstein: California needs to crack down on ADA access-suit mills
- “Harvard’s Shareholder Rights Project is Wrong”
- CPSIA de la Plata? Argentina un-bans book imports
- “Why Did Legal Elites Underestimate the Case Against the Mandate?”
- “Woman Blames McDonald’s for Prostitution”
- “Judge Slaps Motley Rice With Fees Over ‘Frivolous’ Lawsuit”
- The gang that couldn’t shake down straight
- Free speech roundup
- House passes med-mal limits
- Advocacy funding the Gotham way
- The Gashlycrumb tort actions
- Dees-graceful: proposing a new orthodoxy at GW Law
- “Law school professors out of touch on ObamaCare?”
- Shortages of vital drugs hit Canada
- “It’s just bad public policy to allow unfettered access to all kinds of food.”
- U.K. man jailed over racially offensive tweeting
- NYT profiles Randy Barnett
- “JFK Airport a Foul Nest of Luggage Thieves, Claims Random Dude”
- Will Stand Your Ground change the outcome of the Martin/Zimmerman case?
- March 27 roundup
- Krugman, Brady, and Stand Your Ground laws
- “Overcriminalization, Circa 1903″
- Dangerous sleepers
- “Hands off people’s choice of roommates”
- Stand Your Ground laws, cont’d
- Michael Kinsley on age discrimination law
- “Shaken-baby” horror
- “Reassignment as reasonable accommodation: mandatory or not?”
- “Iran remained concerned over human rights violations in Ireland”
- March 23 roundup
- Don’t rush to repeal “Stand Your Ground” laws
- Other people’s marriages
- $17,000 restaurant dumpster ramp
- “Judge Approves Lawsuit Against City, Cornell Over Suicide”
- Penalty for webcam spying
- Hood hires Moore for Mississippi BP suit
- Universal be not proud
- High court rejects medical-method patent
- March 21 roundup
- “Wisconsin’s reforms are working”
- Bring back federal common law
- Bloomberg: no food donations to homeless shelters
- March 20 roundup
- Iowa sued on charge of subconscious bias
- Regulating taxi competition out of existence
- In Boston today
- From comments: web accessibility trips up a state medical board
- Law school roundup
- Great moments in law firm management?
- “Trivializing hate”
- Clarifying Florida lawyers’ position
- Don’t
- iPhone’s hellish Chinese workplace: the sequel
- Restricting helium sales to prevent squeaky-voice foolery?
- March 16 roundup
- Lawyer: ER “simply not permitted to discharge” without ruling out life-threatening conditions
- Hotel pools and the ADA: a 60-day deadline extension
- Marc Randazza
- Finally! Overlawyered on Facebook
- Using federal bucks to lobby for food nannyism
- Jacket toggles that could get caught on doorways
- March 15 roundup
- ADA: Everyone out of the pool
- Canada: lender’s inspection may create liability to third parties
- Class action: Apple’s Siri doesn’t live up to hype
- “Hobbit pub in Southampton threatened with legal action”
- International law roundup
- Reducing discovery costs
- “Dear 16-year-old me… law school can be prevented”
- March 13 roundup
- “Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable”
- “When Bad Things Happen to (Supposedly) Good Legislation”
- Mark Twain on employment reference law
- March 12 roundup
- The twitching teens of LeRoy, N.Y.
- Spain adapts around employment tenure laws
- Free speech roundup
- Passes out drunk in snowbank, bar said to be liable
- Gloria Allred follies, cont’d
- Kids’ food-ad regulations and the FTC
- U.K. man’s suit: church misled him “into following false beliefs”
- March 9 roundup
- Keep Cato independent
- Sacramento’s Bad Humor Man
- ABA Journal on divorce DUI setup scandal
- Siccing FCPA on Murdoch?
- “Cyberbullying: ‘We know it when we see it’”
- U.K.: “Mega pig-farm could breach human rights, council warned”
- Speaking at Emory today
- Herding home care workers into unions
- “NY Woman’s Lawsuit: Roommate Had Too Much Sex”
- March 7 roundup
- It was the dirty carpeting
- Penn Law to Louis Vuitton: zip that nastygram
- No one caught on
- March 6 roundup
- Not very peaceful
- Regulated if you do, sued if you don’t
- Exploiting Maryland foreclosure law
- March 5 roundup
- Koch v. Cato
- Patent litigation vs. software startups
- “Converting information-seekers into hopping mad, ready-to-sue prospects”
- Urban development, the NYC way
- Why do people hate serving on juries?
- Sugar: the moral equivalent of war
- March 2 roundup
- Australian: “G’day sport” teasing is rights violation
- NYC restaurant inspections vs. good food
- Connecticut: officials behaving badly
- Creative class actions: gas in repossessed cars
- “Obama ‘HOPE’ poster artist pleads guilty to contempt”
- Disabled-hiring “goals” for federal contractors
- Dharun Ravi on trial for “bias intimidation”
- Ban on backyard smoking by homeowners?
- February 29 roundup
- How to handle serial litigants?
- Update: Astrology software company backs off suit over time-zone data
- The “right to receive free compulsory education”
- Labor and employment roundup
- Supreme Court to review Alien Tort Statute
- Speeches this week: Syracuse, Cleveland, Pittsburgh
- The high cost of vindication
- February 27 roundup
- Recent rehab history no bar to school-bus-driver employment
- “Suspect in MTSU player’s death sues apartment complex for not intervening”
- Ontario: dad arrested after 4 year old draws picture of gun
- Gun shows are nests of lawbreaking! Or maybe not
- Law firm sues over poor Better Business Bureau rating
- Call me a gold digger? You’ll pay for that
- Ten years ago on Instapundit…
- C.S. Lewis and the food police
- U.N. power grabs
- February 24 roundup
- Zip that beak
- Restrictions on altered photos in ads, cont’d
- The quotable Judge Alex Kozinski
- Hope in a (soap) box
- “No, You Can’t Sue Your Uncle For Putting Embarrassing Family Photos On Facebook”
- Isometric government: Malibu beach paths
- February 22 roundup
- Welcome New York Times readers
- University of Alabama vs. sports artist
- Liability-proof your Mardi Gras parade watch party
- “The problem with suing Apple”
- N.J.: town “official bemoans $12K in paperwork to remove tree from creek”
- Disabled rights roundup
- “Suit by Law Student Claims Her School Negligently Admitted Her”
- Great moments in foreseeable misuse
- Frontiers of client-chasing, U.K. edition
- Feds sue housing co-op for not allowing “comfort dog”
- February 19 roundup
- UN official: evicting homeless could violate international human rights
- In the mail: “Bad Dad”
- Family of college hazing victim sues bus company
- The STOCK Act and Congressional inside trading
- February 17 roundup
- Obama administration: we’ve created many regulatory-compliance jobs
- Newest health scare: organic brown rice syrup
- Great moments in jail litigation
- Metro-East’s own Gothic horror?
- Law schools roundup
- Seats too small: the sequel
- Child support for adult college students, cont’d
- “Do Not Point Gun At Own Face”
- Annals of wage and hour law
- “Indian court forces Facebook, Google to censor content”
- When federal defendants settle lawsuits
- Bribing states to spend and regulate
- February 14 roundup
- Fordham Law School tomorrow
- “The most plausible route to the death of football…”
- As FDA and Congress fiddle
- Getting a bad judge off the bench
- Long-arm blasphemy prosecution
- O lawmakers, heed not the mob’s wrath
- “Lawyer wants jinn to testify in court”
- “Auto-litigation”
- “The court that broke Jersey”
- Criminal investigation of ADA noncompliance?
- Long Island pharmacy massacre
- Oglala Sioux tribe sues beer companies over alcoholism
- Tyler Clementi suicide case
- From IowaHawk’s Clint Eastwood parody
- Detroit hospital will pay $70K for not providing sign interpreters
- Scope of existing state employer-contraceptive mandates
- Law students sue over bad grades
- February 9 roundup
- Dickens bicentenary
- “Judge rejects injured beer-pong champ”
- “Man has no right to ex-girlfriend’s lottery winnings, judge rules”
- A Stuart Taylor, Jr. archive
- “Our Constitution Is Out of Step with the Rest of the World”
- “Class-action lawyers swarm around buyout deals”
- February 8 roundup
- “Staten Island mom hits city with $900 trillion suit”
- “Never let law profs near the Oval Office”
- My spring speaking schedule
- Employment law roundup
- Occupational licensure vs. free speech
- “Democrats vs. Teacher Unions: The Battle Heats Up”
- Illinois court: don’t blame railroad for asbestos delivery
- February 6 roundup
- “To say that Zaffina is particular about the spelling and presentation of his name would be an understatement”
- Sex and man at Yale
- America as “prosecutocracy”
- Ultra-embarrassing fraternity lawsuit
- Free Google Maps unfair to paid competitors, France rules
- Brockovich meets Tourette’s in Leroy, N.Y.
- Roller coasters and limbless guests
- February 3 roundup
- Komen breast cancer charity
- “Village Voice To Stop Suing Over ‘Best Of’ Lists”
- Great moments in lawyer advertising: “Successful, Greedy Attorneys”
- More FCPA acquittals
- Sugar “like alcohol and tobacco…toxic, addictive”
- Claim: “defamation by omission”
- European roundup
- “Xbox games may have spurred synagogue attacks, lawyer says”
- Legal challenge to Ellison on America’s Cup
- Hit by car playing hooky, suit blames school
- February 1 roundup
- Super Bowl (TM) trademark controversy XLVI, or even higher
- “Their government’s communitarianism leaves no room for their church’s communitarianism”
- Drunk drivers who sue over their accidents, cont’d
- January 31 roundup
- Some heroes for our time
- “Human rights court blocks Abu Qatada deportation”
- Tales from NYC’s “rubber room”
- Labor and employment law roundup
- That treehouse has to go
- Posited “right to be forgotten online”
- January 28 roundup
- “The legal investigator should not rely upon pretext or subterfuge…”
- Annals of overcriminalization: whale watching biologist
- Sending a remittance to Zimbabwe
- “She’s had to double her blood pressure medication.”
- David Segal on law school economics
- Food law roundup
- Cruise ship impostors: “They’re called ‘jump-ons’”
- Ponnuru on Gingrich and the courts
- January 26 roundup
- Schneiderman tapped for mortgage probe
- You served me the alcohol, now pay for my crash
- Cato commentary on State of the Union
- Obama proposes up or down vote on judges
- Obama proposal: no leaving school until age 18 or graduation
- Perfume restrictions in the news
- Law schools roundup
- When companies’ hot products are stolen
- Nutella class action settlements
- “Bystander Claims ‘Swoon and Fall’ Injuries at Church”
- Photos of high-design furniture
- Citizens United, two years out
- “Wrongful-Death Suit Filed Against Criminal Defendant’s Parents, Grandmother”
- “Religious employers must cover pill, Feds say”
- January 23 roundup
- “Redbox sued over access for visually impaired”
- Firing of employee for working at lunch
- January 21 roundup
- Annals of tasteful legal marketing
- After SOPA protest day
- Schools for Misrule roundup
- Hard times for “DIAL L-A-W-Y-E-R-S” founder
- Ron Paul campaign sues John Does over anti-Huntsman video
- One way to get around courtroom camera ban
- The Justice Department’s FCPA fiasco
- Blue-ribbon excuses: shoplifting California lawmaker
- New York’s “Triborough Amendment”
- Defining who’s disabled
- Websites go dark to protest SOPA/PIPA
- By reader acclaim: DUI manslaughter driver sues victim
- January 18 roundup
- Update: convicted kidnapper’s suit against victims dismissed
- “Dressing psychiatrists like wizards on the witness stand”
- Andrew Wakefield sues critics again
- Judge: new Gotham cabs must have wheelchair access
- January 16 roundup
- NYC diner owner decides to record food inspection on cellphone
- January 15 roundup
- Claim: Clinton offered Baron seat on Supreme Court
- SOPA on the ropes?
- Ben Stein vs. Kyocera
- “Battered bank syndrome”
- “80 Great Twitter Feeds for Law Students”
- Constitutionality of class actions
- Labor and employment law roundup
- At “Minding the Campus” on Iowa case
- New Liberty Fund law site — and an interview
- Law schools roundup
- Religious liberty wins 9-0 at SCOTUS in “ministerial exception” case
- “French fans sue Michael Jackson’s doctor Conrad Murray over ‘emotional damage’”
- Denver mistaken-identity arrests
- January 11 roundup
- Fined for flunking impossible fuel mandate
- If you document cops’ behavior on film…
- Who arranged those leniency letters, anyway?
- International law roundup
- Eighth Circuit: Applicant for lawprof position can sue school over bias against conservatives
- “The Litigation-Industrial Complex”
- January 9 roundup
- Joyce copyright expires
- “The saddest trademark case of 2011″
- Steals gun, hurts himself with it
- Diploma requirements may violate ADA: EEOC
- Defense: Judge’s “Mr. Guilty” slip-up was prejudicial
- A roadblock to e-readers in schools?
- Gulf spill claimants who didn’t hire lawyers will have to pay them anyway
- “If Senator Santorum is a ‘strong supporter of the 10th amendment’…”
- January 6 roundup
- Dodd-Frank and conflict minerals: the law’s wide reach
- “The Private and Social Costs of Patent Trolls”
- SOPA’s Hollywood accounting
- January 5 roundup
- Great moments in public sector arbitration
- Title IX for tots
- “Mississippi Court Reverses $322 Million Asbestos Verdict”
- Great moments in academia
- Argentina moves to take control of newsprint business
- January 3 roundup
- N.J.: overdoses on Xanax, collects $4.1 million
- Honda vs. “small claims flash mob” tale
- Most popular Overlawyered posts of 2011
- “Austrian Court Upholds Conviction for ‘Denigrating Religious Beliefs’”
- Criminalization of wild egg collecting
- Newt’s “two out of three” notion
- The wrong guy
- Overdiagnosing mental disorders
- Best-of-2011 lists and awards
- December 30 roundup
- “Business Leaders for Loser-Pays”
- “So what if corporations aren’t people?”
- SOPA fight heats up
- Labor law roundup
- “The Police Have No Obligation To Protect You. Yes, Really.”
- McDonald’s and the legal academy
- “Relationship Breakup Following Collision ‘Too Remote To Create Liability’”
- Feds challenge Chicago lender-maintenance law
- Ban hands-free car phone use? Who, us?
- December 27 roundup
- Remembering Larry Ribstein
- Christmas highlights of Overlawyered past
- “Relax, folks, it really is honey after all”
- “Man gets $10 million for Segway accident”
- “Gingrich, the anti-conservative”
- “SOPA: An Architecture for Censorship”
- Punishing Google’s success
- Schools roundup
- Wisconsin lawyer: I won’t represent GOPers since they voted to limit fees
- Adventures in abortion regulation
- December 20 roundup
- “It’s what happened to more than 3,000 people last year…”
- Saying something good
- Pitcher hit by line drive, jury awards $900K against bat maker
- December 19 roundup
- Miracle on 34th St.
- Developer drops suit against eminent domain critic
- Don’t
- Hitchens on nannyism and NYC
- Claim: voter ID requirements violate international law
- Art scholars fear authentication lawsuits, cont’d
- Environmental law roundup
- “Madison County judge reassigned after receiving campaign contributions”
- Controversial Houston cancer clinic menaces critics
- Employment law roundup
- Hands off that handsfree phone!
- The case against SOPA/”Protect IP”
- Stephen Glass: a right to practice law?
- “Treat within 4 hours” rule
- EEOC sues construction company for not hiring applicant with epilepsy to run heavy equipment
- December 13 roundup
- ABA “Blawg 100″ — take a moment to vote for Overlawyered
- Volt vs. Toyota
- Chick-Fil-A vs. “Eat More Kale,” cont’d
- December 12 roundup
- A Christmas torts final exam
- Suing Google over search results
- Labor law roundup
- Judge: blind plaintiff can sue landlord, guide-dog provider over fall
- Glendale bans fake grass
- “Does ‘Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer’ Promote Bullying?”
- Illinois’ fragile prison guards
- “Ever argued with a woman?”
- “Battleground Ohio: John Kasich’s Collective Bargaining Reform Goes Down”
- Food and agriculture roundup
- December 7 roundup
- State Department restricts imports of Greek coins
- SEIU to Washington legislators: raise taxes or we’ll keep suing you
- Expanding mental diagnoses: the legal rub
- “Sprung from prison, tort-bar king back raising money for Dems”
- December 6 roundup
- Schools for Misrule in Academic Questions
- Further update roundup
- Baroque performers glum as Europe bans gut strings
- Red Cross considers crackdown on videogame “war crimes”
- Medical roundup
- Montana: “Bicyclist Gets Nearly $100G After Fall on Icy Trail”
- “Chick-fil-A Is Worried You Can’t Tell Kale From ‘Chikin’”
- Risks of trying to be safe dept.
- Trying cases in the press
- Synagogue youth workers wage-hour suit
- Macaulay on legal ethics
- “Buying a product specifically because it doesn’t have doors…”
- Great moments in California public employee tenure
- Coming Carolina and Colorado appearances
- Dogs in the dorms
- San Francisco Happy Meal ban
- NYT-on-lawprofs reactions, cont’d
- “Man Sues Couple He Kidnapped”
- Hearings on Congressional insider trading
- “Sugarland sued over Indiana stage collapse”
- November 29 roundup
- Ohio: county yanks obese child from family
- Welcome LaDona Harvey listeners
- Free speech and chilling effects roundup
- Digitally altered model photos and the proposed “Self Esteem Act”
- Making jobless applicants a new protected class?
- Hotel chain will pay $132,500 for dismissing autistic desk clerk
- Kim Strassel: “Stringing Up Gibson Guitar”
- November 26 roundup
- Prosecution roundup
- “Admitted Drug Dealer Sues Doctor Who Prescribed Painkillers”
- “Amtrak Bans 12-Year-Old Unaccompanied Child Riders”
- The gender skew of academic family law
- Will the FDA get into the salt-reduction business?
- Enviro groups: beware brass at Disneyland
- Suit: cabin noise deafened man
- November 23 roundup
- Privatizing retail permitting
- Soup kitchen as “retail food establishment”
- November 22 roundup
- Court: IVF clinic cannot turn away single customers
- NYT front-pager: law schools don’t teach how to be a lawyer
- NBA-er: team’s medical ineligibility ruling was disability discrimination
- November 21 roundup
- “EU bans claim that water can prevent dehydration”
- “It’s not like I sue him every day”
- Update: “Kellogg Settles ‘Toucan Sam’ Dispute With Archaeologists”
- “Passing along” our new tax? Tell it to the judge, mate
- Feds punish tarmac delays, airlines cancel flights instead (redux)
- Food and agriculture law roundup
- Chesley’s cautionary tale
- Food co-op sued after joining Israel boycott
- November 17 roundup
- Life lessons in cross-examination
- Texas: “Dog Owners Can Recover Sentimental-Value Damages for Loss of Pet”
- November 16 roundup
- Busting Congress for insider trading
- Judge declines to dismiss ADA suit over streaming Netflix
- Canada: police not responsible for barroom assault
- Constitutional law roundup
- “Schumer’s layaway scam”
- Speech criticizing lawsuit = “retaliation”
- November 14 roundup
- “Couple sues airline over cockroaches on plane”
- Making Veteran’s Day friends
- Update roundup
- FCPA needs rollback, not just more clarity
- Federalist Society convention in D.C.
- November 11 roundup
- Lawyer’s suit: this breakfast’s no good
- “The 6 Most Poorly Thought Out Attempts At Insurance Fraud”
- Law schools roundup
- A swipe at school choice?
- YouTube, Flickr in peril?
- Who was that court-appointed expert again?
- “Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Scheme to Elect Condo Board Members Favoring Construction Lawsuits”
- Janitors and the ministerial exception
- The “corporations aren’t people” campaign
- Great moments in public sector unionism
- November 8 roundup
- Texas deadline suit-filing, cont’d
- Wisconsin considers curbing “one-way” attorney fees
- “No Muslim student at Catholic University has registered a complaint…”
- Grudge bait for Austin neighbors?
- “Park Service sued over fatal Olympic goat goring”
- Ossian, Piltdown Man, the Hitler Diaries, and “Sybil”
- Great moments in pharmaceutical litigation
- November 4 roundup
- “There’s No Drug War Exception to the Constitution”
- By reader acclaim: Divorced man sues wedding photographer
- Don’t
- “Owner sued in car thief’s crash”
- “Day before ‘Loser Pays’ launches, Beaumont lawyers file 59 lawsuits”
- Food law roundup
- A copyright troll’s downfall
- Booster clubs and bake sales
- “Kurt Vonnegut And The Maddening Zealotry Of Literary Estates”
- November 2 roundup
- The high cost of a feel-good measure
- Update: ousted Congressman sues opponents for “loss of livelihood”
- Labor and employment law roundup
- Welcome Lars Larson listeners
- Californians can’t get Dunkin’ Donuts coffee online
- Lawprof: D.C.’s 1:12 lawyer-resident ratio “not nearly enough”
- October 31 roundup
- Upcoming Midwest speeches
- WSJ profiles Ted Frank
- Wall Street protests roundup
- L.I.R.R. disability scandal
- Remembering Bill Niskanen, 1933-2011
- Philadelphia courts attract forum-shoppers
- “Nobody held a gun to their head and made them enroll at a school called CATHOLIC University”
- The dreaded “network of corporate control,” or When Mutual Funds Rule the World
- October 28 roundup
- CSPI suit: Fruit by the Foot promotion left out unfavorable facts
- “I always tell my clients, if you start a big disturbance, you’ll get a bigger compensation package.”
- October 27 roundup
- “If you say it’s just a drill, would you move as quickly?”
- By reader acclaim: “PETA Sues SeaWorld for ‘Enslaving’ Killer Whales”
- Clifford Winston in NYT on deregulating lawyers
- Great moments in age discrimination law
- Connecticut: court-appointed probate lawyers seek immunity
- “Swan song for swings?”
- Economics of NYC taxi medallions
- Libertarians and medical malpractice
- “Byzantium was far less complicated than any modern government.”
- Supposed hiring bias against unemployed applicants
- Annals of expensive divorce
- Regulators vs. regular ‘taters
- FBI not responsible for totaling detained Ferrari
- “Has Amnesty International Jumped the Shark?”
- “Charlie Davies sues nightclub, Red Bull”
- Notre Dame to Kansas high school: drop that fighting leprechaun logo
- “Regulation: The Legal Economy’s Best Friend?”
- Congress fixes false marking law
- “Supreme Court of Canada Stands Up for the Internet: No Liability for Linking”
- Medical roundup
- “Actress sues Amazon over her age on its IMDb site”
- Good for the sole
- “Nebraska Supreme Court: No DUI in a Private Driveway”
- Farm dust makes EPA blink
- Police lineups and eyewitness accuracy
- Calmer = more conscientious?
- Divorce detective’s DUI entrapment
- That should take care of the annoyance problem
- October 17 roundup
- “The main force letting protesters stay in the park is old-fashioned crony capitalism”
- Louisiana: secondhand dealers must report customers to police
- Unions sue against Wall Street bonuses
- U.K. discrimination lawyer sued by banker client
- Bastianich: I’m through with NYC due to wage/hour suits
- Prosecuting Wall Street executives
- October 14 roundup
- FDA begins laying groundwork for mandatory salt reduction in food
- NJ lifeguards’ age-bias suits
- “Nation appalled at prospect of affordable legal advice”
- October 13 roundup
- “Indie documentaries,” or lawsuit Astroturf?
- EU directive on kids, balloons and other toys
- October 12 roundup
- Florida couple wins $4.5 million “wrongful-birth” award
- Street signs, mandated in D.C.
- A timeless legal remedy
- October 11 roundup
- IP suit shuts down time zone database
- “Upset Moviegoer Sues Over ‘Misleading’ Trailer”
- Depressing government-and-business datum
- Adventures in extraterritoriality, Drug War edition
- ADA roundup
- Four Loko agrees to warn of alcohol buzz
- “If every global bank in New York can be subpoenaed globally…”
- “Isolated” EPA enforcement abuse
- Legal trap doors for New Jersey builders
- October 7 roundup
- Not a political concern
- EEOC vs. the ministerial exception
- The “Halliburton rape” case: setting the record straight
- October 6 roundup
- “Senior sues because gum stuck to dentures”
- Advertising food as “genetically unmodified”
- Child welfare/protection roundup
- “Totally Meghan McCain” parody columns
- Fall speaking (and your chance to book): Chicago, S.C., Denver…
- 2nd Circuit revives client conflict suit in Nextel settlement
- October 4 roundup
- Just out: Cato Supreme Court Review, 2010-2011
- “I don’t feel good about it — lying to people”
- A right to refuse business trips?
- October 3 roundup
- Cuba flirts with property ownership
- Limits on teen drivers
- New Jersey: will $650 recovery support $99,000 fee-shift?
- Crowdfunding new businesses
- Banning discrimination against the unemployed?
- “Safety First, Or Just In The Top Three?”
- Judge Kozinski on modern privacy
- Labor and employment law roundup
- “Loser-pays” reform in Texas
- “It’s sad that we can’t…report on experiences freely”
- Can’t squeeze the last 20% of toothpaste from the tube? Sue!
- September 29 roundup
- No more tax avoidance strategy patents?
- Before hiring a criminal defense lawyer…
- Australia: “A terrible day for free speech in this country”
- September 28 roundup
- U.K.: “‘Ridiculous’ health and safety bans challenged”
- Class action settlements as marketing outreach
- California’s CEQA, cont’d
- September 27 roundup
- Faced with federal suit, Arizona quits monitoring teachers’ English fluency
- Food trucks near school grounds
- Constitutional law roundup
- “Win or lose, trial lawyers get millions in Vioxx fees”
- “Wave of new disabilities swamps school budgets”
- Tough cookies, asthma sufferers
- California’s sclerotic CEQA
- “Judge Blasts Lead Plaintiff’s Firm for ‘Epic Failures’ in Securities Case”
- Canada: “Man sued by mother for parental support”
- Forcing non-members to pay for unions’ political advocacy
- New podcast: “Coffee and Markets” at New Ledger
- “Golf course company in lawsuit: Sanford lied 90 years ago”
- Massachusetts: “Innovative Medical Liability Reform”
- “Baby Mixup Does Not Support Claim for Emotional Distress”
- Treading with care in art authentication
- September 21 roundup
- “Will restricting criminal background checks actually increase minority unemployment?”
- Upcoming speeches: Washington & Lee, University of Virginia
- Deregulating lawyers? Law schools?
- Great moments in public sector economics
- “Free” help from securities class action lawyers
- FTC endorsement rules treated disrespectfully
- Liability for negligent expert witnesses?
- September 19 roundup
- Lawyers can’t safety-proof national parks
- Catering hall “could not have foreseen a surprise ninja attack”
- Mandatory disclosure by labor “persuaders”
- High school booster clubs
- September 16 roundup
- “Scientists on trial: At fault?”
- Judge rules videogame maker has 1st Amendment right to depict college football players
- “ADA Suit May Overturn Pit-Bull Bans”
- Qui tam suits against for-profit colleges
- Law schools roundup
- Update: Florida suspends ticketing for speed-trap light-flashing
- Atlanta police shooting aftermath
- “Process patents” at the Supreme Court
- September 14 roundup
- Spare EPA’s heavy hand — they’re a swing state
- Live stream tomorrow morning: Supreme Court briefing
- Food law roundup
- Government regulation of scientific integrity?
- “Sanctioned: P2P lawyer fined $10,000 for ‘staggering chutzpah’”
- “White Castle sued by overweight burger-lover”
- September 12 roundup
- Dies of Ecstasy overdose while attending rave
- There are molecules on our dollar bills!
- U.K.: “Injury claim referral fees to be banned”
- Le suit: climate of sexual harassment at Yale “emboldened” murderer
- Rewarding officiousness
- “White shoe” law firms
- September 9 roundup
- Donald Trump, bully-ionaire
- You saved my life but you broke my tooth
- Go for it, Sacramento
- “Patent Bill Viewed as Bailout for a Law Firm”
- SCOTUSblog symposium on class actions; Cato Constitution Day next week
- Temperature of brown-bag lunches
- “You have a right to record the police”
- “Not every human problem deserves a law”
- “Cereal Maker Claims Non-Profit’s Bird Looks Too Much Like Toucan Sam”
- Ticketing drivers for flashing lights near speed traps
- Welcome Economist readers
- September 7 roundup
- “The nastiest copyright notice ever written”
- “ADA lawsuits questioned after serial plaintiff claiming emphysema caught on tape hiking”
- “Courts Put the Brakes on Agenda of G.O.P.”
- September 6 roundup
- Ditch the bike helmet
- Attorney demand letters
- A celebrated $32 million Vioxx case…
- Sued over harsh review of day-care center
- Overcriminalization and plea bargaining
- “$60,000 Damages for Blogging the Truth About Someone, Intending to Get the Person Fired”
- “CA bars may soon be able to serve infused alcohol”
- September 2 roundup
- Gonna wash Salon right outta my hair
- Calif. bill proposes work rules, meal breaks for babysitters
- September 1 roundup
- The cost of light planes
- “Minivan-drownings suit could cost taxpayers plenty”
- Yes, it has come to this
- NYC cracks down on dogs in bars
- Artisanal ice cream OK in Illinois
- August 30 roundup
- Mayor Bloomberg and for-your-own-goodism
- “Devil’s Bargain: Wall Street and the Martin Act”
- EEOC: drinking history no reason to withhold heavy trucking jobs
- Adult children’s lawsuit charges “bad mothering”
- August 29 roundup
- “Don’t tell anyone that this petition has been assigned to me”
- Mark your calendar: Cato Constitution Day Sept. 15
- Gone re-fishin’
- Antiquities law ensnares coin collectors
- Feds’ lucrative forfeiture program
- Urban farming
- “Drinking is a ‘handicap,’ fired former Florida State administrator says”
- “Federal Gov’t Encourages Health Providers to Coordinate…”
- Taking pictures “with no apparent esthetic value”
- Update: Mary Roberts disbarred
- “Thanks for the doctors, New York”
- “I, on the other hand, will not let people push me around”
- NLRB “quickie election” plan, cont’d
- “The Mess at Widener Law School”
- Drug test positive…
- “Cutting the ‘food desert’ myth down to size”
- Gone fishin’
- “If I could press a button and instantly vaporize one sector of employment law…”
- August 12 roundup
- Gaping at arrestee mug shots
- “The police have lost confidence in the Government”
- Lemonade Freedom Day
- The dangers of corn shucking
- UK: “Evicted gipsies launch human rights claim”
- August 11 roundup
- Bargain cruises between American ports
- “Sometimes the dog means the difference between a conviction and an acquittal”
- “How To Make A Mockery Of Your Own Law School: Sue Your Critics”
- August 10 roundup
- Chain of foolishness
- Collective asbestos guilt in Illinois
- Dodd-Frank “conflicts minerals” provision devastates Congolese
- Demand for sign language translator at nudist camp
- Only unsophisticates fear international law. Right?
- Update: Pierce O’Donnell cops a plea
- Breathe into the steering wheel now
- Philadelphia: “Injured fan sues Eagles”
- “Foreclosure relief” and its temptations
- Message board liability threats, cont’d
- Raw milk dairy club raided (again)
- Law schools roundup
- “Cartoonist Faces Prosecution for Videos Mocking Police”
- Latin Jazz musicians sue over termination of Grammy category
- Buffalo lawmakers irate at law firm ad set in council chambers
- Long hair as religious accommodation
- August 4 roundup
- Laws against being a drunken car passenger
- California: “Lawmakers kill fix for disability access suits”
- Who’s suing whom in the mobile business
- “Litigating One’s Way to a Faculty Appointment”
- August 3 roundup
- Don’t rescue that bird
- Good Samaritans sue woman they saved
- Class action: I thought USA Today at my hotel was free
- August 2 roundup
- In contempt of cop
- The way of the telegraph messenger
- Welcome radio listeners, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin readers
- “Twisted ethics of an expert witness”
- “Say on pay” litigation
- Great moments in legal aid
- “Proposed plan would keep lawyer misconduct secret”
- “Happier than a tick on a fat dog”
- July 29 roundup
- “How Campaign Finance Laws Made the British Press so Powerful”
- “Lawyer Up. Get A Lawyer In 15 Minutes”
- Fla.: police can be sued for releasing drunk
- Happy Meals and Campbell’s Soup
- An end to impunity
- “Go sue yourself”
- July 28 roundup
- In Texas, free speech wins a round
- “Diane Schuler’s husband suing state, brother-in-law over wrong-way Taconic crash”
- Snap, crackle, ka-ching
- “Invacare wheelchair not equipped with flags”
- July 26 roundup
- Prison for unauthorized use of “Smokey Bear” image
- California workplace seating suits, cont’d
- July 25 roundup
- Gasp-worthy
- Memo to Prof. Turley
- “The case against law school”
- Attorney general slush funds, cont’d
- Musical forensics, via Google
- July 22 roundup
- “A petty squabble, masquerading as a civil rights matter…”
- Great moments in lawyer advertising
- Number of blocks, doll ethnicity, pleasantness of greetings…
- “Boeing’s Uniquely American Right To Take Flight”
- Quest for a risk-free playground
- The closest thing to immortality
- Amtrak damage limits and the Chatsworth crash
- Delaware judges “almost” hostile toward unmeritorious suits
- “For the organized bar, it is an article of faith…”
- Tales of the California business climate
- A “Ladies’ Night” carve-out
- Home office? Keep it quiet
- July 19 roundup
- Keeping tabs on wacky warnings
- Cordray to CFPB
- Monkey-snapped photos, cont’d
- July 18 roundup
- A false-statement epidemic?
- Schools for Misrule feedback, cont’d
- More CPSIA overkill: lowering lead limits
- “Law School Sues Law Firm and Bloggers for Criticizing its Placement Data”
- “Bang bang” not actionable behavior
- July 15 roundup
- “Cal Court of Appeal to US Supremes: ‘Oh yeah, says who?’”
- Great moments in airline law
- An asylum-fraud “industry”
- Get ready to surprise yourself with a drug test
- Drunk-driving teen sues school district
- Push for “national human rights institution” in U.S.
- Waiver against being eaten
- July 14 roundup
- Faulty forensics, child death division
- Leahy hearing pushes “SCOTUS soft on business” theme
- “Harvard Researchers Want Fat Kids Taken From Their Homes”
- Emergency medicine case in NYC
- New at Cato: public employee binding arbitration
- Guestblogging thanks
- House committee votes to defund CPSC database
- “After TwIqbal, defendants don’t have to take scattershot pleading lying down”
- July 12 roundup
- UK: too dangerous to let townswomen tend flowers around war memorial
- Great moments in housing finance law
- “What ‘Inside Job’ got wrong”
- Food law roundup
- Chicago neurosurgeons pay $4500/wk in med-mal premiums
- July 10 roundup
- Bloomberg on perp walks
- Ereck Plancher verdict
- EPA gives millions to environmental groups that sue it
- A circus within a circus within a circus
- Defending Cy Vance
- Tricks of the traffic-cam trade
- July 8 roundup
- Hot air lawsuit judge refuses to restrict hot air
- Jurors as grown-ups
- Frack-tion of the truth
- July 7 roundup
- Bad sports
- Employee misconduct and ADA protections
- July 6 roundup
- Assigned counsel
- Welcome guestblogger Ron Coleman
- Don’t call it propaganda
- Perilous portals
- Paulie unsaturated
- Vintage sound recordings
- Annals of criminalization, part 2,038: “performing” copyrighted material
- When regulation bites
- “Suit demands CNN offer online captions for deaf”
- Employers liable for not providing work-family balance?
- Tavern’s terrifying Taurus, cont’d
- “Birthers Sue Esquire for $120 Million Over Satirical Article”
- “Cop who shot Danroy Henry sues store where he allegedly got alcohol”
- WSJ op-ed on same-sex marriage and religious exemptions
- June 30 roundup
- Australia: employers liable for home injuries of work-at-home staff
- Help wanted
- Podcast on Wal-Mart v. Dukes
- The defense rests
- Informant at the next desk
- Europe’s unwelcoming tech hatchery
- Justices “split largely along gender lines”
- Bungling nanny trashes 100,000 cribs
- Pet shop banners
- Welcome Boston Globe, New Yorker readers
- “Hot Coffee” documentary (HBO) reviewed
- June 27 roundup
- Groupon, discount vouchers, and the law
- Hitting a Sirius jackpot
- Book review: “The Churchills”
- “Louisiana Legislators Narrowly Reject Car Seizure for Littering”
- Pixilated version of famous Miles Davis image
- Is the Supreme Court too “individualist”?
- “Too Much FDA Intervention Equals Too Few Drugs”
- June 24 roundup
- Canada: “Flooded-out farmer needs permit to remove fish”
- U.K. court rebukes “Edge” trademark-asserter
- June 23 roundup
- NLRB’s “quickie election” unionization plan
- Dear New York Times…
- Great moments in higher ed litigation
- “So You Got My Letter”
- Welcome Philadelphia Inquirer readers
- June 22 roundup
- “Lawyers should never come between a nation and its troops”
- Wal-Mart v. Dukes: some early analysis
- Forever 21 chain vs. critical blogger
- Radio today: Fox stations, WBAL
- Law, fairness, and Wal-Mart v. Dukes
- “I have never seen such an incompetent presentation of a damages case”
- June 20 roundup
- Consequences of school pranks
- The publicity squeeze
- A baffling award for ABC’s Toyota scaremongering
- “Cromwell & Goodwin”
- Tough as nails on manicure discrimination
- Conrad Black “supercilious” in the slammer?
- Liquor store licensing rules
- “Judge rules Righthaven lacks standing to sue, threatens sanctions over misrepresentations”
- “A hospital drug shortage made in Washington”
- Before being suspended over hungry crocodiles
- David Rossmiller on the Dickie Scruggs scandal
- Will California regulate social networking?
- CPSC: never mind
- Update: Hoeffner reaches plea deal with feds
- U.K.: Woman’s hobby of filing bias complaints costs others dearly
- Update: “Judge Bars Woman From Suing Over Faulty Google Map”
- “Whoops! Plaintiff Hired Lawyer First, Then Bought Product”
- “Streisand Effect”
- Albany’s lawyer-legislators, part CLXII
- June 14 roundup
- California closes a yogurt business
- “IHOP v. IHOP, Round 2″
- Dershowitz on DSK case
- “Sadly, the Internet is the predator’s venue of choice today.”
- Fracking and flaming faucets
- Mountain lion struck by SUV near NYC
- U.K.: “Butlins bans bumping on the bumper cars”
- Dry Max diaper class action settlement
- “Dead kids make bad laws”
- New at Cato: case “never should have been prosecuted”
- “There is money to be had when the right kind of book scandal comes along.”
- “The phenomenon of lower extremity impacts into furniture is not unusual”
- Margaret Little reviews Lester Brickman
- June 10 roundup
- Baltimore’s “Injury LawMobile”
- Worst New Jersey lawyer ever?
- Breaching online anonymity
- “Sex accommodation” tale from Brazil
- June 8 roundup
- New frontiers in international human rights
- Ron Smith show this morning; C-SPAN video
- But the class action fund was just sitting there!
- “Disabled man puts the squeeze on [NYC] businesses with handicap lawsuits”
- Another problem with victim impact statements
- “Lawsuits for the cure?”
- Self-driving cars
- June 7 roundup
- Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- “Acrophobic bridge worker protected by ADA”
- CPSC database: Wobbly on its feet
- Trolley-jumping in Memphis
- Economics of patent trolling
- NJ high court: drunks can sue bars that served them
- Fined for clearing tornado debris without license
- Henry Waxman and the Bendectin story
- The “pie chart that doesn’t want you to eat pie.”
- Chuck Norris: it started with a fight…
- “There are enough lawyers”
- “Suit seeks $15,000 for rose thorn prick”
- New TV legal drama’s protagonist: a mediator
- “Due Process Stops at the Campus Gates?”
- New Jersey schools: pulling another Abbott from the hat
- June 2 roundup
- Why U-Haul won’t rent trailers for Ford Explorers
- Copycat reality-TV shows
- June 1 roundup
- “Media industry awash in cease-and-desist letters”
- “Lawsuit blames Tampa Electric for teen’s fall from pole”
- But is it constitutional?
- Obama’s reluctant deregulation, cont’d
- May 31 roundup
- “2006 Louisiana environmental law leads to jackpot justice”
- “I am a very emotional person, and will cry.”
- C-SPAN2 “BookTV” this weekend
- Turning down the school lunch
- May 27 roundup
- “Three Cups of Tea” furor
- Feds seek $90,000 fine for illegal bunny-selling
- Blogger forced off school committee after teacher’s union threatens suit
- California prison crowding injunction, cont’d
- Overlitigation as sci-fi theme
- Law schools roundup
- Behind a Yale fraternity’s suspension
- Want to open a store? We choose your locations
- Sanctimonious posse pursuing Ronald McDonald
- San Francisco proposed ban on infant circumcision
- Top 50 law blogs list
- The Economist on NLRB Boeing complaint
- Medical liability reform: the federalism problem
- Big Food regulatory net
- “Make sure safety goggles are on EVERY EYE”
- SCOTUS approves Ninth Circuit prisoner-overcrowding order
- Tom Smith reviews Schools for Misrule in Yale Alumni Magazine
- Bernstein, “Rehabilitating Lochner”
- Class actions unconstitutional?
- U.K.: “Judge issues gag order for Twitter”
- “Coffee Brewers and Servers Sued Under Prop 65″
- California Environmental Quality Act at 40
- Grown woman stuck in baby swing
- “Clap On, Clap Off, Case Dismissed”
- “Ex-Colts cheerleader sues team over nude body-paint photos”
- A case of overcriminalization
- Attorney sues many legal bloggers, ABA, Washington Post…
- May 20 roundup
- Judge’s impartiality questioned in $322 million Mississippi jury verdict
- “North Carolina’s Rare Burger Ban Makes Red Meat Illegal”
- For Maryland’s guest teachers, an expensive lesson in labor rights
- “More risk of getting sued…”
- The Constitution’s General Welfare Clause
- Official nutritional guidance: the track record
- “Wacky warnings” finalists: don’t swallow your ballpoint pen cap
- “‘Social justice’ in contracts costs S.F. millions”
- Canada: Drunkenness as defense in sex assault?
- “NLRB’s Boeing attack is a strike against economic reality”
- Perennial litigant cuts wide swath among Newark landlords
- Sues school over wife’s affair with counselor
- Maybe those clunkers were worth keeping around
- “Why The Times Is Wrong About the AT&T Class Action Case”
- May 16 roundup
- Claim: Chuck E. Cheese kids’ games amount to gambling
- “Lawyer asks for $10M in desegregation case”
- Jezebel, the Dodgers and eminent domain
- Indiana: “No right to resist illegal cop entry into home”
- “Chemistry set with no chemicals”
- Federalist Society podcast on Schools for Misrule
- Prospective cop regarded as “paranoid” and “irrational”
- “It would be a miscarriage of justice to permit this case to go to the jury”
- “Nine ways lawyers inflate their bills”
- Banning hidden farm videos?
- May 12 roundup
- “Why we won’t link…”
- Update: Foreclosing his options
- “UK advocacy group proposes to sue predator drone operators”
- Labor Department releases iPhone app for wage/hour litigation
- Digging for ADA gold
- Ceci n’est pas une whistle
- Farm animal treatment: letting states and markets sort it out
- “Revisiting The Unreasonably Dangerous Undergarment”
- Rude metaphor dept.
- May 10 roundup
- Good news for dairy farmers
- “What Online Businesses Need to Know About the ADA”
- “How Copyright Law Makes Sample-Based Music Impossibly Expensive… If You Want To Do It Legally”
- May 9 roundup
- Prosecutions in Phoebe Prince school-bullying case sputter out
- “Cost of a Law Review Article: $100,000; Student Debt to Pay for it: Priceless”
- Texas Public Policy Foundation: A case for loser-pays
- JAMA study links low-salt diet to higher risk
- Trump’s litigiousness, cont’d
- From Florida governor to TV lawyer pitchman
- Senate confirms McConnell to federal judgeship
- Life imitates legal cliche: injury plaintiff winds up owning amusement park
- Class action lawyers pursue Facebook, Twitter
- Schools for Misrule roundup: Chronicle of Higher Ed, NBN podcast
- “It is the FDA’s position that raw milk should never be consumed”
- “NY bill would ban doctors’ neckties to curb germs”
- Update: “Court dismisses Duluth doctor’s lawsuit against patient’s son”
- Annals of New York public employment: Matter of Seiferheld v. Kelly
- Little-used Pennsylvania ADA ramps
- May 4 roundup
- Beet sugar interests sue over “corn sugar” coinage
- Activists’ demands of Wal-Mart in D.C.
- California bill would mandate fitted, rather than flat, sheets on hotel beds
- Cause for furrowed brows?
- “Bus driver who refused to take women to Planned Parenthood gets $21K in settlement”
- Guidebook-author liability?
- “Tobacco Companies Not Liable to Missouri Hospitals”
- May 2 roundup
- Anti-speech “superinjunctions” in the U.K.
- “Served: How law schools completely misrepresent their job numbers”
- “Plaintiff seeks phantom damages 6 times greater than actual costs”
- Donald Trump, litigation bully
- Terrified of 4-pound dachshund
- N.C.: “Orange County Rescue Squad suit tossed”
- “Overcriminalization and the Constitution”
- “LawyerClock: How much is this meeting costing me?”
- Podcast interview: Cato’s Ilya Shapiro
- CCAF announces “multiple victories”
- Great moments in public-sector unionism
- April 27 roundup
- “Vacaville Inmate Sues State For Sex Change Surgery”
- “Municipal extortion and full employment for lawyers”
- Comment of the day
- April 26 roundup
- Schools for Misrule radio and podcast, cont’d
- Court throws out verdict because defense mentioned Liebeck case
- April 25 roundup
- A tale of California labor law
- Gulf spill: “I never signed up with anybody”
- If only we’d had Dodd-Frank in ’08?
- Mark Steyn on Kinder Egg ban
- Texas considers strong measures against lawsuits intimidating speech
- Court: Canadian charter mandates bargaining with teacher’s union over class size
- Claim: NY Yankee top hat logo copies her uncle’s 1936 design
- Not tonight, dear, I have a toothache
- “Suit: Another woman’s breast has ruined my life”
- April 22 roundup
- Law schools roundup
- “And you thought you billed a lot of hours…”
- Tonight: “Late Nights with Jim Bohannon”
- Sidewalks, ADA suits, and attorneys’ fees
- “FindLaw Legal Bloggers Sue for Overtime Pay”
- Global warming as political question
- The U.N. vs. freedom of religion
- New York backs off wiffle-ball-hazard regs
- No sign of Fort Detrick cancer cluster
- Canadian cultural protectionism
- Beasley Allen drops Taco Bell beef suit
- “Has the ADA swallowed the FMLA for employee medical leaves?”
- Bigger — and more entrenched — hedge funds
- April 19 roundup
- San Francisco panel: places of public assembly should have to photograph patrons
- Visible taxes and invisible regulations
- Skate park bristling with signs
- Washington Times review; Yale Daily News
- April 18 roundup
- Why alimony cheats shouldn’t blog
- “A nation of Winklevosses”
- “How not to litigate a products liability case”
- Yale adopts submissive posture in Title-IX-vs.-speech case
- CPSIA: “Toy lead ban puts kids on ATVs at risk”
- “The hungry judges soon the sentence sign…”
- “US News Weighs Request to Add Diversity Measure to Law School Rankings”
- Alleged sexual assault on second date
- Ban on smoking by renters
- Wal-Mart v. Dukes symposium at Point of Law
- Great moments in school-speech litigation
- U.K. auto insurance rates soar
- April 14 roundup
- Class action demands pay for Huffington Post bloggers
- “Reign of the Philosopher-Kings”
- Legal boilerplate appended to email
- “Man Charged With Wiretapping for Using Phone During Traffic Stop”
- New Massachusetts restraining-order law
- Volunteering at your kid’s school
- Fred Rodell archive online
- Radio: Dennis Prager show today, Ronn Owens show tomorrow
- Great moments in tax-funded legal services
- Anatomy of a food scare story
- Att’n Boston Mayor Menino
- April 11 roundup
- Heritage, Heartland talks on Schools for Misrule
- CPSIA: “Toymakers Would Get Relief Under Republican Plan”
- “Please trick the old lady to say that she did not see the shooting…”
- April 10 roundup
- The value of a liquor license moratorium
- Libel reform in Britain, finally?
- Turnabout in demon-nurse case
- “Character” and law licenses
- Plaintiff drops Pennsylvania ADA complaints
- More Schools for Misrule mentions
- Older siblings banned from middle school pickup
- UK: “‘No-win, no-fee’ changes announced by Ken Clarke”
- Law school appearances: AU, Dickinson
- “Lugar Targets Federal Sugar Racket”
- “Are One in Five College Women Sexually Assaulted?”
- C-SPAN2′s “BookTV”
- “NYC councilman announces plan to introduce Fast Food Toy Ban bill”
- April 6 roundup
- Toss the First Amendment for fear of Mideast violence?
- “Between the Covers” podcast with John J. Miller, NR
- Supreme Court to consider scope of ministerial exemption
- Mortgage lenders’ paperwork offenses
- Bus underfunding as racial discrimination
- Recreation on Connecticut public land
- My Cato Institute talk on Schools for Misrule
- April 4 roundup
- Murder victim’s parents “would like to move on”
- Children’s sidewalk chalk drawing
- Attention NYC readers
- U.K. authorities might seek remedy for squatting
- April 2 roundup
- Court: ADA requires captioning stadium music
- “Feeds of disaster”
- Leave Junior alone in the car for even 45 seconds…
- Introducing “micro unions”
- Trawling for shareholder class-action clients
- Noise in the middle of the night?
- The unfairness of bargain prices
- Judge Posner weighs in on class actions
- Mothering Magazine ceases print publication
- Great moments in fair use disputes
- March 30 roundup
- Another serial ADA complainant, another closed restaurant
- American exceptionalism in playground warnings?
- Fastening ethics rules on the U.S. Supreme Court
- “Judge orders more money for New Jersey’s education industrial complex”
- Law schools roundup
- “Why Workplace Bullying Should Be Legal”
- Bonuses for prosecutors, cont’d
- Radio and other book news
- March 28 roundup
- A right to pursue harassment complaints anonymously?
- North Carolina’s throwback “heartbalm torts”
- Myhrvold’s patent-lobbying methods
- Book milestone
- “Righthaven lawsuits backfire, reduce protections for newspapers”
- “Grace Period for ADA Modifications Proposed in Congress”
- $17,000 to lawyer an investment deal
- Calif.: “Proposed Legislation Requires Accommodation Of Medical Marijuana”
- Nevada proposal: ban candles, air fresheners in public places
- March 24 roundup
- Feds require Dayton police department to lower hiring standards
- Reminder: Milt Rosenberg show tonight
- $75 trillion damage demand deemed “absurd”
- March 23 roundup
- New frontiers in disability accommodation: classmate mouth-rinsing
- William Henderson, Andrew Morriss: “It’s Time to Restore Morality to Law School Rankings”
- International human rights law roundup
- C-SPAN2 “Book TV” today
- “Cats are not a recognized form of pest control as far as we’re concerned”
- Sued if you do dept., immigrant workforce division
- “Judge Tosses Boeing Suit After ‘Confidential Witness’ Recants”
- March 21 roundup
- Demands $1.6 million for neighbor noise, $52 million for involving reporter
- WSJ: John McGinnis reviews Schools for Misrule
- “Collective Bargaining and Social-Worker Abuse”
- What is a photocopier?
- Photographing farms without consent
- British government unveils libel-reform proposals
- “I do not advocate violence in Wisconsin”
- Schools for Misrule: next week at Heritage and in Chicago
- Update: Oregon home brewers and vintners
- Court dismisses suit blaming cellphone firms for driver distraction
- Toilets that “frankly…don’t work”
- Update: Adorno & Yoss law firm to dissolve
- By reader acclaim: Minneapolis blogger told to pay $60K over post
- “I really don’t care what the law allows you to do…”
- Paul Rubin: “Privacy and tracking”
- Manhattan Institute podcast on Schools for Misrule
- Radley Balko on forensics reform
- “I Can’t Believe It Wasn’t Legal to Sell Yellow Margarine”
- Undercutting a $1,500 drug with a $20 equivalent
- Twitter as libel in Wales
- Kansas City jury finds for stadium hot dog flinger
- Lawyer suspended for advising clients to break into foreclosed homes
- The silence of the goats
- March 15 roundup
- Prepaying for gas in B.C.
- Suit: $19K/year NYC preschool not prep-oriented enough
- Coffee temperatures and the McDonald’s case
- Taxpayer-funded entitlement to foreclosure defense?
- Oz: “Companies to face mandatory reporting in bid to boost gender equality”
- March 14 roundup
- ADA: Feds withdraw “service animal” backing for ferrets, snakes
- Charlie Sheen sues Warner Brothers
- You can’t look at your own genome without going through a professional?
- “I’m no longer comfortable posting publicly about CPSIA…”
- Texas asbestos and silica lawsuit reform
- “SAFETY NOTICE: this heater will get hot”
- Pedestrian complainant characterizes Google Maps as “advisor”
- “A Comic-Book History of Comic-Book Lawsuits”
- The high cost of our broken IPO market
- Update: teen who rode oil pump loses case
- Claim: Starbucks tip jars too tempting to thieves
- Swiss sledders, skiers seldom sue
- “No-show Norfolk employee says she was wrongly fired”
- Minneapolis and DC readers; radio appearances
- “FTC Takes Aim at Patent Trolls”
- Richard Epstein: “Throttled by compliance”
- Update: “Milwaukee teachers drop Viagra suit”
- After California’s zip-code-privacy ruling
- High Court rebuffs Jets fan in “spygate” suit
- “Gone Fishin’? Lawyers Say You May Qualify For a Check from BP”
- “10 Questions”: I’m interviewed by The Daily Caller
- Scott Greenfield on Schools for Misrule
- Do NYT editorialists even read their paper’s own CPSIA coverage?
- Law schools roundup
- Supplying a missing footnote
- Update: French court tosses “book review defamation” case
- “Stalker takes legal action against victim”
- Hospital drug shortages, cont’d
- Schools for Misrule review roundup
- John Edwards, victim
- U.K.: “Roadblocks set up to catch drivers smoking”
- If you drink more than 1000 cans of cola a day…
- “Why bad teachers survive”
- Office productivity prizes for prosecutors
- “Should Illinois require safety guardrails be placed around all bathtubs in the state?”
- “Law School and Leftist Orthodoxy”
- “Parents Sue Lawyers Over Unhealthy Adopted Baby”
- “Constitutional attacks on patent false-marking law gain traction”
- March 3 roundup
- Widespread shortages of hospital drugs
- Schools for Misrule: some early blog reactions
- UK employment law: “Murderer loses unfair sacking claim”
- 2 year old takes methadone, doctors told to pay $2 million
- Charity blue-jean donation program
- Publisher’s Weekly on Schools for Misrule: “cutting-edge, hard-hitting, witty, astute”
- An unconstitutional patent false-marking statute
- Cato podcast on my new book
- New York Times poll on public employment
- BoingBoing applauds cops’ lawlessness
- Advice from a physician
- February 28 roundup
- Flak for Cobell fees, cont’d
- Woman sues TV station that broadcast wrong lottery numbers
- “If you’ve ever doubted the wisdom of letting lawyers run our country, read this book”
- Mopping up the Madoff mess
- “Please Send News Tips By E-Mail, Not By Posting Off-Topic Comments”
- “Mining giants bury Canadian critics with lawsuits”
- Why Toyota stock rose after yesterday’s recall
- February 25 roundup
- Wife: city improperly demoted hubby for dating subordinate
- New Benjamin Barton book, “The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System”
- Man shot on Mexico fishing trip sues tour operator
- February 24 roundup
- DC readers: speaking at Cato next Thurs. afternoon
- Oh, what testimonials
- $6.7 million awarded after drunk student’s fall
- SCOTUS, 6-2: vaccine suits preempted
- Wisconsin: a frisky-union vignette
- Canada: “fatally flawed” human rights proceedings
- “Tobacco tax hike was a backroom deal”
- Rise and fall of a “dropsy” epidemic
- Cracking the California tow-suit scam
- MindingTheCampus.com excerpts Schools for Misrule
- If Ms. Calvo-Goller is really worried about her reputation….
- New study: defensive medicine rife
- February 22 roundup
- Update: Lodi emerges from water-suit “legal hell”
- Gaming New York’s new recusal rules
- February 21 roundup
- Uh-oh: “Telecommuting: The Next Wave of Wage and Hour Litigation”
- Speaking this week: Indiana, Illinois
- “Is Canada becoming an overly litigious society?”
- “Man Sues All-You-Can-Eat Sushi Joint Because He Didn’t Want To Eat Rice”
- On Secular Right (& welcome NY Times readers)
- House hearing on CPSIA Thursday
- Annals of public employee tenure, cont’d
- “England recovers from background check mania”
- Scare du jour: caramel coloring in sodas
- “NJ housewife suing Century 21 for $5M over 80 cents”
- “Copyright-enforcer Righthaven demands $6,000 from young autistic blogger”
- Schools for Misrule spring speaking tour
- February 17 roundup
- California bars retailers from asking for zip codes, class actions follow
- “Lawyers seem to have a fondness for cloak and dagger stuff”
- Sorry, craft brewers
- Great moments in insurance law
- I took you in, and your family sued me
- February 15 roundup
- Deceased Baltimore cop signed, “verified” thousands of traffic-cam tickets
- Injured by Spider-Man musical? Call now
- “Chevron Hit With $8 Billion Ecuador Verdict It Vows Not To Pay”
- “Why reinstate teachers fired for bad performance?”
- Law schools roundup
- “Duluth man fights defamation suit by doctor he criticized”
- “Polar Bear Plunge” blamed for non-participant’s death, 19 sued
- February 13 roundup
- “Discourage litigation…. There will still be business enough.”
- Worst argument in history against letting Wal-Mart into one’s neighborhood?
- UK: “Shed owners warned wire on windows could hurt burglars”
- Suit charges slow evacuation of broken Disneyland ride
- “Toyota: The Media Owe You an Apology”
- Pro-traffic-camera study: case closed?
- Sallie Mae robocall settlement
- “Barminess” of UK employment tribunals
- “Japanese Anime Pokes Fun at America’s Legal System”
- What judges do and how it’s misunderstood
- Update: USDA overrides court’s ban on sugar-beet planting
- Mayor Bloomberg’s outdoor smoking ban
- (Still) misreporting Citizens United
- Delayed action
- Dan Snyder vs. Washington City Paper
- NHTSA: no electronic flaws in Toyotas
- “More than 100,000 People Have Been Sued for Sharing Movies in Past Year”
- Gun-safety instructor who shot himself sues over leaked video
- Shaken-baby syndrome: the doubts
- Marketing the board game you’ve invented
- Artisan cheese, Mark Bittman and Michelle Obama
- Redskins owner sues Washington City Paper
- February 7 roundup
- “Lawyer Deemed ‘the Most Worst Attorney’ in Online Rants Can’t Sue, Judge Rules”
- Criminal charges for spitballs in school
- February 5 roundup
- Nutella? Bad for your diet?
- A Ban On “Walking While Wired”?
- Senator Leahy spares Professor Fried…
- Class action lawsuit over Jimmy Carter book
- Reprieve for children’s-goods makers
- “I’m not embarrassed at all by the fee”
- “Let us know of a slippery location”
- Autopsy forensics
- “I have to talk with my client”
- February 2 roundup
- “Golfer Gored by Gator Sues Course Over Pond Design”
- Great moments in client-chasing
- Law schools roundup
- “Crocodile Dundee planning to sue Australia”
- Deep pocket files: Highway 101 crash
- New breast-implant-cancer scare
- Meet the Tiger Elders, with lawyers on speed-dial
- No more class pets?
- “Fighting Suits Saves Money for Chicago”
- Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
- Update: Kucinich settles olive-pit suit
- Taco Bell: “Thank you for suing us”
- The trouble with tenure, cont’d
- Update: California high court narrows Proposition 64
- More courts ordering access to Facebook posts
- January 28 roundup
- Slipping in the grocery aisle, accidentally on purpose
- Trade protectionism, the UPL way
- Speaking tour on Schools for Misrule
- Rep. Dennis Kucinich sues House cafeteria over olive pit in sandwich
- Undoing a tax paperwork mistake
- January 26 roundup
- “Dog dressed as Che Guevara” image
- Litigation Lobby: president’s med-mal SOTU remarks “disgusting”
- Court tosses Alan Grayson calling-card suit
- Taiwan: man sues over trained-bird insults
- Texas governor: let’s move toward loser-pays
- Tape recording Illinois cops
- IBM’s proposed “meta-patent”
- Do not polish guns while taking this medication
- Susan Saladoff documentary “Hot Coffee” at Sundance
- Jump in world prices raises specter of food riots
- “The Facebook deal moves offshore”
- January 24 roundup
- “Even if it’s a 15-year-old, we hold 15-year-olds to certain levels of responsibility.”
- N.Y.: “Senator Alesi Sues Couple that Declined to Press Charges Against Him”
- Canadian court: alcoholism following accident is compensable injury
- February 10 deadline for CPSIA testing rules
- “Yes, you should be fired for that Facebook post”
- Patent parade: “Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online”
- “First lady, Wal-Mart reach pact on nutrition”
- Texting Fountain Lady considers lawsuit
- Suit: quality complaint over escort resulted in trauma
- January 21 roundup
- Comcast-NBC merger conditions
- Schools for Misrule publicity: ABA Journal
- Followup: “Academic Advantage fires law firm that threatened BoingBoing”
- “Lawsuit planned by family of teen who fell from airplane”
- “Wooly Willy” maker settles patent false marking case
- An Obama course correction on regulation?
- Alberto-Culver merger shareholder challenge
- Schools for Misrule is off to the printer
- BoingBoing talks back to a nastygram (again)
- “Lawyer advises foreclosed clients to break back into their homes”
- January 18 roundup
- “Is trademark bullying okay if you’re on the side of the angels?”
- Salon yanks discredited RFK Jr. vaccine piece
- Update: adult clubs to settle EEOC age-bias suit
- License plate and tax on bicycles?
- Taking anti-hacking law too far?
- Obama administration’s Title IX activism
- Appeals court upholds dismissal of CSPI salt case against Denny’s
- What it takes to get disbarred in Vermont
- Annals of litigation science
- January 14 roundup
- Life after the Florida governorship
- A law school for Alaska?
- Canada: Lawsuit blames province for car-moose collisions
- A class action named plaintiff revolts
- Kinder Surprise chocolate-covered toys
- High Court declines to hear Gulf Coast-climate change case
- Jilted bride sues ex-groom
- Koons vs. balloon dog bookends
- January 12 roundup
- Brits to make it easier to hire/fire workers
- California’s new online-impersonation ban
- “If I notice an employee becoming increasingly unstable, what can I do about it?”
- What could have been entering the public domain this month?
- Settlement consumed in fees
- Update: California tow-and-sue scam
- On the food safety bill
- Toyota theories shift
- “Law degree, never used, for sale on eBay”
- Since parties “are immune to reason…I have tried ridicule as a last resort”
- “Comatose Little Girl Gets Ticket for Jaywalking”
- January 7 roundup
- Kitty litter manufacturers in court
- Daily Show mocks SF Happy Meal ban
- The many uses of ObamaCare
- “Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent”
- Annals of lawyer civility
- “Dumping” law and the absent consumer interest
- “Golf courses: a gold mine for lawsuits”
- Why I won’t miss Rep. Waxman
- January 5 roundup
- Carbon dioxide as pollutant
- Lawsuits meant to silence critics
- January 4 roundup
- “Woman Sues TV Preacher for Failing To Disclose Affair”
- “A Disconnect between cell phone fears and science”
- Man wounded in bar gunfight
- Approaching deadline on CPSIA compliance
- Lawsuits by losing Congressional candidates, cont’d
- “Free Speech About Science Act”
- “Double-clicking patent takes on world”
- December 31 roundup
- New feminist gripe against Hooters
- Denis Dutton, 1944-2010
- December 28 roundup
- Christmas break
- December 23 roundup
- Ousted Congressman sues anti-abortion PAC for “loss of livelihood”
- “Jury Awards Law Professors $5 Million Against West Publishing For Defamatory Pocket Part”
- 9/11 first responders compensation bill
- NY: assumption of risk bars suit over errant golf shot
- EEOC sues over employer use of credit record in hiring
- Don’t deprive archaeologists…
- Gov. Christie commutes Brian Aitken sentence
- “Not all tragedies are preventable”
- Smoking bans and heart attack “miracles,” cont’d
- Ted Frank on the Dukes v. Wal-Mart class action
- We have “to fight environmental oppression, environmental genocide, environmental slavery”
- December 20 roundup
- (Fictional) law of super-heroes
- “To get the check, you’ve got to medicate the child”
- “RuneScape devs refuse to cave in to patent trolls”
- CPSC vs. drop-side cribs
- “‘New-Car Fumes’ May Have Contributed to Hit-and-Run, Expert Says”
- Jim Copland on intrusive corporate prosecution
- Happy Meal lawsuit, cont’d
- Judge tosses exploding-snail case
- New conservative group urges rethink of crime policy
- December 16 roundup
- McDonald’s sued over Happy Meals
- Big business and the extension of regulation
- “Cleared of Theft, But Not To Reclaim Property”
- Product liability as model for consumer finance regulation?
- Money-laundering laws’ latest casualty: small embassies
- New Heartland Institute podcast on Schools for Misrule
- Obama signs school nutrition bill
- “Have you been denied a job based on your Criminal History?”
- Relentless growth of Washington, D.C.
- Below-average cancer rates found in town of Brockovich fame
- “One nation, under too many laws”
- AgSec Vilsack: no intention of banning bake sales
- “The Case Against the U.N. Women’s Treaty”
- December 13 roundup
- “The Chocolate Library” vs. library bureaucrats
- Righthaven update
- Frontiers of federal criminalization
- Dear lawmakers: please fix CPSIA
- Federalist Society videos online
- McDonald’s obesity class action dismissed
- “Red light cameras working exactly as intended”
- More financial crisis prosecutions?
- “I’m harassed by your affairs with others”
- Online free speech, cont’d
- Injury client screening, the Namby Pamby way
- Family sues bat maker over line drive
- Does disclosure matter?
- “A 9/11 Bonanza for Trial Lawyers”
- “If you got a potted plant, that makes you a farmer”
- “Antipiracy lawyers pirate from other antipiracy lawyers”
- New book on Dickie Scruggs downfall
- December 7 roundup
- New federal power to ban school bake sales?
- Let’s you and him fight
- FDA expansion bill hits “arcane,” “technical” roadblock
- Blogging about legal blogging
- $100K battle over pet in condo
- Takes date horseback riding, gets sued after fall
- Man drives car into light pole in Wal-Mart parking lot
- Self-filed suits work for unemployed New Yorker
- December 4 roundup
- “Duel over sugar beet seeds could create shortage”
- Food safety bill update (and welcome readers)
- Judge rebukes copyright troll RightHaven
- Bowles-Simpson commission proposes med-mal reform
- “Counsel shall not make any derogatory remarks generally about trial lawyers”
- The new (and very activist) Obama EEOC
- Booze-laced whipped cream
- Cato podcast on food safety bill
- “I never thought we’d be trademarking a high school logo”
- Tort liability for property losses
- CPSIA: the new consumer-complaint database
- Brian Aitken case, cont’d
- Employers and the newly expanded ADA
- “Securities Class Actions Mostly Punish Shareholders, Study Finds”
- November 30 roundup
- New York high court takes up negligent-golfing case
- Hershey sues Mars over candy wrapper design
- Seems to be contagious
- Law schools roundup
- Food safety bill: goodbye, artisanal cheese?
- “Phrases that announce ‘I’m lying’”
- Matchmaker stuck in elevator loses rich client
- Dept. of fun-killing
- Great moments in teacher tenure
- Now, the Four Loko lawsuits
- November 26 roundup
- In which we are cited
- Annals of prosecutorial stunts
- November 24 roundup
- For livestock and poultry producers, more lawsuits ahead?
- “Thanksgiving in 1810, 1910, and 2010″
- “San Francisco overrides mayoral veto, bans Happy Meals with toys”
- Great moments in judicial conduct
- Another “too-hot-looking” employment plaintiff
- Back to the campus speech code wars?
- “R.I.P. Cabell County Swing Sets”
- “Rent Too High” candidate sues New York election board
- “Niche Lawyers Spawned Housing Fracas”
- November 23 roundup
- Schools cancel shop classes to avoid liability risk
- Loco parentis: schools to send parents “your kid’s too fat” notes
- November 22 roundup
- Another “breastaurant” battle: Twin Peaks vs. Grand Tetons
- “Cell Phones and Brain Cancer: What Was The New York Times Thinking?”
- New York regulates household employment
- Irish businessman awarded $13.6 m in “naked sleepwalking” libel trial
- November 21 roundup
- “‘Police! Step Away From the Chess Table’”
- “Interior inspector general: White House skewed drilling-ban report”
- Court: riding oil pump like toy horse could be “reasonably anticipated” use
- New Jersey gun transport case, cont’d
- Facebook unfriending as workplace “retaliation”?
- East Texas patent venue
- November 18 roundup
- “Girls named Zoe lose suit against Renault for naming electric car Zoe”
- Paycheck Fairness Act: a “nonsensical” lawsuit-trap
- Claim: Huffington Post built on swiped business model
- DOTSec: Let’s disable cellphones in cars
- High school sports booster clubs
- Safer that way
- “Lawsuits have cost Atlantic City $39 million in just 10 years”
- Driver sues parents of teen he killed
- Schools for Misrule galleys are here
- “Whoppers with sleaze”
- “In San Rafael, ‘exploding’ escargot ignite saucy lawsuit”
- NY Times on litigation finance
- Deficit-reduction panel
- November 15 roundup
- Objecting to the Classmates.com class action settlement
- Injury lawyers get pitched to advertise on funeral homes site
- “Mount Washington Hotel to businesses: Stop using mountain’s name”
- “The other oil cleanup”
- “Lawyer Who Billed Fla. for More than 24 Hours in a Day Won’t Be Disciplined”
- Federal taxpayers vs. federal taxpayers
- Guardian advances litigation urban legends
- November 12 roundup
- Claim: touching smokers’ clothing can cause “massive” nerve damage
- “Father Sues District Over Reading About Slavery”
- From comments: Before feeding the hungry…
- Forthcoming: “The Lawyer-Judge Bias in the American Legal System”
- Unpleasant buzz
- Update: Teacher who allegedly branded cross onto student’s arm drops suit
- Question: what constitutes “down?”
- “Law Schools Overwhelmingly Hire Liberals as Law Professors”
- More poppy seed madness
- Supreme Court asked to review multistate tobacco deal
- Chicago’s hard line on police-misconduct claims
- Allstate advances “Toyota sudden acceleration” narrative
- November 9 roundup
- U.K.: “Health and safety spells the end for cobblestones”
- “Foreclosure Lawyers Put Second Mortgages on Clients’ Homes”
- Blog comments by law firms
- When a Holy Saint sues
- 2nd Circuit: Starbucks not liable in “double-cup” hot-tea suit
- Mark Lanier’s 2010 Christmas party
- The procurement mess
- Federal sugar program safe because “it doesn’t cost anything”
- November 8 roundup
- “Our commitment to you is to go the extra mile to win your case…”
- “The law that stole Christmas”
- “1-800-Ask-Gary firm sues lawyers over critical blog”
- Late for work taking care of disabled relatives?
- Diner: no one warned me how to eat artichoke leaves
- Why Can’t Chuck Start a Business?
- Special court just for women defendants
- November 5 roundup
- Marijuana legalization and employment law
- Silhouette cowboy
- “Use good judgment in all situations”
- Found in a cookie jar?
- “FASB Disclosure Proposal: Back To The Drawing Board”
- Election results
- “San Francisco bans Happy Meals”
- Canada: “lawyer considering class action suit for moose-car crash victims”
- New York Attorney General race
- Kaus: Card check and the election
- November 2 roundup
- “Do you know? The DOL is encouraging employee covert ops in your business”
- Allegation: Debt collectors used fake “courtroom”
- November 1 roundup
- Gotham firefighters and racial hiring
- Hell’s Angels sue Saks Fifth Avenue
- Haunted-house operators scared by lawsuits
- An elected AG for Washington, D.C.?
- SLAPPing with impunity in California
- “What can we get away with?”
- Hallowe’en a low-risk holiday for kids
- “McDonald’s must pay Brazilian manager $17.5K for weight gain”
- “4-Year-Old Can Be Sued, Judge Rules in Bike Case”
- Law schools roundup
- Checking job applicants’ credit references
- CPSIA, uncompliable
- Grapes — and Cadbury — wept
- “Greenwich man seeking millions from town over softball injury”
- Why are there so many “danger” signs?
- Hiccup Girl lawyer may blame Tourette’s
- Bounteous bankruptcies: Lehman Brothers
- “Nine Key Ballot Initiatives To Watch”
- Trucker demands religious accommodation for refusal to haul alcohol, tobacco
- Publication: we’ll come after those who read multiple stories online
- Need for agent’s help at check-in said to be ADA violation
- State bar: lawyer claimed to “channel” client’s dead wife
- Canada: “Yukon man seeks $12M for space rock damage”
- Foreclosures on the rocks
- India: Colgate patented traditional remedy, opponents claim
- Let’s impeach John Roberts!
- Michigan Supreme Court Justice Robert Young
- October 25 roundup
- “I’ll Make Them Pay”
- “D.A.R.E.: Ripping Families Apart Since 1983″
- Chevron can depose opposing lawyer in Ecuador case
- October 23 roundup
- Denounced anonymously for “seeking Christian roommate” request
- Trial lawyers step up spending, stick with Dems
- U.K.: “Lawyers to be kept out of divorce battles”
- Judge throws out a Righthaven case
- “My Web Designer Goes to Jail”
- Saturday Night Live parody of Gloria Allred
- Update: Judge upholds $13 M award for Seattle firefighter
- Bugs might fly in
- October 21 roundup
- Timeless mysteries of rights-assertion: images of Stonehenge
- New York chief judge rallies “Civil Gideon” campaign
- A story that can’t be true
- Poppy seed bagels and false positive drug tests
- The Namby Pamby is exasperated
- Best law firm sign?
- Title IX squashes high school soccer
- “Deposition Tricks: The Dirty Dozen”
- October 19 roundup
- Gerald Colbert v. Sonic Restaurants
- Watching, watching, ever watching
- “JFK University removes garden over disability concerns”
- Fans can’t use Illinois mascot
- October 18 roundup
- Great moments in lawyer TV advertising: “BullyLawyer.com”
- Claim: it’s “open season” for saying bad things about lawyers
- Update: “Judge rules against edgy ‘troll’ Langdell”
- “Drowning in law”
- Netherlands: Wilders not guilty, prosecutors say
- Why I wouldn’t vote for Andrew Cuomo
- Firefighters who let houses burn
- Criminalizing school bullying
- “Rollover image on your website? That will be $80,000 (please)”
- Child abuse investigations: costs, benefits, and ruined lives
- Reminder: New Orleans speeches
- Small business and the Paycheck Fairness Act
- October 14 roundup
- CPSIA, business anger and the election
- Mark Osler on RICO
- “Total war over missing paperwork”
- “Warning: Open Windows Can Be Hazardous”
- “Poster for Anti-Infringement Campaign Was Copied, Designer Admits”
- Sleight of hand and litigation statistics
- School webcams: the division of the spoils
- A blogger gets a threat letter
- October 12 roundup
- A creative liquormaker speaks out
- Itsy-bitsy picture of astronaut on album cover
- Dear Concerned Constituent…
- “D.C.’s other thriving industry: lawsuits”
- October 11 roundup
- “High-priced lawyer sues former client, then agrees to pay him $102,000″
- Driving while not in fact drunk
- Sue the Nobel economics committee?
- Do as we say dept.
- “Game Over for Plaintiffs in Wii Class Action”
- October 9 roundup
- Counting our blessings dept.: bills Congress didn’t pass
- Class-action firms sanctioned
- International human rights roundup
- Church of Body Modification
- Offended winemaker sues Internet commenters
- NYC’s outrageous Apple settlement
- “Court Bars Molester From Suing Parents of Her Victim”
- N.J.: Drunk drivers can sue the bars that served them, cont’d
- A liberal jurist defends arbitration
- October 7 roundup
- Law firms that represent anti-gay causes
- EEOC sues on obesity-as-disability theory
- Seventh Circuit tosses suit against Yahoo over search results
- “Your blog hasn’t covered my pet issue. What are you guys scared of?”
- Oh, well that’s okay then
- Objecting to a New York Post cartoon
- October 5 roundup
- Online sockpuppetry: when is it criminal?
- Upcoming New Orleans speeches
- High court lets stand Paul Minor conviction
- “He said he had worked too long and too hard for a lousy $41 million”
- October 4 roundup
- Food safety bill: the Big Business/Big Nanny alliance
- “Boys deny fireworks fiasco, claim seat heaters caused car fire”
- U.K.: “School ‘no touch’ rules to be scrapped”
- “This American Life” on California ADA mills
- CPSIA: Russian nesting dolls, paper clips, science kits
- U.K.: “Council outlaws mother-in-law jokes”
- “The Law of McDonald’s”
- “Boy Suspended for Lighter He Found on Way to School”
- “What good are cameras if Gloria Allred isn’t in front of them?”
- Canada: “Human Rights Tribunal rules it can name university deans”
- Pizza Hut told to pay $11 million for epileptic driver’s crash
- “Melvyn Weiss’ Quest For Redemption”
- September 30 roundup
- Welcome WGN (Chicago) listeners
- UK: Not with my daughter you don’t!
- $52,000 verdict for injury while throwing pitch
- Justice Breyer, exemplar of restraint?
- “NJ Judge: Casinos Must Pay $8M for Misleading Ads”
- Developer vs. critic of eminent domain, cont’d
- “Rastafarian sues over grooming policy”
- Paycheck Fairness Act, cont’d
- New frontiers in whistleblower recruitment
- “Lawyer Bluster on Display in Oil Spill Litigation”
- September 28 roundup
- Why isn’t there more research on contraceptives?
- Beer lobby fighting California pot initiative
- Hurricane destroys city, women hit hardest
- “Handicapped man sues Tampa strip club”
- Standing and the left-right divide
- “The regulatory origins of the flash crash”
- Symposium on California Prop 64
- Busy beavers at Beasley
- UK: Student goes to court to appeal university grade
- September 24 roundup
- “How Title IX Is Stifling High School Baseball in Florida”
- Will Congress overturn Twombly/Iqbal?
- “Norman Tugwater, Fantasy Sports Lawyer”
- September 23 roundup
- John Stossel’s show…
- “Paycheck Fairness Act poised for passage”
- Woman sues airline over emergency landing
- Timothy Sandefur, “The Right to Earn a Living”
- Convicted in double-fatality crash, trooper wants compensation
- U.K.: Woman who made up rape story is jailed
- September 21 roundup
- “Not Guilty by Reason of Caffeine”
- “Tory blitz on compensation culture is revealed”
- “North Carolina Sheriffs Want To Know Who Is Taking Painkillers”
- September 20 roundup
- “The Most Insane Zero Tolerance Story Yet”
- The continuing exploits of RightHaven
- Goodbye Alien Tort Statute?
- Web seminar: “Legal PR, Trial Lawyers’ Style”
- (Litigious) life in academia
- “Evidence of fraud mounts in Ecuadorian suit against Chevron”
- Prosecutor’s hitting on crime victim
- “High Court to Decide Whether Climate Change Cases Should Proceed”
- Less harsh federal criminal sentences
- Fooling the ump
- September 17 roundup
- ABA Journal blawg beauty contest, again
- Can a 7-year-old cross the road unaided?
- “No implied concession about autism”
- “Unlikely Group Charges Bias at University”
- Los Angeles Times on Toyota acceleration
- An ombudsman? For CPSIA?
- U.K.: “Washing lines ‘a health and safety risk’”
- An Easter egg for Massachusetts employers
- School left students’ records on the street
- Cato Constitution Day — Thurs. Sept. 16
- “Company Hit With $459 Million Judgment Over ‘Junk Fax’ Transmissions”
- Why would a union favor its own decertification?
- Judge: lawyers’ acts of misbehavior “make me feel like a school marm scolding little boys”
- On the road: preparing Spring speaking/book tour
- Ugg-ly trademark lawyering?
- Delaware Republicans
- September 13 roundup
- On the John Stossel show: video
- Litigation as public relations battle
- Not really hurt by cop’s negligence
- Oregon expands public-agency liability
- Sebelius and health insurers: shut up, she explained
- U.K.: Great moments in international human rights
- “State AG Races: Lots of Toss-Ups”
- Man plants car bomb and blows up half-brother
- Favorite blogs for corporate law specialists
- “Posner – ‘Nebulous suspicions voiced by a busybody’ not protected under Title VII”
- Screening out felons as job applicants?
- September 9 roundup
- Jim Hood’s expert loyalty
- Lawyer’s suit against lawyer-rating service Avvo
- “Only you, Target Group, can make a martyr of Sick, Twisted Individual And his Followers.”
- Suit claiming Ladies’ Nights at bars are unconstitutional…
- Shot if you do, sued if you don’t
- CPSIA for soap?
- Variations on the standard author disclaimer
- How California’s legal-business climate is different
- “Toyota’s acceleration problem could be customer-based”
- My new Cato podcast: human rights redefined
- September 7 roundup
- Blawg Review #280
- Antitrust experts ponder NFL exemption
- “Emma Thompson on Making Kids Brave”
- Ireland: Annals of non sequiturs
- Citizenry as suckers
- “People are shocked to learn they can be sued for posting, ‘My dentist stinks.’”
- September 3 roundup
- “Bad idea of the day: copyrighting cocktails”
- Swing sets removed from playgrounds
- September 2 roundup
- On tonight’s John Stossel show (FBN)
- German state supports its citizens’ kids overseas
- “Pregnant = disabled, at least according to the 6th Circuit”
- The Economist: “Swimming and freedom”
- September 1 roundup
- Acts “that in other contexts might seem unethical or even dishonest”
- Illinois high court election fight
- “Second Circuit: Repeated Use of ‘Bitch’ May Be Enough to Create Hostile Work Environment”
- “Student who shocked himself suing school, teacher”
- Buckyballs and the vulnerable 13-year-old
- August 31 roundup
- A tuckpointer’s travails
- “Ohio Lawyer Suspended for Billing More than 24 Hours in a Day”
- August 30 roundup
- Protectionism disguised as reparations-ism?
- “Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s firm gets cut of 9/11-suit payouts”
- U.K.: Great moments in legal aid
- SEC’s “proxy access” initiative
- August 28 roundup
- “Messy Divorce Leads to Whistleblower Bounty in Pequot Capital Case”
- “Requiring Fitness for Duty Exam for Erratic Behavior Did Not Violate ADA”
- SeaWorld lawsuit: seeing orca attack traumatized our kid
- Demand for $38 quadrillion, cont’d
- Annals of paternalism
- August 26 roundup
- McKenna on Washington sovereign immunity
- Politico (the website) vs. “College Politico”
- “California Town Abandons Facebook Page Amid Legal Concerns”
- The egg and I
- “Felony charges dropped in fire-breathing bartenders case”
- Ready, set, cringe
- Lawsuit demands $38 quadrillion
- Worker’s comp in California
- Credit card agreements now average 31 pages long
- Illinois candidate “wants to shutter law schools”
- Louisiana fishing license applications jump rather than drop
- “Hello, I’m with the government and I’m here to help you eat”
- “Teen Claims School Violated ADA by Barring Basketball with Service Dog”
- August 23 roundup
- BlackBerry use as overtime, cont’d
- Newly discovered jazz treasures
- “Just the bad ones,” they say
- “Any defamatory or disparaging statements … will be met with swift litigation”
- August 21 roundup
- “Blumenthal: The ‘A’ in AG is for Activist”
- Censoring movie depictions of smoking
- How to succeed as a TV law pundit
- Fateful friending
- August 19 roundup
- “Convicted Terrorist’s Demand for High-Fiber Diet is Rejected”
- Update: Branham v. Ford
- “Geek Squad owners send cease-and-desist letter to God Squad”
- Sued if you do, sued if you don’t dept.: laminated vs. tempered glass
- “Oh, no! School wi-fi is making our kids sick!”
- “Sending a child off to college…?”
- Basketball doubleheaders: men first
- Speaking at several law schools in 2010
- In ADA-mill news…
- “Utility Threatens to Send Overdue Balance of $0.00 to Collections”
- “A Litigious U.S. Might Be Driving Business to Law Firms Abroad”
- One judge’s philosophy?
- Subrogation without adult supervision
- August 16 roundup
- New York workplace-bullying law: “Bad bosses meet teacups”
- Service dog’s untimely calls of nature
- FASB proposal on litigation disclosure, redux
- Godzilla’s lawyers would like a word with you
- Lowe’s drywall settlement
- A case of sour cranberries?
- “Sick Duck: Did Tigger and Donald Duck grope women at Disney World?”
- August 13 roundup
- “Lower Your Newspaper Advertising Prices, Pay a $21 Million Fine”
- Suit: music festival didn’t deter underage drinking in parking lot
- Camera said to capture $12.8 M winner’s “victory dance”
- August 12 roundup
- Travel writer’s legal nightmare continues
- “Government finds no electronic defects in runaway Toyotas ‘so far’”
- Why JetBlue can’t crack a smile
- Newsweek on the ADA’s effects
- August 11 roundup
- Offering to trade legal services for sexual favors
- NYC bus drivers’ union in court
- August 10 roundup
- A reminder: anti-arbitration is anti-consumer
- On trial for vehicular homicide, sues family she killed
- “Lerach, feds spar over Wall St. woes class”
- Allegation: “Deposition toe-tapping”
- “Family of man hit by train suing railroad, canoe company”
- “Passive Aggressive Settlement Disbursements”
- Litigation slush funds, cont’d: Arkansas
- “Teachers Unions vs. Online Education”
- Unauthorized paintings depicting college football
- “So Sue Me” license plate
- August 6 roundup
- Armenians vs. Turkey in court, cont’d
- Plague-squirrel panic!
- August 5 roundup
- Dive into above-ground pool
- “A French company bribes Nigerian foreign officials…”
- August 4 roundup
- Mauch Chunk once more?
- ADA: Feds intervened against college Kindles
- Life without elevators
- Legal academia roundup
- Family overnights RV in Wal-Mart lot, sues over intruder
- Annals of rape allegations
- NY Times editorial on free speech
- ADA at a South Carolina courthouse
- August 2 roundup
- Left assails Fifth Circuit judges based on clients they repped decades ago
- Shirley Sherrod to sue Andrew Breitbart
- Google Street View and state AGs
- Charge: NHTSA sitting on pro-Toyota investigation results
- Shirley Sherrod and a Pigford puzzle
- “Burglar sues men who captured him, claims rough citizens arrest”
- A national discussion about race “around water coolers”?
- Ross Douthat, “Did The Americans With Disabilities Act Work?”
- DISCLOSE Act: “Nobody Is Saying You Can’t Run the Ads”
- “Ex-Client Wins $7.3M Emotional Distress Award Against Law Firm”
- Tennessee Titans sue USC football coach
- Sues over indoor soccer “slide tackle”
- July 30 roundup
- Ireland: boy of 5 wins defamation suit
- “Good Lord, people are complaining because they can’t see a taco, get a life”
- Schools for Misrule cover art
- “Apple Sued Because iPad Does Not Work ‘Just Like A Book’ As Claimed”
- NYT: Roberts Court “most conservative in decades”
- “Warning: Sharp Thing May Cut Hand”
- The Mississippi emails, cont’d
- Panel: “Union influence on public policy”
- Passenger sues over crying toddler on flight
- Slowing down the copyright trolls
- “…one of the unheralded heroes of our time”
- Peter Henning on SEC whistleblowing
- July 28 roundup
- Welcome Lars Larson listeners
- ADA’s anniversary, cont’d
- California high court OKs public contingency fees
- Canadian gambler: you let me lose C$330,000
- July 27 roundup
- Bar exam hypothetical parody
- 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Alabama law: contracts based on gambling are void
- UK historian who salted Amazon with self-serving reviews loses legal case against rivals
- Privacy/information collection “best practices” bill
- July 26 roundup
- Delegate to Durban conference up for 10th Circuit nod
- “Humiliated” talent-show reject wants to sue host
- July 24 roundup
- “Libel tourism” legislation
- “99 Cents Only Stores sued over price increase”
- “Students Aren’t Allowed To Touch Real Rocks”
- July 23 roundup
- Welcome KPNW listeners
- “New Financial Regulations Will Make Whistleblowing Lucrative”
- “Worst state attorneys general”, cont’d
- Court: competitive cheerleading not varsity sport
- July 22 roundup
- $13 million settlement for USDA-er Shirley Sherrod’s group
- BP spill cleanup workers’ suit
- “Rape by deception” in Israel
- “Crazy claims no reason to reject class action, lawyer says”
- “The Nation’s Worst Attorneys General”
- NHTSA consumer complaint Hall of Fame
- Mortgage watchdog site, sued by critics, may go broke
- “Patent marking” lawsuit craze
- “The Regulatory Avalanche From Washington, D.C.”
- “When the Victim Is the Criminal”
- Update: New York bill banning short-term rentals
- Bad-mouthing Toyota and its defenders
- “German police officer earns extra week’s holiday for getting dressed”
- “Lawyers line up to fight BP”
- “National Sexual Harassment Registry”
- Goldman Sachs penalty
- An Oregon crafter on CPSIA
- The Rule of Lawyers reviewed
- “Courts Reward Helicopter Parents, Two Law Profs Say”
- “Beer pong players sue over inclusion in ‘World’s Funniest Commercials’ video”
- Hostage sues government that rescued her for $6.8m
- Muslim woman demands female attendant for emergency-room EKG
- Dodd-Frank whistleblower provisions
- Fire? Blame the halogen lamp
- Lileks on Pamplona
- Get that anti-Scruggs blogger! Get him!
- July 15 roundup
- “HOV lanes are racist” case
- “They had the alternative of simply not suing”
- Iroquois “passports”
- “Also, my name or my business name is never to cross your lips again”
- July 14 roundup
- On the new Toyota findings
- “Judge OKs grisly insurance payout”
- The Onion on network safety scares
- Told-you-so dept.: USDOT exonerates Toyota
- “Teacher claims A$400,000 damages from injuries to larynx from yelling at students”
- July 13 roundup
- International gun control?
- “15 of the Most Ridiculous Celebrity Lawsuits”
- Stop worrying so much about safety…
- July 12 roundup
- “Marine recruit sues Corps for making him exercise in the summer”
- Followers sue religious group after doomsday fails to occur as promised
- July 11 roundup
- Lindsay Lohan’s legal woes
- New John Stossel segment: “The Trouble With Lawyers”
- “No Suing Your Getaway Driver for Crashing, Court Rules”
- “Web’s Worst Lawyer Commercials”
- July 9 roundup
- “Pickle bills” exempt small foodmakers
- Who got the lowest settlement from Expedia class action?
- July 8 roundup
- SawStop technology, cont’d
- $20 million for Jaycee Dugard, cont’d
- Mean-girl YouTube video
- Tom Goldstein on Supreme Court misconceptions
- “Brooklyn Man Suing Yoo-Hoo For False Advertising”
- Whoops, there goes another Spitzer prosecution
- Oz: “Letter bomber Colin Dunstan wins compensation”
- Extraterritorial application of securities law
- Preferring one judge’s courtroom to another
- The joys of CPSIA testing
- And then went back to “access to justice” chatter
- July 6 roundup
- Lab sues Stephen Barrett (QuackWatch)
- Because liability reform would be too hard
- “Failed to warn escalator was not moving”
- “12 Most Bizarre Comedian Lawsuits”
- “Reputations Don’t Return When Prosecutors Drop Charges”
- Yes, tea is hot, too. (Redux: Villona Maryash edition)
- Shortages of prostate cancer medicine
- Cathy Young on Quinnipiac cheerleading trial
- Dear Congress: stop criminalizing things
- July 2 roundup
- “9 in 10 docs blame lawsuit fears for overtesting”
- Adventures in legislative debt collection
- $1 million awarded in bicycle crash
- France makes “psychological violence” a crime
- “Another frooty lawsuit”
- New York may ban informal short-term rentals
- Sent off
- Federal judge who lifted Gulf drilling ban
- Canada: boys dropped from junior hockey team, parents sue
- June 30 roundup
- Elena Kagan on liability limits
- “Bill Passed in Albany to Make Insurers Pay for Autism Care”
- Schmooze-fests for public pension officials
- San Francisco cellphone radiation warnings
- New York cop’s $80,000 bias award
- Christian Legal Society v. Martinez
- “New Suits Could Chill Writers’ Use of Own Experiences”
- Define “forced,” please
- June 28 roundup
- Don’t you dare go broke on us
- Italy: geologists may be charged for not predicting earthquake
- EPA treats milk spills like oil spills
- June 25 roundup
- High court, 8-0: no “foreign-cubed” securities fraud suits
- “Court Rejects Pill Addiction Suit Against Pharmacies”
- At The American Prospect, doubts on Lerach
- “Alberta blamed for bear attack on donkeys”
- Lawyers in Greece go on strike
- June 24 roundup
- The story of Emery Joe Yost
- NYC: court tosses track totterer’s $2.3 million award
- “France’s Not-So-Free Speech Laws”
- Volkswagen sunroof settlement, cont’d
- New oil spill panel director: plaintiffs only, please?
- “McDonald’s faces lawsuit over Happy Meals”
- June 23 roundup
- Milwaukee triathlete making $53k on disability
- “In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That”
- “Law Firms Sanctioned Over Billionaire Perelman’s ‘Frivolous’ Estate Claim”
- Newport, R.I.’s Cliff Walk
- Fake product draws real cease-and-desist letter
- June 21 roundup
- USA Today on CPSIA casualties
- Oakland: “Suspect shot by cops sues”
- “Court: Movies must be accessible to hearing, visually impaired”
- June 20 roundup
- $1 million for study on schools, ads and kids’ food
- WSJ: “Lanier Seeks to Repeat Courtroom Success”
- “Too hot for Citi” complaint, cont’d
- Congress saves us from bank overdraft fees
- New sentencing blog
- Massachusetts class-action bonanza
- June 18 roundup
- Malpractice systems in other countries
- “Pay me now”
- Drugmaker to halt production of sedative
- Obama nominates Judge James Graves, Jr. to Fifth Circuit
- June 16 roundup
- Judge: no “emotional distress” for Empire State-jumper
- Oil cleanup and the Jones Act
- “Legislation won’t close gender gap in sciences”
- All hail St. Ives
- “‘Carlos the Jackal’ Still Worried About His Image”
- Brandeis on privacy
- Securities law and spill news
- June 14 roundup
- “Academic Battle Delays Publication by 3 Years”
- “The BP oil spill legal primer”
- Warning: “This Machine Has No Brain”
- “It Wasn’t Me, Officer! It Was My GPS”
- June 11 roundup
- Overblown glass
- Safety officer’s suit over “demonic” ID card yields $1
- Capsized by CPSIA
- “Any idea that’s 100 years old will probably offend someone or other”
- June 10 roundup
- The high (copyright) cost of “Glee”
- Blagojevich’s “vigorous debate” defense
- Sues town after ticketed for parking in handicapped space
- Is government better than business at avoiding short-term thinking?
- “David Carradine’s Widow Files Wrongful Death Suit”
- “Are Canadian Law Schools ‘Psychotic Kindergartens?’”
- “Milberg Argues Its Use of Subsequently Discredited Witnesses Was in Good Faith”
- The cry of “cyber-bullying”
- June 8 roundup
- Forklift design defect case
- “More Attorneys Exploring Third-Party Litigation Funding”
- “Everyone on TV reads the same newspaper”
- When judges sue
- “Lawyering up”
- Gloria Allred, ready for her close-up
- AT&T: No, you needn’t cease and desist from emailing our CEO
- “Uninsured motorist law foils hot coffee suit”
- Chrysler’s White-House-assisted bankruptcy
- 49 comments so far…
- Voices of Moderation Series
- “Billion-Dollar Lawyer Desmarais Quits Firm to Troll for Patents”
- “Are Cameras the New Guns?”
- Suing unauthorized movie sharers, cont’d
- “Why are so many Jersey moms having C-sections?”
- Claim: Citibank fired me for being too attractive
- Drop-side crib ban: a regulatory taking?
- Salt and the taste of food
- Judge OKs suit against Bacardi over flaming rum display
- June 3 roundup
- Babysitter and mom to pay $1.1 million in drowning death
- Parents fight college that won’t admit 13-year-old
- Australia: “Jailed mum’s rights ‘denied’”
- A foreclosure lawyer’s business plan
- Cyclists sue Seattle over streetcar track injuries
- “Milton Friedman and the Euro”
- Government seeks forfeiture, managers’ prison time for hiring illegal aliens
- Canada: Drunk passenger jumps from car, sues driver
- June 1 roundup
- “Venting Online, Consumers Can Find Themselves in Court”
- By reader acclaim: sues Google over map instruction
- Public accommodation laws
- “Claim: 5-year-old broke arm after fall from monkey bars”
- “Woman left sleeping on plane sues airline”
- “Woman sues strip club after her 16-year-old daughter is hired as dancer”
- Informants rejoice
- Federal regulation vs. local slaughterhouses
- U.S. News: Toyota death toll rises!
- California: “Elaborate, decade-long towing scam”
- “‘Pants Judge’ Pearson Loses Appeal in D.C. Circuit”
- Not the best policy
- “Hooters Sued for Weight Discrimination”
- Volkswagen sunroof class action settlement
- May 27 roundup
- Lucrative world of IRS informant bounties
- “Finally! A Litigation Game for the iPhone”
- May 26 roundup
- Agency agrees: political expression isn’t fair-housing violation
- Running car in enclosed garage not obvious risk
- Wakefield, of autism/vaccine scare, struck off UK medical rolls
- “Fight with student may wreck tow firm”
- “Are we going to be overcopped and overlawyered?”
- Welcome Scott Hennen listeners
- That smouldering pile of rubble over there?
- May 24 roundup
- Rand Paul, the ADA, and the gotcha narrative
- You found your lawyer _how_?
- Those Texas curriculum standards
- RIAA’s conception of infringement damages
- “He said he does not believe the accident was intentional…”
- May 22 roundup
- WSJ: “The other Blumenthal scandal”
- Whatever happened to Cass Sunstein?
- “Did 16 Law Schools Commit Rankings Malpractice?”
- “An Empirical Study of Class Action Settlements and Their Fee Awards”
- Don’t drink the itch lotion
- Britain tests what it hopes will be safer pub glasses
- Do case resolutions track the merits?
- About those oil-spill-liability “caps”
- Subway descends
- Beginning of the end for vaccine-autism litigation?
- Ban on driving days after sobering up
- And I say this without relish
- May 18 roundup
- “South Carolina Supreme Court Brings Down the Hammer on Discovery Abuse”
- Suit: cellphone bill exposed my affair
- Hardships of prolonged jury service
- Alan Dershowitz
- Welcome WRKO listeners
- May 16 roundup
- Disability-related commuting difficulties
- Sophisticated advisors?
- The fatal workplace joke
- “Palm Beach Gardens firm accused of filing lawsuits just to collect legal fees”
- Talking-squirrel injury lawyer ad
- “California Court Rejects Santa Barbara Beach Club’s Attempts to Suppress Criticism”
- Woman finds “demonic” face on canned pear
- Food safety bill: big vs. small business
- Connecticut: “Lawsuit Verdict May Shut MDC Reservoirs to Cyclists”
- Chasing the Toyota hobgoblin
- Home fire sprinkler mandates
- Kagan nomination latest
- Remove that criticism, our name is trademarked
- May 12 roundup
- Marc Dann cops a plea
- ADA accommodation vs. ADA accommodation
- More on the Kagan nomination
- “Judge Who Lost Pants Forced to Rely on Briefs”
- “If something isn’t done to protect small businesses, handmade toys will be gone soon.”
- “Third-grader gets week’s detention for possessing a Jolly Rancher”
- May 10 roundup
- Update: “CEO Arrested For Fraud A Week After Suing Short-Seller”
- Elena Kagan and the Supreme Court as faculty meeting
- “12 year old babysitter saves kids and pet in fire, gets sued.”
- Forbes: “The Bribery Racket”
- Making defibrillators available
- Keep out of kids’ reach. It’s a founding document!
- Princess-Di-as-trademark case
- Joining Cato, cont’d
- Can’t make ‘em up dept.
- Class action settlement against A.G. Edwards
- Jumps over fence to prevent a suicide
- Third Circuit: relative ability to pay not get-out-of-jail-free card against cost awards
- “Judge tosses ‘mother-in-lawsuit’ vs. comedian”
- Suit alleges “Jersey Shore” show is criminal enterprise
- Liability issues doom spectacular Australia treehouse
- “The FTC and those GM ads”
- May 5 roundup
- Blawg Review #262
- Suing critics, competitors not a winning business strategy
- Joining Cato, and a farewell to the Manhattan Institute
- $60 for an 8-word courtesy email
- “Lawsuit accuses GPS firm of aiding domestic abuse”
- Yes, tea is hot, too: Zeynep Inanli v. Starbucks
- Downfall of the Orange County Register
- St. Louis: A much-sued museum talks back
- Sidewalk altercation leads to close encounter with plate glass window
- Sons not awarded summa cum laude, dad sues
- May 3 roundup
- Combating “arbitrary discrimination based on appearance”
- “Yet Another Lawsuit About the Lack of Fruit in ‘Froot Loops’”
- Two bad tastes, awful together
- N.J.: Drunk drivers can sue bars that served them
- Dutch nurse imprisoned for six years over patients’ unexplained deaths
- NHTSA, Toyota and “speed control”
- Twitter gets a DMCA takedown notice
- Richard Blumenthal vs. Craigslist
- After the volcano, a legal eruption?
- “Climate Scientist, Heated Up Over Satirical Video, Threatens Lawsuit”
- You wouldn’t let me play the lottery and I would have won
- Hulk Hogan sues car insurance company over son’s crash
- “Partying at Mardi Gras”
- Shouldn’t have microwaved the rat
- ”She is getting a greater penalty for having a boy touch her breast…”
- California county bans Happy Meals
- Improving one’s search engine associations
- CPSIA: hearing set for tomorrow on proposed legislative fix
- Draft a slip-fall complaint in 9 easy steps
- Criminal libel charge over academic book review, cont’d
- CCAF files Bluetooth appeal brief
- Jerman v. Carlisle
- Supreme Court to consider violent-videogame law
- “Collaboration not Litigation Ale”
- Suit: no warning that 10,000-lb. safe was risky to move
- Facebook page critical of towing company
- Bad new idea dept.: privacy takedowns
- Lawyer conceals client’s death from opponent
- Court asked to force couple to use township water
- Expansion of hate crimes laws
- “Birther-In-Chief Orly Taitz Loses Again”
- 61 year old Briton cops to possessing Swiss Army knife
- FTC blogger regs skewered in Harvard Law Review
- Tim Sandefur on “honest services fraud”
- “The Dangers of Copyrighting Fashion”
- Salt reactions
- Too late
- Baltimore vs. Wells Fargo, cont’d
- “The myth of the ‘common toy box’”
- U.K.: “Rooftop ban for criminal”
- “Oh man, you are so lucky….You are going to make a fortune”
- April 22 roundup
- John McCain and “intentional” car crashes
- Title IX sports enforcement
- “Study: Malpractice worries help drive health costs”
- High court strikes animal cruelty video ban as overbroad
- On foreign bribery, two-tiered justice?
- RIAA/MPAA’s wish list for stopping piracy
- Shaker abstinence: FDA to regulate salt in food
- Our socially concerned business leaders
- April 20 roundup
- Update: British chiropractors drop lawsuit against Simon Singh
- “New York’s most obnoxious lawyer” charged with tax rap
- Choking off angel funding for startups?
- New at Point of Law
- Backs propeller boat into victim, manufacturer liable
- Las Vegas lawyer’s radio ad “grossly misstated the law”
- “NYC to stop paying teachers to do nothing”
- By reader acclaim: UK handyman props ladder against branch he’s sawing off
- “The Plumpy’nut Dustup”
- Presidential decrees and hospital visitation rights
- Client, lawyer charged with extortion over settlement talks
- Do as we say dept.: EPA and lead
- Money, tenure, and the future of legal education
- Complaint: inmate might be allergic to execution drug
- Did cops push him off a roof?
- Probate poser in Arizona
- U.K.: “Lawyers quit litigation against alleged file-sharers”
- From disgrace to the law lectern
- April 15 roundup
- 28 felony counts in California crash-faking indictment
- U.K.: “Single mother soldier expecting a large payout from Army over discrimination claim”
- Beyond parody: Lerach plans to teach law at Irvine
- “Man spends $7,000 defending himself in suit filed by eBay seller”
- Update: carpet maker to pay $18 million to settle illegal-alien-hiring RICO case
- The fabulous diversity of Obama’s SCOTUS shortlist
- AP on Toyota legal “stonewalling”
- “Universal jurisdiction”, Judge Garzon, and the Pope
- NY lawmaker: ban high-fructose corn syrup
- Permission to link, cont’d
- Software startups and patent litigation
- Why you can’t phone the doc
- April 12 roundup
- Regulation vs. artisanal mixed drinks
- Disneyland’s babysitter list
- “Kentucky sues to reclaim gamblers’ losses online”
- Judge sues paper over probe of anonymous online comments
- Bank shouldn’t have allowed her to give scammer C$10,000
- “TheStreet stands up to Generex’s bullying”
- JAMA: back surgeries overprescribed
- “Families of slain Lakewood officers to sue for $134 million”
- Law firm press releases
- “Do not attempt to install if drunk, pregnant or both. Do not eat antenna.”
- An insurance defense lawyer’s dream
- “A year of Lowering the Bar”
- “Labor Law Reduces Employees’ Freedoms Too”
- April 8 roundup
- The politics of Toyota-bashing
- Billboards that attract clients?
- Test case on NFL liability for players’ dementia
- 81 year old mother sues for child support payments from 60 years ago
- Update: judge tosses anti-vaccinationist’s libel suit
- Law firm ad: “The California Switchblade”
- Gender gaps and asymmetry
- Class action suit over GameStop resales
- April 6 roundup
- U.K.: “Police criticized for staging mock burglaries”
- Speaking in Chicago Monday, April 12
- “You shouldn’t trivialize issues of health and safety by calling them nanny issues.”
- Personal injury law firm will have drive-through window
- Sun glare blamed on ballpark owner
- “States fear that five words in Obama health law will open door to lawsuits”
- April 4 roundup
- Watch what you put out there
- Update: Australian court throws out libel suit against game critic
- April 2 roundup
- Court rules for Simon Singh in UK libel suit
- Village Voice gets Martin Singer nastygram
- Federal calorie labeling mandate, cont’d
- Lawyer ads that look like VA hospital sites
- Answering constituent mail, in the old days
- “How a pit bull is like a Prius”
- New report on civil asset forfeiture
- Too many giblets, they said
- Harassment and sex-bias charges on campus
- Andrew Giuliani’s Duke golf lawsuit dismissed
- U.K.: great moments in animal welfare law
- Teen commits suicide, 9 classmates charged with felonies
- 20,000 individual movie downloaders sued
- March 31 roundup
- Scotus140: Supreme Court Twitter competition
- Sorry, locavores
- Lawyer tampers with trial exhibit, dodges sanctions by pleading age
- Appalling ACTA: a treaty worth stopping
- EPA vs. older homes
- Juries and insurance, cont’d
- Boston Scientific defibrillator recall
- March 29 roundup
- “Blogger gets SLAPPed for passing on government warnings”
- “If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they’ll miss lots of special offers.”
- Australian government to U.S.-based website: remove that hate speech or face prosecution
- “If you purchased Dannon yogurt…”
- Return of the Design Piracy Prohibition Act
- “Client Had ‘Disposable Income and a Zealous Interest in Litigating’”
- March 26 roundup
- “Interest in Toyotas Starts to Revive”
- More on “Circle of Greed”
- $10K to be had “just by rattling the saber of age discrimination”
- California prison guards union
- “Legal secretary claims firm fired her for failure to meet unrealistic workload”
- Canada’s Coulter climate
- When defendants resist
- Diversity training’s triumph
- March 24 roundup
- Health bill requires vending, restaurant-chain calorie counts
- “Goodwin Liu’s America”
- Criminal liability for aiding and abetting IP infringement?
- Defining “children’s product”
- “We are in grave danger of becoming over-lawyered and under-represented”
- New at Point of Law
- One too many causes of death?
- Attorney’s fee spin cycle
- IIPA vs. open-source software
- Dept. of Irony
- “Delaware judge dumps frequent filer plaintiff attorneys”
- The unsustainable economics of legal education
- Pattis on “The Rule of Lawyers”
- Afraid of baby slings
- $9M alienation of affection award in NC
- Toyotathon roundup
- Claim: Goldman Sachs should have insisted he give them his money
- NYC councilwoman walks into trailer hitch of parked truck
- March 19 roundup
- The Milberg Weiss Four after prison
- Jury: maker should pay $1.5 million for selling standard tablesaw design
- Hinkley, Calif. cancer rates
- Speaking at Duke Law on Monday
- Open MySpace invitation to house party did not make assault “reasonably foreseeable”
- Shame, not law or regulation, as remedy for rudeness
- Update: judge allows “giraffe attack” spoof back on web
- Ferran Adria, stay away?
- New warnings at McDonald’s
- News flash: prosecutor in celebrity case stays mum pending results
- CCAF amicus brief in fen-phen fees case
- NYC: “Smoke-easies” under siege
- U.K.: “Cheese-rolling race axed after 200 years”
- Trademark recursion?
- “Single Payer Legal”
- 1995 Washington Square sudden acceleration revisited
- Scary Stephen King text message worth $175 in class action settlement
- March 16 roundup
- The James Sikes black box
- Young Walter Olson
- Update: South Carolina $18M sudden acceleration verdict reversed
- “Exorcising Toyota’s Demons”
- Lawyers making clients worse off dept.: Hull edition
- The retreat of Grand Theft Auto: Class Action
- Simulating a Toyota “smoking gun”
- One crazy incident = everyone’s liberty restricted
- SLAPP bill: advancing free speech at federalism’s expense?
- On 770 KTTH-Seattle at 4:10 PM Pacific today, talking Toyota
- New York bill would ban restaurant use of salt in cooking
- Eastern District of Texas
- Not for before meals dept.
- U.K.: “The widow who refused to sue”
- Finger-in-the-chili lady out of jail
- Law firm TV ads, cont’d
- “I am not afraid of my Toyota Prius”
- Apple multitouch lawsuit
- “Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers”
- Deep pockets files: 1956 edition
- Toyota acceleration: why I’m skeptical
- “Gripe site prevails in domain cybersquatting case”
- Claim: furniture makers responsible for firefighters’ anguish
- Clips of Jon Stewart shows
- Truck-driver father runs over own daughter; guess who is to blame?
- Better late than never dept.
- Lindsey Lohan sues E-trade over baby commercial
- Hiking the cost of home health care
- Device to auto-shut-down cellphones when car starts?
- “Judge chops lawyer fees by $1M”
- On the road
- March 9 roundup
- Staged footage in ABC News Toyota “test”
- Dannon yogurt settlement
- Lawyer business card Hall of Fame
- Update: perfume-sensitivity-as-disability case
- Bronx: False rape accuser sentenced to 1-3 years behind bars
- GM to reinstate 600+ unwanted dealerships
- Swiss vote down lawyers-for-animals proposal
- From the “oh dear” files
- “Middle school student suspended for touching drug”
- March 6 roundup
- Federal anti-SLAPP legislation proposed
- “Washington: Legislature May Allow Cops To Seize Cars At Will”
- Taking someone off an offender list?
- Patents: “Senate Proposes to End False Marking Onslaught”
- Houston: lawyer forgets his $800 jacket at airport food court
- Judge orders website to yank “giraffe attack” story
- Netflix sued for making subscribers wait for hot releases
- On “best attorney” sites
- London borough of Islington sues itself
- March 4 roundup
- Eugene Volokh on Reason.tv
- “Anyone with money can sue anyone [with] less money and put them out of business”
- More leads in Luzerne County, Pa. judicial scandal
- Unlawful for hardware store to give customers free coffee and doughnuts
- New book on Bill Lerach, “Circle of Greed”
- CCAF on KOGO (San Diego) this evening
- March 2 roundup
- Associated Press cadmium-in-jewelry panic, cont’d
- “Proposed Facebook Settlement Comes Under Fire”
- Open thread
- “It’s a perfectly safe childhood, minus the childhood part”
- “Arizona Bill to Bar Use of Foreign and Religious Law”
- Dunning child support for a kid born when the “dad” was … 7?
- “Wealthy Couple Sued For Installing Ikea Kitchen”
- Lawyer-unsafe short film of the year
- Madison County class action: Blimpie subs not meaty enough
- Welcome Above the Law readers (Sea World killer whale lawsuit?)
- Lawyers spam old blog posts about accident injuries
- February 25 roundup
- Toyota show trials, cont’d
- Tweet ye not
- “Kansas man sues Royals claiming hot dog injury”
- Italy: Google execs convicted of hosting bullying video
- Dozens of companies sued over patent “false markings” in recent weeks
- Congress vs. rhinestones
- A snail’s pace in the rubber room
- “No Brownies at Bake Sales, but Doritos May Be O.K.”
- February 24 roundup
- “The Real Scandal Behind the Toyota Recall”
- “Four ways to fix a broken legal system”
- “Do you have a possible court case where you really want to ‘get’ someone?”
- Bounteous bankruptcies, Lehman division
- Cut grapes into pea-sized portions?
- “Swiss to vote on lawyers for animals”
- Trial lawyers’ Capitol Hill agenda
- Annals of celebrity paternity suits
- Nontraditional plea bargain options dept.
- LAPD hassles food trucks
- Bank of America disclosure controversy
- U.K.: study finds jurors “fail to understand judges’ instructions”
- Government-created risk
- New at Point of Law
- Update: $4.5 million for NYC cop who fell off chair, shot self
- “Judge Jails Litigant for Provoking Supportive Emails to the Judge”
- Australia: “Bosses rapped for valid sacking”
- “Blonde we like wins Downhill (Last name rhymes with Bonn’)”
- Schools for Misrule — and a bleg on law school clinics
- February 18 roundup
- Iceland as legal haven for investigative journalism?
- “It was a lost year for [the kids]“
- New mom given wrong baby to nurse, wants settlement from hospital
- Feds punish tarmac delays, airlines cancel flights instead
- “I Think I Just Got Patented”
- An ice fence for Cadillac, Mich.
- Through law’s delays, a quarter century on Death Row
- Blogging “Trial Lawyers Inc. — K Street”
- “It’s for – what’s it called?” “Pain and suffering”
- Update: judge dismisses vision-impaired gamer’s suit against Sony
- Law without precedents or penumbras?
- New campaign to overturn CPSIA dirtbike ban
- “Have you had an accident that wasn’t your fault…?”
- February 15 roundup
- “It creates trust.”
- Handbags grabbed off shelf turn out to contain $35,000 each
- On the streets of Laredo
- “Obese woman wins human rights fight for parking spot”
- February 12 roundup
- Connecticut jury: Blumenthal wrongly ruined business
- “Proposed Changes to Psychiatric Manual Stir Lawsuit Fears”
- Alienation of John Edwards’ affections?
- Winkler County nurses trial, cont’d
- High school agrees to halt Chrysler Rams logo use
- About that South Carolina law
- Before doom struck
- Courts should dismiss climate-change-as-nuisance suits under political-question doctrine
- “Scan and Deliver”
- Woman attacked by homeless sues grocery store
- February 10 roundup
- Florida school team swipes Chrysler’s “Rams” logo
- $2 million demanded for overly hot chicken sandwich
- “All Subversive Organizations … Must Register in South Carolina”
- “Trial Lawyers Inc. — K Street”
- New federal push to force local schools to ban sweets
- “We need a Commander in Chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.”
- “Man Sues for Extra Time on LSAT, Claiming ADHD”
- “How the Plaintiffs Bar Bought the Senate”
- A 70 year post-mortem right of publicity?
- Now in paperback: Philip K. Howard’s “Life Without Lawyers, Restoring Responsibility in America”
- “Heart Attack restaurant owner sues Heart Stoppers owner over theme”
- Texas prosecutor charges nurses for reporting doctor
- February 8 roundup
- “Get what’s yours! Demented, explosion-filled ad for injury lawyer”
- McDonald’s coffee still hot in Oregon
- Unintended results of bicycle helmet laws
- Kookaburra, cont’d
- February 6 roundup
- Boston cops arrest people who videotape their actions
- “Man sued over photos of public art on Seattle streets”
- Headline of the day
- Kookaburra sits on his royal-tee
- Illinois high court again nullifies med-mal reform
- “Top Six Super Bowl-Related Lawsuits”
- Loss-of-a-chance doctrine?
- Trademark case drags on after nearly 25 years
- Update: Sacramento’s Squeeze Inn
- KALW and free lawyers in deportation cases
- “Cleveland police no more grasp the 4th Amendment than they do the Rule Against Perpetuities”
- UT hassling Longhorn users
- By reader acclaim: great moments in “targeted disabilities”
- £300 billion worth of long memories
- Stripper: getting tipsy was part of my job (update)
- February 3 roundup
- Hundreds of California lawyers investigated over alleged loan modification abuses
- “How patient privacy laws impede electronic communication with doctors”
- Poutine injuries in Canada
- Lancet repudiates MMR vaccine study
- “Cyber-harassment” and speech codes
- New Orleans coroner’s race ad
- NFL enforcement of “Super Bowl” trademark
- New frontiers in climate change policy
- Our growing government
- “School districts spend thousands on litigation over special education”
- “The greatest risk is living swaddled in bubble wrap”
- Class action over XBox downloads, cont’d
- NYC’s unfireable “rubber room” teachers
- “Lawyers Ask Court To Stop Toyota From Fixing Cars”
- “More airlines make large passengers buy two seats”
- Better uses for the $2,000
- Claim: underfunding of Chicago transit authority constitutes racial bias
- January 30 roundup
- “The Five Creepiest Defense Attorney Websites”
- NFL trademark lawyers vs. New Orleans t-shirt sellers
- Stossel on the food police
- CPSIA and the needle arts
- K&L Gates blasted for high fees, “unnecessary lawyering”
- “Loto-Quebec reaches out-of-court settlement with thousands of addicted gamblers”
- Fictional injunctive relief
- A thought on Apple’s iPad
- “Microsoft Sued Over Xbox Live Points”
- “Lawyers behind lame Digitek claims face punishment”
- State of the Union: Lip-reading Justice Alito
- January 27 roundup
- U.K.: Libel suit threatened over crossword clue
- “Texas woman beaten by son must cover legal costs”
- The year in Chicago slip-and-fall cases
- Infamous terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues to protect his image
- D.C. government has “trouble legislating its way out of a plastic bag”
- Four years for sleeping drunk in parked car
- Be nice to staff
- California school district bans dictionary from classroom
- Wherein I’m supposedly worth three electoral votes
- “US to lift 21-year ban on haggis”
- Great moments in deportation law
- Jack Litman, 1943-2010
- Update: Kindle not helpful enough to blind users
- Let’s all panic over cadmium in kids’ products
- Florida bar probing at least 35 senior lawyers in Rothstein firm
- Warning: your life-saving drug may cause cancer in lab rats
- January 22 roundup
- Large coal firm threatens critic’s site
- Profitable ways of owing money
- Penn & Teller on the ADA
- Lowering the Bar “Best of 2009″
- Venture capitalists vs. trolls
- January 20 roundup
- NYT covers funny “Machete” injury-lawyer ad
- Update: grand jury indicts “Thugs Lawyer”
- Bar exam preparation app
- Welcome National Review Online readers
- IRS moves to tighten tax preparer licensing
- Can’t clear the copyrights, cont’d
- CPSC reports to Congress on CPSIA
- Faces of Lawsuit Abuse “worst lawsuit” poll
- January 18 roundup
- Welcome WTIC listeners
- “Posner Blasts ‘Out of Control’ Class-Action Lawyer in Fee Fight”
- Panic over middle schooler’s science project
- John Stossel on the Amirault case
- “Electrosensitives tortured by a radio tower that had been switched off for six weeks”
- January 16 roundup
- “Mother sues party mates of dead teen”
- John Stossel on CPSIA
- Martha Coakley and the Amirault case
- Actual funny lawyer TV ad
- Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission: Coughlin Stoia in catbird seat
- Aggressive in all the wrong ways
- Dead hand of past litigation
- The “hidden trial-lawyer earmark”
- January 14 roundup
- CPSIA: “Kids’ Closet” no more
- Next, the age-bias lawsuit?
- “South Butt” fires back against “North Face” trademark suit
- “DOJ fights Europe vacation for Lerach”
- “Dan Rather loses suit”
- New at Point of Law
- “Law Firms Are Tough to Sue”
- Update: “Judge declares Adorno violated Bar rules”
- By reader acclaim: “Wi-Fi foe sues neighbor for using electronics”
- Welcome Lars Larson Show listeners
- NYC’s “astonishingly presumptuous” salt plan
- New frontiers in racial harassment law?
- CPSIA unintended consequences dept.
- Wanted to hire: one Wikipedia writer
- Report: after lawyering up, UndieBomber zipped his mouth
- No more ranters in the next seat?
- U.K.: “Health and safety experts warn: don’t clear icy pavements, you could get sued”
- “More and Better Patient Information Equals More Lawsuits for Physicians”
- January 8 roundup
- Richard Blumenthal: guns, tobacco, and grandstanding AGs
- Cape Wind vs. Indian spirituality
- Claim: “lawyers are right to be unhappy”
- California’s ADA filing mills
- Drunken boater crashes into pier
- Open season for “false marking” bounty-hunters?
- Child support, through age 23?
- “We were getting people with 60 hours of college credit who were reading at a third-grade level. What do you think you’ll get if you have no screening process?”
- Teacher with poor English fluency appeals firing
- The donations of Scott Rothstein
- Dodd Senate vacancy
- Annals of sports trademarks
- France makes “psychological violence” a crime
- Utility not liable for rescuers’ emotional distress after explosion
- “Inmate sues Penthouse magazine for denying him subscription”
- January 5 roundup
- “Sewer service” alleged against New York debt collectors
- “Is It Libel to Say Someone Was Convicted of Crime When Conviction Has Been Expunged?”
- Hospital emergency preparedness suits
- Prizes baked into food, cont’d
- Update: “Apple wins appeal over alleged iPod hearing loss”
- “Lawyer: Man who slipped on cruise ship deserves every penny of $9.5 million”
- Their escheatin’ heart
- January 3 roundup
- New Year’s Day musing
- “There Is No Joy In Toyland”
- Illicit Christmas woodburning
- December 31 roundup
- For a car dealer, echoes of Streisand
- “Fans are being held hostage”
- TSA aims subpoena at bloggers, seizes laptop
- “Expel Students Who Might Kill Themselves?”
- “Lingerie League Gets Litigious”
- “More Failures to Keep a Low Profile When Falsely Claiming Disability”
- “Parents Who Won’t Vaccinate Kid Sue Catholic Preschool”
- December 29 roundup
- The Kindle under the tree
- Photo-retouch blogging draws lawyer nastygram
- Update: O’Quinn estate will refund $46.5 million to implant clients
- Canada: STDs not insurable “accident”
- Caesarean births up 30% in NYC since 2000
- Dead from eating bad oysters?
- “Car dealer tells man to delete Facebook, Twitter posts …. or else!”
- Federalist Society pro bono center
- “Penguin v Steinbeck Estate re: The Pearl”
- Update: “Pizza Hut and cop prevail in door injury claim”
- Wayward federal judges
- December 23 roundup
- Quoted in Investors Business Daily
- Illegal fee-splitting, “outrageous” courtroom behavior
- Airline turbulence injury blamed on weather forecasters
- “4-year-old survives being hit by train”
- “Suing to Get More Time on Exams”
- December 21 roundup
- “Applying to Law School? Please Reconsider!”
- Legal in Canada, illegal in U.S.
- Chuck Yeager publicity rights suits, cont’d
- Obstruction-of-justice charges
- “Law firm offers divorce vouchers for Christmas”
- “Congressman Seeks to Send Critic to Jail”
- “Tort reform” section of Reid health bill
- Employee holiday party lesson
- “Bagel-related injuries”
- U.K.: £300,000 bill in fight over 7 sq. yards of “worthless” land
- “Toy library running short; lead law to blame”
- “The Charcuterie Underground”
- December 18 roundup
- “TV news director: Delete that tweet or we’ll sue!”
- California disabled-access filing mills
- Compelled expression and the New Mexico photographer case
- “British Restaurant Makes Customers Sign Plum Pudding Release”
- “When Lawsuits Backfire: The Georges Marciano Tale”
- “Wal-Mart Wins Suicide Case in Illinois”
- Honda fuel economy settlement
- December 16 roundup
- “The year’s 10 most infamous lawyers”
- Annals of trademark infringement
- “Colorado Supreme Court upholds ban of smoking on stage”
- “Long Island Indians Set to Gain U.S. Recognition”
- December 15 roundup
- “Prosecutor Pays a Price for Chasing Commenters”
- Class action objection
- Crash and recovery
- Mixed Fifth Circuit decision in Minor-Teel-Whitfield appeal
- Performance-enhancing drugs, sports, and the ADA
- Phoenix: taxpayers pay millions for county officials to sue each other
- Health care bill loaded up with goodies
- Because taxpayers and creditors haven’t given enough
- December 11 roundup
- A crack in the CPSIA concrete?
- Sluggish wheels of justice
- On overcriminalization
- Central Valley taxpayers shell out
- Scott Rothstein and the legal profession’s image
- Canada: bogus forensics took woman’s son, sent her to jail
- Federal workshop on government openness
- Poole townspeople to get a real Christmas tree
- “When the Robots Attack, How Will We Hold Them Liable?”
- Best face forward
- “Mr. Squiggles is in the clear”
- “A truly chaotic defense,” with “perfunctory” legal filings
- Annals of attorney endorsements
- Suing cellphone makers over car crashes
- “Harvard professor says Nancy Grace was contributor in Florida woman’s suicide”
- “EEOC Files Suit Over Use of Credit and Criminal Histories in Hiring”
- “Mom blames son’s death on air freshener”
- December 7 roundup
- “Narcoleptic Hillside dispatcher settles wrongful termination suit”
- Casino allowed him to gamble away $127 million
- Update: FDA backs off raw oyster ban
- U.K.: “Beresfords lawyers who profited from sick miners lose appeal”
- Man sues over commercial use of mugshot
- When Dad loses his job
- December 4 roundup
- “Plaintiff Who Alleged Airport Concealment Has Litigation History”
- “Deposition videos you have to see to believe”
- Tiger Woods and domestic violence law
- EEOC’s proposed new ADA rules
- “Bet blockers”
- “Subpoenas Target Rocker, Actress as Experts on Alienation”
- “Ask Your Lawyer If He Carries Malpractice Insurance; You May be Surprised”
- “‘I’ll take care of it’ — with five words, a billionaire transformed into a felon”
- Ontario: “Human rights complaint heard over man’s chihuahua”
- “Kill, eat, mate, flee”
- “Should prison guards be strong?”
- “Ask Your Doctor Whether Your Political Views Are Right For You”
- “Teaching is Not a Crime”
- U.K.: Xmas tree “designed according to principles of health and safety”
- December 1 roundup
- “Lawsuits put global warming on more dockets”
- Disclaimer in a 1975 gun book
- Update: dolphin-splash lawsuit amended
- U.K.: “Health and safety snoops to enter family homes”
- New at Point of Law
- Kindle not helpful enough to blind users
- How to become a legend in law firm marketing
- When they sue the wrong person
- Update: Continental pilots’ sham divorces
- Getting Overlawyered posts in your Outlook inbox
- Copyrighting currency?
- “Milan Prosecutors Request Jail Sentence for Google Executives”
- That nice person friending you on Facebook
- Jerry Brown’s “toxic clothes” crackdown
- “Red Hat Club” author loses suit over portrayal
- “How Litigators Tried to Sneak a Pet Earmark into Health Reform”
- November 24 roundup
- Coshocton pulls WiFi
- Don’t
- Gene Cauley gets seven years
- Update on Ogborn v. McDonald’s
- Competition through litigation (ad division)
- Home-mixed rum ‘n’ Cokes still OK
- Milwaukee law firms in Google keywords dustup
- November 23 roundup
- “Insurer Must Defend ‘Douche’ Defamation Suit, Judge Says”
- Gamer appeals Sony dismissal, sues Nintendo and Microsoft
- “Judge dismisses lawsuit claiming Miley Cyrus’ pic discriminated against Asians”
- “Will secret copyright treaty restrict your digital rights?”
- House health care reform would discourage many state reforms
- “Testimony: Federal Judge Owed $150K on Credit Cards, Got $20K from 2 Lawyers”
- November 20 roundup
- Trespasser sues railroad
- U.K.: Find discarded gun, bring it in to cops, get convicted for possession
- Lawyers who sleep with clients
- “A Case in Antiquities for ‘Finders Keepers’”
- Senate panel approves David Michaels
- Claim: air crash caused drug overdose death
- Buys house near SFO, sues many parties over jet noise
- Writer sought on class-action project
- November 18 roundup
- “Jackpot: Lawyers earn fees from law they wrote”
- Cliches of lawyerspeak
- “Rothstein got top national rating for ethics”
- Harrisburg mayor-elect traumatized out of pumping gas, suit says
- Mississippi: Judge DeLaughter sentenced to 18 months
- “Yeah, I like Overlawyered! You got a problem with that?”
- Another Craigslist housing-ad crackdown
- Snow globe menace averted
- “I had a lot of opponents, but I never had any supporters like that.”
- CPSIA, big and small business, cont’d
- “The Supreme Court v. Patent Absurdity”
- November 16 roundup
- Internet service providers liable for online securities frauds?
- Persons accused of domestic violence have right to hearing
- Calorie count labeling for vending machines
- The fifteen-minute shower
- U.K.: “Police worker fired for backing psychic investigations claims religious discrimination”
- Update: “Sodium lawsuit against Denny’s dismissed”
- November 13 roundup
- When people search for “judge”
- Suing Buffett, and many others, over takeovers
- “Disgraced ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer to lecture at ethics center”
- November 12 roundup
- School discipline quotas in Tucson
- Claim: opponents’ lawyers broke ethics rules when they blogged about our case being weak
- Pension costs, litigation bankrupt a Southern town
- Lawyer who worked more than 1,200 days/year settles pension probe
- “BRIO? Indies? Toy Casualties Mount In CPSIA Trainwreck”
- Watch those hanging air fresheners
- Typo not worth $1.67 billion after all
- Should persons with autism serve on juries?
- November 10 roundup
- Business method patents at the Supreme Court
- Judge: bankruptcy lawyer’s conduct “inexcusable”
- Blind gamer sues Sony demanding ADA accommodation
- “Lawyer Says Televangelist’s No-Divorce Policy May Have Led to Killing”
- “I’ve always thought people would be very concerned if they knew what we were doing”
- CPSIA’s ban on brass
- “Spano’s Suicide: Housing Plan Doomed County Exec”
- November 6 roundup
- Brooklyn: “Disbarred Attorney Pleads Guilty to Guardian Account Thefts”
- Australia mulls lip-sync concert disclosure
- “Sexual Harassment: Are We Now Too Sensitive?”
- Careful about criticizing N.J. school board officials
- John Endean, “Canadianized Labor Law?” (Forbes)
- “How much unnecessary testing goes on in the ER?”
- After a housing-suit settlement, Westchester voters rebel
- Making hair bows in west Michigan
- Phoenix: “Deputy swipes document from defense counsel”
- More on Prof. Jones’s suit against Above the Law
- “Judge: Man has to pony up $10K to sue workers he robbed”
- November 4 roundup
- Unpersuasive claims of victimhood dept.
- “OSU fraternity must pay homeless man who was shot by member”
- “Law Professor Sues Above the Law Blog”
- The trouble with Holmes
- Authentic handmade Chinese noodles
- November 3 roundup
- Coming back for alimony 20+ years after disavowing it
- 75 years of hospital records
- The New York Times finally reports on CPSIA
- November 2 roundup
- What it means for a product to be “safe”
- Two books set to hit on Scruggs scandal
- Britain’s criminal libel and sedition law
- “Dracula Files Product Liability Suit Against Wooden Stake Manufacturers”
- Three-year-old wanders from Connecticut home
- Buried on page 1431: Potemkin tort reform
- A new mass tort, at the cash register?
- Breaking: $16.6 M award in “Hold your wee” case
- Hallowe’en costumes at the deposition
- Anti-reform incentives in House health bill
- “Disbarred Seattle attorney sues state bar association”
- October 30 roundup
- “Troubling signals on free speech”
- Soupy Sales, 1926-2009
- “Bat maker found liable for player’s death”
- “101 Ways to Improve State Legal Systems”
- John O’Quinn dead in SUV accident
- Pharmacies liable for pill-abusers’ crashes?
- Potential bad omens for the defense
- U.K.: “Council bans parents from play areas”
- Speaking at Columbia Law tomorrow
- Wrist straps on Wiimotes
- Book pricing antitrust petition
- The talk of the internet
- FDA vs. fresh oysters
- October 28 roundup
- California civil Gideon
- “No other driver permitted”
- Gender-equity cops are after the sciences
- “Italian politician sues 4000+ YouTube commenters”
- Flying imams settlement
- Court rejects printer ink cartridge class action
- California’s car conservation
- Man’s “defective underwear” suit against Hanes
- Great moments in drug enforcement law
- “Quick Work: First Lawsuit Hits Over Friday’s Explosion in P.R.”
- “Lawyers warn: Bosses who ‘friend’ are begging to be sued”
- Blawg Review #234
- “Just say no to blasphemy laws”
- Claim: Facebook infringes our patent
- Do not let kids climb onto them
- U.K.: Children seized from obese parents
- Food safety law expansion barreling through Congress
- Reporters and victim stories
- October 23 roundup
- On the lam, and on the dole
- “Flashy advertisements draw clients to Sarasota law firm”
- “Craigslist Not Responsible for Sex-For-Hire Ads, Judge Rules”
- Update: AutoAdmit case settles
- Erin Brockovich in Florida
- Evony suit against game blogger critic, cont’d
- October 22 roundup
- “Nowhere is the argument over ‘over-lawyering’ more intense than in the field of medical malpractice….”
- AEI food safety panel yesterday
- “The persecution of Belmont Abbey”
- “Domain bullying”
- Bad news for service boas, companion spiders
- Trademark claims to silence critics?
- Long Island parents bid bake sales adieu
- Another “you’ve won a lawsuit settlement” scam
- New California anti-paparazzi law
- From Twitter, get-out-of-jury-duty tips
- Government regulation of salt intake
- “Depressed teacher can sue school district”
- “Where did you get that keychain?”
- CPSIA chronicles, October 19
- “Rotten Bananas: Exposing a Phony Class Action”
- U.K.: Great moments in immigration law
- Tuesday in DC: “Food Safety Regulations: Will More Regulation Make Us Safer?”
- Business expects more litigation next year
- New at Point of Law
- Faking cancer to dodge a lawsuit
- Middleton, Wisc.: “Police Stop Giving Teddy Bears to Children Because of CPSIA”
- “Monster Energy vs. BevReview.com”
- October 15 roundup
- Class action claim: rebates through debit cards unfair
- L.A. city council: no convenience for you
- CPSIA and the new regulatory zeal
- Birther lawyer fined $20,000
- “…what may well be the most oppressive motion ever presented to a superior court”
- October 14 roundup
- Marc Dreier profiled
- Suit against Wal-Mart: You arrested me just because I left the store with items without paying
- “Trial Lawyers Inc.: Health Hazard”
- Breadth of FTC blogger regs
- Horse injury suit will discourage charity programs
- John Langbein on new Connecticut probate reform
- Blawg Review #233
- By reader acclaim: school suspends Cub Scout over camping utensil
- October 12 roundup
- “Congresswoman: Tort reform to be a part of final health care bill”
- “Defamation of the legal profession”
- New York City cracks down on bake sales in schools
- Hiding client’s embezzled money?
- Changes in federal fisheries law
- N.C. offender arrested for attending church
- October 10 roundup
- Town bans trick-or-treating
- FTC vs. bloggers, cont’d
- “Software Patents: A Personal Story”
- “Criminal Defendant Escapes After Being Mistaken for Lawyer”
- Lawsuit demands increase in size of U.S. House of Representatives
- Required FTC blogger disclosure
- October 8 roundup
- “Perjury For Filing A Writ Of Habeas Corpus?”
- U.K.: “Homeowners set to sue banks over low interest loans”
- “Coyote Ugly patron sues after falling off bar”
- Suit over townhouse neighbor’s smoking
- Update: claims to the word “edge” in videogames
- “Whocanisue website skirts the rules for lawyer ads”
- October 6 roundup
- Jack Thompson sues Facebook
- Judge throws out patent verdict against Microsoft
- “Attorney urges court to ban drunken possession of guns”
- “I wasn’t sanctioned. My client was sanctioned.”
- MTA vs. freelance publishers
- Trial to open in Alice Lawrence/Graubard Miller case
- Don’t
- “Cyberbullying Bill Gets Chilly Reception”
- “Wasting Billions, Doing Injustice”
- “Birth Defect Study Casts Doubt on Phthalate Fears”
- The feds’ eagle-feather waiting list
- UK: Keep kids away from library seniors
- Cablevision sues blogger into submission
- October 2 roundup
- “British Government Considers Mandating Plastic Pint Glasses”
- Liability for flu spread?
- Judge Laurence Silberman interviewed
- Judge-menacing Philly lawyer ignores disbarment
- Defensive medicine and hospital admissions
- More “fruity” cereal class actions
- “Peeping Tom threatens legal action”
- The state of CPSIA
- Update on Mraz v. Chrysler
- There’ll always be a Cook County
- “Zoners: BBQ smoke an advertisement”
- Update: Tonstant Witigator Fwowed Out
- September 30 roundup
- “Reasons why doctors practice defensive medicine”
- Nutrition and serving facts — on wine bottles?
- Yogurt marketing class action settles
- Florida: “Former deputy sues over drinking disability”
- Class action against debt collectors
- Indiana grandmother prosecuted for buying cold medicine
- Financial woes at AAJ?
- Class action press releases
- France to regulate Photoshopped pics?
- Looking after neighbor kids for free at bus stop
- September 28 roundup
- “Explaining the Unpopularity of Lawyers”
- “The Cy Pres Racket”
- Nassau D.A. won’t charge false Hofstra accuser
- “Police in South Carolina Town Not Allowed to Chase Suspects”
- Courtesy of Goldman Sachs
- “Bank of America Sued for 1.784 Sextillion Dollars”
- September 25 roundup
- CPSIA: “The Waiting Game Continues for Libraries”
- U.K.: hyperactive kids given queue-jump passes
- Hurry, get those lawsuits filed before reform
- Connecticut soup kitchen, cont’d
- September 24 roundup
- Houston: Hoeffner trial in fifth week
- Are high-occupancy toll lanes racist?
- Australia: satellite data to spy out pool-safety scofflaws
- Big win for global-warming litigators
- Troll Tracker blog suit settles
- September 23 roundup
- Judge orders shared dog custody
- “Zurich hospital turns away US health tourists”
- “New Allegations About Fred Baron’s Role in Edwards Deception”
- September 22 roundup
- How class actions get invented
- Unpaid interns who need to be paid
- EEOC sues Abercrombie & Fitch
- September 21 roundup
- Straight talk in medical reports
- Reader Phil Grossman
- CPSIA chronicles, September 20
- If you’re not reading Point of Law
- Update: “Burning Man Lawsuit Finally Extinguished”
- CPSIA: StoryBlox closing its doors
- Update: lawyer’s baseless demand letter amounted to extortion
- National Journal bloggers’ poll
- U.K.: “Jedi may sue Tesco over hood ban”
- September 18 roundup
- “Company hawking ‘free’ credit scores goes after blogger who calls this a bait and switch”
- NYC to ban smoking in parks and beaches?
- “The menu of malpractice reforms”
- National Lawyers Convention, Nov. 12-14 in DC
- September 17 roundup
- Do doctor apologies curb malpractice suits?
- CPSIA: WSJ reactions
- Letting lawyers sue on behalf of animals?
- Handing med-mal reform over to Sebelius
- Around the web, September 16
- “Do resident work-hour restrictions increase surgical complications?”
- Update: Patent Troll Tracker lawsuit goes to trial
- U.K.: “Scouts banned from carrying knives”
- Tax Court: NYC lawyer can’t deduct $100K+ for sex “therapy”
- Foreclosure-relief scams
- September 15 roundup
- “Plaintiffs’ Firm Sued by Potential Client After Chair Collapse”
- “Court: Employer must pay for weight-loss surgery”
- $11 million verdict against pediatrician
- Welcome Wall Street Journal readers
- U.K.: Strongly held views on climate change may trigger job-bias coverage
- Ninth Circuit: “Judge Wrongly Barred Asperger’s Evidence in Eco-Terrorism Trial”
- “Norman Borlaug: The Man Who Saved A Billion People”
- D.C. park police crowd estimates
- CPSIA chronicles, September 12
- Senate confirms Cass Sunstein
- National Journal blogger’s poll on med-mal
- September 11 roundup
- Update: NY man drops Match.com suit
- “Running SueEasy Turned Out to Be Not So Easy”
- “Grandson Claims Newspaper Libeled Josef Stalin”
- A reminder on comments moderation
- “Obama’s medical malpractice opportunity”
- Update: Woman loses search suit against Yahoo
- Westport’s wall woes
- State senate shootout in Florida
- “Attorney toppled diet-drug case Goliaths”
- David Michaels OSHA nomination
- September 9 roundup
- “Canada keeps malpractice cost in check”
- CPSIA on Thursday: A fine hearing, with one witness…
- “Lock the law school doors”
- “Woman’s Death Blamed on Hotel Exec’s ‘Hedonism’”
- More on the Pitney Bowes fax settlement
- New review: David Giacalone on BabyBarista and the Art of War
- Ohio: Turning the table on a serial ADA plaintiff
- WordPress upgrade
- NYC: tobacco shops can’t give away coffee
- Todd Willingham execution
- Bringing a purse dog into the food store
- “Jury awards dad $50K for teen’s suicide”
- Unfit mother — for not speaking English?
- “Hot coffee is back!”
- “In $2.9 M ‘Blast Fax’ Settlement, Plaintiffs Get Coupons and Lawyers Get Cash”
- Bad journalism department: Grand Theft Auto settlement
- Saudi lawyers demand Mohammed cartoon apology
- “Frivolous Lawsuit Sanctions Affirmed Against Pro Se Plaintiff in Auto Case”
- “A Lawyer Who Tries to Block Settlements”
- Cook County clerk’s office takes lawyer advertising
- The beginning of the end for speech control in Canada?
- Cash4Gold sues Consumerist.com
- Ideal use for compact fluorescents
- “Julia Child was furious at Meryl Streep…”
- “Convicted thief sues store he robbed”
- CPSIA on the rocks
- September 2 roundup
- “We must leave behind 10,000 years of civilization”
- Chevron: hidden videos show bribery plot in giant Ecuador tort suit
- Himself for a client dept.
- Birthers’ dubious boast
- Lawsuits to silence critics bulldoze the First Amendment
- Corrupted by the very sight of it?
- Run for your lives! It’s a lit candle!
- August 31 roundup
- Don’t lie to the court about having a brain tumor
- Parents settle Ohio student arm-branding case
- By reader acclaim: mother-in-law sues comedian over jokes
- Lawsuits against God
- Howard Dean on Obamacare and med-mal reform
- “Negligent-security” law, down Memory Lane
- “Russian Court Says U.S. Band Needs License to Play Its Own Songs”
- Canada’s loser-pays rules
- “Stuck in legal”
- Update: Brandon v. Wizeman
- Ban blonde jokes in workplace, but allow lawyer jokes
- “Obama plan creates ‘Public Option’ malpractice law firm”
- Rise and fall of an ethically challenged attorney
- “Patent reformer becomes troll, sues defunct OSS company”
- CPSIA: miscellaneous reading
- Hold that thought — comments off this week
- “The California Coastal Commission vs. Its Critics”
- Thinking of using posed toys in that video?
- “Police standoff in Ventura sparks $680,000 damage claim”
- Med-mal on Andrew Sullivan’s blog
- August 21 roundup
- ADA complainant drops suit against Sacramento’s Squeeze Inn
- Welcome Free Range Kids readers
- Fortune: “Las Vegas’s medical Mafia”
- Use the word “edge” in a videogame title…
- CPSIA upends the kids’ furniture business
- August 20 roundup
- Zoo fall blamed on splashy dolphins
- Because government is so much better at regulating than parents are
- When lawyers’ blogs proclaim their expertise
- Discovery overreach in Prop 8 battle?
- Best Buy mistakenly offers high-end TV for $9.99
- Waxman, Stupak demand info from health insurers
- Voting Rights Act expert Abigail Thernstrom…
- Include recent family photo, “political beliefs” with application
- More on the patent suit against Twitter
- Update: animal-tagging runs into Senate setback
- August 18 roundup
- “Skydiver’s Parachute Fails to Open, Instructor Saves Her, She Sues for Two Broken Fingers”
- Great moments in litigation defense
- Deceased Austin lawyer probed over demand letters to restaurants
- “Gallion gets 25 years, Cunningham 20 in fen-phen fraud case”
- August 17 roundup
- “Lawsuits are the latest roadblock for California budget”
- Golden receivers, cont’d
- On video: California bookstore owner’s ADA suit
- CPSIA: August 14 arrives
- David Michaels and gun control
- Lawsuit: tornado broke our Honda van window
- Update: court throws out wrestlers’ suit against WWE (again)
- U.K.: Better off institutionalized than with a parent who smokes?
- Assistant principal’s swine flu death
- “Lerach Costs Former Firm $45 Million in Fees”
- “Judge sentences man to 6 months in jail for yawning”
- Don’t
- “Texas Judge Bans Microsoft From Selling Word in the U.S.”
- “The unintended consequences of preventing patient falls”
- Baseballs hit into the stands
- “It is now illegal in Louisiana to taunt someone who is riding a bicycle”
- Developer: we don’t want an unregulated land-use climate like Houston
- Passing labor-law bill will “Defeat the Right Forever”
- Blogosphere reaction
- “Shrimp suit doesn’t hold water”
- Some wellsprings of high indignation
- Negligently flaunting illicit affair = legally responsible for later murders?
- Feds charge lawyer with embezzling $950K
- Clotheslines as safety hazard?
- Popular Mechanics on bad forensics
- CPSIA developments; posting lull
- Furor over Ford Explorer class action settlement
- Heritage panel on preemption
- “Golden receivers”
- “It’s part of the vernacular of being a lawyer.”
- August 10 roundup
- Jurors play cards for verdict
- Miami fire fee, cont’d: Adorno faces possible bar discipline
- “British Government Pays Lobbyists to Lobby It on Climate Change”
- The odium of sodium
- August 7 roundup
- Setback for a “Ladies’ Day” suit
- Lawsuit: Twitter violates our patent
- Two new podcast interviews
- 12-year-old’s slide injury to cost Little League $125K
- That’s Mr. Troll to you
- From the Age of Sail to the Age of Lawyering
- “Author of Racist Email About Gates Sues to Keep His Job”
- Sue ‘em all, cont’d: crash outside deli
- Playground safety mat overheating, cont’d
- Medicare Secondary Payer expansion, cont’d
- The return of Grand Theft Auto: Class Action
- Parody of “horrible lawyers” taken seriously
- Lawyer hid millions from IRS
- Suicide barriers on scenic California bridge
- Welcome Volokh Conspiracy readers
- America’s Cup litigation
- Not an Onion headline
- CPSC confirms rhinestone CPSIA ban
- August 3 roundup
- Two Florida men prosecuted for “gang hand gestures” on MySpace
- “Jobless grad sues college for 70G tuition”
- Cash for clunkers program
- Litigation vs. privacy, part LXXVII
- Wall Street “Bull” sculpture
- Another frozen cache problem
- “Teen passenger in speeding car sues driver who was hit”
- Noneconomic damages and pets
- For fear of choking
- Corn detasseling and the minimum wage
- Second custody trial set to begin
- House passes food-safety measure
- Standing for trees to sue
- “Obscure Company Claims It Just Patented Podcasting”
- Landlord vs. twittering tenant, cont’d
- “Revenge of the ‘Shoe Bomber’”
- $1.6 billion tax break for plaintiff’s lawyers
- Law firm’s typo
- “The unique hell that is Massachusetts alimony law”
- July 30 roundup
- Auto dealerships and Congress
- “EU to Extinguish Lightbulb Art?”
- Orange County taco trucks
- Mississippi: A guilty plea from Judge DeLaughter
- Railroad not liable for goose attack
- “Plaintiff’s lawyer talks to Madoff in prison”
- Crackdown in Britain on knives
- Tweet critical of business gets woman sued for $50K
- Alexandria, Va. police chief touts sobriety checkpoint program
- Toronto foodie culture, under the table
- “Dell Agrees to Pay $9.1 Million in Discrimination Case”
- Tales of contingent-fee tax collection
- “The AAJ’s misguided media ban”
- Sexual harassment lawsuits of the future: Comic-Con edition
- Claim: dealership wrongly allowed employee to steal car
- July 27 roundup
- Do bloggers infringe AP’s rights?
- Things that sound like parodies but aren’t
- Cincinnati Bengals to pay $250,000 in suit over season tickets
- “Denny’s Sued Over Salt Content in Food”
- Prisoner suits in the U.K.
- Nancy Pelosi to address trial lawyers convention
- “The only reason I gave you anything was because of you.”
- Back to the bad old days of notice pleading?
- There’s a latex finger cot in my food
- National Journal bloggers’ poll
- Great moments in lawyer Twitter marketing
- “Filial responsibility” laws and nursing home bills
- Coffee cup warning
- July 23 roundup
- “Lawsuit Claims Indiana Law Examiners Violate the ADA”
- Suit demanding warnings on hot dogs
- Now at Forbes.com: “Inside the Health Care Bill”
- “If I become the victim of a barbaric crime someday…”
- CPSIA and books: “A bad law threatens our past”
- Teacher who allegedly branded cross onto student’s arm…
- “Proceed at your peril” of “immense monetary damages”
- Universal restaurant calorie labeling?
- July 21 roundup
- The civil litigation death penalty
- A word for Hosting Matters
- “Hearing-impaired football fan sues Ohio State”
- U.K.: “Even mathematicians run scared of our libel laws now”
- “Lawsuit claims Apple, Mafia sent threats via iPod”
- July 19 roundup
- When business arrives
- Don’t
- “Few plaintiffs in Ford case use coupons as lawyers reap millions”
- Medicare qui tam: a health care bill surprise
- Tearing up the farm, in safety’s name
- Duty to warn that wearing football gear might make you really hot
- Judge tosses Donald Trump’s bid to silence critical author
- July 16 roundup
- Tobacco prohibition in the military?
- Company that planted bogus online reviews also sued critic
- Medical privacy laws vs. adoption of electronic medical records
- Kid isn’t his, homeless man in jail for nonsupport anyway
- Ukraine’s gift to the Cheney family
- Regulation of yoga-instructor training
- Business wins a California ADA case
- On the radio
- John Avlon, “Sue City”
- Welcome Instapundit and Above the Law readers
- DEA’s War on Cold Remedies
- Guinness Book of Records mocked, responds with nastygram
- Mom left two girls, 12, in charge of three younger ones at mall
- July 14 roundup
- Marc Dreier gets 20 years
- “Saudi family sues genie, alleges harassment”
- Texting teen falls into open manhole
- Blawg Review #220
- “Wells Fargo Bank Sues Itself”
- CPSIA and compliance: “This can’t be happening”
- “Judge closes door on legal quirk in patent law”
- “California bill would protect discounts for state workers”
- Famed NYC lawyer turns down $8 million offer in cerebral palsy case
- “Majority of House supports bill to reverse dealer closings”
- Title IX math/science quotas, cont’d
- After forty years
- Sacramento’s “Squeeze Inn” hit with ADA suit
- More on the “national building code”
- CPSIA, kids’ resale and the Times, cont’d
- Foreclosure defense: “The Middle Class Advocate”
- Are you seeing a July 5 version of our front page?
- Hosting Blawg Review #220 on Monday
- “Litigation as feud”
- Florida and zero tolerance
- “Music Labels Reach Royalty Deal With Online Stations”
- Companies vs. their fans: Pez sues Pez museum
- Former employee says she wasn’t paid
- John Coale as Palin adviser
- Drinking and breastfeeding
- Fen-phen: were client’s medical records mishandled?
- “Legal Bills Swayed Palin, Official Says”
- July 6 roundup
- WordPress update
- Canadian Indian schools: when reparations don’t repair
- Defending the University of Illinois
- Is overregulation killing entrepreneurship?
- N.J.: en route to closure, a detour
- Update to Tennessee medmal verdict
- “An assembly-line fraud factory”
- Around the web, July 3
- CPSIA’s tracking-labels fiasco: T minus six weeks
- Third Circuit panel dismisses charges against Judge Kozinski
- Mortgage Implode-O-Meter online speech case, cont’d
- On a bench, “Caution: Seats may become wet”
- Annals of legal marketing
- Statutory interpretation for nine-year-olds
- July 8, Washington DC
- “If you keep track of what you’re taking, none of this is an issue for you”
- “Man Burned at Burning Man Assumed Risk of Injury”
- Overlawyered turns 10
- “Court: Discriminate — with discretion”
- A fortune in his coffee cup?
- Lawprof’s bias suit cites curriculum, panel imbalance
- Big firms as patent trolls
- D.C. Metro crash client-chasing
- Murdered girlfriend, blames Zoloft
- Now up at Forbes.com: my reactions on Ricci
- “Chambliss blocks regulatory pick over animal lawsuits”
- Bar “linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials”?
- UK library: no hot coffee allowed
- Private school, the disabled-rights way
- Voting on bills without reading them
- CPSIA and … automotive products?
- Goading Mickey Kaus into blogging
- Getting your ducks in a row
- Australian prosecutors’ brief: 24,736 pages
- Roche withdrawing Accutane after jury verdicts
- Illinois law school scandals/furors
- Utah, Louisiana: censorship via private lawsuit?
- “Disparaging eBay comment draws lawsuit”
- Domino’s sued in murder of deliveryman
- A steer named Tivo
- A legal scramble over Michael Jackson’s estate?
- “Teenage strippers sue Atlanta”
- Financial services regulation overhaul: goodbye to arbitration?
- “I’ll pay them a million dollars if they can do it.”
- Comment spam — from law firms
- Lawsuit claiming talk show host unfairly refused to take calls
- June 25 roundup
- A non-troll patent lawsuit in E.D. Tex.
- The online business model
- Guestbloggers for Overlawyered
- “Cigarette Control and Thought Control”
- More on fashion knock-off litigation
- Australia’s banned websites
- “Top Illinois Court Axes Mandatory Retirement Law for State Judges”
- Bluetooth class action update; new blog
- Update: “UPS to allow hard-of-hearing drivers”
- June 23 roundup
- Update: FTC moves ahead with blog regulation
- High court on Voting Rights Act
- House panel clears sweeping food-safety overhaul
- California: medical marijuana must carry Prop 65 warnings
- Canadian guards: securing border is too stressful
- Oakland: “City Council Members Settle Legal Dispute Over Right to Parking Space”
- Complete federal tax code and regs in 8 volumes
- USAir Hudson-landing emotional distress, cont’d
- “Lawyer blames his BMW for speeding and loses”
- NY Times sends nastygram to satirical website
- Widow of murdered fly seeks White House compensation
- Slavery apologies and the reparations question
- UK: toddler throws mint wrapper, judge halts £10,000 prosecution
- Things I am never going to live down dept.
- “Pair sue KFC after failing to get free meal promoted by Oprah”
- Confusion among all NYC’s various “Ray’s” pizzerias
- Lawyers who advertise heavily
- Update: Bill Maher chortling?
- Sue volunteer search-and-rescue teams enough…
- “Court orders Jammie Thomas to pay RIAA $1.92 million”
- “Jose Canseco to sue baseball”
- CPSIA chronicles, June 18
- Oh pshaw
- Social media reminders
- “Lawyer for Holocaust Victims Claims Trust-Fund Dipping Was Inadvertent”
- “Tourism Bill to Be Combined With Anti-Civil-Liberties Hate Crimes Bill”
- Massachusetts’s long tax arm
- Everything in proportion (U.K. law enforcement edition)
- “Craigslist Not Liable for Shooting That Used a Gun Sold Via a Craigslist Ad”
- Monday on the Hill: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied?
- Ex-wife wins $500K in suit against new wife
- The exploits of Alfred Rava, cont’d
- Safety instructions in L.A. hotel elevator
- “Rejected by NYT Weddings editors? Fake law firm fights for YOU!”
- “Medical errors” estimates
- June 16 roundup
- Keeping lawyers busy
- Five-year-old boy orphaned in crash. Call our law offices today!
- “Obama Open to Reining in Medical Suits”
- Cherry-baggers beware
- “Keep libel laws out of science”
- Prisoners’ first-amendment rights
- Oops dept.
- Connecticut passes probate court reform
- June 12 roundup
- White Coat’s lawsuit story, cont’d
- “Former employee wins $4.1 billion”
- Background check — for your kid’s school party
- Rick Reilly on the Oakland Mother’s Day-stadium suit
- Bicycle smashup, of the regulatory sort
- Match.com: your inactive profiles are breaking hearts
- FDA gains authority to regulate tobacco
- Mandatory composting in San Francisco
- Co-workers listened to raunchy radio programs, cont’d
- Tony La Russa vs. Twitter
- June 10 roundup
- Don’t
- “Gambler threatens to sue the Venetian for bad feng shui”
- CPSIA: “Blowback” on Capitol Hill
- Fashion copyright bill, cont’d
- “Inmate sues to get vintage truck owned by couple he killed”
- “Fruity” cereal class actions, cont’d
- Origins of lawyer unpopularity
- “Schakowsky to run again for House, not Senate”
- It’ll never get off the ground
- Federal override of local building codes
- Boston Chinese restaurant blaze: “Firefighters’ families settle for $2.2m”
- Fractious in Framingham
- Outing anonymous bloggers
- Mattel fined millions for lead in toys–under pre-CPSIA law
- National Journal bloggers’ poll on Sotomayor
- June 7 roundup
- Wales: “School bans ‘dangerous’ swimming goggles”
- “Crunchberries” lawsuit, cont’d
- “NYC Cops Repeatedly Ticket Parked Dead Guy”
- “The Lawsuit Generator that is Sacha Baron Cohen”
- Mystery pink-diamond disappearance, cont’d
- Design Piracy Prohibition Act
- Boldly patterned carpets and wallpaper
- June 5 roundup
- Update: lawyers paid in gift cards
- Sotomayor and the ADA/bar-exam case
- Starbucks barista tips: appeals court reverses $86 million award
- FERPA and university secrecy
- A CPSIA future?
- Bluetooth Headset Settlement Update
- Amphibious-tour operators in S.F. battle over “quacking devices”
- “It’s always a good time to invest in litigation”
- The rise and fall of Gene Cauley
- Blogging his own malpractice trial
- Disappointed consumer: Cap’n Crunch “Crunchberries” not real fruit
- Management stirrings at AAJ…
- Several sides on Sotomayor
- For New York-area readers: on WOR radio, 7:10 AM Wednesday
- Update: Taster’s Choice guy award before Calif. high court
- The phrase “Chicago 2016″
- XML editing software worth $98?
- “The lethal dangers of sand”
- Government regulation of broadcast content
- Thumb-in-the-eye II: Cal Supremes affirm Buell-Wilson
- “Attorney Sanctioned for Bringing Time-Barred Securities Fraud Suit”
- “The U.S. Can’t Be the World’s Court”
- “A priest, a doctor, and a lawyer…”
- Ensuring Pollan-ization
- “New drain-safety law may close some pools”
- “Zoo settles with brothers in tiger attack”
- “Excuse Me, Ma’am, We’ve Had Reports of Prayer”
- SCOTUS refuses to review Flax punitive damages
- Quoted more on Sotomayor
- “A Stimulus You Can Believe In”
- Cases that could never live up to their headlines dept.
- Continental charges pilots with sham divorces
- CPSIA and your tag sale
- “Expert Skier Assumed Risk of Injury, N.Y. Court Finds in Barring Suit”
- Blogging without burning out
- It happened in Green Bay
- Welcome New York Times readers
- When sending demand letters…
- “The poor man’s divorce investigator”
- At Forbes.com: Sonia Sotomayor nomination
- “Rocks are too dangerous for kids to touch”
- Wrongs without remedies dept.
- 400-page securities class action complaint
- Real estate “nondisclosure of tragedy” claims
- NY Times on libel tourism
- On the radio
- Did Sotomayor “save baseball”?
- Pull over, sir, we’re checking those socks for lead
- May 26 roundup
- “How to keep your parody or gripe site safe from legal bullies”
- Lawsuits against theme parks, and fee-shifting
- “Over-legalization of special ed disputes”
- In the S.F. Chronicle
- Jonathan Lee Riches sues Guinness Book of World Records
- May 24 roundup
- “DWI for walking a bicycle”
- Update: “100-Year Sentence For Dad Who Poisoned Kids”
- Tales of sexual harassment prevention training
- In which there are no real wieners
- “Beating the press in a globalized age”
- May 22 roundup
- CPSIA and Violet’s Peapod
- Intimidation through subpoena
- Wherein I become a three-continent pundit
- Risks of getting sued for blogging
- Symposium: “Replacing Justice Souter”
- Don’t
- “Obama Regulatory Review Could Spur Product Lawsuits”
- “Lawyer charged with stealing over $600,000 in client settlement money”
- Sued by contractor after criticizing its zoning variance
- “Giuliani Duke Golf Lawsuit Shanks”
- Craigslist vs. South Carolina AG
- Bored with jury duty, so he walks off
- Medical negligence in the military
- New CPSIA “primer” site
- Swine farms and fishing expeditions
- “UK chiropractors try to silence critic with libel claim”
- Lawyer ads: Esquire’s best-of-the-worst
- Welcome Orlando Sentinel readers
- For CPSIA reform, unexpected bedfellows
- “Million Dollar Advocates Forum”
- Allegation: “‘General counsel’ to biker gang”
- Trial lawyer earmarks: ending deductions for punitive damage payments
- Donald Trump v. Tim O’Brien
- Small business, big business and regulation
- Mencken on laughter in court
- Conference tomorrow: “Libel Lawfare”
- Frontiers of disabled-rights law
- “Insane Man Who Killed His Mother Can’t be Her Heir”
- May 18 roundup
- Great moments in jury deliberations
- Mutual of Omaha vs. Oprah Winfrey
- U.K.: “Old school tie is shunned amid safety concerns”
- American Law Institute meeting
- “Can you afford your doggie door?”
- May 16 roundup
- New Centers for Disease Control appointee Thomas Frieden
- “Strip Mall Developer Sues Banks For Loaning It Too Much Money”
- CPSIA chronicles, May 15
- NYT “Room for Debate” food safety discussion
- “Employer Liability for Technology Addiction”
- Owner of stolen car sued in hit-run death
- May 14 roundup
- “EEOC says age bias behind firing of strip-club waitress”
- “Enviros Forced NHTSA Nominee To Withdraw”
- “Lawsuit filed over ‘sexting’ suicide”
- Cheerios as “drug”
- “Man’s estate files wrongful death suit against father”
- “Most Ridiculous Lawsuits of All Time”
- Quinnipiac manipulated rosters in pursuit of Title IX quotas
- “The pet door is a really serious hazard”
- Wall Street Journal on banana-suit scandal
- Not even in California
- LawLine.com blog of the week
- The case for tissue-box lawyers
- Consolation prize: script rights?
- Security guard who slept on job loses lawsuit
- May 12 roundup
- Ninth Circuit panel upholds Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act
- CPSIA chronicles, May 11
- Taxes and structured settlements
- “90 grams of empty symbolism and 10 grams of needless duplication”
- John Edwards in spotlight again
- Hey, those stimulus bucks were supposed to be for our jobs!
- NYC subway track totterer awarded $5.95 million
- If deathly allergic to burger condiments, consider checking for their absence
- “Landlord on hook for up to $44K even though bias case was dropped”
- “Prominent Arkansas Lawyer Probed Over Missing $9 Million”
- “Infamous lawsuits quiz”
- Jury acquits W.R. Grace and execs in Libby, Mont. asbestos case
- Right to sue over “heightism”?
- National Animal Identification System advances
- “Your yard sale is illegal”
- “Why Does the Vaccine/Autism Controversy Live On?”
- Content-scraper gets into scrape
- Member of Congress defends speech-ban bill
- “Attorney Can’t Ask 3rd Party to ‘Friend’ Witness on Facebook, Opinion Says”
- Roquefort cheese tariff war
- “Man dining at TGI Friday’s finds a snake head under his broccoli”
- Online commentary not so anonymous
- May 7 roundup
- “Pregnancy Discimination Laws: Do They Hurt Women More Than They Help?”
- Orlando police chief sensitive to criticism
- Teacher tenure: “Failure gets a pass”
- The Chrysler haircut
- May 6 roundup
- Banana worker suit scandal, cont’d
- State attorneys general vs. Craigslist
- Celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred
- White House nominates two to CPSC
- U.S. Silica in the blogosphere
- “Expelled Student’s ADA Claim Against Law School Can Proceed”
- Police lenient? Skagit County jury: taxpayers should pay
- “All it takes is one false allegation … I sit here as proof of that”
- Class actions make America great!
- Good Samaritans and a duty to rescue
- “If your attorney is colluding with the person you are suing, that’s a problem”
- Tennessee jury demands defensive medicine
- Don’t
- Quite a ruined vacation
- Don’t let your 8 year old play in the yard?
- Grand jury probes John Edwards-Rielle Hunter payments
- U.K.: Another miners’-health lawyer disbarred
- “New York court says golfers aren’t required to yell ‘fore!’”
- Beaumont justice and the silicosis mass torts
- “David Kessler Goes Dumpster Diving (and Emerges With Garbage)”
- Swine flu and hotel liability
- Traffic secret? Chimp attacks
- Towable toilet “not for use on moving vehicles”
- Teacher’s ordeal began when cops found two pills in her car
- Causing emotional distress through online postings
- “TuberculEsq” sues CDC
- TARP money to settle shareholder class actions
- Paul Minor appeal
- Weapons-on-school-property statutes
- Want class-action benefits? Save those minor receipts, indefinitely
- Judge hands down 2,643-page judgment
- April 30 roundup
- “Why lawyers rule the U.S….”
- Judge tosses lawsuit over lack of men’s studies program
- Twitter memoir of jail experience?
- How-to-hack-iPhone postings result in Apple nastygram
- Ticketed for parking in their own driveways
- New at Point of Law
- Woman fined $500 for suing police dog
- More “swoon and fall” church claims
- Foraging for wild food in the city
- Urge to scream dept.
- April 28 roundup
- “Well, in OUR culture, we take a man at his word”
- “Sailor sues over safety of pirated Maersk Alabama”
- Goodyear v. Kirby
- “Cops: Teen burglarized cars to help pay for a lawyer”
- Judge: banana-pesticide suits were “a pervasive conspiracy to defraud”
- “Felon posing as lawyer spoke at local legal seminar”
- Goodwill Industries: A voice for CPSIA reform
- Double jeopardy and the federal hate crimes bill
- “Plaintiffs Visited Restaurant 27 Times, Then Sued Over Height of Bathroom Mirror”
- Letting jurors ask questions during trials
- “Food safety bill critics: Small farms could lose”
- Obama puts MADD chief in charge of highway-safety agency
- April 24 roundup
- “Hat” theory of public office
- Don’t
- Update: Animal rights vs. free speech
- “‘Greedy’ Stanford Law Grad Must Pay $630K in Legal Fees Over Meritless Art Suit”
- “After Mom’s Wistful Remark, A Maternity Ward Inquisition”
- CPSIA chronicles, April 24
- “LIFE IS NUTZ v. LIFE IS GOOD”
- Fired for plagiarism, prof now seeks $200 million
- Murakami-Vuitton purse art show results in lawsuit
- Dispute with HOA over unleashed dog walking
- “When foreigners come to our culture, we tell stories as entertainment”
- Homeless man beat her after she offered cheeseburger
- “Witnesses feared being killed if they testified about the fraud”
- Just the excuse they needed
- HR 875 and local food: is Rep. DeLauro backtracking?
- Annals of tasteful lawyer advertising
- Mandatory employee breaks, cont’d
- “To say that I’ve never tried a case is false, and that’s what I object to”
- CPSIA chronicles, April 21
- Advice: don’t accept friend requests from debt collectors
- Discussing a Florida company on your blog
- Do not put any person in this washer
- “Website ordered to pay $125,000 over ‘haunted’ mill claim”
- “The things lawyers do to get disbarred”
- CPSIA won’t let us build a legal bicycle
- Update: “Would-Be Hooters Guy Settles Discrimination Suit”
- “Millionaire’s mistress battles his kin over estate”
- Will your lunch violate intellectual property laws?
- April 20 roundup
- CPSIA, books, and recycling
- “Sewer service” and civil defendants
- ConcurOp “cyberspeech as tort” symposium, cont’d
- Apply to renew a Quebec gun permit…
- April 18 roundup
- ADA closes Cupertino business
- Norton Symantec upgrade class action settlement
- CPSIA & dirtbikes: temporary stay, no permanent relief
- Connecticut probate mess
- Carelessness for millions in New York City
- 10 year old on ATV swerves into truck’s path
- “A Tidal Wave of Regulations to Hit IT Shores”
- “Five Steps to Being a Plaintiff Lawyer Machine”
- Prescription drug abusers, be not ashamed
- California vs. big-screen TVs
- “One of the biggest [disasters] left over from 2008″
- “There wasn’t the slightest bit of pay-to-play here”
- “South Carolina Court Awards $1.8 Million Libel Judgment Against Blogger”
- Update: “Quebec dad sued by daughter after grounding loses his appeal”
- Library employee objects to “Harry Potter” promotion
- CPSIA, tangled politics of, cont’d
- Online-speech symposium at Concurring Opinions
- Great liars of the law
- “Someone’s Gotta Go” and employment law
- “Woman, 78, sues to get back in senior center card game”
- Damned if you do, damned if you don’t files: United Airlines customer service
- Food safety law and small producers, cont’d
- Land’s End replacing a million buttons
- National Be Kind To Lawyers Day
- “The right of all to speak openly about religion”
- Another “D-bag” defamation suit gone
- “Bad Phoenix Cops” blogger raided, cont’d
- Disposable coffee cups
- Citizen-suit provision in climate bill
- “Maybe Litigation Isn’t Always the Best Solution for a Gripe Site Target”
- Grimes v. Raves Motion Pictures FACTA decision reversed
- Apparel makers and CPSIA: deer in the headlights
- ADACrisis.com
- Notable and quotable
- “Architects now more sue-able than ever”
- CPSIA: what retailers need to do
- Plaintiff operated vehicle “in a safe and prudent manner”
- “Exxon’s Endless Lawsuit”
- Schools, school suppliers, and CPSIA
- Telemarketing consumer site menaced by foreign suits
- “Adopting hospital quality measures too quickly can harm patients”
- U.K.: Mom ticketed for stopping to revive 4 year old son
- CPSIA chronicles, April 9
- “Considering the explosion of new media, regulation is inevitable”
- Overheard, one lawyer talking about another
- April 9 roundup
- U.K. online-gambling site settles with Dept. of Justice
- “Sued for seeking a ZIPcode?”
- H.R. 875, Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009
- Advice for criminal defense lawyers
- Allergies in the schools
- Ezra Levant on Overlawyered
- Louisiana solon: let’s allow hair salons to dispense free booze
- April 7 roundup
- CPSIA: Things I learned at the rally
- Site disruptions
- The thugs wore badges, cont’d
- Household hazard causes estimated 86,000 injuries/year
- “DUI Charge for Driver of Motorized Bar Stool”
- First Circuit on “family responsibility discrimination”
- The Marc Dreier scam
- “Scariest Monster of All Sues for Trademark Infringement”
- Blogger makes himself pest to Phoenix police
- “Why Congress Won’t Fix the CPSIA”
- April 4 roundup
- U.K.: “Lawyers use NHS as £100m cash cow”
- Reused axles in manufactured homes
- CPSIA and paper goods: it’s not just books
- Blue-ribbon excuses: “accumulation of head injuries”
- Breaking: Guilty verdict in Kentucky fen-phen criminal retrial
- “Consumer Interest Groups Ask Obama To Stop Appointing RIAA Lawyers”
- Ohio: National City Bank shareholder class settlement
- We’ve got our 404 page back
- Senate rejects CPSIA reform on budget vote, 39-58
- April 3 roundup
- Woman’s DNA showed up at 39 crime scenes
- Bloggers: beware of overpraising
- Sex with mannequin not unlawful in South Dakota
- Texas Senate considers asbestos reform rollback
- Ted Stevens indictment dismissed
- NPR on CPSIA: “Public Concern, Not Science, Prompts Plastics Ban”
- April 2 roundup
- Appellate lawyer chooses his words incautiously
- “EEOC Willfully Violated Pay Law, Arbitrator Rules”
- Motorcyclist crashes into wild pigs on road
- “Congress Is Again Weighing Aid for Ground Zero Rescuers”
- CPSIA rally in Washington, D.C.
- The Bluetooth Headset Class Action settlement: Consumers $0, Lawyers $850,000
- RFK Jr. defends Paul Minor
- “Plea Deal Includes Resurrection Clause”
- Corri Fetman sues Playboy
- Weakness of our partisan expert witness system
- Milk. “Contains milk”.
- March 31 roundup
- Says he didn’t mug her (but does want her money)
- CPSIA chronicles, March 30
- Fraud alleged in banana-worker sterility claims
- Class actions, courtesy U.S. taxpayers
- Milford does not believe in hugs
- “California may ban black cars”
- “Conspiracy” — to petition the government
- CPSIA and (regular) bicycles