Early years of site
- 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
- Beekeeping illegal in New York City
- CPSIA chronicles, March 27
- “Year Of Law School Now Mandatory For Nation’s 25-Year-Olds”
- March 27 roundup
- CPSIA: handing the GOP an issue?
- “These are just kids being irresponsible and careless; they are not criminals.”
- New York med-mal lawyers reach for an Albany payday
- CPSIA: one for the books
- Target of Milberg suit sues over Torkelsen testimony
- “Fast food free” zones around schools
- Live by the swindle…
- CPSIA: coming attractions
- Legal blogs: keeping lawyers more honest?
- March 25 roundup
- “The Last Best Place”: not a trademark yet
- “Possible Solutions To Improve the CPSIA”
- Chicago: Parks worker overhears woman spanking her nephew in bathroom
- Don’t think you can beat that DUI rap so easily
- March 24 roundup
- Update: Waukeen McCoy fees denied, sanctioned $25K
- CPSIA: the countable costs
- Leave that emotional-support companion animal outside?
- No-go for sanctions defense of “I’m not a good lawyer”: Shales v. Local Union No. 330
- March 23 roundup
- CPSIA on the radio: WTIC “Morning Show with Ray Dunaway”
- CPSIA: Congress has spoken. Now go!
- It’s absurd, it’s inane, it’s … Superfund!
- March 22 roundup
- CPSIA: Malcolm Smith’s protest
- March 21 roundup
- Vincent Fumo convicted in Philadelphia
- Bailouts, bonuses, and the public mood
- CPSIA: a scorecard of reform bills
- “How to Deny Employees Free Choice”
- Fit for a foot chase?
- March 20 roundup
- CPSIA: a season of activism
- CPSIA: transcripts, audio of Hugh Hewitt show
- Connecticut divorce: $43 million post-nup isn’t enough
- Update: Washington family’s suit over cannon death
- CPSIA on the radio: Hugh Hewitt show today
- CPSIA on the radio: “Kresta in the Afternoon”
- More baseball liability woes
- Didn’t know it was unsafe to dance on bar, cont’d
- CPSC: No, we didn’t ask libraries to pull pre-1985 books
- More nastygrams over anonymous blog comments
- CPSIA and the “precautionary principle”
- March 17 roundup
- U.K.: “Serial litigators cash in on ‘errors’ in job ads”
- On C-SPAN tonight: “Protecting Main Street From Lawsuit Abuse”
- CPSIA “people’s hearing” in D.C. April 1, and other protests
- Update: Maryland court quashes subpoena demanding blog commenters’ identities
- The costs of lawyer promotion
- “The price of disability law”
- CPSIA on Metafilter
- “Crumbled lives and shredded families”
- March 15 roundup
- CPSIA: getting Washington’s attention
- Department of weird coincidences
- Claim: Hazing led to “unwise actions” two months later
- National Animal Identification System
- Barney Frank and the healthy TARP banks
- New consumer arbitration study
- CPSIA and motorsports: jamming the spokes
- U.K.: “Ex-cons given £5m for losing free board and lodging”
- “Suit claims $250K scam by psychic in Mendham”
- “New Business for Courts: Pet Custody”
- “Lawyer Sues To Get a Patent On Marketing”
- Where that Connecticut Catholic bill came from
- Claim: $1 million for missing XBox
- Church gunman suffered from “Lyme rage”
- CPSIA: “We are sorry to report…”
- Truth Commissions, then and now
- Copland and Howard: a proposal for drug-injury administrative compensation
- Judge/insurance fraudster sentenced in Pa.
- Watch out, motel owners
- When filing an injured-passenger claim…
- CPSIA: “Children’s books have limited useful life (approx 20 years)”
- “[O]ur entire world is a potentially dangerous place in which to live”
- Hayman & Kirshenbaum
- What have they done with the old Rose and Crown?
- CPSIA: throwing away 500 stuffed animals
- How to save the financial markets
- March 9 roundup
- “Where a Lawyer Can Be a Lawyer”
- CPSIA and children’s jewelry
- The Judge Sharon Keller case
- Proposing new laws to “start a dialogue”?
- CPSIA hits Martha’s Vineyard
- What? You mean salmonella isn’t a chemical?
- New Orleans: Five-fingered FOIA request?
- Peremptory juror challenges
- CPSIA: “What’s so sad is that books aren’t dangerous”
- March 5 roundup
- Pre-emption: don’t be sick
- Ads in Google News
- Wyeth v. Levine
- CPSIA chronicles, March 4
- Water-bill refunds for Seattle residents
- No rehearing for Roy Pearson
- “Hollywood stars, snappy jingles and vivid wreck videos”
- For readers on Twitter
- CPSIA on the radio: WMJI Cleveland
- Blurbing of books possibly safe again (or not)
- Toward final victory against hooligan listeners!
- CPSIA chronicles, March 3
- Should judges let lawyers perform magic tricks in closing argument?
- March 3 roundup
- Tasteful lawyer promotion dept.
- “Injured good Samaritan ticketed for jaywalking”
- CPSIA chronicles, March 2
- “Do you know who I am? A prosecutor!”
- “Disbarred—but Not Barred from Work”
- “Nebraska Appeals Court Dismisses Lawsuit Against God”
- Grains of enmity
- March 1 roundup
- CPSIA: How to keep current?
- Costly defense of U.K. terror trial
- Never told her he had the herpes virus
- Free-market personality disorder
- “Yo Quiero $500K for Yappy Chihuahuas”
- Lawsuits to silence Canadian bloggers
- CPSIA chronicles, February 27
- February 27 roundup
- Join our class action — for a $1,000 retainer
- Rockhounds beware
- Help us out, Deltona taxpayers
- CPSIA chronicles, February 26
- How-to guide for harassing websites
- February 26 roundup
- Enjoy American artisanal/craft beers?
- “Eric Holder” Twitter parody
- Forfeiture: “Police Departments Addicted to ‘Dirty Money’”
- CPSIA: Powersports, crystals, and stranded inventories
- “We now reward failure”
- Milberg hires judge who ruled in its favor
- California towns ban speedboarding
- Nordstrom trademark lawyers vs. “Beckon” yoga line
- Citing liability risks, hotels decline to stock defibrillators
- CPSIA chronicles, February 24
- iPod nano scratch settlement: count him out
- Nevada lawyer steals $400K from clients, draws five-year suspension
- Lawsuits filed by or against famous people
- CPSIA and print-on-demand
- Hospital patient falls as “never events”
- “How Prosecutor Elections Fail Us”
- California: “Three Offices of Attorney Declared ‘Vexatious Litigant’ Shut Down”
- CPSIA: Two more letters in New York Times
- February 23 roundup
- Suing Yahoo over search results
- Is litigation the answer to the CPSIA problem?
- CPSIA: N.Y. Times runs three letters
- Pajamas Radio interview on CPSIA
- David Liss vs. my NYTBR review
- “The fine art of overbilling”
- Dad packed a non-organic lunch?
- CPSIA chronicles, February 21
- Lawyering vs. privacy, cont’d
- Miley Cyrus eye-gesture suit, cont’d
- First sentences that tell a whole story in themselves
- “Of course, here, the case would probably be brought against the freezer manufacturer”
- CPSIA: Library books under an orange tarp
- CPSIA: Importing older children’s books
- Kentucky fen-phen fee scandal retrial
- Patent trolls as a tax on innovation
- Inside Counsel magazine on punitive damages
- “Firm offers ’60 Minute divorce’, free lunch included”
- “If you too have driven a car into a pool…”
- Vicki Iseman settles New York Times suit
- Art and the law: “Against moral rights”
- Drunken totter into subway train’s path: $2.3 million
- CPSIA chronicles, February 19
- February 19 roundup
- New at Forbes.com: “The New York Times Betrays Small Business”
- Paralyzed in crash after underage drinking, wins $2.5M from homeowner
- New York Times on CPSIA: “needless fears that the law could injure smaller enterprises”
- “Jury: Ranchers did not violate Mexicans’ rights”
- CPSIA on the radio
- February 18 roundup
- Erwin Chemerinsky’s good-neighbor policy
- “N.Y. High Court: Lawyer Subject to Treble Damages for Attempt to Deceive Court”
- CPSIA and vintage books, cont’d: slicing the past
- “Virginia Blogger Targeted With Outrageous Subpoena”
- CPSIA, board games and hobby gaming, cont’d
- February 16 roundup
- “We’re not allowed to display them, we’re not allowed to sell them”
- “Acoustic radiation”
- Disney thrill ride therapeutic, woman says
- Bernard Madoff and Milberg Weiss, cont’d
- Snopes and CPSIA
- Update: BlockShopper settles with Jones Day
- CPSIA: “Books, left out at the curb…”
- U.K.: Europe court says prisoners have right to use artificial insemination
- Buffalo plane crash
- CPSIA chronicles, February 13
- U.K.: Family court abuses
- Claim: Nintendo Wii dangerous and addictive
- CPSIA chronicles, February 12
- Willie Gary and the IRS
- February 12 roundup
- Judges order California to slash prison population
- New Amazon Kindle: Hey, those audio rights are ours!
- Thrift stores, the day after
- CPSIA: “Black Tuesday” for youth motorbikes
- W.V. doc who generated 124 malpractice claims
- Mississippi break
- CPSIA and vintage books
- Lawyers paid in gift cards, cont’d
- “PTSD Damages For A Non-Event”
- CPSIA chronicles, February 10
- “16 illegals sue Arizona rancher”
- CPSIA roulette
- February 9 roundup
- “Alcoholic sues Marriott after falling over a stairway while plowed”
- Burned-out taillight?
- James Watt (1736-1819)
- CPSIA: fifty stars and an asterisk
- In the New York Times Book Review
- February 8 roundup
- Minicycles’ CPSIA crash, cont’d
- CPSIA: What will be enforced?
- Criticize Chicago developers…
- “Why the Innocent Are Punished More Harshly Than the Guilty”
- Vince Offer – a ShamWow-tastic litigator
- Preacher’s lawsuit: “Religulous” made me look silly
- Lap dancer retraining for second career as lawyer
- Intercom announcement mentioned his wheelchair
- NRDC’s non-compliant onesie
- Buying (or selling) a used car
- Mel Weiss invested with Madoff
- CPSIA chronicles, February 6
- Should cheerleading count as a sport?
- Sweet land of traffic stops
- CPSIA chronicles, February 5
- RFK Jr. at it again on hog farms
- Markopolos’s case against Madoff
- Class action lawyers to be paid in gift cards
- Burning Man Festival gets sued
- “I am ready to go to prison for hamster murder”
- California octuplets
- Rehabilitating Jack Thompson?
- CPSIA: The children’s product safety “crisis” that wasn’t
- YouTube takedowns
- U.K.: “Disability discrimination risk for council suing former MD”
- Judges took kickbacks from juvie detention centers
- CPSIA, board games and hobby gaming
- Standing up for your legal rights
- Daschle down
- February 3 roundup
- “Ringling Bros. Elephant Trial Promises to Be a Circus”
- Ontario bans smoking in cars with children present
- CPSIA and the national press
- More on CPSIA and the dangers of eating youth motorcycles
- Finally, a revenue model for newspapers
- Annals of transparency
- Domain name registrars
- Names in the news
- Co-worker’s perfume disabled her
- The American Gallery of Juror Art
- Kenneth Ross on CPSIA stay
- Warning: “milk bottle contains, er, milk”
- Update: Insurance law Hall of Fame
- Podcasts on CPSIA: CraftSanity, “America’s Business”
- February 1 roundup
- “Court Rejects Unabomber’s Request to Get Unabombing Stuff Back”
- More on cosmetics giveaway settlement
- CPSIA stay II
- CPSIA: CPSC announces 1-year enforcement stay
- CPSIA and religious goods
- Renewable dental treasure
- “It’s to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley”
- CPSIA and youth motorcycles
- U.K.: “‘Barmy’ legal aid for failed asylum seeker”
- “Nothing personal, doc, but I’ll see you in court”
- Lawyer: Citibank should have protected me from advance-check scam
- January 30 roundup
- Frederic Wertham’s dream fulfilled
- Please, Mayor Bloomberg
- January 29 roundup
- Didn’t want “sibling relationship to completely disintegrate over this tragedy”
- Infringement as “rip-off” morality play
- CPSIA Blog Day #6: Wrap-up
- CPSIA Blog Day #5: “Laptop for every child” campaign
- CPSIA Blog Day #4: Groups that should care
- CPSIA Blog Day #3: Small businesses endangered
- CPSIA Blog Day #2: Etsy’s Gallery of Unaffordability
- CPSIA Blog Day #1: Past CPSIA bloggers
- Kozinski grudge-match litigant, cont’d
- Cheerleading is a contact sport
- No, they’re not “gambling devices”
- Sues siblings because Mom cut him out of will
- Tomorrow (Wed.): CPSIA blogging day
- Update: Passalaqua v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
- Annals of overlooked photo permissions
- iPod nano scratch settlement
- Denied post as legal writing professor, sues
- Dives into river on dare, jury awards $76 million
- CPSIA links
- Philip Howard, “Life Without Lawyers”, cont’d
- Construction defect litigation, rated X
- United against overcriminalization
- FERPA meets HIPAA
- U.K.: “Buffoonery” issuing from constabulary
- Nephew shot yellow Lance Armstrong “Live Strong” bracelet at her
- Update: charges dropped against Paul Jacob
- Air passenger misconduct and the USA PATRIOT Act
- Streamlining jury duty
- Slumdog Millionaire
- CPSIA: Part II at Forbes.com
- CPSIA employee whistleblower provisions
- Federalist Society Western Conference this weekend
- Ohio homebuilder vs. gripe site
- Class action law firm announces “investigation”
- Super Bowl Time
- Ricochet off low granite tee marker
- Schrenker’s fender-bender splendor
- Inaugural as federal “emergency”
- Law firm website disclaimer
- Shoplifter steals shark
- CSPI: “Vitamin Water” not good for you
- Coach’s wife: hubby’s litigation ruined our sex life
- CPSIA, continued
- “Just to be sure”
- Update: Armettia Peach leaky-roof suit
- 26-year-old’s drug/alcohol overdose
- Annals of environmental justice
- “Aggressive behavior” warnings on videogames
- “Flowery Fall Baby Rag Quilt”
- January 17 roundup
- “Minor Has No Grounds for Wet T-Shirt Suit, Court Rules”
- Thanks, voters
- Chicago: $260 million in public borrowing…
- Florida judge: stripper just his business partner
- “Can the Passengers of Flight 1549 Sue for Emotional Distress?”
- Forbes.com: Down with the CPSIA!
- Suing rude and sarcastic doctors
- “Judge Slashes Attorney Fees in GM Stock Settlement”
- Another Yelp lawsuit
- Minutes after the Flight 1549 crash….
- Imprisoned Lerach fires John Keker
- Jim Sokolove, Stanford, and the “Roadmap to Justice”
- January 15 roundup
- “Family sues over girl’s death during tornado”
- “Despite Will’s Prohibition, Executor Is Awarded Fee”
- “Lawyer’s Conviction Affirmed for Fen-Phen Settlement Fraud”
- Kids’ empty shelves: CPSIA continued
- Hooters wouldn’t hire him as waiter
- “Humiliation” suit over Korean broadcasts
- January 13 roundup
- Colombian coffee vs. cartoonist, cont’d
- Deaf persons on juries
- Philip K. Howard, “Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law”
- January 12 roundup
- Harassment — by reading a book
- CPSIA: furor builds over toyless shelves
- SSFC retires (as solo blogger)
- “Jeweler Awarded $3.8M for Theft of Mystery Diamond”
- Overlawyered nominated in 2008 Weblog Awards
- Colombian coffee association sues cartoonist
- “A few sentimental personal items”
- Why defamation law protects opinion
- Service animals, cont’d
- January 8 roundup
- Difficult divorces dept.
- “University, Manufacturer Sued After ‘Musical Chairs’ Injury”
- “Sending Wall Street To Jail”
- ABA publishes flattering book as part of lawsuit settlement
- Thomas Geoghegan runs for Congress
- Break in “Scruggs II” Mississippi scandal?
- Lowering the Bar “Best of 2008″
- Stole money from clients, now practices without license
- University of Michigan dental student $1.7 million award
- January 6 roundup
- “Suing Cold Medication Manufacturers Because Drug Dealers Make Drugs out of the Medication”
- Grim portent on Madoff clawbacks
- Caching glitch resolved?
- Are you seeing a Jan. 3 version of our front page?
- Securities law webcast tomorrow
- More on “KopBusters” sting
- Dog wasn’t allowed into NYC subway
- Health Affairs letter on Marc Rodwin Massachusetts Medical Malpractice Study
- Judge Murphy reprimanded by Massachusetts high court
- Patterico on Pellicano case
- Microblog 2008-01-04
- Site maintenance
- Co-workers sue Mega Millions lottery winners
- Football-keeping neighbor sues parents
- New at Point of Law
- Toyless Yule, cont’d
- Guestblogger thanks; best-blog contests
- Vicki Iseman sues New York Times
- Lure cat down from tree? No, someone might sue
- The law does not concern itself with trifling pinball-machine depictions
- Sobering New Year’s thought
- A Prediction For 2009
- Daily Roundup 2008-12-31
- Katrina Formaldehyde Plaintiffs: Not A Class
- New Character Class Coming to your Favorite Games: The Patent Troll
- Daily Roundup 2008-12-29
- Defendants Plead the Doctrine of “Pining for the Fjords” in Complete Bar of All Claims
- Daily Roundup 2008-12-28
- Fat is the New Black
- Microblog 2008-12-27
- White House Counsel Learns of Strange New Technology Known as “Search Engine”
- Microblog 2008-12-26
- Erwin Chemerinsky’s Gift to Southern California
- Oklahoma AG Receives Lesson on the First Amendment
- Something that THE BAR of the GREAT STATE OF MISSISSIPPI Might Find to Be of Interest
- Microblog 2008-12-25
- Christmas In Jail
- Memo to the Bourbon Family
- Microblog 2008-12-24
- Microblog 2008-12-23
- Best Christmas Present Ever
- All Revolutions are Plotted in Secret
- Cheerleading: Serious Business
- Drum Major Institute “Eye on the Right” and civil Gideon
- Asleep at the Scalpel?
- Microblog 2008-12-22
- Hokey Religions and Ancient Weapons are No Match for a Good Blaster at Your Side, Kid
- Marc Dann’s “Where Are They Now?” Moment
- A New Category for Mark T. Sandoval?
- California Attorney General Weighs in on Proposition 8
- Iowa Husbands: Knock Before Opening the Bathroom Door
- California Good Samaritan ruling, cont’d
- Microblog 2008-12-19
- It’s 8:00 pm, But The Sun Hasn’t Risen
- Before and After
- “Can I take the shot? CAN I TAKE THE SHOT?”
- Roman Catholic Diocese of Vermont Hit With 18:1 Punitives Award
- “Music industry to abandon mass suits”
- Marc Dreier profiled
- Unhappy holidays for American toymakers?
- Guest Blogging, and an Introduction
- Welcome National Journal readers
- GWB as regulator: new opt-out “conscience” rules for health workers
- Expelled from Miss Porter’s — but it was the Oprichniki’s fault
- “MPs accuse courts of allowing libel tourism”
- Insurance law Hall of Fame
- Class action: too many giblets in Perdue chickens
- “Judge’s daughter sues driver she ran into during crash”
- Roy Pearson loses again
- New at City Journal: “Windows on the Future?”
- “Judicial Watch: Barking at the Moon?”
- Watching too many lawyer ads
- Starbucks job-application suit fails
- ATRA’s “Judicial Hellholes 2008″
- United Airlines liquor service caused husband to beat wife
- Federal Circuit: Patent Office can fire examiner with 35% error rate
- Lawsuit: bailing out AIG unlawfully promotes Islam
- Mississippi: stiff sentence for Joey Langston
- New Orleans: brawl between class action lawyers
- Claim: access to cable Playboy Channel caused pain, anguish
- December 16 roundup
- Alimony deal said wife couldn’t “cohabit”
- Manhattan Institute, City Journal now on Twitter
- Elton John loses Guardian libel case
- Altria v Good affirmed 5-4
- Langston’s leniency letters
- “A Lawyerly Holiday Party Invite”
- Wheelchairs, theaters, and “comparable viewing angles”
- Comments policies
- Tyna Marie Robertson back in the news
- The accomplishments of Marc Dreier
- Microblog 2008-12-13
- More on lawyer referrals and fee discounts
- Nativity-scene litigation
- Australia: “Gambler sues casino over $900 million binge”
- Kesey’s Oregon wrestling team gone
- Montgomery Blair Sibley update
- Do your duty
- U.K.: “Lawyers made millions from sick miners”
- Edward Fagan disbarred
- “The Weirdest Legal Cases of 2008″
- Update: Chuck Colson and Miller-Jenkins case
- EPA not going to RFK Jr.
- Marc Dreier stole $380 million?
- Answer to Mickey Kaus
- Snapping goose causes slip-fall, the sequel
- Members of client class filed $6.1 million in claims…
- Seems somehow appropriate
- December 11 roundup
- Royall pain to his critics
- Dreier LLP scandal
- Sliding down stair railing while drunk
- “Bumping” online item not republication for purposes of defamation law
- More patent litigation sanctions
- Bad anonymous reviews for donut shop
- “Another ‘successful’ DUI roadblock”
- Microblog 2008-12-09
- Excessive entanglement of press and state
- “Thank goodness for especially greedy lawyers in high-profile lawsuits”
- Judge issues Rule 11 sanctions on camera infringement claim
- December 9 roundup
- Judge Kozinski’s email joke list
- Arrest of NYC litigator Marc Dreier (bumped and updated)
- “Change They Can Litigate”
- “Reparations, R.I.P.”
- Wii class action claim: controller keeps flying out of our hands
- “How many hernias…?”
- Cops busted in probable cause sting
- Religious accommodation law
- U.K.: “Drug addicts win human rights compensation for being forced to go cold turkey”
- Welcome Law.com readers
- “I have never, ever seen an attorney more rude and disrespectful on so many levels.”
- NYT travel columnist comments on air crash, gets sued in Brazil
- ApartmentRatings.com commenters sued
- December 5 roundup
- When a ploy doesn’t work
- ABA Journal “Blawg 100″ — go vote for us
- “5 minute after” suits and the Wal-Mart trampling
- Microblog 2008-12-04
- No decent interval for Eliot Spitzer
- From comments: lawyer referral fees
- When you hear “monster”, they want you to think of them
- Claim: You rated our constituents as too creditworthy
- Advice for frivolous pro se litigants
- New Manhattan Institute study on case for loser-pays
- Wal-Mart trampling suit
- “10 Things Never to Put in Email”
- Telling blonde jokes in workplace
- Lawyers! Getcher hot “pearl-shucked” case leads!
- “Chiropractor Sues Patient Over Negative Yelp Review”
- Tomorrow in NYC on loser-pays
- Annals of public employee tenure, cont’d
- Dov Charney chronicles, cont’d
- Pork-handling and religious accommodation, cont’d
- Waiting in emergency rooms
- “The video that helped put a man in prison for 22 years for running a stop sign”
- “He’s not a klutz”: $4.5 million for NYC cop shot in tippy chair
- “Court: Sarkozy voodoo doll should not be stabbed”
- Update: “Judge says perfume lawsuit can proceed”
- Microblog 2008-11-30
- Livery car liable for passenger’s later crash
- November 29 roundup
- India
- Chicago’s gun control defiance
- Breathalyzer readings are racist
- “Man With Apple Hovering In Front Of Face Sues René Magritte’s Estate”
- Blog comments sections…
- “White Line Fevers From Mars”
- “Jury convicts mom of lesser charges in online hoax”
- New Yorker magazine on James Zadroga
- “Trial Lawyers for Jackpot Justice”
- SecularRight.org
- November 26 roundup
- French record industry sues P2P app makers
- Hot tea lawsuit has interesting procedural quirk
- U.K.: “Noisy parrot case costs taxpayer more than £26,000″
- College’s lawsuit: you stole our poetry program
- “American Bar Association Recalls 230,000 Defective Lawyers”
- Troll trips up: SCO told to pay Novell $2.5 million
- Microblog 2008-11-25
- Professor fired for blog post charging students with plagiarism
- “To extinguish candle, blow out flame”
- “Nice Work If You Can Get It”
- AOL putting ads in its users’ emails
- French cafés in decline
- Lawsuit: school district was wrong to discipline cheerleaders over nude cellphone pics
- By reader acclaim: “Nude Photos on Lost Cell Phone Lead to Suit”
- November 23 roundup
- Labor minister flays Britain’s asylum laws
- Julie Amero case ends
- Microblog 2008-11-21
- A “Borat”-suit scorecard
- On WMBI (Chicago) discussing eHarmony settlement
- “Obese have right to 2 airline seats –Canada court”
- Judge Joyce convicted in Pennsylvania insurance fraud
- Jones Day vs. BlockShopper: court denies motion to dismiss
- EEOC settlement: pork-handling exemption, prayer breaks for Muslim workers
- Latest issue of Class Action Watch
- Complaint “forces eHarmony to offer gay dating service”
- Piracy and international human rights, cont’d
- Daschle to HHS
- Microblog 2008-11-19
- Technical disruptions continue
- “The Current State of Consumer Arbitration”
- No N.Y. forum for Egypt terror plaintiffs
- “Jedi Injury Lawyer”
- “Man sues for libel after being called a D-bag”
- Site outage now mostly fixed
- Prosecutors’ union pushes measure hobbling California lawyer discipline
- “In case you weren’t sure how to use a staircase”
- Microblog 2008-11-18
- November 18 roundup
- Update: lawprof drops suit against students
- Richard Epstein on Wyeth v. Levine
- Alan Keyes sues Barack Obama
- “Dr. Megaworkup”
- Mississippi: “Former state pathologist suing Innocence Project”
- “Britain has no responsibility to protect Iraqis from their own legal system”
- Microblog 2008-11-16
- American Apparel arbitration, cont’d
- Nowhere to hide
- “Court Rejects Bid to Silence Mortgage Watchdog Website”
- Microblog 2008-11-14
- Gerry Spence to trial lawyers: “We are the most important people in America”
- “We cannot allow our brand to be abused”
- Banned for “dirty dancing”, wins $275,000 settlement
- November 14 roundup
- Employment lawyers “busier than ever”
- Liable for permitting customer to push overfilled shopping cart
- San Francisco zoo tiger mauling victims sue
- National Journal: Most accurate political forecasters
- Ethnic street food in Toronto?
- Had one too many to drink?
- Medical malpractice in Saudi Arabia
- Peanut allergies
- The Navy wins…
- “Narcissists with Big Egos Lead Many Law Firms, Consultant Says”
- Speaking at UNC today
- Dog awarded Baylor law degree
- Microblog 2008-11-11
- Naked Cowboy vs. Mars suit settles
- Drug company sues NIH investigator
- Rahm Emanuel and compulsory universal service
- Batman — a city in Turkey — to sue Dark Knight director
- Microblog 2008-11-10
- “Lawyer Seeks Patent on Form of Patent Trolling”
- National service: Ben Smith (Politico) misses the story
- “Rahm Emanuel, tort reformer”?
- November 10 roundup
- WWII-era Mexican braceros settlement
- Shot in Kosovo, collects £2.4m from British defense ministry
- Microblog 2008-11-08
- New at Forbes.com: RFK Jr. to EPA?
- Welcome Instapundit (and Change.gov!) readers
- Microblog 2008-11-07
- Obama transition on health care costs
- “Community service”? Yep, mandatory (Update: they’ve revised)
- Reins of power dept.
- Exact-number demands in lawsuits
- Religious discrimination claims on the rise
- Asphyxiating Detroit, the UAW way
- Get juror prospects talking
- Microblog 2008-11-06
- “‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ student nets $45,000″
- Don’t you mention that tax
- The costs of universal jurisdiction
- “You’ve got yourself an unconfirmable nominee”
- Microblog 2008-11-05
- Lawyer presidents
- “Obama Presidency is Good News for the Legal Profession”
- Election observations
- Microblog 2008-11-04
- National Journal: bloggers on the White House race
- “Cisco Turns Up Heat in ‘Patent Troll’ Case”
- November 4 roundup
- Nicotine addiction as a protected disability?
- Canadian Human Rights Commission vs. parliamentarian’s speech
- Microblog 2008-11-03
- “South again leads nation in nasty, expensive judicial races”
- RFK, Jr. to Interior?
- “Sue Magazine, for women in litigation”
- New at Point of Law
- Voters in Arizona
- Welcome New York Post readers
- November 3 roundup
- Microblog 2008-11-02
- Cantrell v. Target: $200 medical bill = $3.1 million verdict
- Microblog 2008-11-01
- “Pub-goers to be tested for drugs”
- Microblog 2008-10-31
- Mark your calendars: Nov. 12, Chapel Hill
- High Cost of Legal System Justified by “Intangible” Value?
- Docs vs. lawyers
- Attempt to Conjure Fake Victory Out of Settlement & Subvert Justice Foiled
- “Extraordinary leverage over the national economy”
- What happened to the slavery reparations movement?
- When jurors tell lawyer jokes
- “Beware Tarzan, togas, and naughty nurses”
- We don’t feel competent to handle your hair
- Microblog 2008-10-30
- Dov Charney, the sequel
- Another mechanical-bull suit
- $25M suit for affair with priest
- Ogletree to Washington?
- Want Overlawyered in your mailbox?
- “60 Minutes” vs. credit default swaps
- “Why Libertarians Should Oppose ‘Shrinkwrap’ Contracts”
- “Debt-Relief Firms Attract Complaints”
- “Balanced the extremely hot cup of coffee on her thigh”
- Aw, nuts!
- Anonymous school-bullying snitchline
- October 29 roundup
- “Common-sense justice in Alaska”
- Microblog 2008-10-28
- Why stores have surveillance cameras, Vol. 2
- Even palimony has limits
- “Scandal in Louisiana’s criminal courts”
- Evicted — by his own class action lawyers
- MP3 takedowns, the pre-emptive way
- Microblog 2008-10-27
- DRI charity-race “Assumption of Risk and Waiver of Rights”
- Obama and judicial activism
- Update: Florida Supreme Court rejects “false light” theory
- October 27 roundup
- Libel suit over negative eBay feedback
- Microblog 2008-10-24
- “I was due”
- Associations sued in cheerleader death
- October 24 roundup
- Microblog 2008-10-23
- “Late filing syndrome”
- Lynn Woolley show
- Guestblogger volunteers
- “Tunneling boy’s mother sues utility”
- Henry Blodget on damaging emails
- Why stores have surveillance cameras
- French president: I’ll sue voodoo-doll maker
- Microblog 2008-10-22
- Roy Pearson presses pants suit
- Judge Joyce’s insurance-fraud trial begins
- October 22 roundup
- “How Long Should a Disciplinary Finding Haunt a Lawyer?”
- Terry Erwin Stork
- October 21 roundup
- Microblog 2008-10-20
- Not Thought Police after all
- Intermittent wipers, on the silver screen
- The pseudoephredine trap
- In which I get called “Thought Police”
- Microblog 2008-10-19
- “Pothole pay-outs cost more than fixing them”
- The great circle of influence
- Unsolicited-email plaintiff John Ferron
- Update: Bloggers cleared in Virginia developer’s lawsuit
- We’re all lawyers. We don’t have to answer questions.
- Alcohol wholesaling laws
- Microblog 2008-10-17
- October 17 roundup
- $55 million in Marine helicopter crash
- Microblog 2008-10-16
- Election-season YouTube takedowns
- “Illinois couple surprised to get a $9 million parking ticket”
- Palsgraf at the strip club
- “Someone dropped in an extra zero, right?”
- Notable debate moment
- Bogus Olympic ticket scam
- McCain and Palin guilty of “criminal incitement”?
- Update: “Chambers vs. God lawsuit thrown out”
- “Lawyers Hope Bailout Bill ‘a Full Employment Act’ for Law Firms”
- October 15 roundup
- ER nurse: “you can stay if you want, but this condition does not appear to be serious nor life-threatening”
- “If you or a loved one…”
- Nevada data encryption law
- “Woman didn’t know she was pregnant, gives birth”
- “No way for a lawyer to steal”
- NewTalk: “What should universal national service look like?”
- October 14 roundup
- Microblog 2008-10-13
- Corrections dept.: too good to be true
- Critical lab value? Gotta page the doc
- Microblog 2008-10-12
- Microblog 2008-10-11
- Update: B.C. tribunal dismisses Mark Steyn case
- Update: wrestlers’ class action against WWE
- Signaling the client during cross-examination? Me?
- Rin Tin Tin lawsuit “is not about money”
- Legal protection for dignity of plants
- Bullied by Dozier, ISPs took down customer’s sites
- Artist detained at border over sketch of SUV
- Microblog 2008-10-09
- Bounteous bankruptcies: Lehman Brothers
- U.K.: Great moments in international human rights law
- End of an error?
- Fantasy sports, fair use and the First Amendment
- October 9 roundup
- “Being male” as potential disability?
- Microblog 2008-10-08
- Wrong hair color ruined her social life
- Chasing Metrolink crash victims
- “750,000 lost jobs” from IP piracy?
- “This should clear things up”
- Conservative Grapevine “site of the day”
- Update: “McDermott, Client Sanctioned $4.3 Million”
- Microblog 2008-10-07
- Claim: link on our name pointing elsewhere infringes trademark
- U.K.: Tories vow to roll back police workplace-safety rules
- Cuomo suit: minority listeners undercounted in radio ratings
- NPR on high court docket
- “I am sorry….”
- October 6 roundup
- Ontario forensic pathologist scandal
- Microblog 2008-10-05
- Mental health “parity” insurance mandate
- Annals of traffic-cams
- “…His penchant for litigation as a form of costless entertainment”
- Microblog 2008-10-03
- Scooping up police crash reports, cont’d
- Medicare adopts “never event” policy
- “Sorry your honor, I was on some pretty heavy drugs when I said that.”
- Annals of sweeping discovery: Dish Network vs. Coolsat
- Update: felon-hiring W.V. attorney
- October 2 roundup
- Whoops: “DUI attorney explains her own DUI charge”
- Microblog 2008-10-01
- “RealDVDs, surreal law suits”
- Aerial snooping for property taxes
- U.K.: Footballer sues over “negligent” tackle
- No sign of pregnancy? “That’s because the baby is wrapped in plastic”
- Microblog 2008-09-30
- Locked-out Overlawyered readers, in Australia and elsewhere
- September 30 roundup
- Ladies’ Nights: a win for NYC clubs
- Microblog 2008-09-29
- Kernel of sense
- September 29 roundup
- Guestblogger thanks
- Videos critical of Church of Scientology
- Microblog 2008-09-28
- Siccing lawyers on broadcast campaign ads
- Making pets into millionaires
- Brain-harvesting lawsuit against Washington State proceeds…
- Plaintiffs scrambling to sue egg producers over alleged price fixing
- Jack Thompson disbarred
- “Munchausens’ by Attorney”
- RIAA setback in Thomas trial
- Microblog 2008-09-25
- At least for now, Miller’s ‘Sparks Red’ won’t fly
- Tattoos and piercings in the workplace
- L.A.: Hospitals can’t discharge homeless patients
- Cannon explosion kills youngster, rescue crew blamed
- Farther shores of copyright litigation
- Microblog 2008-09-24
- Spore DRM
- Smells like a zoo in here
- Cavorter’s remorse, cont’d: topless mermaid suit case
- Inmate’s moldy mattress worth $295,000
- Major League Baseball takedown notice
- Microblog 2008-09-23
- Couple’s contract for ‘exclusive relationship’ goes to court
- Guestblogging
- PoliticsHome “Online 100″
- Update: “Gambler’s $20M lawsuit against casinos tossed”
- Parody, nastygrams, and Star Wars’ George Lucas
- U.K.: “Government to ban suicide-promoting websites”
- Microblog 2008-09-22
- Bankruptcy clouds judgment
- Keep my finger, vote Labour
- Don’t
- Do not propagate these grapes
- Update: court dismisses Kremen v. Morelli
- Microblog for 2008-09-21
- Missouri hospitals’ tobacco-recoupment suit
- Twitter for 2008-09-20
- Ladies’ Nights at bars, cont’d
- “Metrolink Train Accident Attorney Lawyer Los Angeles”
- Twitter for 2008-09-19
- Lawyers and White House nominations
- Did I say anything about punitive damages?
- State marriage amendments: thumbs down
- Twitter integration
- “Vexatious” to post motions on anti-RIAA blog?
- Twitter for 2008-09-18
- Feeds working again?
- Emotional value of lost pets, cont’d
- Purge that data, cont’d
- Geoffrey Fieger to run for Detroit mayor?
- “Judge Who Scoffed at Dispute Between Former Law Partners Is Reversed”
- W.V.: pot smoker sues over rejection by pain management center
- Lerach moved to medium-security facility
- Blogging the credit crisis
- Nathan Myrhvold’s trollery?
- September 17 roundup
- Blog-comment speechcrimes in Canada
- Using Twitter to scare up class action plaintiffs
- Subprime mortgage catastrophe
- Radio silence? Suit against conservative talk show hosts
- Jockey sues track owner over fall
- Better head over to the ER
- OK for private school to have English-only rule
- “Obama, McCain make a joint appearance — in frivolous lawsuits”
- September 15 roundup
- “Chutzpah hits the rails”
- Howard Hughes “Mormon Will” case, thirty years later
- Update: Pennsylvania politician Vincent Fumo
- Med-mal: feeding the bears at Yellowstone
- “Cost of Discovery a Driving Force in Settling Cases, Study Shows”
- Broken pencil sharpener
- Claim: Paralympics doesn’t get enough USOC support
- Brian Schweitzer speech to AAJ
- U.K.: “Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law”
- Fall speaking: Chapel Hill Nov. 12 (and more?)
- Coughlin Stoia, AmLaw Daily and Prof. John Coffee, cont’d
- “Obsessed with Lawsuits”
- September 11 roundup
- Now Twittering
- Speed governors, cont’d
- Bogus “Stella Awards” — at VC
- Lawyer’s theft explained by irrational desire to save more
- Do as we say dept.: Rep. Rangel on taxes
- Graffiti and copyright
- Enron: class action lawyers set to get $688 million
- Calif. lawmakers ban workplace bias against medical-pot users
- Lompoc charge could mean hard time for Lerach
- Massachusetts gun control law strikes again
- Facebook “BlogNetworks”
- Birthday surprise doesn’t work out
- Judge reluctant to dismiss MySpace suicide case
- White House race roundup
- Corporate archaeology and the “insanity of retention policies”
- “EU wants to ban ‘sexist’ TV commercials”
- Get shot, sue Craigslist
- Another lost-pants case
- Texas: another case for payee notification
- Drunken ride on mechanical bull
- Watch what you say about lawyers: Marina Tylo, Paul Revere III, Jones Day
- “Killing talk radio”
- Esquire, turned inventor
- “Entering the U.S. illegally”
- Palin and jury nullification
- Palin: about that “Fire my abusive trooper in-law” furor
- Police macing victim: sorry I sued for $5 million
- “Family of bus-slaying victim sues suspect, Greyhound, authorities”
- “Woman Wins $1.5M Award in STD Transmission Case”
- September 3 roundup
- Ways of collecting legal fees
- San Francisco’s North Beach, curbed
- Bid to stop suicide fails, San Francisco will pay
- Guestblogger thanks
- A comment about comments
- Update: unlawful to test for mad cow
- Gov. Palin as judge-picker
- College should have warned student not to run on street
- “Zapped Amtrak trespasser sues”
- “Worse than Katrina”?
- Juror privacy and voir dire, cont’d
- When docs treat women as “pre-pregnant”
- Christiansen, Pellicano convicted in wiretap case
- Jury Awards Paralegal $700,000 in Pregnancy Discrimination Case
- ESPN columnist: minor league players should sue over steroids
- “Hit-and-run driver claims city didn’t take care of his Bentley after crash”
- August 29 roundup
- Vioxx settlement: Judge Fallon caps fees at 32%
- Telling 11yo to walk home from McDonalds = felony child abandonment?
- Can I Go First? Trial Lawyers Get a Leg Up on Depositions
- Joe Biden and the trial lawyers redux
- Claim: ADHD made lawyer pocket partners’ share of settlement
- Warning: peanut butter contains peanuts
- Biden and the trial lawyers
- Lies, Damned Lies and Court Statistics…
- After Setting Fires, Firefighter Wants Job Back
- Patent Troll Tracker case: second blogger subpoenaed
- Paycheck Fairness Act Takes Center Stage
- Trainspotting? Man Jumps from Train, then Sues
- “Two years in jail” for file sharing?
- Biden and civil liberties
- “The Inverted Federalism of Grider v. Compaq”
- Edwards scandal updates
- Law Professors for McCain
- Is It In the Job Description?
- Wrestlers Slam WWE and Claim: We’re Not Independent Contractors
- Guest Blogger: May The Schwartz Be With You
- Tippy-stove class action, cont’d
- National Journal Bloggers Poll
- More on Joseph Biden
- David Harsanyi on MADD
- Sen. Biden and the trial lawyers
- Update: appeals court upholds Sarbanes-Oxley
- New figure in Edwards scandal: attorney Lee Rohn (update: denies story)
- Emotional distress from seeing victims in other vehicle
- August 22 roundup
- “Practicing ‘interior design’ without a license”
- Judge Ernest Murphy to step down
- AARP sued for age discrimination
- Regulating fast food
- Wounded in shootout, sheriff’s deputies sue widow
- No conscience clause for California fertility doctors
- Station nightclub fire: government defendants settle
- Requiring family social workers to report animal abuse
- Touch-a-car-for-the-longest contest
- August 20 roundup
- “Divorce, Connecticut-Style”
- Lowering drinking age to 18
- “New Talk” discussion of loser-pays
- Mirapex jackpot justice – literally
- August 19 roundup
- Bill Lerach: Power lawyer to prisoner
- White Coat Rants on “never events”
- Red Sox fan: Yankee fans beat me up
- Guestblogger thanks
- “The Use of Litigation Screenings in Mass Torts: A Formula for Fraud?”
- Coordinating the Edwards story
- Suit: Untimely cremation should net us $3.5M
- Ungoogle me, please
- “No matter how psychotic, that voice is still worthy of being heard.”
- YouTube user: Google wouldn’t let me into its partner program
- “Richard Kreimer scores another payday”
- Claim: School is Responsible for Son’s Cross-Dressing
- Rielle Hunter scandal: update on the Andrew Young real estate issue
- August 14 roundup
- Defensive training dept.: University of Iowa and Arthur H. Miller
- Worst footnoted fine-print disclaimer ever
- Update: Jury Rejects Flight Attendant’s Claim
- Criminals who sue dept.: the case of Danieal Kelly
- Expert Witnesses – The American Rule
- The Rielle Hunter scandal: where did Andrew Young get his money?
- Fred Baron’s version of the Rielle Hunter payments
- “Is Big Caffeine the Next Target?”
- Overlawyered – All Horse Edition
- My Right to Remain Silent – And, No “Papers” Either Copper!
- “Cy pres awards under scrutiny”
- “November Election A Lawyer’s Delight”
- Guest Blogger This Week
- Baron money trail forced Edwards’ hand
- Yes, I’m being facetious
- Update: California courts won’t ban homeschooling
- Report: Fred Baron paid for Rielle Hunter’s hideaway
- The trouble with civil Gideon
- Judges, lawyers, and cognitive bias
- The flight attendant and the televangelist’s wife
- Legal consequences for denying climate-change consensus?
- “Lack of Minorities Closes Boise Bone Marrow Center”
- The Ted Frank law-school tour (new dates added!)
- WhoCanISue.com
- A question about the AutoAdmit litigation
- August 7 roundup
- No way to treat a prosecutor
- Compaq settles floppy glitch class action
- U.K. medical student: multiple-choice exams unfair to disabled
- Open thread
- Limiting docs’ work hours
- Rocketboom
- Needs four days to finish bar exam
- “Securities laws are not insurance to protect against economic losses.”
- S.F. mayor: make food composting mandatory
- Comcast P2P throttling, cont’d
- Pet rentals
- Regulating potato chip recipes
- Reparations, after 701 years
- In NYC: gun rights discussion at NYCLU Tues. evening
- BitTorrent throttling and cable bandwidth lawsuits
- Banning menthol cigarettes?
- Update: Suit against 8 year old skier settled
- “Stifling free speech — globally”
- Claim: Abercrombie wouldn’t hire hijab wearer
- Void our AP test results? See you in court
- Update: Segway lawsuit against Disney
- Darrell McGraw and his outside counsel
- Update: Lawrence Poliner v. Texas Health Systems appeal
- Johnson v. Allstate Insurance Co.: drunk driving for profit
- Defamation liability for print-on-demand services?
- Codeine in a medicine cup
- “Telling McDonald’s it can open franchises only in the white part of town”
- “Bloggers win 92% of cases”
- Grand Theft Auto: Class Action – the denouement
- N.J.: mower sent golf ball flying
- Meter maid’s miracle recovery no bar to $1.6 million award
- July 31 roundup
- “The greediest piece of garbage that ever lived”
- Litigation accounting disclosures
- Suit: Kids’ “punching game” is middle school’s fault
- How trial lawyer urban legends get started
- 50,000 residents but no lawyer
- John Tierney: 10 Things Not To Worry About
- Update: “My newspaper’s getting mediocre” suit
- Guestblogging opportunities
- Fla. lawyer: I’ve got every right to call judge an “evil, unfair witch”
- Playground safety mats
- Pro bono Guantanamo detainee efforts
- “Got breastmilk?”
- eBay and counterfeits, cont’d
- Debt reduction lawyers
- Flax v. Chrysler, one more thought
- Judge: 9/11 settlements, fees exorbitant
- Spiraling damage awards
- “The trial bar goes on the offensive”
- Suit: your milkcrates were an attractive nuisance
- An interesting double-standard
- Volkswagen key class action
- Problems with access to Overlawyered
- Med-mal: Massachusetts adopts “loss of a chance” doctrine
- California trans fats: Terminator Nanny
- Granite kitchen countertops
- Perez Hilton litigation
- $150,000 heartbalm award in Georgia
- Is patent gridlock keeping drugs off the market?
- July 25 roundup
- Prosecutors Gone Wild
- LA Weekly: The Mold Rush and the case of Sharon Kramer and Bruce Kelman
- Breaking: Tennessee Supreme Court reinstates punitive damages in Flax v. DaimlerChrysler
- Yet more Edwards campaign-cash laundering
- Service animals, cont’d: “Ferret barred from Ottawa buses”
- Update: Willie Gary case against Motorola
- Cops: lawyer funneled brothel profits through good-government fund
- Sacha Baron Cohen lawyer script
- Servitude to the state
- WLF on Rhode Island lead paint verdict
- School scenarios, 1958 vs. 2008
- Memphis: “Police director sues for names of bloggers critical of MPD”
- Laura Hess suspended; Hess Kennedy in receivership
- John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, and Elizabeth Edwards
- Disbarred lawyer: Amex helped the cops trace me
- “Family wants $1.5M for unauthorized use of their images”
- Labaton Sucharow rebuffed again
- Great moments in expert witness work
- Botch a client’s case? Put nothing in writing
- Lawsuit: you excluded my service monkey
- Medical liability roundup
- Sued wrong party, wrist duly slapped
- July 20 roundup
- ADA claim: store wouldn’t let him use inline skates
- Claim: Spitzer’s floozy used my lost ID
- Google AdWords class action
- ADA: Sure, call him a “professional plaintiff”
- Compelling disclosure of commenters’ identities
- L.A. Times warning sign contest
- Thomas Geoghegan: “See You in Court”
- McDonald’s drive-through window speakers
- Mere “pawn of counsel”
- State court judges: elect, or appoint?
- “I’m Batman!” “Here’s your subpoena.”
- July 16 roundup
- Shipboard art auctions
- The LAPD 3 and jury fallibility
- Lied on job application about having brutally murdered his wife
- Title IX quotas for science?
- Federal judge: eBay needn’t police Tiffany fakes
- July 15 roundup
- “Is fan fiction legal? Fans are understandably nervous.”
- Med-mal: the real cost of a $7500 settlement
- “Cancel his subscription” wasn’t enough
- July 13 roundup
- Update: Virginia beer-sicles
- The Jack Thompson report
- “Welcome to the Nanny State Nation”
- Update: Cohen & Grigsby immigration video
- Indiana lottery class action certified
- Great moments in Continuing Legal Education
- Lawyers and p.i.’s: no more “Just find it”?
- Teacher tenure follies
- Cop shot by 3 year old sues gun maker
- Bikini-clad appearance on Howard Stern show
- eBay versus LVMH: gift recyclers beware?
- “Internet reputation management”
- Naming your restaurant “Drugstore”
- “Build a Wiffle Ball Field and Lawyers Will Come”
- “The Era of Big Punitive Damage Awards Is Not Over”
- Investigative journalism and libel chill
- Gay man sues Bible publishers
- July 9 roundup
- Next: Esquire magazine vs. all those lawyers?
- Hospital probed after calling cops on patient
- Schwartz Zweben and the Ms. Wheelchair pageant, cont’d
- July 8 roundup
- “What is the role of the courts in making social policy?”
- Welcome Cincinnati Enquirer readers
- Ky. fen-phen foreman: “There’s a lot of people that should have been on trial that weren’t.”
- Claim: Rachael Ray food show scorned anorexic
- OT: Alex Kozinski on the Dating Game
- “Alchemy in the Courtroom? The Transmutation of Public Nuisance Litigation”
- Best of June 2008
- July 6 roundup
- Exxon Shipping v. Baker podcast
- July 3 roundup
- Richard Neely’s lack of irony (III)
- Sun glare on the diamond? You might hear from our lawyer
- War crimes trials? No thanks
- Sorry, we’re not going to raise your neighbors’ taxes
- Melbourne Mills acquitted; jury deadlocked
- “Please Disregard That ‘We’re Not Blaming the Park’ Thing”
- Moe the chimpanzee escapes; St. James Davis v. West Covina update
- Rolando Montez’s fatal phone call: JCW Electronics, Inc. v. Garza
- Leona Helmsley’s will
- New/relocated Overlawyered Facebook page
- Slips while dancing on bar, complaint cites lack of handrail
- Breaking: Rhode Island lead paint decision overturned
- Overlawyered’s ninth anniversary
- Losing patience with Jonathan Lee Riches
- Time Warner Cable settlement
- June 30 roundup
- Suit: it’s the manufacturer’s fault that I backed a lawn mower over my son
- Pre-emption debate in Chicago Tribune
- Ticketed? Stall ‘em
- June 29 roundup
- Chuck Yeager, Cingular and the right of publicity
- Social life of a blogger; guestblogger thanks
- Shoemaker slammed with Seidel-subpoena sanction
- Federalist Society web forum on the SCOTUS term
- Dickie Scruggs gets the five-year max
- Montgomery Blair Sibley suspended in D.D.C.
- Grand Theft Auto: Class Action – the argument
- Asbestos: Production — the great screening scam
- Asbestos: Part Deux
- Grand Theft Auto: Class Action – in NY Times
- “The Naked Cowboy versus The Blue M&M”
- Great Moments in Voir Dire
- 13 Years, 16 Lawyers, 10 Judges, No Divorce Settlement
- Benched for Your Own Good
- But Was He Properly Mirandized?
- Creatively Challenged
- Guestbloggers on deck
- Settlement first, plaintiff afterward?
- Muscling into her clients’ wedding pictures
- Interviewed on KTUU-2, Anchorage
- June 21 roundup
- Studios: we shouldn’t have to prove anyone used shared movie files
- The Rezko mess: a (tangential?) Madison County link
- June 20 roundup
- Peter Bronson on Stanley Chesley’s testimony
- Thong shrapnel alleged in Victoria’s Secret suit
- Canada: court overturns parent’s grounding of 12-year-old
- WSJ on Navy sonar and Pacific whales
- Barred for life from the banking business
- “I do not want you to be named in the lawsuit.”
- Chicken-catchers and chicken-pluckers, international securities edition
- City streets not safe to drive 100-120 mph on
- “Trial Lawyers Inc.: Michigan on trial”
- June 18 roundup
- New Jersey high court: palimony without cohabitation OK
- Kentucky fen-phen: we’d have been justified taking 85 percent
- Loose-fitting clothes and food machinery
- Sanai v. Saltz – the California appellate brief
- Cyrus Sanai: Kozinski investigation “is part of a litigation strategy”; second Sanai v. Saltz sanctions order
- WAMU Kojo Nnamdi show
- Suing the chaperone
- Lawyers manipulate dates — in backdating suit
- “Expelled member sues Masons”
- What newspapers need, and why antitrust law may block it
- Milberg settles
- Rebutting Bill Lerach in Portfolio
- Latest on Kozinski and Cyrus Sanai
- The case against “Civil Gideon”
- June 16 roundup
- Haywood Rosales v. Home Depot: a “glued to his seat” encore
- Added to the favorites column
- Judge Zilly’s sanctions order against Cyrus Sanai; Kozinski recuses himself
- Paul Krugman and tainted tomatoes
- New Steve Chapman blog
- Operation “Staged Impact”
- Deep pocket files: The Great White shakedown winds down
- Knology arbitration clause
- “He took the style and the delivery”
- ACS Convention, June 14
- More on Neely, “The Product Liability Mess”
- Ohio Senate’s clever solution to ancient clergy abuse claims
- June 13 roundup
- Flax v. DaimlerChrysler seat back appeal
- June 12 roundup
- Judge Kozinski’s web site and Cyrus Sanai
- Spalding Laboratories, Inc. v. Arizona Biological Control
- “It was at that moment that my patients started to feel like my friends again…”
- Canada: “Problem gamblers sue casinos for $3.5 bln”
- “As long as I am allowed to redistribute wealth…”: was Richard Neely being “ironic”?
- “Affordable housing” push fed subprime bubble
- Jack Thompson storms out of court
- Throwing themselves at rotten tomatoes
- That AG Cuomo deal over child porn
- Update: Virginia high court on Miller-Jenkins
- “People want to find out what the other person is Googling”
- “Liability concerns and high water bills”
- The absent defendant: arbitration vs. court
- “Legal ethics is to real ethics as …”
- Franco v. Dow Chemical: special prosecutor for Girardi and Lack
- June 10 roundup
- Suspended Montgomery Blair Sibley still getting press coverage
- That day in court
- Update: Rose Marie Munoz v. Ford
- Supreme Court grants certiorari in Philip Morris v. Williams (again)
- June 9 roundup
- Detroit Free Press on Fieger acquittal
- Slain in the Spirit: Tennessee case
- Rob Lowe nanny lawsuits
- On Good Morning America
- “We had nine lawyers, they had nine lawyers”
- Gallion: Stan Chesley forced his way into our Kentucky fen-phen settlement
- Update: Alice Griffin v. Starbucks
- Lerach: “Serving Time, but Lacking Remorse”
- June 7 roundup
- “A so-called ‘law enforcement official’”
- Mississippi forensics: corner-cutting coroners?
- “Have You Lost Money In the Stock Market?”
- More on the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund
- Napoli Bern sues disgruntled client
- Grand Theft Auto: Class Action – The Frank Brief
- New York court: proof of insurance fraud doesn’t entitle insurance companies to summary judgment
- Annals of zero tolerance: empty bullet casing
- Why a law-firm partner should be careful about to whom he grants signature authority
- Hoist by his own petard? The case of Jack Tuckner and Lisa Brockington
- Florida Bar recommends disbarment for Jack Thompson
- Ignatius on trial bar scandals; New Yorker on Scruggs
- June 5 roundup
- Tracy Barker v. Ali Mokhtare
- Metal baseball bats, cont’d
- “Patent Failure”
- Overlawyering in venture startups
- A right to a jury consultant?
- Breaking: New Jersey Supreme Court rejects Vioxx medical monitoring class action
- Sebok on the Rhode Island Supreme Court lead paint arguments
- “The paid plaintiffs and their corrupt attorneys”
- McCain-Feingold and the Fieger acquittal
- Hot coffee data point: Thomas Skaggs v. Pilot Travel Center
- Kenneth Mollins, attorney for peanut-suer Tehmina Haque
- Economists’ amicus brief in Wyeth v. Levine
- “They served peanuts anyway…”
- Welcome TWEN readers
- Update: Trespass atop rail car, win $24 million
- Public Citizen and Arbitration: the case of Alex Karakhanov
- Intentional infliction of emotional distress
- “They can’t bring my dog back…”
- Weiss sentenced to 30 months
- Fieger gets off
- Hospital bill-collecting and med-mal claims
- Indian land claim roundup
- Another victim in the Kentucky fen-phen settlement fraud
- May 2008, a look back
- We were counting on you for favorable testimony, cont’d
- Deep Pocket Files: beer defendants kick in $21 million in R.I. fire
- Jurors’ trauma
- The exception to “all publicity is good publicity”
- Fieger jury deliberates
- Vioxx: Mark Lanier’s smears of the Ernst v. Merck judges
- Canadian tobacconist: sued if you do…
- What liberal media bias? Part DCCXV
- Client-chasing roundup
- “Mother Teresa, move aside”
- Breaking and exclusive: FACTA held unconstitutional
- Breaking: Merck wins two more Vioxx cases on appeal
- Doesn’t Even Leave The Airport
- Thomas Bentey v. St. Thomas University Law School update
- Turkewitz April Fools joke still paying dividends
- Blogosphere on Grand Theft Auto class action
- May 28 roundup
- More tweaks to the site
- Stripper: getting tipsy was part of my job
- Another thought on Waddah Mustapha v. Culligan of Canada, the fly-in-bottled-water case
- Barack Obama and tort reform: is he really bipartisan?
- New features: browse by tag, related posts
- “Whatever is Greek, wherever in the world, we want back.”
- Mark Steyn on the suing-OPEC bill
- Defensive medicine debate
- Kentucky fen-phen judge bought silence of plaintiff objector
- Grand Theft Auto: Class Action Settlement – $26,505 for the unrepresented class, $1 million fee request
- Shugar Law Offices want your business
- Alex Beam on Eskimo global-warming suit
- Red light cameras, cont’d
- Judges to doctors’ rescue?
- Site overhaul latest
- Who’s linking to us this week?
- Voter fraud: If Dahlia Lithwick repeats a lie often enough, maybe it will become true
- Claim: allergic to wi-fi
- Fingerprinting mortgage professionals?
- Kentucky Fund for Healthy Living
- $1.6 billion tax break for trial lawyers?
- Texas overreached in snatching polygamy kids
- Update: alt-weekly predatory pricing case
- Canadian loses bottled-fly-in-water case
- LifeLock class actions
- Goodbye categories, hello tags
- Marc Rodwin and the Massachusetts medical malpractice crisis
- U.K.: Calling Scientology a “cult”
- Congress: let’s sue OPEC
- “Lawsuits that benefit only lawyers”
- Judge: Jack Thompson guilty on 27 of 31 violations
- Yoko Ono vs. Ben Stein
- Sen. Cornyn introduces lessons-of-Lerach bill
- In re Volkswagen en banc argument
- Philadelphia civil service scandal
- D.C. Circuit panel: paper money unfair to blind
- Welcome New York Sun readers
- Inside the Eskimo global-warming suit
- Montgomery Blair Sibley suspended in DC
- Doe v. MySpace lawsuit dismissal affirmed
- Archives; welcome Google News readers; tags
- May 19 roundup
- California: Prop 98 and Prop 99
- “Newark must pay $4.1 million for missteps in student’s death”
- Shoemaker’s lawyers respond to Seidel
- “Parents to Sue Maker of Metal Baseball Bats Over Son’s Injury”
- Medical liability case selection
- Update: BBC backs off
- Kentucky fen-phen trial continues
- “Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas”
- “Chicago lifts ban on foie gras”
- Overlawyering making America a laughingstock
- Those share/save buttons; tagging posts
- May 16 roundup
- Khadijah Farmer v. Caliente Cab Co.
- Larry Sinclair v. Barack Obama
- Insulting Halloween tombstone display
- $2 million suit: JetBlue made me sit on toilet
- Montgomery Blair Sibley suspended
- Hospital discharge after hip replacement
- “Innovative” city suits against foreclosing lenders
- “Foam firms offer $30m to settle Station lawsuits”
- Kentucky fen-phen trial opens
- “Doctor Who’s new enemy: the BBC lawyers”
- “Inmate caught trading food”
- WordPress site now operating
- No, honey, nothing special happened today (II)
- Rebuilding your pool fence
- Site housekeeping
- Asbestos litigation: the Manville Trust
- ADA litigation closes another Calif. restaurant
- “We also invented the color of ink”
- “An invaluable blog”
- WordPress here we come?
- May 21 at AEI: Off-Label Uses of Approved Drugs: Medicine, Law, and Policy
- Comments and search down for now
- Testi-lying in NYC firearms cases
- Suing for different Founders on coins
- May 12 roundup
- Another burden for legacy automakers
- “I felt my son would be at a disadvantage if he did not get the therapy offered”
- NYC: No mention of Second Amendment, please
- Villarreal v. Rio Grande Regional Hospital Inc.
- UK: Parents liable for rented bouncy castle injury
- Update: Bork settles with Yale Club
- Asbestos litigation: foundations
- Asbestos podcast with Lester Brickman
- Careful what you sue for: “Airline bans tips for skycaps at Logan”
- Woman sues Norwalk: my son stepped in dog poop
- Update: Fields v. Allstate
- Asbestos litigation: background
- Gov. Spitzer’s career change
- Excited to be here to talk about asbestos
- At least they spelled our URL right
- Seidel subpoena aftermath
- “Minn. driver kills dog, sues owners”
- The asbestos litigation machine
- New York Lottery sued
- “Pants” judge sues over lost job
- Johnny Sac on Card Check
- Purina vs. “Chow, Baby”
- $40 billion demanded over use of newsworthy names on T-shirt
- McCain Justice advisory panel
- “Bill targets drivers with pets on lap”
- More lawyer-ad spoofs
- Rape by fraud, cont’d
- May 6 roundup
- “On honest engineering discourse”
- “U.S. Companies May Be on Hook for Libyan Terrorism”
- “Suing Over What Your Co-Workers Listen To”
- Pawn shop owner sued over Trolley Square massacre
- Don’t X
- Blogging the Geoffrey Fieger trial
- May 2 roundup
- Welcome Kawasaki fans
- Welcome New York Times readers
- Has the trial bar’s power crested?
- More on the World Trade Center bombing decision
- Connecticut: timed fireman test violated ADA, cont’d
- New faculty hire at Berkeley law school
- Newstex syndication
- “Appeals court tosses out NYC lawsuit against gun industry”
- Suit: “Lesbian” should mean we residents of Lesbos
- High school pitcher: team’s fault I overused my arm
- “Hard lemonade, hard price”
- Appellate Division upholds ludicrous 1993 WTC bombing verdict
- Ashley Alexandra Dupré sues “Girls Gone Wild”
- Academic litigation, cont’d: Dartmouth lecturer says she’ll sue students
- Law professor sues his students
- Jerry Springer to deliver Northwestern Law commencement
- Grand Theft Auto: Class Action Objection II
- April 29 roundup
- Grand Theft Auto roundup
- Update: court nixes “Deal or No Deal” lawsuit
- Broderick Lloyd Laswell suit: I’m only getting 3000 calories a day
- Law school diversity, the compulsory way
- Staggered sports schedules: and then came the bill
- The right to be poisoned, cont’d
- Organize neighbors on a local political issue…
- “Who Owns Antiquity?”
- U.K.: Spare that tree, cont’d
- FACTA receipts, restaurant coupons and “annihilating” damages
- After Casey Martin: accommodation demands in sports
- Lott v. Levitt, Part X
- “Beat a woman to a pulp, demand $10 million in damages”
- Great moments in judicial campaigning
- Jay Greene on NYT bullying story
- “Sued for ‘OK’ eBay feedback”
- Tort Deform
- Second Circuit tosses Whitman case
- Symphonic premiere canceled as EU workplace-noise violation
- Response re Terry v. Lindell
- “Pelosi betrays her own House for a slew of trial lawyers”
- April 24 roundup
- Nearer, my Capitol, to thee
- When blogs get blocked
- Hotel not liable for crash three hours after man’s eviction
- “Require that employees get permission first before using their BlackBerrys after work hours”
- New at Point of Law
- “Why we won’t be getting VW’s Lane Assist”
- Update: judge quashes Seidel subpoena
- “Earth To Be Made Child-Safe”
- Redirects: thanks to volunteer Andrew Grossman
- Derby pie
- Bleg: attorneys admitted to the Southern District of New York
- “Queens mom sues bakeries for failing to garnish wages for child support”
- Californian vexatious-litigant roundup
- “Lawsuit: Veterans Affairs has failed to prevent suicides”
- Update: Diet Coke sweetener class actions
- Ohio AG office harassment scandal
- “The unlucky troll”
- Southwest Airlines missed-inspection suit, cont’d
- Further thoughts on pirates’ rights
- “$982 An Hour for Fen-Phen Plaintiffs’ Lawyers”
- U.K.: “Inmates win ‘cold turkey’ payout”
- Welcome KTRH listeners
- April 17 roundup
- “4% of doctors responsible for 50% of payouts”
- Lawyers making clients worse off department: Nicholas White’s elevator ride
- Congratulations to David Nieporent
- Titanic sinking
- From a reader: Home albumin therapy
- Welcome UPI readers
- April 16 roundup
- Tax Day thought
- “Passengers sue Southwest Airlines over missed inspections”
- Reader inquiry on feeds
- Plaintiff: my lawyers cut unfair side deal with Prudential
- Pope Benedict’s visit
- Tardy arrivals in Banita Jacks case, cont’d
- “I would rather spend fifty thousand dollars on defense than give you a dollar of unmerited settlement funds”
- Canada: McDonald’s to pay C$55K for firing non-handwashing employee
- The terrors of tag
- “Pirates can claim UK asylum”
- Brooklyn: judge sues janitor (and city)
- J.K. Rowling vs. fan guide trial
- “It would seem inefficient to have a witness testify 416 times”
- “Widow sues PetSmart in transplant death”
- Pending the abolition of gravity…
- SueEasy.com
- “Judge Fines Medtronic $10 Million Over Trial Tactics”
- Six-year-old fanny-swatter
- Kerviel to sue SocGen for unfair dismissal
- Update: “Lawyer Sanctioned for Suing Over Adversary’s Deposition Questions”
- Update: paid too much for their house
- April 11 roundup
- Kathleen Seidel blogger-subpoena furor
- “Kansas Firm Airs Candid Wal-Mart Videos”
- Will litigation kill academic tenure?
- Public Citizen and Arbitration
- Great moments in forfeiture law
- Activist sues Canadian conservative blogs
- Unintended consequences in health law
- Celebrity gossip mongers…
- A NYT school-bullying story comes under scrutiny
- Worst places to get sued, cont’d
- “Ansonia Smoking Lawsuit Is Settled”
- We were counting on you for favorable testimony!
- “Resurrect Rule 11″
- Jury not asked to blame driver, does so anyway
- Latest claimed IP infringements
- “The Worst Places To Get Sued in America”
- 17 doctors sued, all but one dismissed before trial
- Miseries of software upgrade, cont’d
- Update: Panel recommends penalty for Boston judge over settlement demands
- April 5 roundup
- Zombie Litigation
- Blogosphere reacts to Seidel subpoena
- Disbarment possible for Harpreet Brar
- Tonight’s 20/20: Stossel on extortionate attorneys
- FACTA: “I have no damages. I’m just bringing this lawsuit because I can.”
- Judicial elections blog
- Great moments in open-records law
- Calm and collected
- Vaccine lawyer subpoenas Kathleen Seidel
- Deep Pockets File: Foradori v. Captain D’s II
- U.K.: discriminatory for hair salon not to hire headscarf wearer?
- Update: Wal-Mart drops subrogation claim
- House Judiciary Committee hearing on 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund
- Disbar Dickie Scruggs?
- How trial lawyers made American pedestrians less safe
- April 2 roundup
- 10,000 comments
- Miami archdiocese liable for students’ at-home drinking party
- James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2007
- State AGs vs. JuicyCampus.com
- “Owner Charged With Cruelty for Failing to Treat Cat’s Ailments”
- The Jonathan Lee Riches docket
- NY Times on Ground Zero dust lawyer
- Against victim impact statements
- Ethically failing upward in Alabama, cont’d
- “Caught short, 3M will pay $700,000″
- Pennzoil v. Texaco
- RIAA hasn’t paid artists
- Deep pocket files: more settlements in Great White fire
- “Doomsday fears spark lawsuit”
- More accolades…
- Palo Alto excessive force case
- “Are we really that ill?”
- “Lawsuit Accuses Yale of False Statements”
- California homeschooling ruling
- Obama’s financial regulation speech
- Great moments in custody litigation
- National Practitioner Data Bank
- Client-chasing dot-orgs
- Depress the smoking rate, increase the obesity rate
- Redesign issues continue
- UK: ire over £200,000 payout for defense office worker
- Update: T-shirts critical of Wal-Mart
- N.H. jury: lawyer’s demand letters amounted to extortion
- Lawsuit abuse kills puppies
- Welcome WBAL listeners
- “My client is being framed”, cont’d
- March 25 roundup
- Little guys and “structuring” law
- The dangers of doing an M&A agreement over a weekend
- Latest child protection news
- Signed out against medical advice
- Prison food as punishment?
- “Why Do Lawyers Mouth Clients’ Ridiculous Alibis?”
- Rolling redesign, cont’d
- Deep Pockets File: Bauer v. Nesbitt
- New feature: Most recent comments
- “What is wrong with tort law”
- Hillary’s Michigan do-over angels
- Site search fixed
- Starbucks barista tip pool
- Florida high court sanctions Jack Thompson
- March 21 roundup
- Quoted in today’s Times
- Suing teachers in Canada
- Mel Weiss to plead guilty
- New at Point of Law
- N.M. high court to review insurance-installment class settlement
- Update: English-only cheesesteak ordering
- “The five dumbest product bans”
- Taking Russian business feuds to American courts
- March 19 roundup
- Maintenance, software upgrade
- Craigslist housing ads
- “FaithGuard” insurance product leads to bias suit
- Enron lawyers want $695 million; Texas objects
- “Judge awards Heather Mills £24.3 million in divorce ruling”
- Spitzer endnotes
- Detroit mayoral scandal
- Buell-Wilson v. Ford redux
- Roundup, March 15
- “Jury clears doctors of negligence in Ritter’s death”
- Scruggs in guilty plea
- Legal hazards of waking students
- Red-light ticketing cameras, cont’d
- We’ve come for your BlackBerries…
- Global positioning systems liability
- $46,000 attorney fee request in $44.63 dispute
- Contraband candy student reinstated
- Poodle-dyer nabbed by animal welfare cops
- Fled home, rode bus to end of the line
- The case of the traveling grape
- Whited sepulchre watch
- Massachusetts mulls “sexual fraud”
- Eliot Smurfer
- Watch What You Say About Lawyers Dept.: Troll Tracker blog sued out of existence
- Radio today
- Fonza Luke v. Baptist Medical Center
- Spitzer and white-collar prosecution: live by the sword…
- Spitzer and “structuring”
- Client 9 from outer space: Spitzer news open thread
- Blind item
- “They need to have equal rights”
- “You can’t scan everybody. You can’t cath everybody.”
- Used client funds to gamble, now suing casinos
- “The Weirdest Legal Pleading Ever”
- Althouse on AutoAdmit
- Letter to the editor
- Another giant L.A. crash-faking ring
- Pellicano trial begins
- Anonymous jury in Scruggs trial
- Charged with racial harassment…
- Torkelsen Lerach scandal, cont’d
- Homeschooling ban in California?
- Steep decline in carpal tunnel cases
- Fourth graders told: don’t “spill” to the cops
- The Hess Kennedy “Legal Debt Center” scheme
- Scruggs scandal update: sweet potatoes by the acre
- Ending software patents
- Escalator mishap: federal judge wanted $21 million
- Wikiality, part 732: The Federalist Society
- “Senate CPSC Bill: A Boon for Trial Lawyers at the Expense of Product Safety”
- U.K.: Injures finger dropping junk mail in letterbox
- Special master: Coughlin Stoia paid for “stolen” Coke documents
- The health costs of defensive medicine
- March 4 roundup
- Milberg expert Torkelsen pleads guilty to perjury
- College student’s fatal alcohol binge
- McCain, thimerosal and autism
- Annals of chutzpah?
- Guestblogger thanks
- American Airlines lawsuit: John Cerqueira responds
- Quasi-off-topic musing
- March 1 roundup
- Nanny staters target Anheuser-Busch and Miller
- Arbitration and “coercion”
- Deal or Raw Deal?
- My Condolences, My Card
- Absent father of Banita Jacks children: I’m suing the city
- Unclear on the concept
- A New Suspect Class?
- Damnum Absque Injuria?
- Not Not Guilty Guilty!!
- Judge Holds Trial Firm Liable for Fees
- Obama, lawyers, and taxes
- Blogs I wish I read more frequently: Patent Troll Tracker
- Outsourcing, With a Kicker
- FDA overwarning
- Judge Sues Sniper, Defense Lawyer “Mystified”
- Guestblogger this week
- Whistle While You Work
- Overheard at (of all places) a Texas chatboard:
- No preferred Lies
- 9/11 dust
- Don’t IX
- Scruggs wiretap transcripts, cont’d
- February 23 roundup
- $25 million for yanking hospital privileges
- The Patent Reform Act of 2007
- “Swastikas, kangaroos, cartoon squirrels”
- NFL relents on Super Bowl viewing
- A blogger’s disclaimer
- Med-mal in the Upper Midwest
- Mississippi’s other legal scandal
- “38 lacrosse players sue Duke University”
- New at Point of Law
- The Pop Tort: John Edwards and the Valerie Lakey case
- Scruggs: government releases wiretap transcripts
- Jessica Simpson fitness video
- Congress’s latest gift to lawyers?
- Erin Brockovich speaks! (But what does Darby Shaw think?)
- Early termination cell phone fees
- A letter thus begins
- What liberal media bias? Part DCCXIV
- Privacy law and criminal investigations, cont’d
- February 19 roundup
- BlogAds: one reader’s comment
- The fall of William Lerach… in Mother Jones?!
- Pro bono as profit center III: Skadden and Chinatown restaurant case
- $1,500 per mesothelioma lead
- Suit seeks $100 million for Super Bowl loss
- Monkeys as kids’ birthday entertainment
- Traffic-cams in the Northeast
- $6.5 million to driver not wearing seatbelt
- Trial lawyer John O’Quinn again defends his right to arbitrate
- Savannah sugar refinery blast
- Long Island school-district attorneys
- When Clinton and Obama agreed
- “Nor have I stolen a dog…”
- High cost of health privacy laws, cont’d
- Great moments in legal services promotion
- The war on arbitration: Jamie Leigh Jones, Tracy Barker, & “Halliburton” V
- February 14 roundup
- Scruggs: I’m the real victim here
- Jamie Leigh Jones, Tracy Barker, & “Halliburton” IV
- Coaching medical witnesses
- “Lawyers as Presidential Candidates”
- Lost laptop = $54 million?
- Scruggs: blogs deny me fair local trial
- Hiring strippers at Duke
- Lerach sentenced to two years
- Update: man who said his SS# spelled “Google” upside down
- Lawyer liable when client pursues illegitimate claim?
- Harry Potter fan guides, cont’d
- February 11 roundup
- America’s Health Care at Risk, April 16-17, Orlando
- Lerach: “Everybody was paying plaintiffs”
- Update: 5th Circuit overturns Louisiana fuel-gauge fee division
- Flu shots in supermarkets
- Advice for bloggers
- “Suing the Smoker Next Door”
- How is the Class Action Fairness Act working?
- Did redlining accusations lead to the subprime mortgage mess?
- “Overlawyeredlanche”
- Palimony without cohabitation?
- “Plaintiffs’ bar wish list”
- Vioxx settlement: February 8 update
- Suit against mower manufacturer: It’s your fault my grandfather ran over my foot
- Bacon-wrapped hot dog
- Exclusive: Grand Theft Auto deposition
- Arbitration for me, but not for thee
- Oops dept.
- Update: U.K. man with 40 bias suits
- Exclusive: New details in Milberg Weiss obstruction of justice case
- Workplace bullying bills
- Jumping on the bus
- Super Tuesday thought
- Update: Cates loses judicial bid
- February 6 roundup
- UK: pancake race canceled after 600 years
- February 5 roundup
- Grand Theft Auto “Hot Coffee Mod” class action settlement
- The battle for Edwards’s funders, cont’d
- Transgender patient’s right to surgery
- “Scruggs’s deposition is to begin immediately and shall continue until its natural conclusion”
- Scruggs scandal developments, February 5
- January 2008: a look back
- U.K.: A one-man bias-suit industry
- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
- Online prescribing
- Thread-count class action
- Lerach: keep my sentencing briefs under seal
- Prisoner litigation Hall of Fame
- Deep Pockets File: Great White fire
- “Twelve Angry Men”
- Licensing eBay resellers, cont’d
- Banning restaurants from serving the obese
- Our annual Super Bowl party post
- Site maintenance alert
- February 1 roundup
- An ADA right to smoke-free eateries?
- 4,896 opt-outs in Sears tippy-stove class action
- “Katrina Suit Vs. Army Corps Dismissed”
- January 30 roundup
- Jello wrestling and assumption of risk
- Sued for encouraging user-generated content
- Neuborne dispute not over after all
- Milberg Weiss scandal: plaintiff-for-pay sentenced
- Walter Dellinger as Hillary’s AG?
- Mississippi: “Feds expand bribery investigation”
- The battle for Edwards’s funders
- Mustang club calendars
- “Court Says You Can Copyright A Cease-And-Desist Letter”
- Why are so many politicians lawyers?
- “Driver Who Killed Teen Sues for Damage”
- Judith Regan settles…
- Edwards to be AG in Obama administration?
- Redwoods vs. solar panels
- Big teaching-hospital cuts after Oregon high court ruling
- “IBM responds to overtime lawsuits with 15% salary cuts”
- Lost ski areas
- Update: Bring me the identity of Patent Troll Tracker
- Nanny state, Virginia 1934 edition
- Case workers and perverse incentives
- Update: Peter “P’Ta Mon” John
- Yogurt marketing class action
- January 24 roundup
- ABC series “Eli Stone”
- Enron cert denial
- Freakonomics on unintended consequences
- Paid too much for your house?
- Sam Zell’s Tribune Company employee handbook
- January 22 roundup
- 32,000 federal employees…
- Martin Luther King Day… and preemption?
- NY Times on Scruggs, again
- Catholic hospital won’t perform transgender-related surgery
- Harry Potter, Inc., vs. fan guides
- Update: car-keying lawyer faces a judge
- UK: “Pantomime gun must be registered”
- Hit by stray golf ball on course
- Implausible defense department
- January 18 roundup
- “Bush Exempts Navy from Environmental Law” II
- Welcome New Zealand radio listeners
- Vioxx roundup, January 15-17
- CCALA: California schools “ripped off by litigation”
- “Bush Exempts Navy From Environmental Law”
- Scruggs’s defense unsealed
- Damages: $0 settlement; Attorneys’ fees: $9.5 million
- Corzine vetoes unlimited noneconomic damages
- More about Joseph (“Joey”) Langston, part II
- More about Joseph (“Joey”) Langston, part I
- Suit: You kept me from jumping off the Empire State Building
- “Ex-Milberg Weiss honcho to head NYC Bar”
- Update: millionaire spankee verdict tossed
- January 15 roundup
- DC to fire six child-welfare workers in Banita Jacks case
- Scruggs scandal update: Information in Langston plea
- Police more likely to sleep with than arrest prostitutes
- January 14 roundup
- Scruggs scandal: Joey Langston charged, cooperating with feds
- January 13 roundup
- Sears website privacy class action
- Racially “targeting” predatory subprime loans? The NAACP and Baltimore suits
- Banning health clinics
- Florida Mulls Lawsuit Over Antipsychotic Programs
- Even more on autism and thimerosal
- Cerqueira v. American Airlines
- The Nataline Sarkisyan case: I’m just shocked, shocked, to learn Edwards has lied again
- AFF January Roundtable: “Don’t Be Evil”: Privacy in the Age of Google
- Judge: “Monumental” discovery violations fit for bar discipline
- OT: on the Ron Paul phenomenon
- The evils of food
- The confused world of child psychiatry
- Maternity leave during high school
- The mother of all ad damnum clauses
- January’s the busiest time…
- Stories that shouldn’t get away, part II
- New Jersey: from one bad extreme to the other
- Web accessibility: Sylvan’s surrender
- Cometh the Regulation
- Lawyer liable to both client and opponent
- Thimerosal Disappears but Autism Remains
- White House race roundup
- AEI Vioxx Settlement panel on CSPAN
- “The wonderful blog, Overlawyered”
- “Inmate Sues Jail, Blames It For His Escapes”
- Overlawyered featured
- When is it nobody’s fault?
- Tiger victims in ambulance: “Don’t tell them what we did”
- Mississippi wrong-doc-sued case
- U.K.: Farm stiles and gates yield to wheelchair access
- Did Mark Lanier comment about Vioxx on a medical blog?
- “That’s why I didn’t become a trial lawyer”
- “Son seeks estate of mother he killed”
- “Lawyer installs shark tank in office”
- January 4 roundup
- Paragraph of the day
- Richard Neely and arbitration (and the godless bloodsuckers?)
- Model’s suit: You used the video you took of me
- Divorce law in the Northeast
- January 7: Vioxx Settlement panel at AEI
- January 3 roundup
- Nineteen votes short…
- Help us win the ABA contest (and ruin someone’s day…)
- Fewer lawyers in Virginia legislature
- War is peace, freedom is slavery, and trial lawyer earmarks are “consumer-friendly”
- Extra-judicial punishment?
- California town grapples with judgment 3x its budget
- “Pigeon poop plunge wins New Yorker six million dollars”
- New frontiers in police entrapment
- Frank on NY Times on Edwards and Romney
- Assignment Desk: Alliance for a New America, Rachel Mellon, Alexander Forger, and John Edwards
- French lawyers strike
- Best Buy: sorry for sending that nastygram
- Bush nixes defense bill, cites Iraq-suit provisions
- Report: Apple to auto-limit iPod volume
- Egypt wants to copyright pyramids, Sphinx
- Sues 8-year-old over ski-slope collision
- Diversity training, the compulsory way
- Cross median into bus’s path, it’s bus owner’s fault
- No toy donations, thanks: “It’s the liability.”
- “The Real Mortgage Fraud”
- SCOTUS will hear voter ID case
- The #1 Threat to Respectability for Lawyers: Bears
- Suing for a better education
- Jamie Leigh Jones & “Halliburton” III
- I’m interviewed…
- Jamie Leigh Jones hearing on the Hill
- Wherein we deny all robot-related activity
- Stories that shouldn’t get away, part I
- “I Am Lawsuit Abuse”
- Judicial Hellholes 2007
- Contracts no good in Utah: Rothstein v. Snowbird Corp.
- A reminder
- “I can see why people want to be lawyers. Once you’ve got someone under your licensing power, you can make them do anything…”
- Fifth grader brings steak knife with brown-bag lunch
- Eyesore preservation
- Scruggs WSJ piece now a free link
- Update: N.M. pipeline rescuers can sue for emotional distress
- “Hundreds upon hundreds and hundreds of fake accidents”
- Senate Dems: Trial lawyers’ pockets more important than anti-terrorism legislation
- December 18 roundup
- Christmas shopping suggestions
- NJ Turnpike sues crash victims
- Sorry, but we can’t let you tape your package in our store
- Scruggs case audio
- Roy Den Hollander vs. Ladies’ Nights
- “Mississippi’s Tort King”
- Scruggs indictment XI
- The sub-prime bailout
- Consumer and employee win rates in arbitration
- Great moments in client-chasing
- Clarification: Flatley $11 million “settlement”
- Arbitration and the free market
- Scruggs indictment X
- Scruggs not alone in violating protective order?
- December 14 roundup
- “Danger: Avoid Death”
- “Ex-caretaker sues Leona Helmsley’s dog”
- The doctor who wasn’t there
- Christmas in old England: a roundup
- Update: Mary Roberts convicted
- Homer nods: Lawrence v. Graubard Miller
- Scruggs indictment IX
- “Halliburton”, gang rape, and fear of arbitration: the Jamie Leigh Jones case
- The San Francisco Chronicle’s nutty subprime mortgage conspiracy theory
- Dickensian lawyering, on deaf ears?
- “Retail store not liable for goose attack”
- Madison Square Garden sex-harass case
- Timothy Balducci, wannabe?
- The next wave of defensive medicine
- Disabled accommodation of an alarming sort, cont’d
- Flatley: false accuser is paying me $11 million
- FBI searches Joey Langston offices
- Call me a patent troll? See you in court
- December 10 roundup
- Scruggs indictment VIII
- Best of 2007: January
- Open thread
- December 8 roundup
- Buys submerged land, sues to have it drained
- Scruggs indictment VII
- Operation Lucky Bag
- Damned if you do, damned if you don’t files: “Cyber-bullying”
- December 7 roundup
- Daniel Solove’s The Future of Reputation
- Scruggs indictment VI
- Black hydrants and unintended consequences
- Update: Hormel vs. SpamArrest
- Scruggs indictment V
- December 5 roundup
- Gauer Distinguished Lecture
- Scruggs indictment IV
- Judean People’s Front v. People’s Front of Judea Dept.
- AGs: Don’t count sale as class-action remedy
- The Do Not Sue list
- “Grandma got run over by a lawsuit”
- December 3 roundup
- Scruggs indictment, days 3-4
- December 2 roundup
- Update: Andrew Speaker’s fellow passengers
- Lawrence v. Graubard Miller
- Mark Steyn book excerpt = human rights violation?
- Update: Stephen Yagman draws three-year sentence
- Hotel owner might sue over gloomy hurricane forecasts
- Scruggs indictment, day two
- San Fran fireplace ban?
- Judge locks up 46 people over ringing cellphone
- “A salesman, selling other people’s troubles”
- ABA Journal “Blawg 100″
- Scruggs indicted on bribery charge
- Child support collection, for a percentage
- Did the Right Make America a Lawsuit Nation?: Thomas Geoghegan’s See You in Court
- Legal-policy campaign advisers
- Banning spanking in Massachusetts?
- November 28 roundup
- “Is Overlawyering Overtaking Democracy?”
- NZ: You can immigrate, but your spouse can’t
- Operation Santa disclaimers, cont’d
- ADR? Them’s fightin’ words
- Defamation-suit roundup
- Problem teachers dig in; NYC lawyers up
- November 26 roundup
- Deep pocket files: Detroit Red Wings crash, cont’d
- Update: not a million little refunds
- Crocs footwear fad fades
- Update: flying-imams suit can proceed
- Wildfires and land management suits, cont’d
- UK: Law forbids dying while in house of Parliament
- Post office requires releases to participate in Operation Santa
- “The Libel Tourist”
- Lactose intolerance class action
- Patents on tax avoidance strategies
- Escorts are legit expense, Oz court told
- FBI’s feeble forensics
- November 20 roundup
- George Will on John Edwards
- Salvation Army English-at-work suit, cont’d
- NYC council: poor tenants should have eviction lawyers
- Squelching the Black Friday bargain-tipsters
- Mass. governor: let’s jail online gamblers
- Journalism award
- No, I’m not going to…
- Tax e-filing class action
- Canada: Staples sued over customers’ unauthorized copying
- November 16 roundup
- Federalist Society convention in Washington
- Update: Erin Brockovich vs. Beverly Hills High School
- “The tackiest lawyer advertisements of all time”
- Roy Pearson no longer a D.C. judge
- Questions for Democratic debate
- Must have been a typo
- Party like it’s a Vioxx settlement
- “‘Hannah Montana’ fan club sued over tickets”
- “Disney sued for Segway ban”
- November 13 roundup
- Varieties of (medically hazardous) religious experience
- “US says it’s blowing whistle on lawyer’s fee”
- “Hello! Don’t hang up, because you may have won a valuable…” [-click-]
- Employment Non-Discrimination Act
- Merck Vioxx settlement
- Federici v. U-Haul update: jury awards $15 million
- ADA bans lottery-ticket sales in smoking venues?
- Inside one TV-ad law firm
- “No liability for doctor who revived newborn”
- The Phelps verdict, free speech, and fighting words
- “Solely interested in ripping the other to shreds”
- Kind Sirs, please Wire $44B to our Acct which will be split 70/30
- November 8 roundup
- Traffic-cams and road safety, cont’d
- “The world’s weirdest cases”
- November 7 roundup
- Lawyers: no harm in botching suit since it had no merit anyway
- “Mississippi on Trial”
- The right to be injured, redux?
- The case for the telecom immunity bill II
- On KPFA Morning Show Monday
- “Wetzel Law Firm: Retract ‘Weasel’ or Else”
- Don’t
- Abusive cop’s stress at being fired results in disability
- Wise law blog, Toronto
- No naming the blackmailed royal — even on US websites?
- Wisconsin’s “Vanna White veto”
- Alterations to our extended blogroll
- November 2 roundup
- Bee Movie
- Class action payouts: They know, but you can’t find out
- Lawsuit demands drugstores hire bilingual interpreters
- “Eye-popping” fee request in Tyco securities case
- Social host alcohol liability
- Criticizes BidZirk on his blog, and survives
- FACTA’s billion-dollar problem
- Lawbloggers’ Halloween costume party
- The case for the telecom immunity bill
- Your Halloween mask
- Stick figure shooting stick figure with water gun
- Ordeal not over
- Guestblogger thanks
- Edwards campaign: take down that student YouTube
- October 30 roundup
- Today’s Tidbits
- What Elizabeth Wurtzel tells us about the XOXOHTH lawsuit
- Latest Montgomery Blair Sibley follies
- “When punitive damages make no sense”
- Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: “Fetal Injury at Work”
- Sam Adams (beer) vs. Sam Adams (candidate)
- “Drunk on power: campaign reformers can’t help it”
- A law written by attorneys, for attorneys
- UK: False accuser wins settlement
- Deep pockets file: Kristin Rossum murder case
- Harris v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center: Geoffrey Fieger loses
- More Tidbits
- Bogus claims in Chevron-Ecuador suit
- White House race
- Federici v. U-Haul
- Legal Tidbits for Thought
- October 25 roundup
- Wildfires and land management litigation
- Butter knife expulsion
- Mikal Watts drops Senate bid
- Update: Baseball players can’t sue over fantasy baseball statistics
- Bad idea: Barney Frank legislation on mortgages
- Broken Heart? Sue!
- “Your old junk could come back to haunt you”
- Annals of creative patent lawyering
- Republican presidential debate
- Sorry, doc, your personality is uninsurable
- Farmers market victims can sue Santa Monica
- October 21 roundup
- Guestblogging opening
- Don’t link, criticize, use our name, refer to us, view our source code…
- October 19 roundup
- Welcome New York Times readers
- MSM finally notices: Milberg Weiss Continues Giving to Democrats
- You mean it’s not the videogames?
- The hydrangeas’ fateful tint
- Behind those “unfair arbitration” numbers
- Apple iPhone: environmentalists pile on
- Lynne Stewart speaks at Hofstra Law
- Vegas columnist, sued for libel, declares bankruptcy
- A nation of lawbreakers
- $400K suit: wedding flowers were wrong color
- “Top ten frivolous lawsuits”
- Child safety, D.C. style
- Town ordinances regulating house paint colors
- “Competing for Clients, and Paying by the Click”
- Wisconsin Supreme Court follies: Heikkinen v. Archdiocese
- October 15 roundup
- Sues over having twins
- Best law weblog of 2007
- October 13 roundup
- Tug-of-war: a thought on the failure to warn
- “Nick J., Boston mesothelioma lawyer”
- October 12 roundup
- Was Paul Minor framed?
- Car-sharing services sued
- Nastygram: don’t you dare post this nastygram on the web
- Cory Lidle, One Year Later
- CNN Headline News/Glenn Beck show today
- Welcome to West Virginia: Joe Meadows v. Go-Mart
- By reader acclaim: “Cop sues family after saving baby”
- “Deadly toys of yesteryear”
- Heads I win, tails don’t count files
- Mississippi governors’ race: John Eaves
- Limited liability partnership special interests like trial lawyers, those are ok
- October 10 roundup
- On Heading Right Radio
- Capitol Records v. Thomas, cont’d
- Here come the Crocs suits
- U.K.: Union defends eBay-addicted town workers
- Fox News tomorrow A.M.
- On Bloomberg TV
- October 8 Roundup
- “Disrespectful cockalorum…mordaciously sarcastic”
- No CLE credit for Stewart panel
- $222,000 for sharing 24 songs
- Update: Object to a class action settlement, face a RICO suit
- 9/11 suits: I guess it was about the money after all
- $6.1 million verdict in McDonald’s strip-search case
- Backfire in Bloomberg lawsuit
- Lynne Stewart/Hofstra furor
- U.K. roundup
- There’s money in glass-eating, son
- Get a C, File a Lawsuit.
- Thanks to Robert Ambrogi
- National Federation of the Blind v. Target
- Jackpot justice: Anucha Browne Sanders II
- A conversation in the ER
- So now everybody’s happy
- Hockey star: seat belt sank into cushions, car dealer should pay
- “The always indispensable Overlawyered”
- Blind shoppers can sue Target over its website
- October 3 roundup
- Jackpot justice: Anucha Browne Sanders
- ADA lawsuit closes kids’ basketball camp
- GOP presidential candidates, cont’d
- A Thousand Little Refunds, Plus Attorneys Fees
- Contingent-fee tax collection in Mississippi, cont’d
- Suspended NFL players file disabled-rights claims
- Discrimination on the basis of body modification
- Walter and Ted on Hugh Hewitt today
- Intern for the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest
- Fans sue relocating sports teams
- “Defendants See a Case of Diagnosing for Dollars”
- Watch what you say about lawyers dept.: Amiel Cueto
- Canada: class action plaintiff’s lawyers on the hook?
- Facebook and the law
- Apple sued for dropping iPhone price
- Class-action suit against New England Patriots
- Tenn. politico: in case of emergency call my TTLA friend
- Sued for not endorsing 9/11 conspiracy theory
- Lawsuit: Yahoo should break Chinese law
- “A Lawyer Walks Into a Bar”
- Boston’s libel judge, out and about
- Rielle Hunter and John Edwards
- Annual Supreme Court Briefing
- Latest Jack Thompson follies
- Cops against ticketing cops
- Lynne Stewart at Hofstra
- “It’s Official: Lawyers Are Incapable Of Understanding Civility”
- Medical expert cops plea deal
- Furor over Mikal Watts “judges owe us” letter
- Taxpayers to provide additional subsidies for law-school education
- September 2007 Class Action Watch
- September 25 roundup
- Divorce prying: beyond private detectives
- Let them not eat cake
- Virginia Postrel…
- AEI program on patent reform bill
- On the whiplash trail
- September 23 roundup
- Dan Rather vs. CBS, cont’d
- Seattle schools pro bono, cont’d
- Giuliani and guns
- New book on golf law
- Big Government, Big Business, and artisanal food
- “I helped him set up his %@&(*# offshore accounts!”
- Suing drug companies over meth abuse
- Texas: “Public left in dark on accused attorneys”
- Feds indict Mel Weiss
- Jack Thompson: I’m being imaginarily assassinated
- ATLA lobbies third branch to ignore car-leasing laws
- Class action lawyers: give us a live client to replace our dead one
- An Overlawyered “favicon”
- “Richardson: Obese Americans Need Federal Protection”
- Lerach was bundler for Edwards
- Dan Rather sues CBS and Viacom
- Latest Pearson Pants update
- More on Lerach plea
- Consumer protection where consumer protection is needed
- Chicago Federalist Society panel on class actions
- Lerach’s guilty plea
- “A case of unchecked avarice coupled with a total absence of shame”
- By reader acclaim: “Nebraska state senator sues God”
- Ninth Circuit tosses Corrie-Caterpillar case
- “Judge tosses global warming lawsuit against car makers”
- September 18 roundup
- Chemerinsky legally entitled to job?
- Lawsuit: Knowledge of English, thinking not required for police
- BP explosion trial: the uses of voir dire
- Postcard from Interlaken
- Examiner series on trial lawyers
- Update: Great moments in lawyer discipline
- Update: “SCO Group files for bankruptcy protection”
- Blind item
- Coyote’s environmental audit
- “Need some cash? Sue Google!”
- O’Quinn told to pay clients $41 million
- When police officers drive drunk
- “Most of the negative attention was from being an attorney”
- City council spat: meter passes $700,000
- September 13 roundup
- “Should Trial Lawyers Make Terror Policy?”
- Imus lawsuit: nevermind
- New owner for West Virginia water slide
- Bills client $5,700 for brief copied off Internet
- More managers being sued personally
- “Limits proposed on fast-food restaurants”
- You mean it was trillions?
- Emily Bazelon on personal responsibility
- Chicago parking tickets
- “Everybody, that is, except the guys who did it.”
- September 10 roundup
- “Inappropriate and unethical behavior”
- Mississippi judicial scandal: Paul Minor sentenced to 11 years
- Did we mention the Overlawyered.com Facebook Group?
- Judy Cates running for judgeship
- Nifong/Lacrosse update
- Attorney-presidents
- Updates – September 7
- Federal court: Fieger can call judges Nazis
- “Coney Island side show ‘freak’ studying to become a lawyer”
- Pro bono as profit center, cont’d
- Quoted in Chicago Tribune
- Must-read Instapundit post
- No dice on Carls Jr.’s “Angus” suit
- Minneapolis bridge aftermath
- Hezbollah plans lawsuit campaign against Israel
- Mattel woes
- Ninth Circuit: Molski “Plainly lied”
- “Until Proven Innocent”
- Search engine index II
- Tipsy totter ended wrestling, began political career
- Don’t like your pay? There’s the door
- Louisiana fuel-gauge fee carve-up, cont’d
- Pa. judge indicted for insurance fraud won’t run again
- September 4 roundup
- “Record beer consumption” at Hagens Berman cycling event
- Steamed oysterers
- “Granholm’s picks cheer trial lawyers”
- Excessive fines
- Why they call it discovery
- McDonald’s “hold the cheese” suit, cont’d
- Kentucky Fen-Phen update: judgment entered
- But no poking, as someone might sue you
- Canadian tattoo studio
- Leisurely mills of legal discipline
- Bainbridge on foie gras and dog-fighting
- Youtube lawsuit of the week: A&P vs. rappers
- One reason European healthcare is cheaper than the American version
- Lawyers’ license to defame adversaries
- Painting blue waves across town
- Lerach’s retirement speech
- Great moments in attorney advertising
- Lerach retires; nearing a plea deal?
- Fieger’s Arizona censure
- Gordon Ramsay on U.S. litigation
- When lawyers fight
- “The Secret Life of Judges”
- Disparaging a trademark
- Yet more on privacy/disability laws and Seung Hui Cho
- Letter to the editor
- “So they started acting like a bunch of lawyers”
- August 27 roundup
- Jumping into crashed Toyota
- Cheater’s Poetic Justice / Guestblogger Sendoff
- Norway: “Killer claims compensation”
- Barry Bonds? Never heard a bad word said of him
- Geoffrey Fieger indicted
- Amanda Marcotte, as accurate as ever
- From Matthew L. Kolken, Esq.
- Open thread: question for discussion
- Frivolous — but honest about it
- Web disputes of the future two weeks
- Cuba? You mean they have government-run health care there?
- “…A possible vomit point for clients”
- Imams drop “John Doe” defendant
- More on Insurance Fair Conduct
- Bloomberg gun lawsuits will go on
- SOX Whistleblower claims
- More thoughts on delusional pro se cases
- Pet store not at fault for letting customers bring in pets
- New at Point of Law
- Holier-than-thou Edwards called to account
- Pharmaceutical markets and regulation
- Business Week on arbitration clauses
- “The Party of the First Part: The Curious World of Legalese”
- August 22 roundup
- Jackpot Justice or Insurance Fair Conduct?
- “Nappy-headed ho’s” = defamation?
- New Guest Blogger / Court’s ruling bites
- Blogger sued for book review
- In Alabama, the tusks are looser II
- Forbes on pro se cases
- Stoneridge order
- Podcast: The Role of State Attorneys General
- A $50 Star-On Machine for Sneetches who wish to be Star-Bellied
- “Give health courts a chance”
- Judge Murphy libel suit update
- Survey of Texas judges
- Alcohol isn’t tobacco, unfortunately for trial lawyers
- West Virginia Supreme Court benchslap
- Price of sending email: $160/email
- Libby, Montana
- Wright on Frank on Chemerinsky on Roberts
- Whatever happened to that $217 million verdict?
- Bipartisan group of SEC chairs, law professors, speak out against “scheme liability”
- Superfund: your government at work
- Imus in the Courtroom, Update
- Pearson appeals
- Spitzer now regulating airlines
- The political answer for Democrats?
- “The Politics of Bananas”
- Chemerinsky on the Supreme Court
- More Prop 65 follies
- Damned if you do, damned if you don’t files
- Government pays for prosecutions
- Some updates
- Kentucky fen-phen lawyers are jailed
- A breather
- Welcome visitors
- August 10 roundup
- Allergic to cheese, sues McDonald’s for $10 million
- Does Keith Olbermann read Overlawyered?
- “Airman Who Alleged Rape Faces Court-Martial”
- Wildly off-topic: Michael Moore’s “Sicko” box office
- Edwards – lawyer $ = Richardson or Dodd?
- Big Dig tunnel collapse
- Chasing I-35W bridge clients
- “The most expensive bill ever written”?
- Updates – August 8
- Update: My mother, the car
- Defensive EMS practice
- New Yorker cartoon caption
- “…a classic American success story”
- Great moments in accountants’ liability
- Lott v. Levitt, Part IX
- Criticizing Saudi financiers
- August 6 roundup
- Assignment Desk: Edwards, Obama, and lobbyist money
- Nifong’s media and law-school enablers, cont’d
- Biting the hand that feeds us: Center for a Just Society
- Putnam County Hospital update
- In the olive oil aisle
- From the comments: fine print
- What took so long?
- Serial spam litigation backfires on plaintiff
- California ADA lawsuit mills: “Wheelchairs of fortune”
- Prosecutorial abuse “rarer than human rabies”?
- “Unique opportunity” for restaurant ex-employees
- Judge Pearson update
- A second bite at the apple
- Illinois court: Taxpayers not responsible for porch collapse
- A bridge too far
- Helicopter chases and felony murder, cont’d
- Publicity roundup
- Running of the bulls
- Stoneridge: Wherein I am a footnote
- Sears wheel alignment class action, cont’d
- Update: restaurant dropped from Josh Hancock suit
- July 31 roundup
- Guestblogger thanks
- iSue
- BlawgWorld 2007
- “Felony sexual abuse”
- William Shatner lawyer ads
- See You Some Other Time!
- Equal Protection v. Anticompetitive Prices
- “Ladies’ Nights” lawsuits, cont’d
- Jailbird, Away!
- The High Cost of Doing Little
- Fugitives responsible for risks of pursuit, cont’d
- Fighting Collusion with Collusion
- Yet another McDonald’s coffee style lawsuit
- July 27 roundup
- When is a court decision “pro-business”?
- Toddler dancing home video
- Fundraiser for Chung family
- Jury: distant fugitive to blame for trooper’s death
- “Suit Charges ‘Inhumane’ Questions at Deposition Caused Emotional Distress”
- “Lawyer cannibalism”
- Guestblogger thanks
- Corporate Governance and Regulatory Reform
- The Roberts Court and Liability Reform
- Bar wasn’t safe for her to dance on
- A Conspiracy of One
- A Climate of Greed Never Changes
- July 23 roundup
- Update: Judge rejects “Extreme Makeover” lawsuit
- No-fault laws boost divorce rate by 10 percent?
- Breaking: Wood v. John O’Quinn ruling
- How The Litigation Lottery Kills Shareholder Value
- July 20 roundup
- Breaking: John O’Quinn ordered to refund $35 million
- Something is Rotten in the State of Delaware
- Who was the first legal blogger?
- “Family Of Girl Who Married Teacher Sues School District”
- Who Wins From Lawsuit Abuse? Hint: It’s Not You or Me.
- Yale grads
- Climbed electric tower on dare
- Promised political announcement
- Location, Location, Location: The Best & Worst Legal Climates in America
- July 17 roundup
- Coming up this week
- But I’m a litigious cheerleader
- Video resumes? No thanks
- The Fairness Doctrine
- Updates
- Guestblogging thanks
- The $2 litigation
- Deus ex curium
- Building from the bottom up
- First let’s kill all the law schools
- Loser’s night
- Lawyer parent “turns on legal heat” after being asked to leave Little League game
- The indefatigable Judge Roy Pearson
- “N.J. senator proposes toy gun ban”
- Class acting
- “Violent and profane” workplace outburst protected
- “So the money was passed, literally, under the table?”
- Lawsuit Heaven
- The Wall Street Journal on “Do it Yourself Tort Reform”
- So few class-action antitrust trials
- Don’t let it touch your eyes
- Next stop for boys’ team-cutting: high schools?
- Killer Quakers
- Searle Freedom Trust request for proposals
- Dunkin’ Donuts unfair to Muslim franchisee?
- Pearson’s pants appeal
- Bulldozer’s progress
- Class actions from scratch
- Litigation and the D.C. schools
- 32 years later
- Free market magic
- The civil right to be cruel
- July 9 roundup
- July 8 roundup
- Update: “Quebec passengers sue TB-infected U.S. lawyer”
- Welcome Volokh Conspiracy readers
- By reader acclaim: “Man Sues Over Gay Marriage Question On Bar Exam”
- Sues blogger for “business interference”, wins $7500
- Another Detroit co-worker’s-perfume suit
- July 6 roundup
- Judge to lawyers: “I want this plaintiff to get money.”
- Sebok on the Pearson pants suit
- 19th-century legal doctrine meets 21st-century hedonism and 20th-century litigation tactics
- In Detroit, protected road menaces
- School blamed for lightning fatality
- Scottish smoking violation
- Stop using the word “accident”?
- Teenage McDonald’s employee
- July 3 roundup
- Guestblogger thanks
- “So Sue Me” board game
- Chasing mosh pit victims?
- NBA Games Soon to Be Settled Via Lawsuit
- Speeding Into Court
- Welcome FOXNews.com readers
- Carney on Lithwick
- Somewhat off-topic thought
- Failed an Exam? See You in Court
- Prisoner Rights Update: Swedish Edition
- Woman Deems Starburst “Dangerously Chewy”
- Large Payment Awarded After 30 Years of Divorce
- More twisted justifications for Pearson’s pants-suit
- Your Prisoner Sex Change Update
- Trademark abuses of the month
- Tattoos Now a Civil Right?
- $21 million lawsuit for negligent prosecution
- The significance of Roy Pearson
- Oops!
- FEC v. WRTL
- Louisiana Town “Cracking” Down
- A Comedian Who ACTUALLY Kills
- Court-Ordered Loneliness
- Virginia Cracks Down on Scourge of People Enjoying Things
- Some Pearson reactions
- More unintended consequences from IDEA
- Guest Blogger Unveiled
- Welcome BBC listeners
- Breaking: Pearson loses pants suit
- Guestblogger tomorrow
- Cookies-for-troops menace averted
- Great moments in immigration law
- Working eight hours, billing for twelve
- L.A. attorney ethics beat
- Pizza Hut door-swing case, cont’d
- By reader acclaim: Dutch woman loses suit over not entering lottery
- Object to a class action settlement, face a RICO suit
- By reader acclaim: “Woman Wins $29,000 for Topless Stroll”
- A belated Pearson statistic
- The costs of litigation
- Litigation and the honest working guy
- Guest bloggers sought
- June 21 roundup
- Damned if you do, damned if you don’t files: Cynthia Haddad v. Wal-Mart
- Updates – June 20
- “Builders, Contractors Hammer Consumer Sites”
- Oz: “Gambler loses, sues casino”
- Flashback: the tort system in action in the case of Curtis Campbell
- Biting the hand that feeds us
- Update: Kia Franklin and Roy Pearson and the $67 million pants
- If you like Overlawyered…
- Oz high court: restaurant review was defamatory
- Avandia-suit spam
- Pearsonesque $2 billion consumer-fraud lawsuit against Ford
- Roy Pearson pants suit: the bottom line
- Scrap over “bandaged-client” graphic
- Funniest law blogs
- That security patch your product needs? Sorry, we’ve patented it
- The Litigation Lobby’s “frivolous” bait-and-switch: the Judge Roy Pearson pants-suit
- Committee votes to disbar Nifong
- New at Point of Law
- Privacy laws and Seung Hui Cho, cont’d
- Mamaroneck: our cops won’t ask about legal status
- Mother Nature’s pesticides
- Keeping of caged birds
- AutoAdmit message board lawsuit
- Speaking in Austin June 20, and Houston June 21
- Nastygram over renting out DVDs
- U.K.: Clown told to stop blowing bubbles
- “Relapses Seen As Patients Abandon Treatment in Response to Negative Law Firm Ads”
- Girls Gone Litigious
- Dog bites taxpayers
- Pearson penultimate (?) update – the trial ends
- June 14 roundup
- Welcome TimesOnline readers
- “Running Doctors Out Of The Emergency Room”
- Spoof of “The Hammer” TV ads
- ABA Journal on tobacco settlement
- Roy Pearson trial update
- On gender, L.A. fire department can’t win for losing
- Guitar tablature? Keep looking
- June 11 roundup
- Suing emailers for a living
- “That’s how they boost their billables”
- Roundup – June 10, 2007
- Avvo: Stop rating me or else
- Update: New trial for Julie Amero
- Mikal Watts for U.S. Senate?
- John O’Quinn scandal update
- Lawyer-rating website
- Debra Saunders on eHarmony suit
- June 8 roundup
- Bork sues the Yale Club
- California Supreme Court: Ladies’ Nights are Lawyers’ Nights
- Particles in power steering fluid not responsible for crash
- Are consumers and businesses enemies?
- Update: Judge unseals Shell case fee carve-up
- Tobacco suit stresses race angle
- Vitamin drink said to cause priapism
- The rule of law: Why is predictability important?
- Use our product or we’ll sue
- Update: Australian’s failed suicide try
- Pearson update: Bogus pants lawsuit no longer about pants
- June 5 roundup
- Roundup – June 4
- Offer refunds, get sued anyway: XM Radio
- Thank the lawyers: Tonya Bell at Unifest
- Don’t
- U.K.: Recliner training?
- “No warning…. just a lawsuit”
- “Anatomy of a Mass Tort”
- 15 Minutes of Fame + Lawyers = Bankruptcy
- “Should they disbar TuberculEsq?”
- James Frey settlement, cont’d
- CAFA: One plaintiff’s-side view
- Germans hesitate to join nanny parade
- Scotts sues TerraCycle
- eHarmony’s 29 Dimensions of… Litigation
- Updates – May 31
- Video games used to cost a quarter
- Ted on the SEC and Stoneridge
- Tax-fee class action: claimants get $75K, lawyers $538K
- Things we didn’t want to know about dept.
- Welcome Financial Week readers
- MacDermid v. Discover
- May 30 roundup
- Trial lawyers shut down customer service
- The $33 million window
- Josh Hancock and Illinois SB 1296
- $30M verdict against doctor for saving patient’s life?
- “Pro Bono” doesn’t mean cheap
- A Milberg medical miracle
- Thimerosal trials begin
- If you can’t compete, sue ‘em dept.: Carl’s Jr. v. Jack in the Box
- Work in Washington, DC at AEI!
- Take me out to the courtroom: Hancock’s death everyone’s fault
- Latest on Pellicano case
- Flood of Taser litigation
- “Flood” of Avandia litigation?
- So you want to be in pictures
- Fining the wrong party, criminal edition
- Oz: “Bullied teen awarded income for life”
- Bias based on height and weight
- “Spyware maker sues antispyware maker”
- May 22 roundup
- Non-KFC “Family Feast” still OK
- “Free expression gets smoked”
- “The Panhandler’s Payday”
- Charge: Little League didn’t teach base-sliding
- Update: A million little refunds
- Update: Pizza Hut door victim awarded $311K
- Kentucky fen-phen follies: May 20
- Web 2.0 beware: Fair Housing Counsel of San Fernando Valley v. Roommate.com
- More on government-hired contingency-fee lawyers
- The frivolous side of Funny Cide
- West Virginia Attorney General Involved in Medicaid Fraud?
- Moody v Sears: Lawyers, $1M. Class, $2,402.
- If your first frivolous suit doesn’t succeed, sue Burger King on the same theory
- And more May 17 updates
- Islamic Society of Boston uses litigation to silence its critics
- When Whale It End?
- Updates – May 17
- US government: no more hiring contingent fee lawyers
- Not renting to lawyers
- How to spend $100 million not building a mall
- Sleeping in dumpster proves imprudent
- Got a “mean” boss? See ‘em in court
- Kentucky fen-phen follies: Abbott v Chesley and Bonar v Chesley updates
- Cheating student sues school
- Basset hound ban?
- Playground wood chips ruled unfair to disabled
- Clients: Lerach settled our case and never told us
- “Publication of false information concerning the City of Pomona”
- “A moral pork barrel to express theatrical empathy”
- “What happens in Ms. Buford’s class stays in Ms. Buford’s class”
- Evolution and the legal client
- More Chesley follies with Judge Bamberger in Kentucky?
- “Hello. My name is John Doe. Sue me.”
- Update: Boston Herald libel award upheld
- Update: Phony class action nabs murderer
- “Life’s short. Get a divorce” billboard yanked
- Liveblogging a malpractice trial
- Annals of chutzpah: OJ Simpson and Ruby’s Louisville
- Turn those credit slips into gold
- Mississippi governor’s race
- Sellers of used CDs
- Oz: Failed suicide try, sues health service
- “The Microsoft of kickball”?
- May 8 roundup
- Tasteless lawyer-ad Hall of Fame
- “Digg’s DVD-decoder fiasco”
- Pants fallout?
- Where are they now? Larry Klayman watch
- Glendora v. Savarino: Bob Hope photos prove unavailing
- Moving to the nuisance?
- Take our blog reader survey
- U.K.: “Teachers say greedy lawyers promote false abuse claims”
- Wayback Machine: we won’t archive pages if owners object
- Yet another Montgomery Blair Sibley profile
- “A paradigm for ‘frivolous’”
- “Negligent failure to legislate”
- Forward an email, get sued?
- “Shocking number” of innocents convicted
- Pant-demonium breaks loose, cont’d
- Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge and a sense of proportion
- Salvation Army “speak-English-at-work” policy
- KFC doesn’t owe millions for selling fast food
- Imus in the courtroom?
- What happens in Gaza, stays in Gaza
- “I’m Being Sued for WHAT?”
- “Despicably focused” on punctuality
- Mom: I never authorized lawyer to sue school over football injury
- Updates – May 2nd
- Litigious clients file lawsuits
- Bill padding, and lots of it
- “Pregnancy brain”
- More on Redwood v. Dobson
- The $65 million pants: Judge Roy Pearson update
- Arizona regulators vs. Zillow.com, cont’d
- May 1 roundup
- Tierney, blogosphere on Dr. William Hurwitz verdict
- Canada: “Crook wins damages for injury during theft”
- “When someone runs out of gasoline or money…”
- Penny for your thoughts
- Willie Gary asks for moon, gets 1/4 moon
- First Palfrey scalp
- Kim Strassel on “trial lawyer earmarks”
- In case you wondered
- Illegal Easter treats, and New Orleans King Cakes
- People v. Phil Spector
- April 27 roundup
- Jack Thompson sues Gawker Media
- Saw sex book by mistake; $10K apiece demanded
- Update: Speechless in Seattle
- Roy L. Pearson, Jr. and the $65 million pants
- Walk away
- Never too late for a lawyer
- Edwards war chest
- Oz: railway slip-fall blamed for rape
- New Jersey Turnpike Authority v. Local 196
- Working the system overtime
- Crime does pay
- Price of forgiveness
- “Prime Target”
- April 25 roundup
- April 24 roundup
- Attention: inventors of new religions
- Champerty watch: “Patent Pirates”
- Door-inserted newspaper delivery
- U.K.: Maypole fetes and village greens
- Don’t
- “Rabid”, “animal” — in the good sense?
- “Don’t go to law school…”
- April 21 roundup
- New Times column — the costs of health privacy
- Virginia Tech client-chasing
- “Thompson’s Tort Trouble”
- Discrimination against the mentally ill
- Update: Maag drops defamation suit
- New Hampshire and Iowa
- Underlawyered: Iran
- “Laws Limit Options When a Student is Mentally Ill”
- April 19 roundup
- “Eenie Meenie” redux
- NJ comp fraud case: lawyers settle out, workers nailed
- New low for Jack Thompson?
- Quote of the day
- Fighting fire with fire
- Ready, aim, fire… get sued
- Doctors’ first-person accounts of litigation
- A letter to RIAA
- Disbarred, but not gone
- “Why is it okay if a dog does it?”
- EEOC launches hiring crackdown
- Arizona to Zillow.com: stop estimating homes’ value
- John O’Quinn update
- A week in the life of Jarek Molski
- Officiously to keep alive
- Giuliani and the gun litigation
- Update: Mysterious Wal-Mart suit
- Duke recriminations
- My bad
- Implausible claims in Texas
- Abusive scare letters: JL Kirk & Associates
- Sued if you do, sued if you don’t.
- “Where there’s blame, there’s a claim”
- Playing “Redneck Woman” on the jukebox…
- Mark A. McLeod v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center briefing
- Players 3, Nifong 0
- What do John Edward and John Edwards have in common?
- What a patroon
- Guess what it isn’t about?
- April 11 roundup
- His reputation to protect
- Kindergarten cop
- “Obama Makes Inroads Into Edwards’ Trial Lawyer Base”
- Trial lawyer (this time R) for President?
- Roundup – April 9
- “I wring out every single dollar”
- Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can make me rich
- Judge: Clients have no right to learn how much their lawyer got
- April 8 roundup
- KCET on Prop 65 abuse
- Walks like a contingency, quacks like a contingency
- More on infant mortality stats
- Supreme Court to review disabled-ed case
- “Dad sues over car damaged in chase”
- Ontario lottery scandal
- “Twelve Angry Men”
- Kentucky fen-phen court: “Chesley was paid more than he should have been”
- To the Moon, Alice
- Deep pocket files: Newark police chase
- Jackpot?
- Age before wisdom
- Roundup
- “Fen-Phen Zen”
- April 4 roundup
- “I don’t think that’s his fault; I think it’s the system.”
- Breathalyzers-for-everyone, again
- Look around, there’s negligence everywhere
- Credit where credit is due
- April 2 roundup
- “Send settlement offer form letter. Pray”
- “NYPD’s fault my cop wife shot me”
- “Homeless men win $45,000 in suit over sleeping near feces”
- That’ll teach her
- Doing serious time for undersize lobsters
- Orwell rights-holder vs. down-with-Hillary ad
- Update: Minor, co-defendants guilty on all charges
- “She looked at me and then asked if there was anyone I could sue”
- Piercing the veil
- Furor over imams’ John Doe suit
- More fen-phen fun
- Suit: biometric scanners are religious discrimination
- Turnitin suit
- “Searching for a snowman in a blizzard”
- The Class Action Fairness Act Two Years Later
- Even in Hong Kong
- Quitting while you’re behind
- More powerful than a locomotive. Less powerful than a lawyer?
- Update: Takedown ping-pong
- “I’m Billing Time”
- Update: Brockovich Beverly Hills case
- “It’s ‘my policy to follow the ethical rules’”
- Pacific Research Institute: Cost of American jackpot justice: $865 billion
- If you want to get out of jury duty
- California Good Samaritan out of luck
- “One to call the electrician, one to mix the martinis”
- Still more on Montgomery Blair Sibley
- Six months ago on Overlawyered…
- March 26 roundup
- Welcome Dallas Morning News readers
- Keep the public informed, get sued
- Give me a break. Or not.
- NY Times on Ky. fen-phen scandal
- “Lawyer in $315 million lottery lawsuits ordered to pay fine”
- Navy sued again over whale-riling sonar
- Request day
- $11.7 M verdict against bystander doctor
- Bitten by sister’s cat
- Ninth Circuit defends ADA filing mill, resuscitates Molski suit
- Coke Zero “lawsuit”
- Like rain on your wedding day
- One Big Happy Family
- There’s no such thing as cheap litigation
- Government rules raising litigation costs
- March 23 roundup
- David Nieporent staying on
- Update: “Morgan Stanley-Perelman Judgment Flipped”
- UK: Teen-B-Gone noise device a human rights violation?
- “FBI Probing Edwards Senate Campaign Donor”
- Flying-imams case: sued passengers may get help
- Devil is in the details
- No such thing as bad publicity?
- Cathy Seipp
- “It’s out of a John Grisham novel”
- Protest a group home, get investigated for housing bias
- Annals of incivility
- Mraz v. Chrysler: an exchange with the plaintiffs’ attorneys
- Bong hits 4 shakedown?
- Individual gun rights
- That syllable is trademarked? D’oh!
- Welcome Chicago Tribune readers
- Palfrey and Sibley update
- YouTube users at legal risk?
- UK: Thousands face pay slashes under comparable worth
- March 19 roundup
- Conrad Black trial
- “Litigation is coercive”
- Frivolous suits and inadequate sanctions, redux
- “I’ll sue ya”
- Grand jury looking at Ky. fen-phen scandal
- Update: Neuborne fee fracas
- “Sperm donor kids win estate”
- New York Times loves Dickie Scruggs
- Update: Some people got it and make it pay…
- Worst new idea of the day
- Great moments in public employee tenure
- “I want my doctor to use defensive medicine”
- Stores for selling banned products
- Paul Minor retrial, cont’d
- Imams sue USAir
- Spreading the joy of American discovery
- To protect, serve, and litigate
- She gets an A+ in Litigation
- “That’s why docs have insurance…It won’t hurt him at all”
- Selling an item on eBay…
- Another Brockovich Medicare suit dismissed
- Hedge fund regulation sought
- The Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and… ATLA?
- “The Henry Ford of Evictions”
- Don’t let the lawyers bite
- Suing everyone on the masthead
- March 14 roundup
- The artificiality of the jury
- Montana verdict against Gibson Dunn upheld
- Scheduled to be on CNN
- Navarro case settles
- “Business has not trounced the trial lawyers”
- March 13 roundup
- Profitable angles in harlotry law, cont’d
- By reader acclaim: “Woman holds door open for man at Pizza Hut…”
- Fieger files: $30M medical malpractice verdict tossed in South Carolina
- California wants to be your parent
- Chutzpah, railroad edition
- Depends on what the meaning of justice is
- “Injured? Never bring a knife to a gunfight”
- Microsoft’s privacy measures didn’t foil FBI
- “A Generation of Lawyers who haven’t tried cases”
- Ken Sah, spelling bee father
- A Bronx tale?
- Lawsuits against restaurant critics
- Drinking and eating can kill a friendship
- It’s not about the money
- For intended use only?
- I can’t believe it’s not (legal) butter
- Mississippi bribery retrial: service with a smile
- U.K. roundup
- The Richard Mraz case: $55M in Los Angeles Dodge Dakota trial
- Obama finally pays his traffic tickets
- March 8 roundup
- Warning: “Contains nuts”
- “You got your lawsuit in my peanut butter.” “You got your peanut butter in my lawsuit.”
- “Wrongful birth” in Boston
- “Scruggs offered immunity in bribery trial”
- Cocktail napkin not to be used for navigation
- How much is that doggie in the window?
- $2.50 for a dozen; $3,000,000 for a half dozen
- “It might be DWI”
- “I’ll hunt down whoever hurt you, and settle the score”
- Want to be on my jury? Let’s see your handwriting
- “Teens prosecuted for racy photos”
- Coca-Cola promotion tweaks client-chasers
- Inadequate sanctions
- March 6 roundup
- “Jury rules for girl in bike-skate crash”
- Bad ideas roundup
- Lingering on
- March 5 roundup
- “In our system, money equals justice”
- Says Yahoo used her picture in ad, wants $20M
- Inline skater-bicyclist collision
- Taxpayers still responsible for terrorist attack
- Extreme Makeover, Legal Edition
- But still no rat disclosure requirements?
- Defensive banking
- Update: Cincinnati foster care case
- “Back to basics, Dr. Frieden”
- RIAA letter to college students
- Remember, “Judges are like umpires”
- Chuck Colson on Miller-Jenkins
- Duke lacrosse update
- Excessive force lawsuit
- Reading is fundamental
- No more overbearing bosses — by law?
- Ralph de Toledano, Nader victim
- Objection
- “Card check” unionization
- That’s so — er, stupid.
- Search engines are not common carriers
- John Stossel on vaccine scares
- Pay-for-play, the Gotham way?
- Prince Charles v. McDonald’s
- Will David be shamed?
- More police liability lawsuits
- Trial lawyer’s macaca moment?
- They asked for it, they got it
- You can’t be too careful
- Immunity – up to a point
- Update: $875K award to ejected slots player
- Blogs not liable for their commenters
- Experian class action settlement
- The Great Escape
- Federalist Society “Law and Morality” conference
- February 27 roundup
- Billion dollar cleanup
- Nineteenth time’s the charm
- “You know, doc. It’s just business”
- “Philly Inquirer sued over three-sentence restaurant review”
- Home sweet Astroturf
- February 26 roundup
- Thanks for listening…
- Mississippi judicial bribery retrial
- Stage fright
- Rights for (some) stranded travelers
- Microsoft told to pay $1.5 billion over music patents
- Spank-ban solon will try for half a loaf
- A question of hubris: what’s our traffic?
- Rex Carr med-mal case fails
- Client intake dressed up as consumer info, cont’d
- Common Cause, Colorado, and unintended consequences
- A “fixture” in Gotham courthouses
- Lerach Coughlin partner faces D.C. ethics charges
- Disposition of Anna Nicole Smith remains
- ConsumerAffairs.com
- Charlie Weis mistrial
- February 22 roundup
- Wilkes & McHugh sued over alleged Tenn. fee grab
- “My first DMCA takedown”
- Why Philip Morris wants tobacco regulated
- “Will Sue For Food”, cont’d
- Radio appearances
- Class action settlement: credit ratings in insurance
- Jury blames hit-run death on wheelchair curb cut
- Major SCOTUS punitive damages ruling
- “Thinking up new ways to get you 100 percent or more!”
- February 20 roundup
- Nancy Grace (& lawprofs) on the Duke case
- Social life of a blawger
- Willkommen Neue Zürcher Zeitung readers
- Treating the morbidly obese (redux)
- Ordering cheesesteaks in English, cont’d
- Update: Pacenza v. IBM–Lawsuit alleges Internet sex chat addiction is entitled to ADA protection
- Update: Streaming-media patent troll goes respectable?
- Update: Mich. domestic partner benefits
- Update: C$341K trauma from seeing bottled fly
- Waxman Blackwater hearing, cont’d
- State Farm withdraws from Mississippi
- What Lincoln said
- Cathy Young on the Marcotte affair
- “Plavix, lawyers and externalities”
- Moral: don’t treat the morbidly obese
- February 15 roundup
- Waxman hearing = weapon in litigation?
- Wild parrots of Telegraph Hill
- Prison rape
- “Dangerous When in Power”
- Calif. proposal to ban spanking, cont’d
- Kentucky fen-phen scandal, cont’d
- “Symbolic immolations”
- The Cesar Borja case gets more complicated
- Calif. lawmaker’s less-than-incandescent idea
- “Bill would fine parents who skip school conferences”
- Who’s riding that snowplow?
- Update: Marcotte quits Edwards campaign post
- “When the courts gag parents”
- February 12 roundup
- Ladies’ Nights bans and other civil rights crusades
- Update: disabled-access impresario Ted Omholt
- Wikiality and the media
- Northern Ireland: jury awards £25K for bad restaurant review
- “Lawyers Look Beyond Edwards”
- February 9 roundup
- McDonald’s parking lot shooting
- Twins, 10, contest expulsion from university
- Blue-ribbon excuses: crematory abuse blamed on mercury
- Edwards to keep bloggers
- February 8 Roundup
- N.Y. solon: let’s ban phones, audio in crosswalks
- Genarlow Wilson, Inmate #1187055
- European speechcrime, cont’d
- Marcotte’s regrets
- U.S. capital market regulation: a view from “Red Ken”
- “France cartoons lawsuit to begin”
- Jack Thompson faces possible disbarment
- “Cease and desist” say the psychic’s lawyers
- Update: Indictments in Roberts sex/extortion case still pending
- Giuliani’s Achilles’ Heel?
- “Hand you their severed heads” — the video
- “Let kids sue parents”
- New Times column — warning labels everywhere
- February 5 Roundup
- Slow typist sues law school, cont’d
- UK “compensation culture” debate
- Marcotte encore
- Litigious Princetonians
- Infant mortality statistics
- More Super Bowl litigation threat coverage
- Blame the messenger: Overstock’s $3.5 billion suit
- Meet John Edwards’s new blogger-in-chief
- Overzealous Trademark Enforcement Files: National Pork Board
- Notable quote
- Terms of service
- “Plaintiff strikes out in lawsuit over Angels bag giveaway”
- UK: gay inns protest anti-bias law
- Chew out your lawyers, get sued for defamation
- “These men are remarkably sophisticated consumers of legal talent”
- February 1 roundup
- A pleasant change of pace from “cease and desist”
- The Big Game
- Millenia Black complaint and response
- Enviro suits sap wilderness upkeep budgets
- Milberg Weiss Nortel fee award
- “100+ All-American Ideas: Stay Out of Court”
- Short ‘em, then sue ‘em II
- “Net neutrality”
- January 29 roundup
- For their own good dept.
- “Everyone’s a Lawyer”
- “Telecommuters Are Reaching Out to Sue Their Employers”
- Penguin “black interest” lawsuit, cont’d
- Not about the money files: Steve Yerrid’s shallow forgiveness
- Slow typist sues law school
- “Homicide conspiracy” indictments in Tennessee
- “Not about the money” files: Dickie Scruggs edition
- Lowering fees — and infuriating colleagues?
- January 26 roundup
- Privacy and trial lawyers
- Non-work-related, says the ACLU
- Tradeable permits for sinful foods?
- Lawyer for families: MySpace “no different” from day-care center
- Kiki, the cheerleader
- Lawyer: guess maybe we burned that fee documentation
- Author: Penguin tagged my book as “black interest”
- January 24 roundup
- Litigation double standards
- Litigious Unabomber
- Cop who snatched body part wins reinstatement
- January 23 roundup
- Kids’ ice slides
- “Candid Camera”
- January 22 roundup
- January 21 roundup
- Extra time on exams, cont’d
- January 20 roundup
- “Prof. defends right to send feces”
- Deep Pockets Files: More Myspace suits
- January 19 roundup
- Rapper asks $900 million for Canadian border hassles
- A reminder
- Ct.: timed test for fire captain violates ADA
- New Orleans king cake, and the French kind
- Best of 2006: December
- Damned if you do files: $400k for “profiling”
- Ford wins rollover case in Barstow
- The parable of the exploding washing machine
- January 17 roundup
- Affluence and Accidents and Ad Hominems
- Title IX and cheerleading
- Fatal draught of water
- Worst judges, cont’d
- January 14 roundup
- January 13 roundup
- John Edwards on wacky warnings
- Lott v. Levitt, Part VIII, and Karla Knafel v. Chicago Sun-Times
- Panic! Broken thermometer!
- Should retired judges practice law?
- Duke rape accuser changes story again
- OT: Abigail Alliance v. von Eschenbach
- Volokh just wants an aspirin
- More on privacy-protecting lawyers
- January 11 roundup
- Yanking RIAA’s chain
- Accept no imitations
- “Cisco Sues Apple Over Use of iPhone Name”
- Rollover Economics II
- Lerach’s slippery affidavit
- Patent troll, meet Rule 11
- Reader feedback
- Miers nomination
- Clients who care about the color of their attorneys II
- Skinny models with lawyers
- $5M asked after cop chase leads to fiery crash
- Joe Jamail deposition video
- January 9 roundup
- Why wacky warnings matter
- Fight over daughter’s surname lasts 2 1/2 years
- Wants $1.5M for cops’ seizure of 114 frozen cats
- January 7 roundup
- And speaking of health courts
- Privacy laws and James Kim
- “Election Dejection”
- AP on Wacky Warnings
- T-shirt battle before Seventh Circuit
- The Founders and civil justice reform
- Alabama: a case of ethically failing upward?
- Sen. Edwards’ record (and some kind words)
- “Rollover Economics: Arbitrary and Capricious Product Liability Regimes”
- An over-diagnosis epidemic?
- Wacky Warnings 2007 on Today Show
- January 4 roundup
- Type I errors and Type II errors
- Best of 2006: November
- New York Daily News nastygram
- Ten-best lists
- His “day in court”, eleven years’ worth
- By reader acclaim: “Injured man wins damages for sex overdrive”
- “Best Blawg Theme”
- Thanks to guestbloggers
- Five more for the road
- Rambus, Antitrust & the Common Law
- FTC snares doctors in price fixing trap
- Update: Fountain Diet Coke class action
- Best of 2006: October
- Best of 2006: September
- Gross v. Industrial Commission of Ohio
- Best of 2006: August
- Best of 2006: July
- Hussein executed
- U.S. v. Stolt-Nielsen: Unenforceable Contracts
- Chicago foie gras update: “I’ll have the special lobster”
- Sarokin defends Kreimer decision
- Deep Pockets File: 19-year-old dies moshing, family sues homeowner
- Best of 2006: June
- State Bar Files Charges Against Prosecutor in Duke Rape Case
- Best of 2006: May
- Best of 2006: April
- More on the Exxon Valdez punitive damages story
- Best of 2006: March
- Best of 2006: February
- Best of 2006: January
- Airport Parking, Antitrust & Eminent Domain
- Big Client: I’m Firing My Firm Because It Has Too Many Black Partners
- Cost-benefit analysis? What’s that?
- The Duke rape case unravels
- Plaintiffs’ counsel in Exxon Valdez case will try to survive on share of lowered verdict
- Antitrust regulators tout destruction of capital
- California’s Prop 65: Protecting Us From the Evils of Cooked Chicken
- More Guestblogging
- Post-Christmas Guestblogging
- UK patient: doc hurt my feelings by telling me to quit smoking
- My own thoughts on Tyler v. Carter
- Thank You and Good Night
- Chapman v. Ford Motor Co.: McMath speaks
- As Seen on TV: Why Americans Hate, and Yet Love and Trust, Those Pesky Lawyers
- Lawsuit: I should be allowed to anoint cubicles with olive oil
- GAO Report: “Science, Business, Regulatory and Intellectual Property Issues Cited as Hampering Drug Development Efforts”
- Lerach v. Wall Street Journal
- The ADA in literature
- Los Angeles: Where Even the Prosecutors Are in Show Biz
- Nintendo Wii wrist strap class action
- “Blaming cars in California”
- Teri Smith Tyler v. Carter, pro se
- Oh, Snap! The Cold Claws of Justice Close on Fraudulent Work Comp Claimant
- “Martha Stewart’s Legal Troubles”
- “So, Probably I’ll Sue Her, Because It Would Be Fun”
- Send your friends a lawsuit-safe season’s greetings
- Duke lacrosse prosecution scandal
- Letter to the editor, WSJ
- December 20 roundup
- Oklahoma Supreme Court Eliminates “Affidavit of Merit” Requirement in Med Mal Cases
- Update: Sudden acceleration: litigation springs eternal
- Update: Which is Most Discriminatory Against Blind Consumers?
- Injured Saint Sues Titans Over Raccoon Mascot Golf Cart Accident
- Juicy Legal Fallout from Cancellation of O.J. Simpson’s Book Deal
- Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself
- Chilling effects
- Deep Pocket Files: Jason Lapp and Andrew Brzyski
- Litigious Numismatists Launch First Strike on “First Strikes”
- Florida Supreme Court: Forum Shoppers Need Not Fly South for the Winter
- Newspaper owner: remove that window sign or else
- Bountiful bankruptcies: Collins & Aikman
- Because we all love wacky pro se suits: Ward v. Arm & Hammer
- New guestbloggers on deck
- Sellers “sabotaging themselves” with “evil lawyers”
- “iPhone” iPWNed?
- Spanking update
- $5.5 million mammography verdict
- “Our easy lawsuit funding process!”
- “Unlike love…”
- Update: paper money design unfair to blind
- “Judge orders Illinois to pay up”
- Web “addiction”, cont’d
- December 15 roundup
- What does Warren Buffett’s MedPro say about caps?
- The Kafkie Awards
- Nanny-state watch: warning labels on larger-size clothes?
- Annals of Pennsylvania libel law
- Sexual harassment — by a 4-year-old
- December 14 roundup
- Seattle airport Christmas tree suit
- UK: “Cathedral puts out the flames of Christingle”
- Potter v. Ford Motor
- More on the $500/car figure
- Judicial Hellholes 2006
- SUV suits follow-up
- Atkins diet suit dismissed
- Judges reject Shinnecock, Paugussett land claims
- The always-reliable New York Times on tobacco
- Jesse Branham v. Ford: bad mom hurts kid, Ford blamed to tune of $31M
- “Criminal law comes home”
- “Odometer Settlement May Earn Class Lawyers $9.5 Million in Fees”
- “The ugliest suits…”
- Crazed samurai killer wins only $1 in police brutality case
- Daniel Edelman vs. subprime lenders
- Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, New York landlord-tenant edition
- The war on trans fats
- Lavely & Singer nastygrams
- ADA: Colleges bend to accommodation demands
- Non-economic damages for animals (again)
- UK: Great moments in citizenship law
- December 8 roundup
- Killer’s mom sues high school
- Better hector that patient, doc, or else
- ADA: “The New Crips”
- Congress vs. open trade
- “One Case To Kill Them All”, R.I.P.
- Academic freedom update: Loftus suit argued before California Supreme Court
- Warning Label Generator
- “Is caffeine addictive? A review of the literature”
- ADA week: Dark v. Curry County
- Imams: we want to “hit [US Airways] where it hurts, the pocketbook”
- By reader acclaim: guacamole labeling suit
- “$102,009.17 buys an awful lot of pants”
- Social hosts and mistletoe II
- Social hosts and mistletoe
- Disabled rights: the separatist fringe
- Repeal Day
- ADA: sidewalks still not clear
- Judge to Lerach: pay defendant’s fees
- Site housekeeping: feeds in, newsletter out
- “Calculating damages: a formula for outrage”
- Guestbloggers welcome
- ADA week at Overlawyered
- Steve Chapman on breast implants
- Update: Saudis vow to sue tobacco companies
- Hate crime laws
- Tree hazards, cont’d
- December 2 roundup
- James Lileks on copyright law
- “What does it say about a society when tag is considered a high-risk activity?”
- On “Hypocrisy” Accusations III
- New Times column — “US capital markets must learn from London”
- More drive-by disability suits
- Ob-gyns become cosmetic surgeons
- Updates
- Lighter manufacturers ask for more CPSC regulation
- False accusations of “hypocrisy” II
- Welcome radio listeners
- Survey of blog readers
- The concealed-carry bogeyman
- Update: Barney parody needn’t come down
- Back at the blogstand
- “Kansas outlaws practice of evolution”
- November 29 roundup
- “Don’t let Walter Olson have the say on this subject!”
- “I work for a lawyer”
- Further update: Va.-Vt. lesbian custody battle
- “Judge rules paper money unfair to blind”
- A thought on “hypocrisy” accusations
- Tarheel heartbalm, cont’d
- “Jay-Z versus the Sample Troll”
- November 27 roundup
- Woman hits truck, sues truck-trailer manufacturer, wins millions
- Learning to accept coconuts
- James Bond and currency controls
- Matrimonial data mining
- Oz: but where are the clients’ bonuses?
- Hey, look, I’m suing Cisco Systems
- Update: cosmetics class action settlement
- Welcome O’Reilly Radio Factor listeners
- November 22 roundup
- Judge agrees with exec: the Paxil made me do it
- Dog food suit update
- Taser as cause of death
- Chuck E. Cheese gnat swarm
- Nancy Grace sued for guest’s suicide
- November 21 roundup
- UK: 43-year legacy battle empties estate
- “Charles Rangel Thinks He Owns You”
- When a judge sues for defamation, cont’d
- Welcome Brad Messer listeners
- “FDA ends ban on silicone breast implants”
- Boston mayor: Sony should pay for PlayStation 3 riots
- Yet another Borat suit
- A constitutional right to drink?
- November 19 roundup
- Verizon Wireless class action settlement
- Great moments in food labeling law
- Update: Great 1998 Tobacco Robbery
- Update: “Brockovich’s Medicare-billing lawsuits tossed”
- Arrested Egyptian blogger
- In his debt
- Gas-dealer bonanza: middlemen unlawfully skimming the pot?
- The Alamo — and its orange stripe
- “In California Your Unlicensed Contractor May Really Be Your ‘Employee’”
- Activists sue demanding N.Y. foie gras ban
- Smoke in Belmont, Calif.? Only in single-family detached houses
- Update: Taster’s Choice guy suit
- Sid Schwab (SurgeonsBlog) on getting sued
- Wrongful birth reaches Germany
- Condo developers sued
- A greener shade of envy?
- “Dear FTC: please adopt tougher regulations…”
- November 14 roundup
- Will the Democrats spoil trade?
- Letter from a new father
- UK: “Payout for inmates forced off heroin”
- Is liability reform a winning political issue?
- Punting the medical-malpractice problem
- More consumer protection that hurts consumers
- Australia: Ed dept. lawyer to teachers – don’t criticize students
- Warning: do not apply directly to forehead
- November 12 roundup
- UK free speech, cont’d
- Taxpayer bill for dog food meal: $2.7 million
- Update: “Gentle Wind drops lawsuit against couple”
- “Shameful, discouraging, tragic”
- Disputed $30,000 legal fee
- Oops — we sued our own viral marketers
- Breaking: Obnoxious Chi Psi frat boys sue Borat
- “The autism clause”
- Cops sue over pot-sprinkled burgers
- “The US election: how did the lawyers fare?”
- Poll: 85% of voters support litigation reform
- CAN-SPAM Act
- Election observation
- November 8 roundup
- Following the election results
- November 7 roundup
- No on state marriage amendments
- GOP’s online-gambling ban
- Nifong faces Durham voters
- Not your usual AG candidate
- UK: Publishing grifter’s photo = violating her human rights?
- Lowbrow liquor labels
- November 6 roundup
- Better not cross this developer
- Update: verdict against hip-hop magazine
- Andrew Sullivan, “The Conservative Soul”
- “Next to go: duck-duck-goose”
- Update: Calif. ADA lawyer suspended
- November 3 roundup
- “Citing stress, cop sues man whose life he saved”
- Teenager accused of possessing painkillers…
- Just to see if they were paying attention
- YouTube.com sued by UTube.com
- “City of nannies”
- Two more hot coffee lawsuit data points
- Snap a picture, break a contract?
- Casualties of Title IX
- Kudos to Judge James T. Warren
- Mick Jagger’s sore throat
- Cheaters’ delight
- Demand to FTC: ban Zillow.com valuations
- “Five propositions on the election”
- October 31 roundup
- Indian-remains law: son of Kennewick Man?
- Trespass atop rail car, win $24 million
- Tomorrow at Point of Law: election roundtable
- October 30 roundup
- Jack Thompson: don’t you dare let gamers base characters on me
- Washington Redskins nickname deemed offensive
- “Danish court rejects cartoons lawsuit”
- “Follow the Money”
- Latest hot coffee lawsuit data points
- “This article is copyright protected. Fair Use is not applicable.”
- Cigarette prohibition
- October 27 roundup
- Jail4Judges: South Dakota Amendment E
- Web accessibility suits: AP weighs in
- Honorable mention: attorney Curtis Kennedy
- Punitive damages and the Supreme Court
- Hip-hop mag told to pay fired editor $15 million
- Another flasher’s-remorse case loses
- School discipline, by the numbers
- What liberal media? Part 758
- Mysterious awards dept.
- Update: appeals court tosses $18M Gannett verdict
- October 24 roundup
- Vegemite ban may be urban legend
- Update: Giving the state a share of punitives
- EEOC challenges Exxon’s pilot age limit
- Role of the judiciary: overseeing the girls’ basketball team
- “We’re Google. So Sue Us”
- “Consent”
- Law firm extracts $200 million in class action
- Latest Nanny State ban: Vegemite
- Patenting tax avoidance strategies
- U.K.: “Force muzzles dogs to protect suspects from bite injuries”
- Jack Thompson, officer of the court
- See someone smoking? Call 911
- Overtime-suit spam
- Online gambling ban, cont’d
- No charges against Fields in Pellicano case?
- “Mom tells of daughter’s ‘rape’ scheme”
- “EU to regulate video blogs?”
- Dr. Lawrence M. Poliner v. Presbyterian Hospital update
- “Trial Lawyers Inc. — Illinois”
- New Times column — age-bias law
- Tag, you’re out
- Come to Brooklyn, the suing’s fine
- When schools fall short
- Trespassers and skylights, UK edition
- “The Sleeping Pill Ate My Homework”
- Inviting conservative author = hostile environment?
- Truth in Video Game Rating Act
- October 17 round-up
- Police sued after man in 15-hour standoff kills self
- Great moments in predatory lending law
- “Legal Pad”: new Roger Parloff blog
- Postal worker’s discourtesy didn’t cause $250K injury
- WHYY Philadelphia, “Radio Times”
- Cruise ship should have stocked opiate-antagonist meds
- Criticizing a land developer
- “Bully” update
- October 16 round-up
- Election watch: Sue Bell Cobb in Alabama
- “Crook”, “con artist”, “fraud”
- “The End Result of a Lawsuit”
- Update: “Bully” gets bullied
- Why there aren’t DVDs of some of your favorite old TV series
- Birthday cards actionable?
- Novel idea: don’t sue without actual harm
- Election watch: Shame on the Texas GOP
- “60 Minutes” to cover Duke lacrosse case
- Online gambling ban
- Yale Political Union debate
- New malpractice-suit tactic: wearing a wire
- 9th Circuit: UPS must hire deaf drivers
- Runaway bride wants $500K
- Very big breaking news: UK libel laws narrowed
- Election watch: “Lawyer’s $1 million keeps Bell in game”
- “Abducted by aliens? Call now for compensation”
- Google and YouTube
- NY Times and the Duke lacrosse case, cont’d
- Unintended consequences of on-line gambling ban
- October 10 round-up
- “Anthrax and Lawyers”
- Check it out: new ShopThisBlog.com bookstore
- UK: False rape accusations
- Senate spotlight: Chafee-Whitehouse (R.I.)
- $217M stroke verdict on the radio
- Florida reform in trouble?: Jeff Kottkamp
- “Illegal immigrants sue Wendy’s”
- Update: Blaming banks for terrorist attacks
- More on the Allan Navarro $217M verdict
- Jackpot justice: $20M for $25,000 insurance claim
- Oz: Government will appeal aboriginal land win
- Salonquest scare letter: photos of our products violate our copyright
- Jackpot justice: $217M for misdiagnosed stroke in Florida
- Grandparent rights? “Court fights hurt children”
- Lockyer flayed on autos-’n’-global-warming suit
- Coffee shop owner sues Starbucks
- Neuborne fee fracas, cont’d
- Round-up
- Update: “11th Circuit Upholds Dismissal of McDonald’s From Strip-Search Suit”
- Heads I win, tails don’t count files: Ohio HMO suit
- “The struggle to defend free expression is defining our age”
- Tenure for auto dealers
- Canada: deported Russian spy sues for readmittance
- Terminating bad teachers
- New at Point of Law: foiling dishonest lawyers
- Web-accessibility suits, revived
- Sued over blog posts
- Stage-mom animal owners sue trainer
- ‘Tis better to have loft and lost…
- Oz: “Law firm’s brawl over $1m bonus”
- Lying with statistics: Public Citizen edition
- Picking a jury
- “BlackBerry addiction”: the hype continues
- Update: Judge reduces FedEx harassment award
- YouTube: “They are going to be toasted”
- George Will on Carlson-Wilbur case
- Judicial elections and the New York Times
- Update: Peach family lawsuits
- “Aren’t exactly melting any panties”
- Guesting at Above the Law
- NAACP suit: unlawful for clinic to close on Jewish Sabbath
- Court: DeLuise can sue lawyer over lawsuit
- Lawyer-ad Hall of Fame: DivorceEZ.com
- Posting podcasts? Apple’s lawyers are on line 1
- Call a chiropractor’s 1-800 accident hotline…
- UK: Fugitive spy entitled to damages from gov’t
- Weird Al Yankovic, “I’ll Sue Ya”
- Appearances: NPR, ABC “World News Tonight”
- NYC plans to ban trans fats
- Great moments in parking enforcement
- Obesity, disabled rights and the EEOC
- Medical tourism
- Cincinnati foster care case, cont’d
- Jim Blasingame, “The Small Business Advocate”
- Oprah: “My lawyers overreacted”
- “Suit Blames Video Game for N.M. Slayings”
- Bacardi responds to flaming-drinks suit
- Paul Harris show, KMOX
- The burglar and the skylight: another debunking that isn’t
- U.K. schools fear liability surge
- Oprah for President? Cease and desist
- Deep pocket files: Plaintiff: McDonald’s should’ve warned me and my boss not to be gullible
- Government paternalism
- Minn. court: traffic-cam ticketing unlawful
- Calif. AG sues automakers for global warming
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali in America
- Wal-Mart sued for CDs’ naughty words
- Pelman v. McDonald’s going forward
- Pro se suits: don’t blame lawyers, right?
- More on “unfair failure to publicize” suit
- Rock climbing disclaimer, cont’d
- “Aborigines given ownership of Perth by judge”
- U.K.: “Hair salons offered a cut of solicitors’ fees”
- Defamation suits for the deceased
- Deaf sue to force closed-captioning of Redskin football
- British hot coffee: Bogle v. McDonald’s
- No trackbacks
- Strictly personal
- “Death after two-hour ER wait ruled homicide”
- Thumbs down on Va. marriage amendment
- Chant and wave placards? Not without insurance you don’t
- “10 wacky airline lawsuits”
- The next class-action defendant?
- Sexist beer ads
- Comair: “Second autopsies possible”
- Gun rights, in many languages
- WBAL “Ron Smith show”
- New Times column — BlackBerry suits?
- Efficiency and safety
- Upwardly mobile GOP trial lawyers, cont’d
- Jailed for 11 years — so far — in divorce
- Claim: toupee dispute caused heart attack
- Patent trolls and Paul Allen
- Justinian Lane: reform supporter?
- One year for mouse-in-soup scam
- Sacked for on-air threats, radio host wants $10M
- “We’ll getcha & mangle ya”
- “This focus of evil in the modern world”
- Ivied halls, defended by lawyer phalanxes
- Update: “Entrepreneur” trademark fight
- “Shorts’ nemesis dumped a client’s shares”
- Election focus: Trial lawyers target Heather Wilson (R-NM)
- Another Grand Theft Auto lawsuit
- More on Nelson Rocks Preserve disclaimer
- MedPundit back blogging
- Caesarean sections: ooooops…
- Lawsuit claim: legal right to more publicity
- “A whole rock formation might collapse on you and squash you like a bug”
- The war over “W”
- New Point of Law featured discussion
- Oz: “Opera fan’s gift bitten by legal bills”
- Demand: $114 million for cancelled Starbucks coupon
- Five years on
- Latest “nicotine-spiking” panic
- Neglect your kid now, sue for $5 M later
- Junk fax law trips up lawyer
- Airline sued over singer’s performance
- “Strippers fight for back pay”
- Update: anti-milk suit dismissed
- Think different—think litigious
- BlackBerry “addiction”
- “If my client hadn’t been blind he wouldn’t have been arrested for dangerous driving”
- “As so often, aggressive IP lawyers trumped smart business strategy”
- $2 million 9/11 fee under fire
- Second British gambling CEO detained
- Jumps off pier on Ecstasy; dad wants $10M
- Do new studies portend litigation rationality on vaccines?
- Think Tank Town
- But where are the customers’ Lamborghinis?
- Speak freely, until Friday
- A dose of reality
- Violence toward Barney, cont’d
- Bloomberg’s gun lawsuits
- Great moments in diversity training
- CNBC “Morning Call” today
- ACS Panel on Habeas
- “Juror took loans from plaintiff in Texas Vioxx case”
- Billing fraud at a major law firm?
- U.K.: “Inmate sues for falling from bunk”
- Eating their own: Fred Baron v. Baron & Budd
- “Ben, take off your clown suit for a minute”
- McDonald’s coffee lawsuit and 1Ls
- “Helping Christians who’ve been injured”
- Oops
- Chutzpah files: Madison County judge-shopping
- Suit: plaintiff was too stupid to be admitted into law school
- Motley Rice and its 9/11 cases
- American Hunters and Shooters Association
- Dissent on global warming? See ya in court
- Second Circuit nixes teacher-competence test
- From the comments: a chill on safety discussions
- New Times column — Katrina verdict
- New David Lat blog
- Fact-checking the mainstream media (lawsuit division)
- Duke rape claim: the Times’s sorry showing
- “What should be taught in Torts?”
- “Trial lawyers target Republicans”
- Busy Lizzies in a hanging pot
- And I think something else happened that day
- Damned if you do, damned if you don’t files: Putnam Hospital
- Chutzpah files: John Mark Karr and Seth Temin
- “A Taxonomy of Obesity Litigation”
- ATLA, AAJ and the inky cuttlefish
- ADA filing mills: get those facts straight!
- “Katrina rescuer is sued by boat owner”
- Talk show subpoenaed in Boston mosque suit
- Veterinary malpractice, cont’d
- Update: Vt.-Va. lesbian custody battle
- Gayle Porter and Blackberries
- More files revealed in Duke rape case
- “While Insurance Companies Targeted, Taxpayers Soaked”
- Kentucky fen-phen lawyers suspended
- UK: saving bagpipers from themselves, cont’d
- Milk of RIAA’s kindness; “spamigation”
- Virtual property, real lawsuits?
- World Cup nastygrams, cont’d
- You’ll never give testimony in this town again
- “Save a Cocktail Napkin, Win a Lawsuit”
- Blawg Review #71
- Oz: logic of “religious vilification” laws
- “Man mauled by pet tiger fails in bid to sue rescuers”
- Driving while loaded
- “Woodpecker mapping gets chain saws buzzing”
- “Dancer’s Suit Puts Corrupt Lawyers on Their Toes”
- “Camper sues government over stumble”
- Lott v. Levitt, Part VII
- Welcome Shane Warner listeners
- Fantasy sports lawsuit, cont’d
- “Lawsuit: Shopping Center Aided Attacking Squirrel”
- Oz: “Sex swap murderer granted leave to sue prison”
- “So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Night…”
- Knack For Concealment?
- What You’ve Been Missing
- Family buys cheap smoke detector; sues because it doesn’t work as well as expensive one
- Times Online weekly law emails
- Mother’s Day Stadium Promotion: What’s “Frivolous” About It?
- Update: Mother’s Day stadium promotion
- Paternalism and Your Money — Part Two
- More on the NSA opinion
- Paternalism and Your Money — Part One
- Big news day
- Bureaucracy vs. Katrina recovery
- Federal tobacco suit ruling
- “Lawn mower maker’s attorney attacks $2 million verdict”
- Foie gras foolery
- Warrantless Wiretapping Program Struck Down
- Jack Thompson, meta-Bully
- “Have You Tried Rebooting?”
- Ted on the Return(?) of the Coffee Tort
- “Untested Conspiracy Theory Seeks to Expand DUI Liability”
- “Legislating Discovery” Pop Quiz
- European Court Denies Proactive Request for “Food & Water” Order
- NJ court: No warning that one might fall out of loft bed required
- The Return of the Coffee Tort
- On Bloomberg’s “Beneficence”
- “The Lieberman Purge”
- Bloomberg’s anti-smoking philanthropy
- On “Malpractice Plaintiff” Databases
- “Teen Sues Mother for ID of Father”
- From “De Novo” to “Do Nothing”
- “Express Yourself” — But Not in Duesseldorf
- Circuit Court Upholds Worthless Subway Searches
- Indians Sue, Yet Again, to Ban “Redskins” Name
- Secular. Right of center. Got a problem with that?
- Guestblogger thanks, welcome, etc.
- Town Shuts Down “Nightcrawler Kid”
- “Pet Cemetery” Photo Lawsuit is a Real Horror Story
- Introducing Myself
- Overlawyered Chile edition
- De-villainizing Dr Pepper
- Cruel and Unusual Sex
- Summary Judgment Like a Good Wine
- Deep pocket files: Wal-Mart on $4.2 million hook for carjacking
- And I say “Mea culpa”
- When Shutting Up Is Essential to One’s Livelihood
- Court Compels Lunch
- A “‘disquieting’ attempt to name law firm partner as wife’s co-trustee”
- Kill a Judge, Sue a Lawyer
- More Lawyers Behaving Badly
- Joe Francis and Girls Gone Wild open thread
- “Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn’t Get Sued”
- Self-parody law firm employment case
- Walter Olson on Carruthers
- The Vioxx litigation scam
- Defense verdict in Mississippi lead paint case
- $18 million “sudden acceleration” verdict in South Carolina
- $9 million back injury verdict tossed in Indiana
- Pro-plaintiff liability reform
- Breaking: $105 million Aramark verdict reversed
- Gone for a while (but stay tuned)
- More summer reading: “A Nation of Wimps”
- Summer reading: “Lawsuits and Liberty”
- Lawsuit board game
- There oughta be a law!
- Trial lawyer “Wikiality”
- More on those Alltel ads
- Update: Michael Jordan lookalike drops suit
- Update: Diet-book author drops suit against Coke
- Junk-fax discussion
- Mich. high court reinstates Geoffrey Fieger reprimand
- Fantasy sports leagues? Shut ‘em down
- Duly noted
- Dead man suing
- Great moments in lawyer discipline
- “N.M. Legislators: Bar Owners Need ESP”
- London’s (and Belfast’s) libel-shoppers
- “While I know some lawyers who are happy, most aren’t.”
- Small claims collections
- “Rumpelstiltskin, LLP”
- Click here for fees: Google ad settlement
- “A Tree Falls in Connecticut”
- Calif. high court: Flatley can sue for extortion
- Healthier potato chip? Better ask customers first
- Congressman sued for breaking “Contract with America”
- AAJ… AAJ… AAJ… who?
- Sponsor a surf event? Too scary for ABA
- Church abuse: suing the laity?
- When obtaining medico-legal diagnoses…
- Oz: “Boarder in the spare room wins A$450,000″
- Combating the copyright cops
- “We’re going to sue everyone from A to Z”
- BetOnSports.com prosecution, cont’d
- Depositions, cont’d: “gratuitous cruelty”
- 151-proof rum is flammable, who knew?
- Joe Jamail depositions: coming soon to community theater?
- Employees charged with crimes
- Duke lacrosse affair: when faculty fan flames
- “Helmets could also detract from the surfing experience”
- “Those sybaritic patent attorneys”
- Suing over Israel-Lebanon war
- Humane Society vs. free speech
- Variety on Pellicano case
- “Case studies in divorce madness”
- Peacocks in the barnyard
- “Almost all leakers are lawyers. That’s the bottom line.”
- “Court rules: Mazel tough”
- Look for the union libel
- Jack Thompson, friend of the court?
- Great moments in auto regulation
- “Don’t lift front of chair while sitting in it”
- Update: Emotional-service dog on nude beach
- “Something which I would consider akin to child abuse”
- “Meet the original patent troll”
- I’m interviewed at Bloggasm.com
- “L.A.’s scariest lawyer”
- On the radio
- Althouse on YouTube lawsuit
- Update: rude doctor won’t be punished, plans suit
- Upset at photo, sues high school yearbook editors
- “Self-Described Drunkard Sues Strip Club That Sold Him Drinks”
- Changing planes in U.S.? II
- Changing planes in U.S.? “Travel with a lawyer”
- YouTube lawyer ads
- New London Times column: MySpace suit
- Update: Potemkin species in Sebastopol
- Update: damages in Ill. justice’s libel suit
- ATLA’s attack on reform supporters
- Update: “Victims and Families United”
- Update: municipal Crown Victoria suits
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- Latest newsletter
- Gibbon on lawyer-statesmen
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- “Do you know who I am?”
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- Update: San Diego poisoning
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- Gone for a while
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- Update: Mirfasihi II
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- “Meddlesome busybodies” of the CSPI
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- Squeezing John Torkelsen
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- Update: video store owner off hook
- Deep pocket files: 1st Security Self-Storage
- Scary Banzhaf
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- Lott v. Levitt V
- It’s only fair, the GOP had Enron
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- Welcome Reader’s Digest readers
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- Ho Lee smoke
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- UK: Holed-up perp had right to fried chicken
- Google rankings lawsuits
- Rock, paper, scissors
- Bounteous bankruptcies: Delta, Enron, cont’d
- Mediocre pizza: “Don’t be a victim”
- “Driver sues families of crash victims”
- Student’s death a mystery; family to sue college
- Lawyers’ ads, scaring patients
- “Plead guilty or go to trial?”
- Update: stadium beer-vending verdict
- Bunco burrito
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- “10 years in legal hell”
- “At least we should enforce the law”
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- O’Reilly radio today
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- Thanks to Don Boudreaux
- Update: Calif. shakedowns
- Computer game design overtime claims
- Update: Canadian residential schools litigation
- Sen. Clinton’s Untimely Proposal
- NYC anti-gun suits, cont’d
- Errant golf balls, cont’d
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- Open thread: design of this site
- A Free Market in Body Organs
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- Poland Spring fracas, cont’d
- This Man Should Quit Politics and Become an Entrepreneur
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- Bainbridge bon mot
- Breathalyzers for everyone?
- Art repatriation
- Australia: High court tosses “wrongful life” claims
- Update: Lanny Vines
- First lawyer indicted in Miss. fen-phen probe
- Blood-alcohol levels? Why bring those up?
- “At one arbitration, there were 35 lawyers”
- “This used to be Montana…”
- Latest newsletter
- “Nine years of litigation for 3.5 miles of fence”
- A Deficit of Understanding
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- Calif. diploma exam
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- $1.6 million for loss of dog? Not so fast
- Deep pocket files: Racibozynski v. Knox College
- Farewell, MedPundit
- “£2.8m award for prisoner who tried to kill himself”
- “Golfer not liable for errant golf ball”
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- $14 million for wrongful birth
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- Stupid Class Action Settlement Dept.: Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Jeffrey Lowe
- “Trial Lawyers are Down”
- Stuart Taylor, Jr. on Duke rape case
- “Inside Milberg’s Credenza”
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- Update: Agoraphobic employee’s promotion
- Dept. of ill-timed announcements
- Update: Milberg Weiss indicted
- UK: Police “wanted” posters could infringe privacy
- “Doctor loses malpractice case, kills self”
- Suing an Islamic moderate
- New Tabarrok/Agan med-mal study
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- “Mexico Threatens Suits Over Guard Patrols”
- Party like you’re a tobacco lawyer
- Duke lacrosse case, cont’d
- NYC sues out-of-state gun dealers
- Trolls-B-Gon?
- 18-year legal malpractice suit
- Profiled by flight attendant, wins $27.5 million
- Tactical advantages of shotgun lawsuits
- UK: Great moments in human rights law
- NSA phone snooping
- “No one will be hurt if we get our diploma”
- Blogosphere libel standards
- Emotional service dogs
- “Paraplegic Activist Leaps From Wheelchair, Runs From Police”
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- Litigious animal rightsers
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- Warning label demanded: TVs subject to gravity
- “Is litigation taking the ‘play’ out of kids’ playgrounds?”
- Dollar value of being sexually harassed
- Second verse, same as the first
- Smiley face trademark litigation
- Playing chicken on railroad tracks
- Medical malpractice insurance forms
- Blawg Review #56 at Point of Law
- Update: Canada high court rejects social-host liability
- More on video-store discrimination
- Update: Wonder Bread dough
- Update: McLeod v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center
- $20 million for nursing home death
- NYC plans “interventions” with diabetics
- Blawg Review #56 upcoming at Point of Law
- From the lawyers-as-legislators file
- Chicago foie gras II
- “Hollywood’s Most Litigious Assistants”
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- National Law Journal on medical malpractice bills
- Deep pocket files: Stevens v. NYC Transit Authority
- Update: Teflon class actions
- Update: Calif. high court OKs Microsoft class payday
- “False Rape Accusations May Be More Common Than Thought”
- The heartbreak of small fonts
- Banzhaf’s Sue-O-Matic
- UK animal cruelty prosecution
- Update: spanking bill is $1.7 million
- Update: modified Netflix settlement approved
- Canada high court to consider social-host liability
- Wet T-shirt follies: a calm discussion
- Antibias law vs. free conscience, again
- “Tortilla tossing missed”
- “No defense for this insanity”
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- Banning smoking in cars
- “Eye-popping” class action fees
- Update: Jury clears Diaz of tax evasion charges
- Latest newsletter
- Florida “pit bull lawyers” case
- “Shaking down the defendants for ubiquitous trivia”
- Site outages
- Deep Pocket Files: Anthony Pellicano fallout
- Dept. of Intimidating the Little Guy: Maine Board of Tourism
- “It’s as if our culture had been taken over by lawyers”
- What plaintiffs’ lawyers really care about, part 376
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- Attempts suicide on Death Row, wants $35M from jailers
- Chicago bans foie gras
- Jane Jacobs, 1916-2006
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- Seeks $1.2 million for spanking
- Forbes: “My Kingdom for a Casino”
- Safety mask litigation
- “Abstinence education”: bait and switch?
- “Rival bands clash over little-person KISS tribute”
- One reason your gas prices are so high
- Update: CAIR using litigation to silence critics?
- Center for Justice & Democracy and Americans for Insurance Reform
- Damned if you do, damned if you don’t files: sunscreen edition
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- Ninth Circuit Follies: Jones v. Los Angeles
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- Hamby v. Daimler/Chrysler
- BREAKING: California Supreme Court throws out “Friends” sexual harassment suit
- Gone for a while
- Lott v. Levitt IV
- Lott v. Levitt III
- Sues to compete in high school race by wheelchair
- House candidate vows to sue rivals
- Overcriminalization
- Delaware court hails non-aromatic fee request
- “Goodbye, war on smoking. Hello, war on fat”
- Update: “Million Little Pieces” class actions
- Letter from Apple lawyers makes little girl cry
- Lott v. Levitt II
- Burden of Proof
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- One way to deter theft
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- Watch what you say about lawyers, cont’d
- “Hollywood Blackmail” on VH1, tonight
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- The wages of police-misconduct suits
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- “Drunk driver sues truck maker”
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- Our second blogroll
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- “That’ll show him, Catharine!”
- Asset forfeiture
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- 17-year-old boys climb railroad cars
- “Chicago Schools Sue Over Breakup of League”
- John Lott sues Steven Levitt for libel
- “Please don’t feed the trial lawyers” II
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- The Do-Not-Shop List
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- Thanks and Adieu
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- “Please don’t feed the trial lawyers”
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- GAO Whistleblower on SDI
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- Texas taverns, cont’d
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- School choice, the special-ed way
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- Kevin Phillips
- No abuse of process here, move along
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- Wal*ocaust
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- Dating service sued for turning away married man
- Smoking in private clubs
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- Search engine index
- Tried to outrun subway train, wins $1.4 m
- County 25% responsible for employee’s murder of husband
- Update: trial win rates understate success of ADA plaintiffs
- A fix for orphan copyright?
- Update: Maine jury hammers Hagens Berman
- Update: Corrie family’s suit against Caterpillar
- Thanks to Dave Kopel
- “Extra-special education at public expense”
- Licensed Handgun Carry Wins in Kansas
- Sensible Public Health
- Major Development in Syria
- Housekeeping note: older comments
- Medical wisdom patentable?
- Deep pocket files: Michael Boyle v. Ford
- Update: Netflix settlement attorney fees likely to be cut
- Don’t Mess with Texas Morals Police: Tavern Patrons Arrested for Intoxication
- Easier Forfeiture of Property: The New Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
- human rights = allah
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- Alexandra Shaw and the Princeton bell tower
- Journal on Fireams & Public Policy now accepting submissions
- Update: Chrysler asks for Fabila lawyer to be disbarred
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- Stand Your Ground
- Welcome guestblogger Dave Kopel
- One-stop Shopping for Gun Thieves
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- “Public health” imperialism
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- Katrina medical volunteers, cont’d
- Update: tasty BlackBerry fees
- Scientology and South Park
- $6.5M for not promoting agoraphobic employee
- Nurse Cullen’s references, VI
- “Roe” for men?
- Site disruption
- “Man Hits His Own Car Then Sues Himself”
- Tactical use of workplace lawsuits
- “Serial” litigant told to pay $270K
- Update: Judge tosses Ileto v. Glock
- Revealing someone’s criminal record = privacy invasion?
- Update: assigning air carrier poor safety grade not defamation
- Regulation vs. sous vide
- “Bankruptcy Rewrite Predicted to Bring a Flood of Appeals”
- Federal anti-hacking law
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- American Association of Physicians and Surgeons
- Milwaukee stadium fees: through the roof
- Help wanted (Calif. shakedown practice)?
- Update: Trump decamps to Camden
- Arise, ye prisoners of high-paid brokerage jobs
- Notes on postal tenure
- Restrained, tasteful lawyer advertising, cont’d
- Jailing outdoor smokers
- Link to Overlawyered
- Organ obbligato
- “‘Bedbug’ pair back days later”
- “There’s just no there there”
- Defensive medicine — no big deal?
- “Court bars rapist from suing victim”
- No more anonymous commenting
- Burger King hot coffee lawsuit settles
- Deep pocket files: You can always move the hotel, right?
- “Man Charged In Prostitution Ring Sues Clients”
- Drug companies sue generic competitors
- Bill Cosby lawyers: take that parody down
- Paul Harris show on food nannyism
- Don’t use sarcasm…
- SeaSponge SpellCheck
- Suing Craigslist — with your money
- Judge resigns in Ky. fen-phen scandal
- Calif. court reinstates counties’ lead-paint suit
- Update: Grand Theft Auto suits
- Update: Mississippi judicial corruption retrial
- Sammenhold
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- Ohio high court OKs wrongful-birth cases
- AEI Liability Outlook: “Making the FAIR Act Fair”
- “$ue $omebody”
- Madison County asbestos: one for the books (O’Connell v. Georgia-Pacific)
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- “Not About The Money” Files: Ronan Public Schools lawsuit update
- Pellicano scandal, cont’d
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- Nancy Grace
- Selling short, then suing
- “Nominate a favorite post” thread
- Defensive echocardiograms
- Katrina cruise-ship evacuees dig in
- Bartlett, “Impostor”
- “Your World With Neil Cavuto”
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- Fashion and IP protection
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- Sued for taking baths too early
- Flying the trial lawyer skies
- Update: licensing eBay sellers
- “BlackBerry Lawsuit Is Patently Absurd”
- Update: Kreimer gets another settlement
- “Midwest Oil fined for selling gas too cheaply”
- Sexual harassment, ITOD
- Mohammed Aqueel Hussain
- Deep pocket files: Blaming banks for terrorist attacks II
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- Flash, Java? We’ve got those patented
- $160 million for (someone else’s) beating
- Defensive pediatrics
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- Trip on your mail? Sure, you can sue
- R.I. jury finds former lead paint makers liable
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- Rumpole exhales
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- Do Acts of God Still Exist?
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- New Class Action Against McDonalds
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- Vioxx Two for Three, with 9650 At-Bats Remaining
- What Goes Around, Comes Around
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- El Defenzor on the Watts Law Firm
- Proliferation of Taser Suits
- Retailers Settle Katrina Gas-Price Suits
- Overprosecuted
- Roger S. Braugh, Jr. responds
- Deep pocket files: Jonathan Samuels v. Bellino Equities Boca
- Nobody is Making Sure I Get Paid Enough
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- OpinionJournal.com “Federation of Sites” — we’re part of it
- Shareholder Suits Reach New High
- Making Everyone a Lawyer
- Asbestos Trust-Fund Legislation Defeated
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- The “Fairness Doctrine”
- “Waco crash verdict stuns bus industry”
- Duller times in Australian outback
- Coursing of hares
- Maquiladoras caused birth defects? $17M later, maybe not
- Deep pocket files: Ernst v. Chen’s Restaurant
- “Save auto industry jobs by reforming legal system”
- Calgary Muslims may sue over cartoons
- United Farm Workers’ libel-suit threats
- Update: Dallas Observer doesn’t owe $1 billion
- Milwaukee radio tomorrow
- Jury: “customer of size” not victim of airline bias
- Tribunes of privacy, cont’d: cell phone records
- $500 per car, Chrysler says
- Stitch & Bitch, trademarked
- Please, Mr. Trump, sue me
- Update: No cameras in the delivery room
- Update: garden-center bird attack
- Update: Italian judge tosses prove-Jesus-existed suit
- Latest newsletter
- Anne Brunsdale, RIP
- Why they aren’t running the cartoons
- “Hells Angels get $990 K for dead dogs”
- “Not for diagnostic purposes”
- “I’m thinking about abandoning the film project”
- Flying shrimp not so fatal after all
- Where are the privacy advocates?
- “Fair housing” suit against Craigslist
- Pirate’s booty indeed?
- “Low-Fat Diet Does Not Cut Health Risks, Study Finds”
- “Fen-Phen case nets another guilty plea”
- Target sued: website not accessible to blind
- Trolls in the BlackBerry patch
- Danish flags
- “No one is being force fed soda”
- Pellicano charged; Hollywood lawyers next?
- Update: “Maag’s defamation suit is dismissed again”
- Federal judge fines EEOC $1m for frivolous lawsuit
- “The paradox of blackmail”
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- Update: Silver’s office settles sex claim
- Trademark Dilution Revision Act (H.R. 683)
- Update: U.K. Commons revolt on bill curbing religious speech
- Update: $1.3M legal malpractice verdict overturned
- “It’s not spam when I send it”
- Nominate-a-case thread
- Litigious French parents: “a problematic American reflex”
- Paul Harris show today; TVW
- “First smokes, now Cokes”
- Steve Berman sues Apple over iPods
- Are those BlogAds?
- Borgata Babes Say Goodbye
- Don’t know much about property
- Phila. judge: no right to anonymous online disparagement
- Tree protection laws and their perverse consequences
- Jury selection, while you wait
- Baseball: Anaheim vs. the Angels
- “Tainted trials, stolen justice”
- Support Denmark
- Welcome Forbes.com readers
- Turning over the e-mail
- L.A. to rename school after Johnnie Cochran, Jr.
- He’s a doctor, a lawyer, and so much more
- “Exit, pursued by a lawyer”
- Public safety wins a hand against the lawyers
- Teacher always liked girls better
- Miller v. Lockheed Martin Corp.
- Readers come through with logos
- Mom locks kid in car, sues firemen and police
- Air Canada flight attendants success
- Rose Marie Munoz and the $29-million limp
- Stupid class action of the day
- Grand Theft Auto update
- Busted flush
- Mass amnesia at bus trial
- Frey grilled
- Madison County judge without a docket
- Socially unproductive
- I’m interviewed…
- Canadian high court to rule on social-host liability
- A Million Little Plaintiffs III
- “Trump sues author who questioned his billions”
- Australia roundup
- Publicity roundup; Joseph Goulden, “The Money Lawyers”
- Mandatory seat-belt laws
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- Another warnings contest
- Reader request: an Overlawyered logo
- Bountiful bankruptcies, cont’d: UAL
- Safari park gives up, fences off lions from cars
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- Calif. court OKs countersuit in “shakedown” case
- Update: Colo. recreational land use
- Update: PPA litigation fizzles
- Update: “Protests Put Netflix Settlement On Hold”
- Torchlight procession? Try glowsticks
- Triggering the aero-litigation “cringe factor”
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- “Man who claimed he fell down pothole must pay back ?238,000″
- “Man who claimed he fell down pothole must pay back ?238,000″
- “Man who claimed he fell down pothole must pay back ?238,000″
- “Man who claimed he fell down pothole must pay back ?238,000″
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- UK: “Ex-Pc wins ?87,000 for trauma”
- UK: “Ex-Pc wins ?87,000 for trauma”
- UK: “Ex-Pc wins ?87,000 for trauma”
- UK: “Ex-Pc wins ?87,000 for trauma”
- UK: “Ex-Pc wins ?87,000 for trauma”
- UK: “Ex-Pc wins ?87,000 for trauma”
- UK: “Ex-Pc wins ?87,000 for trauma”
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- Update: Ness Motley to fight misconduct verdict
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- Update: Fox gets skinned
- $550 million? We’re worth it
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- Welcome Phila., Denver, Okla., Jacksonville readers
- “Senioritis” victim sues for college admission
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- Australia: “$300,000 payout for psychotic killer”
- Fen-phen: the defense strikes back
- U.K.: safety signs, second ropes for rock climbers?
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- Interview with our editor, and more publicity
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- Update: new trial in Ont. you-let-me-drive-drunk case
- The cerebral palsy law machine
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- California’s busiest disabled-law enforcer
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- U.K.: “End this compensation nightmare, say judges”
- “Kaczynski asks court to return his bomb materials”
- A career of suing foodmakers
- Update: courts snuff tobacco-deal review
- Update: “Faulty Tire Didn’t Cause Murder”
- Victory in Michigan
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- Update: seeking review of Engle dismissal
- Update: Judge throws out Milwaukee lead paint case
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- “Area employers urged to forbid foul language”
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- Query on site redesign: how to replace relative with absolute links?
- Gambler sues casinos for failing to exclude her
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- Another Aussie drunk driver sues
- GAO: legal costs drive med-mal rates
- Jury: healthy smokers get stop-smoking program, no medical monitoring
- Guest blogger – take three
- Australia: estate lawyers warned on fees
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- Candy-bar confrontation results in bias suit
- New guestblogger tomorrow; welcome USA Today readers
- Calif. bounty-hunting, again
- Update: Miss. high court justice, trial lawyer indicted
- Update: suspension for maverick Wash. lawyer
- Update: case of the subpoenaed tort reformers ends
- “Casino Ordered to Pay Banned Slot Player $875,000″
- Firefighters, rescue workers want trauma compensation
- Mississippi probers could consider indictments this week
- School desegregation’s Jarndyce?
- “DirecTV dragnet snares innocent techies”
- Pa. malpractice insurers lost $18M last year
- NPR appearance canceled
- EU: Hard hats for trapeze artists?
- Bronx gunman’s award cut to $9.75 M
- Thanks to Dan Lewis
- “Lawyers may instruct on secret taping”
- Welcome Wall Street Journal readers
- We didn’t mean vicarious that way
- A Lipstick-Up
- Beaumont and its reputation
- It’s raining money for Mo. governor
- “Public balks at obesity lawsuits”
- Scotland: “Alcoholics sue booze companies”
- Fun with EULAs
- Update: Tony Martin case
- Update: Hager’s bad behavior
- Update: Ga. court revives junk-fax suit
- Say It Ain’t So, Ko
- Newsletter; new topic categories
- “Once a C-section, always a C-section” policy blamed on legal risks
- Rose Gets Nullified
- Newsflash: Judge Has Sense of Humor
- Suing over H-E-Double Hockey Sticks
- Arizona wants less zeal
- Morales pleads guilty
- I Quit! Now Pay Me!
- Australia: “Doctor must pay to raise boy”
- Appealing to a Higher Authority
- Bus driver who can’t distinguish traffic signals not protected by ADA
- FoxNews.com “Blog of the Week”
- Suit charges lawyers with using fake clients in diet-drug cases
- Bilking poor clients
- On the Beeb, etc.
- Canada: Protect Thyself, Get Arrested
- Chewing the Shrink’s Ear Off
- Who am I? And What am I Doing Here?
- “Erin Brockovich’s Junk Science”
- Car-lease liability crisis continues in N.Y., R.I.
- Race, poverty and tort awards
- Award for bad journalism?
- U.K.: “Trio arrested over seaweed theft”
- “Links don’t work”, update
- Another guest blogger tomorrow; a neglected anniversary
- Update: intimidating tort reformers
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- Update: “Harvard Takes Back Hornstine Admission Offer”
- Motley’s Sept. 11 crusade
- “Links don’t work”
- Kinsley: GOP is right on malpractice
- Update: San Antonio evidence-faking and witness-tampering case
- Merrill Lynch cases tank
- Viacom, Spike Lee kiss and make up
- El Paso case: $60 m payday for Lockyer chums
- “Wheelchair ramps in the high alpine zone”
- Hormel vs. Spam Arrest
- Samuelson on Nike v. Kasky
- Back from vacation
- Firestone II
- Nursing home damages
- Class action firm subject to judgment
- Zyprexa
- Daubert debate
- New York gun suits
- Fast food second update
- Infinite punitive damages ratio
- Today’s fast food update
- Daubert
- In honor of Canada Day
- Nike v. Kasky
- Gun store suit
- Big Food Next?
- Milberg Weiss Update
- Ted Frank, guest blogger
- Guest blogger through July 8
- “60 Minutes” on wrongful birth
- Souvenir-ball wrangle
- Guest blogger opening(s)
- More on Weiss Ratings study
- More on the litigious valedictorian
- “Spitzer’s nuisance”
- Font darkness
- Philip Howard reviews The Rule of Lawyers
- U.K. prosecutor: top cops didn’t warn that roofs are dangerous
- “Flood of Fees Draining Enron Funds”
- FBI probing Jefferson County verdicts
- Blogging resumes Monday
- “Lawsuit faults hospital for overdose”
- Judge jails former Texas AG Morales
- Losing by winning in a cleanup suit
- Class action objections: a mixed bag
- New format, cont’d
- Private club liable for sexist speech
- Nursed wrong baby: and what are the damages?
- Format change
- “Loitering” outside their workplace?
- Class Action Fairness Act editorials
- For personal responsibility, a Custard’s Last Stand
- EU: “Ban sought on sexual stereotyping”
- Let that gator do his thing
- Next: Mercedes sues Merced, Calif.
- Engle: a $710-million loose end
- Lightning bolt in amusement park’s parking lot
- Misguided search for a sanitized jury
- Mold — to the highest bidder!
- Pre-June 2003 content
- Fast food: give me my million
- Investors’ Business Daily interviews our editor.
- Batch of reader letters
- Link to archives before Jun. 23, 2003
- Lawsuit urban legends
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