Overlawyered http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:42:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Latest issue of Class Action Watch http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/latest-issue-of-class-action-watch/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/latest-issue-of-class-action-watch/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:43:57 +0000 Ted Frank http://overlawyered.com/?p=7895 The latest issue of the Federalist Society’s Class Action Watch has many articles of interest to Overlawyered readers:

  • William E. Thomson & Kahn A. Scolnick on the Exxon Shipping case;
  • Jimmy Cline on Arkansas’s disregard for class action certification standards;
  • Jim Copland on the “Colossus” class action;
  • Laurel Harbour on the New Jersey Supreme Court decision on medical monitoring class actions;
  • Lyle Roberts on lead-counsel selection in securities class actions;
  • Mark A. Behrens & Frank Cruz-Alvarez on the lead paint public nuisance decision by the Rhode Island Supreme Court; and
  • Andrew Grossman, extensively citing to Overlawyered and my brief in discussing the Grand Theft Auto class action settlement rejection.
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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/suit-forces-eharmony-to-offer-gay-dating-service/feed/ Piracy and international human rights, cont’d http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/piracy-and-international-human-rights-contd/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/piracy-and-international-human-rights-contd/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:16:50 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7891 Modern theorists of international human rights law have concentrated on tying Western governments’ hands, but have devoted rather less attention to the human right not to be attacked on the high seas. (David B. Rivkin, Jr. and Lee A. Casey, “Pirates Exploit Confusion About International Law”, Wall Street Journal, Nov. 19). Earlier here, here, and here.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/daschle-to-hhs/feed/ Microblog 2008-11-19 http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/microblog-2008-11-19/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/microblog-2008-11-19/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:02:15 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7890
  • Some backers of big national service plan say better roll it out now before the crisis atmosphere passes [Welch, Reason "Hit and Run"]
  • Sorry ma’am, if hubby’s policy excludes coverage for injury to family members, you can’t blame him as “uninsured motorist” [The Briefcase, Ohio]
  • Much-cited “$70/hr” figure for GM labor costs misleading: covers army of retirees, not just current workers [Salmon]
  • Thoughts on alleged inability of GM to get debtor-in-possession financing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy [Oman, ConcurOp]
  • Texas p.i. atty Mark Lanier famous for Xmas parties headlined by top stars, this year it’s Miley Cyrus a/k/a Hannah Montana [ABA Journal]
  • “I Want Angry Jurors With Low Self-Esteem” [Bennett, Defending People]
  • “We just really wanted to shatter the cupcake-pizza dichotomy. It’s just existed for too long.” [Seth Gitter via Tyler Cowen]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/microblog-2008-11-19/feed/     Technical disruptions continue http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/technical-disruptions-continue/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/technical-disruptions-continue/#comments Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:26:06 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7889 1) Email to me and to this site has been hit with big delays and disruptions today and is still not working well. If you sent me something important, consider re-sending it.

    2) One effect of the disruptions is that the “microblog” (Twitter) plugin has stopped working, hence no scroll of new Twitter posts in the right column. I’ll try to restore it, and in the mean time may try a “homemade” microblog post of highlights.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/technical-disruptions-continue/feed/     “The Current State of Consumer Arbitration” http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/the-current-state-of-consumer-arbitration/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/the-current-state-of-consumer-arbitration/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:13:56 +0000 Ted Frank http://overlawyered.com/?p=7888 Ohio State Law professor Sarah Cole and I have a piece in the Fall issue of Dispute Resolution analyzing the empirical data over consumer arbitration–especially the claims made by Public Citizen about it.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/the-current-state-of-consumer-arbitration/feed/     No N.Y. forum for Egypt terror plaintiffs http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/no-ny-forum-for-egypt-terror-plaintiffs/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/no-ny-forum-for-egypt-terror-plaintiffs/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:27:46 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7887 “Israeli and Russian victims of a 2004 terror attack on an Egyptian Hilton cannot sue the hotel in the United States, in part because a judge believed they were seeking a higher recovery from a New York jury sitting blocks from the World Trade Center site. Southern District Judge Peter Leisure found that the plaintiffs, none of whom were Americans, may have been engaging in forum shopping in Niv v. Hilton Hotels Corp., 06 Civ. 7839, and he dismissed the case under the doctrine of forum non conveniens.” (Mark Hamblett, “N.Y. Forum Denied for Suit Over Terror Attack in Egypt”, New York Law Journal, Nov. 19).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/jedi-injury-lawyer/feed/     “Man sues for libel after being called a D-bag” http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/man-sues-for-libel-after-being-called-a-d-bag/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/man-sues-for-libel-after-being-called-a-d-bag/#comments Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:12:16 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7885 Clark County, Nevada: “A man claims Simon & Schuster defamed him in the book “Hot Chicks with Douchebags.” The man says his photo was taken without proper consent, and that he is not, in fact, a you-know-what. (Courthouse News, Nov. 18 via Justin Levine, Patterico; The Smoking Gun). More: On Point News (protected “opinion”?)

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