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AARP sued for age discrimination 0
Regulating fast food 2
Wounded in shootout, sheriff’s deputies sue widow 2
No conscience clause for California fertility doctors 4
Station nightclub fire: government defendants settle 2
Requiring family social workers to report animal abuse 20
Touch-a-car-for-the-longest contest 6
August 20 roundup 0
“Divorce, Connecticut-Style” 1
Lowering drinking age to 18 19
“New Talk” discussion of loser-pays 7
Mirapex jackpot justice - literally 14
August 19 roundup 3
Bill Lerach: Power lawyer to prisoner 0
White Coat Rants on “never events” 14
Red Sox fan: Yankee fans beat me up 1
Guestblogger thanks 0
“The Use of Litigation Screenings in Mass Torts: A Formula for Fraud?” 0
Coordinating the Edwards story 3
Suit: Untimely cremation should net us $3.5M 3
Ungoogle me, please 9
“No matter how psychotic, that voice is still worthy of being heard.” 3
YouTube user: Google wouldn’t let me into its partner program 0
“Richard Kreimer scores another payday” 0
Claim: School is Responsible for Son’s Cross-Dressing 10
Rielle Hunter scandal: update on the Andrew Young real estate issue 0
August 14 roundup 9
Defensive training dept.: University of Iowa and Arthur H. Miller 10
Worst footnoted fine-print disclaimer ever 0
Update: Jury Rejects Flight Attendant’s Claim 2
Criminal who sue dept.: the case of Danieal Kelly 6
Expert Witnesses - The American Rule 3
The Rielle Hunter scandal: where did Andrew Young get his money? 19
Fred Baron’s version of the Rielle Hunter payments 4
“Is Big Caffeine the Next Target?” 5
Overlawyered - All Horse Edition 2
My Right to Remain Silent – And, No “Papers” Either Copper! 9
“Cy pres awards under scrutiny” 3
“November Election A Lawyer’s Delight” 1
Guest Blogger This Week 0
Baron money trail forced Edwards’ hand 2
Yes, I’m being facetious 14
Update: California courts won’t ban homeschooling 2
Report: Fred Baron paid for Rielle Hunter’s hideaway 8
The trouble with civil Gideon 1
Judges, lawyers, and cognitive bias 12
The flight attendant and the televangelist’s wife 7
Legal consequences for denying climate-change consensus? 2
“Lack of Minorities Closes Boise Bone Marrow Center” 7
The Ted Frank law-school tour (new dates added!) 7
WhoCanISue.com 8
A question about the AutoAdmit litigation 5
August 7 roundup 1
No way to treat a prosecutor 2
Compaq settles floppy glitch class action 1
U.K. medical student: multiple-choice exams unfair to disabled 8
Open thread 9
Limiting docs’ work hours 8
Rocketboom 0
Needs four days to finish bar exam 28
“Securities laws are not insurance to protect against economic losses.” 0
S.F. mayor: make food composting mandatory 11
Comcast P2P throttling, cont’d 0
Pet rentals 2
Regulating potato chip recipes 4
Reparations, after 701 years 2
In NYC: gun rights discussion at NYCLU Tues. evening 0
BitTorrent throttling and cable bandwidth lawsuits 47
Banning menthol cigarettes? 1
Update: Suit against 8 year old skier settled 0
“Stifling free speech — globally” 6
Claim: Abercrombie wouldn’t hire hijab wearer 0
Void our AP test results? See you in court 5
Update: Segway lawsuit against Disney 3
Darrell McGraw and his outside counsel 2
Update: Lawrence Poliner v. Texas Health Systems appeal 5
Johnson v. Allstate Insurance Co.: drunk driving for profit 17
Defamation liability for print-on-demand services? 0
Codeine in a medicine cup 0
“Telling McDonald’s it can open franchises only in the white part of town” 7
“Bloggers win 92% of cases” 0
Grand Theft Auto: Class Action - the denouement 6
N.J.: mower sent golf ball flying 1
Meter maid’s miracle recovery no bar to $1.6 million award 11
July 31 roundup 10
“The greediest piece of garbage that ever lived” 0
Litigation accounting disclosures 0
Suit: Kids’ “punching game” is middle school’s fault 10
How trial lawyer urban legends get started 24
50,000 residents but no lawyer 3
John Tierney: 10 Things Not To Worry About 0
Update: “My newspaper’s getting mediocre” suit 3
Guestblogging opportunities 0
Fla. lawyer: I’ve got every right to call judge an “evil, unfair witch” 5
Playground safety mats 11
Pro bono Guantanamo detainee efforts 5
“Got breastmilk?” 3
eBay and counterfeits, cont’d 7
Debt reduction lawyers 2
Flax v. Chrysler, one more thought 8
Judge: 9/11 settlements, fees exorbitant 2
Spiraling damage awards 0
“The trial bar goes on the offensive” 0
Suit: your milkcrates were an attractive nuisance 5
An interesting double-standard 9
Volkswagen key class action 19
Problems with access to Overlawyered 3
Med-mal: Massachusetts adopts “loss of a chance” doctrine 1
California trans fats: Terminator Nanny 9
Granite kitchen countertops 18
Perez Hilton litigation 0
$150,000 heartbalm award in Georgia 5
Is patent gridlock keeping drugs off the market? 0
July 25 roundup 2
Prosecutors Gone Wild 2
LA Weekly: The Mold Rush and the case of Sharon Kramer and Bruce Kelman 18
Breaking: Tennessee Supreme Court reinstates punitive damages in Flax v. DaimlerChrysler 7
Yet more Edwards campaign-cash laundering 0
Service animals, cont’d: “Ferret barred from Ottawa buses” 2
Update: Willie Gary case against Motorola 0
Cops: lawyer funneled brothel profits through good-government fund 1
Sacha Baron Cohen lawyer script 0
Servitude to the state 1
WLF on Rhode Island lead paint verdict 0
School scenarios, 1958 vs. 2008 6
Memphis: “Police director sues for names of bloggers critical of MPD” 1
Laura Hess suspended; Hess Kennedy in receivership 3
John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, and Elizabeth Edwards 31
Disbarred lawyer: Amex helped the cops trace me 3
“Family wants $1.5M for unauthorized use of their images” 2
Labaton Sucharow rebuffed again 1
Great moments in expert witness work 2
Botch a client’s case? Put nothing in writing 2
Lawsuit: you excluded my service monkey 10
Medical liability roundup 4
Sued wrong party, wrist duly slapped 0
July 20 roundup 6
ADA claim: store wouldn’t let him use inline skates 3
Claim: Spitzer’s floozy used my lost ID 12
Google AdWords class action 3
ADA: Sure, call him a “professional plaintiff” 0
Compelling disclosure of commenters’ identities 0
L.A. Times warning sign contest 4
Thomas Geoghegan: “See You in Court” 0
McDonald’s drive-through window speakers 12
Mere “pawn of counsel” 2
State court judges: elect, or appoint? 13
“I’m Batman!” “Here’s your subpoena.” 9
July 16 roundup 3
Shipboard art auctions 2
The LAPD 3 and jury fallibility 0
Lied on job application about having brutally murdered his wife 13
Title IX quotas for science? 2
Federal judge: eBay needn’t police Tiffany fakes 13
July 15 roundup 2
“Is fan fiction legal? Fans are understandably nervous.” 4
Med-mal: the real cost of a $7500 settlement 1
“Cancel his subscription” wasn’t enough 4
July 13 roundup 0
Update: Virginia beer-sicles 7
The Jack Thompson report 2
“Welcome to the Nanny State Nation” 2
Update: Cohen & Grigsby immigration video 0
Indiana lottery class action certified 8
Great moments in Continuing Legal Education 3
Lawyers and p.i.’s: no more “Just find it”? 0
Teacher tenure follies 8
Cop shot by 3 year old sues gun maker 18
Bikini-clad appearance on Howard Stern show 15
eBay versus LVMH: gift recyclers beware? 3
“Internet reputation management” 0
Naming your restaurant “Drugstore” 9
“Build a Wiffle Ball Field and Lawyers Will Come” 1
“The Era of Big Punitive Damage Awards Is Not Over” 1
Investigative journalism and libel chill 0
Gay man sues Bible publishers 10
July 9 roundup 0
Next: Esquire magazine vs. all those lawyers? 1
Hospital probed after calling cops on patient 8
Schwartz Zweben and the Ms. Wheelchair pageant, cont’d 10
July 8 roundup 5
“What is the role of the courts in making social policy?” 0
Welcome Cincinnati Enquirer readers 2
Ky. fen-phen foreman: “There’s a lot of people that should have been on trial that weren’t.” 14
Claim: Rachael Ray food show scorned anorexic 0
OT: Alex Kozinski on the Dating Game 6
“Alchemy in the Courtroom? The Transmutation of Public Nuisance Litigation” 1
Best of June 2008 1
July 6 roundup 0
Exxon Shipping v. Baker podcast 0
July 3 roundup 0
Richard Neely’s lack of irony (III) 2
Sun glare on the diamond? You might hear from our lawyer 11
War crimes trials? No thanks 0
Sorry, we’re not going to raise your neighbors’ taxes 0
Melbourne Mills acquitted; jury deadlocked 2
“Please Disregard That ‘We’re Not Blaming the Park’ Thing” 19
Moe the chimpanzee escapes; St. James Davis v. West Covina update 4
Rolando Montez’s fatal phone call: JCW Electronics, Inc. v. Garza 5
Leona Helmsley’s will 8
New/relocated Overlawyered Facebook page 0
Slips while dancing on bar, complaint cites lack of handrail 0
Breaking: Rhode Island lead paint decision overturned 3
Overlawyered’s ninth anniversary 11
Losing patience with Jonathan Lee Riches 1
Time Warner Cable settlement 0
June 30 roundup 8
Suit: it’s the manufacturer’s fault that I backed a lawn mower over my son 30
Pre-emption debate in Chicago Tribune 4
Ticketed? Stall ‘em 9
June 29 roundup 10
Chuck Yeager, Cingular and the right of publicity 1
Social life of a blogger; guestblogger thanks 0
Shoemaker slammed with Seidel-subpoena sanction 6
Federalist Society web forum on the SCOTUS term 0
Dickie Scruggs gets the five-year max 2
Montgomery Blair Sibley suspended in D.D.C. 1
Grand Theft Auto: Class Action - the argument 16
Asbestos: Production — the great screening scam 0
Asbestos: Part Deux 10
Grand Theft Auto: Class Action - in NY Times 9
“The Naked Cowboy versus The Blue M&M” 16
Great Moments in Voir Dire 3
13 Years, 16 Lawyers, 10 Judges, No Divorce Settlement 6
Benched for Your Own Good 1
But Was He Properly Mirandized? 1
Creatively Challenged 0
Guestbloggers on deck 1
Settlement first, plaintiff afterward? 1
Muscling into her clients’ wedding pictures 3
Interviewed on KTUU-2, Anchorage 2
June 21 roundup 0
Studios: we shouldn’t have to prove anyone used shared movie files 5
The Rezko mess: a (tangential?) Madison County link 1
June 20 roundup 5
Peter Bronson on Stanley Chesley’s testimony 13
Thong shrapnel alleged in Victoria’s Secret suit 9
Canada: court overturns parent’s grounding of 12-year-old 4
WSJ on Navy sonar and Pacific whales 9
Barred for life from the banking business 0
“I do not want you to be named in the lawsuit.” 6
Chicken-catchers and chicken-pluckers, international securities edition 0
City streets not safe to drive 100-120 mph on 6
“Trial Lawyers Inc.: Michigan on trial” 0
June 18 roundup 3
New Jersey high court: palimony without cohabitation OK 5
Kentucky fen-phen: we’d have been justified taking 85 percent 3
Loose-fitting clothes and food machinery 15
Sanai v. Saltz - the California appellate brief 22
Cyrus Sanai: Kozinski investigation “is part of a litigation strategy”; second Sanai v. Saltz sanctions order 21
WAMU Kojo Nnamdi show 0
Suing the chaperone 18
Lawyers manipulate dates — in backdating suit 0
“Expelled member sues Masons” 1
What newspapers need, and why antitrust law may block it 2
Milberg settles 4
Rebutting Bill Lerach in Portfolio 4
Latest on Kozinski and Cyrus Sanai 20
The case against “Civil Gideon” 2
June 16 roundup 6
Haywood Rosales v. Home Depot: a “glued to his seat” encore 7
Added to the favorites column 0
Judge Zilly’s sanctions order against Cyrus Sanai; Kozinski recuses himself 31
Paul Krugman and tainted tomatoes 1
New Steve Chapman blog 0
Operation “Staged Impact” 2
Deep pocket files: The Great White shakedown winds down 3
Knology arbitration clause 3
“He took the style and the delivery” 0
ACS Convention, June 14 1
More on Neely, “The Product Liability Mess” 1
Ohio Senate’s clever solution to ancient clergy abuse claims 6
June 13 roundup 3
Flax v. DaimlerChrysler seat back appeal 6
June 12 roundup 16
Judge Kozinski’s web site and Cyrus Sanai 34
Spalding Laboratories, Inc. v. Arizona Biological Control 1
“It was at that moment that my patients started to feel like my friends again…” 1
Canada: “Problem gamblers sue casinos for $3.5 bln” 2
“As long as I am allowed to redistribute wealth…”: was Richard Neely being “ironic”? 9
“Affordable housing” push fed subprime bubble 2
Jack Thompson storms out of court 2
Throwing themselves at rotten tomatoes 1
That AG Cuomo deal over child porn 7
Update: Virginia high court on Miller-Jenkins 0
“People want to find out what the other person is Googling” 0
“Liability concerns and high water bills” 0
The absent defendant: arbitration vs. court 10
“Legal ethics is to real ethics as …” 1
Franco v. Dow Chemical: special prosecutor for Girardi and Lack 0
June 10 roundup 1
Suspended Montgomery Blair Sibley still getting press coverage 2
That day in court 21
Update: Rose Marie Munoz v. Ford 3
Supreme Court grants certiorari in Philip Morris v. Williams (again) 0
June 9 roundup 1
Detroit Free Press on Fieger acquittal 1
Slain in the Spirit: Tennessee case 2
Rob Lowe nanny lawsuits 2
On Good Morning America 1
“We had nine lawyers, they had nine lawyers” 1
Gallion: Stan Chesley forced his way into our Kentucky fen-phen settlement 2
Update: Alice Griffin v. Starbucks 0
Lerach: “Serving Time, but Lacking Remorse” 3
June 7 roundup 0
“A so-called ‘law enforcement official’” 0
Mississippi forensics: corner-cutting coroners? 1
“Have You Lost Money In the Stock Market?” 0
More on the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund 0
Napoli Bern sues disgruntled client 1
Grand Theft Auto: Class Action - The Frank Brief 16
New York court: proof of insurance fraud doesn’t entitle insurance companies to summary judgment 1
Annals of zero tolerance: empty bullet casing 10
Why a law-firm partner should be careful about to whom he grants signature authority 5
Hoist by his own petard? The case of Jack Tuckner and Lisa Brockington 6
Florida Bar recommends disbarment for Jack Thompson 5
Ignatius on trial bar scandals; New Yorker on Scruggs 1
June 5 roundup 1
Tracy Barker v. Ali Mokhtare 0
Metal baseball bats, cont’d 0
“Patent Failure” 2
Overlawyering in venture startups 3
A right to a jury consultant? 2
Breaking: New Jersey Supreme Court rejects Vioxx medical monitoring class action 0
Sebok on the Rhode Island Supreme Court lead paint arguments 2
“The paid plaintiffs and their corrupt attorneys” 1
McCain-Feingold and the Fieger acquittal 1
Hot coffee data point: Thomas Skaggs v. Pilot Travel Center 0
Kenneth Mollins, attorney for peanut-suer Tehmina Haque 4
Economists’ amicus brief in Wyeth v. Levine 2
“They served peanuts anyway…” 7
Welcome TWEN readers 0
Update: Trespass atop rail car, win $24 million 4
Public Citizen and Arbitration: the case of Alex Karakhanov 21
Intentional infliction of emotional distress 3
“They can’t bring my dog back…” 4
Weiss sentenced to 30 months 1
Fieger gets off 9
Hospital bill-collecting and med-mal claims 3
Indian land claim roundup 4
Another victim in the Kentucky fen-phen settlement fraud 2
May 2008, a look back 0
We were counting on you for favorable testimony, cont’d 0
Deep Pocket Files: beer defendants kick in $21 million in R.I. fire 7
Jurors’ trauma 2
The exception to “all publicity is good publicity” 3
Fieger jury deliberates 2
Vioxx: Mark Lanier’s smears of the Ernst v. Merck judges 2
Canadian tobacconist: sued if you do… 4
What liberal media bias? Part DCCXV 15
Client-chasing roundup 3
“Mother Teresa, move aside” 6
Breaking and exclusive: FACTA held unconstitutional 2
Breaking: Merck wins two more Vioxx cases on appeal 7
Doesn’t Even Leave The Airport 15
Thomas Bentey v. St. Thomas University Law School update 3
Turkewitz April Fools joke still paying dividends 2
Blogosphere on Grand Theft Auto class action 1
May 28 roundup 1
More tweaks to the site 0
Stripper: getting tipsy was part of my job 1
Another thought on Waddah Mustapha v. Culligan of Canada, the fly-in-bottled-water case 14
Barack Obama and tort reform: is he really bipartisan? 10
New features: browse by tag, related posts 0
“Whatever is Greek, wherever in the world, we want back.” 2
Mark Steyn on the suing-OPEC bill 4
Defensive medicine debate 1
Kentucky fen-phen judge bought silence of plaintiff objector 2
Grand Theft Auto: Class Action Settlement - $26,505 for the unrepresented class, $1 million fee request 11
Shugar Law Offices want your business 0
Alex Beam on Eskimo global-warming suit 1
Red light cameras, cont’d 5
Judges to doctors’ rescue? 3
Site overhaul latest 0
Who’s linking to us this week? 0
Voter fraud: If Dahlia Lithwick repeats a lie often enough, maybe it will become true 13
Claim: allergic to wi-fi 16
Fingerprinting mortgage professionals? 0
Kentucky Fund for Healthy Living 0
$1.6 billion tax break for trial lawyers? 3
Texas overreached in snatching polygamy kids 1
Update: alt-weekly predatory pricing case 1
Canadian loses bottled-fly-in-water case 10
LifeLock class actions 3
Goodbye categories, hello tags 4
Marc Rodwin and the Massachusetts medical malpractice crisis 4
U.K.: Calling Scientology a “cult” 2
Congress: let’s sue OPEC 6
“Lawsuits that benefit only lawyers” 1
Judge: Jack Thompson guilty on 27 of 31 violations 1
Yoko Ono vs. Ben Stein 0
Sen. Cornyn introduces lessons-of-Lerach bill 1
In re Volkswagen en banc argument 3
Philadelphia civil service scandal 0
D.C. Circuit panel: paper money unfair to blind 18
Welcome New York Sun readers 0
Inside the Eskimo global-warming suit 3
Montgomery Blair Sibley suspended in DC 12
Doe v. MySpace lawsuit dismissal affirmed 2
Archives; welcome Google News readers; tags 0
May 19 roundup 2
California: Prop 98 and Prop 99 0
“Newark must pay $4.1 million for missteps in student’s death” 3
Shoemaker’s lawyers respond to Seidel 4
“Parents to Sue Maker of Metal Baseball Bats Over Son’s Injury” 24
Medical liability case selection 6
Update: BBC backs off 0
Kentucky fen-phen trial continues 0
“Why Doctors Are Heading for Texas” 14
“Chicago lifts ban on foie gras” 0
Overlawyering making America a laughingstock 0
Those share/save buttons; tagging posts 7
May 16 roundup 4
Khadijah Farmer v. Caliente Cab Co. 7
Larry Sinclair v. Barack Obama 5
Insulting Halloween tombstone display 13
$2 million suit: JetBlue made me sit on t