Overlawyered » animal rights http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 February 9 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-9-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-9-roundup-3/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:07:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27470
  • Ninth Circuit panel strikes down California’s Prop 8 [Volokh, Kerr, Magliocca, Lithwick, Steve Chapman]
  • Judge dismisses PETA “killer whales enslaved” case [Caroline May/Daily Caller, CNN, earlier]
  • “Patent Troll Claims Ownership of Interactive Web – And Might Win” [Joe Mullin/Wired, earlier; more on testimony by Web father Tim Berners-Lee] Update: Ding Dong! Jury rejects claim;
  • “Further Analysis of the Bottle-Rocket Case” [Lowering the Bar, earlier]
  • As patients suffer: “The War Over Prescription Painkillers,” start of a Radley Balko series [HuffPo parts one, two so far]
  • Richard Epstein on federal fiat and Yale disciplinary procedure [Defining Ideas] Under new-style rules at Yale, will a professor even be aware he’s been accused and henceforth is to be “monitored”? [KC Johnson]
  • Jim Copland testimony on abuses in government contingent-fee litigation [Manhattan Institute, PDF] “Parens patriae” proposal to replace class actions with state attorney general suits, but with private entrepreneurial bar still in saddle [Adam Zimmerman/Prawfs on Myriam Gilles/Gary Friedman, SSRN]
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  • Senate takes a bathroom break for five minutes, and Obama uses recess appointments to install unconfirmable nominees. Legal? [Roger Pilon via National Right To Work, Richard Epstein, Mark Calabria, Adler link roundup]. What the New York Times thought back then about recess appointments; what it thinks now.
  • Pepsi defense: our bottling would have dissolved that dead mouse into something jelly-like [Althouse, MC Record via AW]
  • Federal panel proposes slashing definitional thresholds so as to enable diagnosing of hundreds of thousands of new child lead poisoning cases [AP]
  • “Appeals Court Rules Husband Can Be Charged Criminally For Reading Wife’s Email” [Doug Mataconis, Outside the Beltway]
  • Its original goals accomplished, Voting Rights Act “preclearance” lurches on. SCOTUS should review [Cato amicus brief by Ilya Shapiro and Anna Mackin, further]
  • “‘Karma’ Facebook post leads to criminal charges” [Fox Tampa via Balko]
  • As senator, Santorum sought extensive new federal powers to regulate pet dealing, scaring many animal rescue groups [NCRAOA, PDF]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/january-6-roundup-2/feed/ 2     By reader acclaim: “PETA Sues SeaWorld for ‘Enslaving’ Killer Whales” http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/by-reader-acclaim-peta-sues-seaworld-for-enslaving-killer-whales/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/by-reader-acclaim-peta-sues-seaworld-for-enslaving-killer-whales/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:07:58 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25281 “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is accusing the SeaWorld parks of keeping five star-performer whales in conditions that violate the 13th Amendment ban on slavery. SeaWorld depicted the suit as baseless.” The action may further an “ongoing, intense debate at America’s law schools over expansion of animal rights.” [AP; related on that academic background, including the role of star lawprofs like Cass Sunstein and Larry Tribe, here, here, here, and here]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/by-reader-acclaim-peta-sues-seaworld-for-enslaving-killer-whales/feed/ 11     September 29 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/september-29-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/september-29-roundup-2/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 05:57:37 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24756
  • ABA, NFIB protest NLRB “persuader” disclosure regulations [ABA Journal, Schwartz, earlier] Might regs place replacement workers’ home addresses in hands of unions? [Labor Union Report, Boyle, Daily Caller]
  • Swiss animal welfare law is catalyst for founding of guinea pig matchmaking service [Spiegel/Cowen]
  • “Jail time for overdue library books” [Lowering the Bar]
  • Busybody lawprof (at a different law school) continues to sue Catholic U. demanding coed dorms [WSJ Law Blog, Mystal/AtL]
  • So does air pollution cause childhood asthma, as the American Lung Association claims in its ads? [Hayward] “Obama’s Smog Standard Capitulation Enrages Environmentalists” [AW]
  • A look inside the Shell Nigeria Alien Tort cases [Goldhaber, AmLaw]
  • In the mail: Garner’s Dictionary of Legal Usage (Bryan Garner)
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/september-29-roundup-2/feed/ 7     Pet shop banners http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/pet-shop-banners/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/pet-shop-banners/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:10:15 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23615 The San Francisco board of supervisors will consider a measure that would ban the sale of all pets in the city [L.A. Times, Outdoor Life, Telegraph (U.K.)] (& welcome Above the Law readers)

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/pet-shop-banners/feed/ 3     Banning hidden farm videos? http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/banning-hidden-farm-videos/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/banning-hidden-farm-videos/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 19:10:55 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22963 Lawmakers in at least three states have proposed new laws criminalizing the taking of photos on farms without permission of the owner — and sometimes going much further than that, too. The idea is to stop animal-welfare activists from compiling unauthorized footage of allegedly inhumane conditions. I comment on that — and on some related photography and farm issues — at Cato at Liberty.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/banning-hidden-farm-videos/feed/ 3     Farm animal treatment: letting states and markets sort it out http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/farm-animal-treatment-letting-states-and-markets-sort-it-out/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/farm-animal-treatment-letting-states-and-markets-sort-it-out/#comments Tue, 10 May 2011 23:20:28 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22939 The New York Times’s “Room for Debate” feature has a round table up on the movement for more humane treatment of farm animals and invited me to participate. I argue that local variation in laws and the emergence of distinct markets for humanely raised meat are preferable to calls for federal government intervention. More: Tom Laskawy, Grist; and see my Cato follow-on post referenced here.

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  • Suffolk County, New York’s new animal abuse registry [Scott Greenfield and more vs. Elie Mystal]
  • Examining Dems’ “flood of outside campaign money” claims [Baseball Crank, Sullum]
  • “Reverse bill stuffer” turns tables on firms’ efforts to amend fine print [David Horton, Prawfs]
  • Occupational licensure and economic sclerosis in Greece [NYT]
  • Phoenix cops’ unsettling evidence-plant “joke” [Coyote]
  • Legal Left trying to set up argument for Thomas recusal on Obamacare challenge? [Steele, LEF]
  • “How Fannie and Freddie Became a $363 Billion Liability” [John Hudson, Atlantic Wire]
  • “Lawsuit of the Day: Kid Injured by ‘Deleterious’ Hot Sauce” [Legal Blog Watch]
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  • San Francisco considers, then tables, ban on pet sales at stores [Amy Alkon]
  • Florida: we’ll pull you into our courts as an online-defamation defendant even if you’ve never set foot here [CBS4.com]
  • Bratz case: “Alex Kozinski gives Barbie a spanking” [AtL]
  • GEICO launches counterattack against crash fraud in New York [PoL]
  • When a lawyer sues the wrong doctor: hey, isn’t everyone entitled to mistakes now and then? [American Medical News, sanctions affirmed in Virginia case]
  • “[Congressman Alan] Grayson’s shakedown lawsuit threatens D.C. business” [LaFetra, PLF/Examiner]
  • Asbestos: Do component makers have a duty to warn about other manufacturers’ hazardous products? [Cal Biz Lit and two followups on California decisions, NAM and Levy Phillips & Konigsberg on a since-settled New York case against Foster Wheeler]
  • Subsidies for durum wheat flowed in happy circle for everyone but taxpayer and consumer [Mark Perry]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/07/july-24-roundup/feed/ 3     High court strikes animal cruelty video ban as overbroad http://overlawyered.com/2010/04/high-court-strikes-animal-cruelty-video-ban-as-overbroad/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/04/high-court-strikes-animal-cruelty-video-ban-as-overbroad/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:31:28 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=17025 Discussion: GadsdenflagKen at Popehat, Ilya Shapiro at Cato at Liberty, and Eugene Volokh in several posts. Our earlier coverage is here. More: Writing for the Capital Research Center, Neil Maghami finds the Humane Society of the U.S. not so warm and fuzzy, policy-wise.

    (For the Gadsden flag as illustration idea, h/t Above the Law.)

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