Overlawyered » Arkansas http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 November 23 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-23-roundup-4/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-23-roundup-4/#comments Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:02:02 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25696
  • Big win for Ted Frank against cy pres slush funds [CCAF, Fisher, Zywicki, CL&P, @tedfrank ("Ninth Circuit rules in my favor ... but I still think I'm right".)]
  • “Can the Vatican Be Subject to ICC Prosecution?” [Ku/OJ]
  • “Tennessee: ATS Sues City Over Right Turn Ticket Money” [The Newspaper]
  • “Law firms dominating campaign contributions to Obama” [WaPo]
  • Does that mean it’s an entitlement? Punitive damage limits face constitutional challenges in Arkansas, Missouri [Cal Punitives]
  • Businessman sues to silence critical blogger, case is dismissed, now files suit #2 [Scott Greenfield]
  • Going Hollywood? “The Supreme Court should move to Los Angeles” [Conor Friedersdorf]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/update-roundup/feed/ 1     July 26 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-26-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-26-roundup/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:55:23 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24014
  • Murder victim’s family sues Schwarzenegger for commuting sentence [KTXL]
  • Easter egg in Dodd-Frank: Lawmaker’s pet “conflict minerals” proposal, to be enforced by SEC [Protess] More on costs to automakers and others: WLF, Carter Wood, more. Further: Bader.
  • Push is on again for fashion design copyright protection [NYT, earlier] Another skeptical view of bill [Katy Tasker, Public Knowledge]
  • Charges dropped against woman who videotaped cops from her front yard [Rochester D&C]
  • “Mom Charged with ‘Child Endangerment’ When Tot Wanders Off” [Free-Range Kids]
  • Live off the land? Better not try that in rural L.A. County [Cavanaugh]
  • Does the U.S. maintain diplomatic relations with this strange realm of “Gould, Arkansas”? [Volokh, Underhill/Forbes]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-26-roundup/feed/ 4     Attorney general slush funds, cont’d http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/attorney-general-slush-funds-contd/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/attorney-general-slush-funds-contd/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 12:07:59 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23994 It’s surprising there isn’t more controversy over state AGs’ frequent practice of using moneys from lawsuit settlements for their own favored causes (as opposed to, say, handing it over to the state treasury). Now Arkansas AG Dustin McDaniel is drawing criticism for his funneling of cy pres funds to politically advantageous causes that don’t happen to have been voted appropriations by the state legislature [John Brummett, Arkansas News; Dan Greenberg, The Arkansas Project, and followup]

    P.S. Related on cy pres in private class actions: Dan Popeo, WLF (Google Buzz settlement); Michael Tremoglie, LNL; Ted Frank.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/attorney-general-slush-funds-contd/feed/ 2     Life imitates legal cliche: injury plaintiff winds up owning amusement park http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/life-imitates-legal-cliche-injury-plaintiff-winds-up-owning-amusement-park/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/life-imitates-legal-cliche-injury-plaintiff-winds-up-owning-amusement-park/#comments Fri, 06 May 2011 05:12:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22866 Pruett Nance was hurt riding an all-terrain vehicle on the grounds of a no-longer-operating theme park in Arkansas, Dogpatch USA. The owners having not paid a $650,000 judgment, a judge has awarded Nance ownership of the park. [Arkansas Online via Childs, TortsProf]

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  • Time to put teeth back into sanctions: more on reintroduction in Congress of LARA, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act [Wajert, Wood, more, earlier]
  • RFK-Jr.-&-friends watch: Environmentalists wrangle in court over “keeper” monicker [Coleman]
  • More on Chicago school that bars home-brought lunches [Adler, Welch, earlier]
  • Definition of “cyber-bullying” in newly passed Arkansas bill could imperil legitimate speech [Volokh] Related: Harvey Silverglate video.
  • Thoughts on a new Hungarian constitution [Ilya Shapiro, Cato at Liberty]
  • Court reveals Righthaven’s operating agreement with client newspaper chain [Legal Satyricon, PaidContent, Las Vegas Sun]
  • Cops: Ohio man stole gavel from judge [Lorain Chronicle-Telegram, Smoking Gun]
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  • “Woman Sues Adidas After Fall She Blames on Sticky Shoes” [Lowering the Bar]
  • Texas lawmakers file loser pays proposals [SE Tex Record] Actual scope of proposals hard to discern through funhouse lens of NYT reporting [PoL] Marie Gryphon testimony on loser-pays proposals in Arkansas [Manhattan Institute, related]
  • Google awarded patent on changing of logo for special days [Engadget via Coyote]
  • “Civil Gideon in Deadbeat Dad Cases Would Be ‘Massive’ Change, Lawyer Tells Justices” [Weiss, ABA Journal, Legal Ethics Forum]
  • Amateur-hour crash-fakers in Bronx didn’t reckon on store surveillance camera [NY Post]
  • “Plaintiffs’ Lawyers in Cobell Defend $223M Fee Request” [BLT]
  • Show of harm not needed: FDA kicks another 500 or so legacy drugs off market, this time in the cold-and-cough area [WaPo]
  • “Wal-Mart v. Dukes: Rough Justice Without Due Process” [Andrew Trask, WLF]
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  • Gender imbalance in Wikipedia and geographic bees? Find something else to worry about [Heather Mac Donald, Slate, via Secular Right; Perry] “On Equality: The Anti-Interference Principle” [Donald Kochan, Chapman, SSRN]
  • High-profile NY attorney suspended after “avalanche” of complaints [Turkewitz, more]
  • Credit unions vs. class action lawyers [Funnell]
  • Obligation to use club cards to facilitate recalls? CSPI’s strange lawsuit against Safeway [Goldfarb, Food Liability Law]
  • “Arkansas Justice Has a Generous Lawyer Friend, Disclosure Forms Reveal” [Weiss, ABA Journal]
  • NYC pols plan regulatory squeeze on popular inter-city “Chinatown bus” operators [DNAInfo, Reason]
  • “Kentucky appeals court reverses $42 million fen-phen fraud judgment” [Courier-Journal, PoL]
  • $1,500 per lead brought in: why you see so many mesothelioma ads on the web [three years ago on Overlawyered]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/february-17-roundup/feed/ 0     Litigation slush funds, cont’d: Arkansas http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/litigation-slush-funds-contd-arkansas/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/litigation-slush-funds-contd-arkansas/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:21:39 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=18761 Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has bestowed $100,000 to assist in construction of the Arkansas Fallen Firefighters Memorial on the grounds of the state Capitol. The money came from the settlement of a lawsuit against the Pfizer drug concern, the connection of which to the cause of fallen firefighters is at best obscure. [Arkansas Online]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/litigation-slush-funds-contd-arkansas/feed/ 0     December 4 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2009/12/december-4-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/12/december-4-roundup/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:53:28 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=15014
  • Insurance mandate or no, New Jersey specialists tending to duck out of high-legal-risk procedures like mammography [Amy Handlin, Gloucester County Times via NJLRA]
  • Audi redux, or something different this time? L.A. Times endorses charges of sudden acceleration against Toyota [Holman Jenkins/WSJ, FindLaw "Injured"]
  • Ghastly idea of the year: Rep. Waxman wants federal government to be “responsible” for fixing journalism [Coyote, Bainbridge]
  • “Arkansas Judge Tosses Defamation Lawsuit Against Dixie Chicks Over ‘West Memphis Three’ Letter” [Citizen Media Law, Longstreth/American Lawyer]
  • Judge Weinstein: falsification by arresting officers seems “widespread” in NYPD [Balko, Greenfield]
  • U.K.: Carbon ration cards? [Krauthammer]
  • Nova Scotia, Canada: “A Couple in their 70s Wave at A Kid…And In Swoop the Cops” [Free-Range Kids]
  • Barbra Streisand loses suit over aerial photo of her Malibu home taken by environmental group; by suing, she ensures that many thousands more people will see the photograph, in what is dubbed “Streisand effect” [six years ago on Overlawyered]
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