Overlawyered » autism http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sun, 27 May 2012 14:01:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 February 3 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-3-roundup-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=february-3-roundup-3 http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-3-roundup-3/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:10:50 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27321 Judge blocks California budget cuts re: in-home services for disabled [Mercury News] Media exploited her daughter for titillation, claims suit by mother of “Toddlers & Tiaras” star [Above the Law] Narrower definition of autism ahead? [Althouse] “Police Charge Canadian Blogger With Criminal Libel for Criticizing the Police” [Sullum, Popehat] Prince George’s County, Maryland, wants to [...]

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  • Judge blocks California budget cuts re: in-home services for disabled [Mercury News]
  • Media exploited her daughter for titillation, claims suit by mother of “Toddlers & Tiaras” star [Above the Law]
  • Narrower definition of autism ahead? [Althouse]
  • “Police Charge Canadian Blogger With Criminal Libel for Criticizing the Police” [Sullum, Popehat]
  • Prince George’s County, Maryland, wants to ban liquor deliveries; no harm linked to them, but you can’t be too sure [Ben Giles, Washington Examiner] Centers for Disease Control’s curious definition of “binge” drinking [Sullum]
  • The law of authors’ liability for inaccurate memoirs [Mark Fowler, Rights Of Writers; earlier here, etc.]
  • “Diagnosing Liability: The Legal History of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder” [Deirdre M. Smith, SSRN via TortsProf]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-3-roundup-3/feed/ 1     December 20 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-20-roundup-3/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=december-20-roundup-3 http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-20-roundup-3/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:09:35 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26263 No regulatory surge under Obama? Check the numbers please [WSJ edit, James Gattuso/Heritage] Now online: Federalist Society convention panels on regulation [Cass et al, Epstein et al] “House passes REINS Act, president promises veto” [Adler, Mike Kelsey/Heritage] Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act “dying in Senate committee” [PoL] Study: NY municipalities battered by litigation [Sydney [...]

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  • No regulatory surge under Obama? Check the numbers please [WSJ edit, James Gattuso/Heritage] Now online: Federalist Society convention panels on regulation [Cass et al, Epstein et al] “House passes REINS Act, president promises veto” [Adler, Mike Kelsey/Heritage] Regulation Moratorium and Jobs Preservation Act “dying in Senate committee” [PoL]
  • Study: NY municipalities battered by litigation [Sydney Cresswell & Michael Landon-Murray, Rockefeller/Albany, PDF]
  • Dodd-Frank and corporate credit [David Henderson]
  • Inside the great Las Vegas condo-board-takeover scam [Bloomberg, earlier]
  • “Copyright Law and European Compilations of U.S. Jazz Recordings” [Kerr, Volokh]
  • Autism-care cheat: “Former MoFo Partner Draws 12-Month Sentence in Fraud Case” [Recorder]
  • Would privacy torts do better? Jim Harper on the Fair Credit Reporting Act [Cato Institute, PDF]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-20-roundup-3/feed/ 0     Hotel chain will pay $132,500 for dismissing autistic desk clerk http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/hotel-chain-will-pay-132500-for-dismissing-autistic-desk-clerk/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hotel-chain-will-pay-132500-for-dismissing-autistic-desk-clerk http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/hotel-chain-will-pay-132500-for-dismissing-autistic-desk-clerk/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 18:07:04 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25922 The EEOC says Comfort Suites dismissed the clerk when it should instead have accepted the services of a state-paid “job coach” who might have “helped the clerk learn to master his job by using autism-specific training techniques.” [EEOC press release, Fox San Diego] Tweet Tags: autism, disabled rights, EEOC, hotels

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    ]]>     The EEOC says Comfort Suites dismissed the clerk when it should instead have accepted the services of a state-paid “job coach” who might have “helped the clerk learn to master his job by using autism-specific training techniques.” [EEOC press release, Fox San Diego]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/hotel-chain-will-pay-132500-for-dismissing-autistic-desk-clerk/feed/ 12     November 17 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=november-17-roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/#comments Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:25:20 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25586 Executive with “Autism Speaks” group quits to found group more aligned with scientific opinion on cause of condition [SciAm] Here comes the ban-cigarettes-entirely crusade [Peter Singer on forthcoming Robert Proctor "Golden Holocaust"] “Parents try to blame Four Loko for son getting shot” [Elie Mystal, Above the Law] Still-relevant cartoon from ’30s on Federal War on [...]

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  • Executive with “Autism Speaks” group quits to found group more aligned with scientific opinion on cause of condition [SciAm]
  • Here comes the ban-cigarettes-entirely crusade [Peter Singer on forthcoming Robert Proctor "Golden Holocaust"] “Parents try to blame Four Loko for son getting shot” [Elie Mystal, Above the Law] Still-relevant cartoon from ’30s on Federal War on Drugs (or Booze, take your pick) [Perry]
  • Controversy over definition of medical disorders in DSM-V has implications for workplace law including ADA, FMLA [Labor Related, petition]
  • “Not Safe to Display an American Flag in an American High School” [Volokh]
  • “Criminal Defense Lawyer Charged in Alleged $1.5M Fraud On Clients Obtained Under False Pretenses” [ABA Journal, Greenfield; Texas]
  • Father of Notre Dame student who died says family never considered suing [Chicago Tribune]
  • “The Ignominious End Of The Digitek Mass Tort” [Beck]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/feed/ 2     Salon yanks discredited RFK Jr. vaccine piece http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/salon-yanks-discredited-rfk-jr-vaccine-piece/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=salon-yanks-discredited-rfk-jr-vaccine-piece http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/salon-yanks-discredited-rfk-jr-vaccine-piece/#comments Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:48:32 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=20986 Six years late, the online publication is throwing in the towel on a notorious venture into antiscientific claptrap by America’s Most Irresponsible Public Figure®, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Meanwhile, Carter at Point of Law reports that the newly civility-aware celebrity environmentalist will be headlining a “Progressive Voices Cruise” of the Caribbean that by total coincidence [...]

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    ]]>     Six years late, the online publication is throwing in the towel on a notorious venture into antiscientific claptrap by America’s Most Irresponsible Public Figure®, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Meanwhile, Carter at Point of Law reports that the newly civility-aware celebrity environmentalist will be headlining a “Progressive Voices Cruise” of the Caribbean that by total coincidence will also feature attorney Michael Papantonio, with whose Levin Papantonio injury-law firm the hothead scion has long been associated, a connection curiously absent from his current Wikipedia page and most other coverage (& welcome Jonathan Adler readers).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/salon-yanks-discredited-rfk-jr-vaccine-piece/feed/ 3     “Wakefield’s article linking MMR vaccine and autism was fraudulent” http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/wakefield%e2%80%99s-article-linking-mmr-vaccine-and-autism-was-fraudulent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wakefield%25e2%2580%2599s-article-linking-mmr-vaccine-and-autism-was-fraudulent http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/wakefield%e2%80%99s-article-linking-mmr-vaccine-and-autism-was-fraudulent/#comments Thu, 06 Jan 2011 12:36:27 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=20841 A British Medical Journal editorial confirms that scientific misconduct by then-Dr. Andrew Wakefield was even worse than previously assumed. The resulting media-fueled panic led parents to refuse vaccination in large numbers, and childhood scourges such as measles soared as a result, with disability and even death resulting. Wakefield was being financed by lawyers hoping to [...]

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    ]]>     A British Medical Journal editorial confirms that scientific misconduct by then-Dr. Andrew Wakefield was even worse than previously assumed. The resulting media-fueled panic led parents to refuse vaccination in large numbers, and childhood scourges such as measles soared as a result, with disability and even death resulting. Wakefield was being financed by lawyers hoping to sue the vaccine industry. [Respectful Insolence, CNN, AP, Adler]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/wakefield%e2%80%99s-article-linking-mmr-vaccine-and-autism-was-fraudulent/feed/ 16     “1-800-Ask-Gary firm sues lawyers over critical blog” http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/1-800-ask-gary-firm-sues-lawyers-over-critical-blog/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=1-800-ask-gary-firm-sues-lawyers-over-critical-blog http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/1-800-ask-gary-firm-sues-lawyers-over-critical-blog/#comments Sat, 06 Nov 2010 10:59:12 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=20012 “Three lawyers say they were just engaging in legitimate speech about the 1-800-Ask-Gary [lawyer-referral] hot line. Not amused, the people behind Ask Gary sued.” [Tampa Tribune] Separately, the hotline’s founder, Sarasota chiropractor Gary Kompothecras, has drawn press attention for the active role he’s taken in the autism-vaccine wars. [Miami New Times and followups here and [...]

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    ]]>     “Three lawyers say they were just engaging in legitimate speech about the 1-800-Ask-Gary [lawyer-referral] hot line. Not amused, the people behind Ask Gary sued.” [Tampa Tribune] Separately, the hotline’s founder, Sarasota chiropractor Gary Kompothecras, has drawn press attention for the active role he’s taken in the autism-vaccine wars. [Miami New Times and followups here and here]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/1-800-ask-gary-firm-sues-lawyers-over-critical-blog/feed/ 0     “No implied concession about autism” http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/no-implied-concession-about-autism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-implied-concession-about-autism http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/no-implied-concession-about-autism/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:17:28 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19270 Such at least is one reading of the federal government’s unusual decision to settle the Hannah Poling vaccine compensation claim [Michael Krauss at PoL] Tweet Tags: autism, vaccines

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    ]]>     Such at least is one reading of the federal government’s unusual decision to settle the Hannah Poling vaccine compensation claim [Michael Krauss at PoL]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/no-implied-concession-about-autism/feed/ 0     Lab sues Stephen Barrett (QuackWatch) http://overlawyered.com/2010/07/lab-sues-stephen-barrett-quackwatch/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lab-sues-stephen-barrett-quackwatch http://overlawyered.com/2010/07/lab-sues-stephen-barrett-quackwatch/#comments Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:17:30 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=18039 At his highly interesting QuackWatch site, where he is scathingly critical of many alternative therapies, Stephen Barrett has expressed the view that some tests frequently prescribed by “chelation” practitioners (who address a variety of ills through techniques designed to remove heavy metals from the body) are inaccurate and misleading. Now a laboratory of which Barrett [...]

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    ]]>     At his highly interesting QuackWatch site, where he is scathingly critical of many alternative therapies, Stephen Barrett has expressed the view that some tests frequently prescribed by “chelation” practitioners (who address a variety of ills through techniques designed to remove heavy metals from the body) are inaccurate and misleading. Now a laboratory of which Barrett has been critical has sued him and several related entities, demanding $10 million [QuackWatch, Respectful Insolence]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/07/lab-sues-stephen-barrett-quackwatch/feed/ 2     “Bill Passed in Albany to Make Insurers Pay for Autism Care” http://overlawyered.com/2010/06/bill-passed-in-albany-to-make-insurers-pay-for-autism-care/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bill-passed-in-albany-to-make-insurers-pay-for-autism-care http://overlawyered.com/2010/06/bill-passed-in-albany-to-make-insurers-pay-for-autism-care/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 15:57:05 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=18002 So puzzling and inexplicable that health insurance rates keep rising. [NYT] Tweet Tags: autism, insurance, New York

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    ]]>     So puzzling and inexplicable that health insurance rates keep rising. [NYT]

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