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 http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/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 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]

Tags: alcohol, autism, Canada, Maryland, publishers

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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]

Tags: autism, debtor-creditor law, music and musicians, New York, privacy, regulation and its reform

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/december-20-roundup-3/feed/ 0 http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/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]

Tags: autism, disabled rights, EEOC, hotels

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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]

Tags: autism, colleges and universities, don't, pharmaceuticals, psychiatry, tobacco

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-17-roundup/feed/ 2 http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/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 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).

Tags: autism, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., vaccines

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/salon-yanks-discredited-rfk-jr-vaccine-piece/feed/ 3 http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/wakefield%e2%80%99s-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 sue the vaccine industry. [Respectful Insolence, CNN, AP, Adler]

Tags: autism, junk science, vaccines

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/01/wakefield%e2%80%99s-article-linking-mmr-vaccine-and-autism-was-fraudulent/feed/ 16 http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/1-800-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 here]

Tags: autism, chiropractors, Florida, watch what you say about lawyers

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/1-800-ask-gary-firm-sues-lawyers-over-critical-blog/feed/ 0 http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/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]

Tags: autism, vaccines

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Tags: autism, libel slander and defamation, science and scientists

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Tags: autism, insurance, New York

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