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April 9 roundup

Walter Olson — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:12:25 +0000

Forfeiture-happy customs agents bedevil family flying to Ethiopia [Volokh]
Lawmakers, ABA ex-bigs back campaign to grant law license to illegal alien [Miami Herald]
“NYT reports the FDA is stunned democracy requires they answer to elected political leaders as part of enacting laws” [@CraigBruney]
When did doghouses become a crime? [Alex Ballingall/Maclean's via @amyalkon]
Why Tennessee, famous for distilleries, used to have so few of them [Nashville City Paper via @radleybalko]
ESPN tells only one side of Title IX story [Eric McErlain, Daily Caller; Saving Sports]
Greece: “At the health department they were told that all the shareholders of the company would have to provide chest X-rays” [Mark Perry]

Tags: alcohol, animal rights, bar associations, FDA, forfeiture, immigration law, regulation and its reform, Tennessee, Title IX

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March 15 roundup

Walter Olson — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:32:11 +0000

Part III of Radley Balko series on painkiller access [HuffPo]
“Note: Add ‘Judge’s Nameplate’ to List of Things Not to Steal” [Lowering the Bar]
California’s business-hostile climate: if the ADA mills don’t get you, other suits might [CACALA]
Bottom story of the month: ABA president backs higher legal services budget [ABA Journal]
After string of courtroom defeats, Teva pays to settle Nevada propofol cases [Oliver, earlier]
Voting Rights Act has outstayed its constitutional welcome [Ilya Shapiro/Cato] More: Stuart Taylor, Jr./The Atlantic.
Huge bust of what NY authorities say was $279 million crash-fraud ring NY Post, NYLJ, Business Insider, Turkewitz (go after dishonest docs on both sides)]

Tags: ADA filing mills, bar associations, California, crash faking, insurance fraud, legal services programs, New York, pharmaceuticals, Voting Rights Act

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Law schools roundup

Walter Olson — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:14:47 +0000

Second Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes, at AALS meeting, gives legal academics frank appraisal of where law school needs fixing, to the delight of many of us who’ve advanced a broadly similar critique [Caron, Above the Law, Sloan/NLJ]
“Let’s Regulate Harder. That’ll Provide More Jobs For Young Law Grads!” [my new Cato post, citing an official from the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT)]
ABA accreditation rules discourage reliance on less expensive (and often more practice-oriented) adjunct faculty [latest in David Segal series on law schools in New York Times; Catherine Dunn, Corporate Counsel] Plus: video of law school accreditation panel at Federalist Society national convention;
Law school without undergrad degree first? Many other advanced countries do it that way [McGinnis and Mangas, Northwestern dean Dan Rodriguez response, M&M rejoinder; ABA Journal on views of NYLS's Rick Matasar] Yet more on law school reform [Jim Chen via Caron, Caron, Mark Yzaguirre, Frum Forum]
Complete point-counterpoint at ELF last summer on Tulane law clinic fracas (I’m counterpoint) [ELF]
Why not rob the rich? Ask Prof. Leiter [Sullivan]
Does law and economics amount to “studies in social engineering”? [Kenneth Anderson]

Tags: bar associations, law schools, Second Circuit

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Law schools roundup

Walter Olson — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:13:04 +0000

New York Times sets off furor with article on role of ABA accreditation in driving up law school costs, a theme explored by several recent authors including me in Schools for Misrule [David Segal/NYT, Somin, Bader/Examiner, Above the Law, Gideon Kanner, Matt Leichter/AmLaw, Macchiarola/Minding the Campus, Brian Tamanaha (on ABA dispute with fledgling Duncan Law School)] ABA president claims high tuitions unrelated to accreditation rules [Reuters]
Related: “Data Show Feds Will Lend $54.3 Billion to U.S. Law Schools by 2020″ [Matt Leichter, AmLaw]
The politics of the AALS, which just held its annual meeting in Washington [Bainbridge repost]
Former North Dakota attorney general files spate of age bias suits after many schools turn him down for law professor position [TaxProf, earlier]
“Some Words of Advice for Law Students, from 1811” [Kyle Graham (Santa Clara), guestblogging at Concurring Opinions last month; among topics of Graham's other posts were the famous tort case of Summers v. Tice and suspect kinds of law review articles]
Prof. Lawrence Connell’s fight with Widener U. and its offended dean in “wild hypotheticals” case [Hans Bader/Minding The Campus, earlier here, here, etc.]

Tags: age discrimination, bar associations, colleges and universities, law schools

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January 3 roundup

Walter Olson — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 05:16:13 +0000

Popehat’s Ken to the rescue after Maine lawyer/lawmaker assists naturopath in bullying critical blogger [Popehat]
Newt’s “patriotism made me stray” among highlights of the year in blame-shifting [Jacob Sullum]
Nifong sidekick, now in a spot of legal bother himself, hits back with lawsuit [K C Johnson, Durham in Wonderland]
Shareholder action: “Delaware approves $285 Million in Plaintiffs’ Lawyers’ Fees” [Bainbridge, WSJ Deal Journal, WSJ Law Blog]
“Even one death is too many — WE MUST BAN NETI POTS!” [NYDN via Christopher Tozzo]
Debatable premise of Joe Nocera analysis on Stephen Glass case: bar admission turn-down = “rest of his life … destroyed” [NYT, Howard Wasserman/Prawfs, earlier]
Who says Connecticut never reforms liability? Towns won protection last year from some recreation-land tort exposure [CFPA, earlier here, here]

Tags: bar associations, bloggers and the law, Connecticut, Delaware, Duke lacrosse, recreation, safety

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December 12 roundup

Walter Olson — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 05:04:59 +0000

Liability suits bankrupt manufacturer of gasoline cans [Tulsa World]
Faces life imprisonment: “Greece’s statistics chief faces criminal probe” for “not cooking the books” [FT via @OlafStorbeck]
Man injured by runaway car can sue county on grounds bus shelter was built too close to street [Seattle Times]
Title IX trips up track teams [Saving Sports: Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland]
“‘Not gay enough’ softball players settle suit” [SF Chron]
Now it’s the Obama administration that’s upset with ABA over ratings of judicial nominees [Whelan]
Lawyer kiosks in UK newsstands [Knake, LEF] Lawyers open kiosk at Florida mall [ABA Journal]

Tags: bar associations, judicial nominations, Oklahoma, product liability, roads and streets, Title IX

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Law schools roundup

Walter Olson — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 12:10:10 +0000

“A Dean’s Lament: I Wish I Had Never Gone to Law School” [Chen via Caron] Critiques of law schools go way (way, way) back [Dave Hoffman, ConcurOp]
“ProfScam” blogger with provocative critique of legal academia reveals self as Paul Campos of Colorado [Kerr, Horwitz, Conglomerate, Ribstein, Lat] Lawprof cage match, Campos vs. Leiter — go Campos! [Caron, Campos, Greenfield]
To deregulate legal services, start with law school accreditation [Winston/Crandall, WSJ] More views [Tim Lynch, Greenfield, Bader]
Law school placement data scandal: here come the class action lawyers [TaxProf] ABA’s Villanova censure a venture in “atmospherics of disclosure” [Dave Hoffman, ConcurOp]
“The no-frills law school” [Roger Dennis, Faculty Lounge] What drives law school tuition? [Orin Kerr]
Per one critic, Liberty lawprof’s book on Miller-Jenkins case “justifies parental kidnapping and flouting the American judicial system” [BTB]
NYSBA president on law schools: “Our research and our own experience show that graduates are less prepared to practice law” [WSJ] Evidence as a mere elective? What are law schools thinking? [Greenfield]
Take a stroll with the law dean on his walk to work — but sign a release form first [ABA Journal]
“Blame the lawyers and law schools” [Bob Ingle, Asbury Park (N.J.) Press, thanks for mention of Schools for Misrule]

Tags: bar associations, law schools, Miller-Jenkins case

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Welcome radio listeners, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin readers

Walter Olson — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:08:31 +0000

I’ll be appearing this morning on KARN in Little Rock, Ark., WRVA in Richmond, Va., and WTIC in New Haven/Hartford, Ct., to discuss my New York Daily News op-ed on McDonald’s and Campbell’s changes in their food line-ups following pressure from nutritional crusaders in public office. And I was quoted by reporter Jerry Crimmins July 22 in the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin on accreditation of law schools and lawyer oversupply (“ABA responds to senator’s criticisms,” subscriber paywall).

Tags: bar associations, law schools, on TV and radio

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Law schools roundup

Walter Olson — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 17:07:01 +0000

Looks as if ROTC will return to Yale and Harvard despite some misgivings at the latter institution over the military’s treatment of transgendered persons [Atlantic Wire, Weekly Standard; also see my Daily Caller interview]
California state bar urges U.S. News to factor racial diversity into law school rankings [Althouse]
Right-of-center commentators clash on Ninth Circuit nomination of Berkeley lawprof Goodwin Liu [Damon Root, Reason]
Odds of this resulting purely from chance distribution would seem pretty low: of 32 members of Congress who have Harvard degrees, 29 are Democrats [Stoll, Future of Capitalism]
Rather disrespectful review of new Ronald Dworkin book [Simon Blackburn, Times Higher Ed]
There’ll always be a legal academia dept.: “Multidimensional Masculinities and Law: A Colloquium” [UNLV/Suffolk via LaborProf]

Tags: bar associations, Harvard, law schools, military

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Claim: it’s “open season” for saying bad things about lawyers

Walter Olson — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 05:04:20 +0000

And that’s just so unfair, according to Lester Tate, president of the State Bar of Georgia. After all, it’s not as if lawyers have a lot of power or behave aggressively or hurtfully toward anyone else, right? “Particularly abhorrent are the attacks that come from candidates who are lawyers themselves.” Where’s their professional solidarity? [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]

Tags: bar associations, Georgia, lawyers

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