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 http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-7-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-7-roundup/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:33:12 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23723

Correct result, yet potential for mischief in latest SCOTUS climate ruling [Ilya Shapiro/Cato, my earlier take]

Wouldn’t even want to guess: how the Howard Stern show handles sexual harassment training [Hyman]

Philadelphia: $21 million award against emergency room handling noncompliant patient [Kennerly]

Antitrust assault on Google seems geared to protect competitors more than consumers [Josh Wright]

“They knew there was a risk!” Curb your indignation please [Coyote]

Theme issue of Reason magazine on failures of criminal justice system is now online;

“Why Your New Car Doesn’t Have a Spare Tire” [Sam Kazman, WSJ]

Tags: antitrust, autos, broadcasters, climate change, crime and punishment, emergency medicine, global warming, Google, harassment law, Philadelphia, safety

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Tags: broadcasters, disabled rights

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Interview with brewmaster of “Collaboration Not Litigation Ale” [Abnormal Use]

New “public trust” theory emerges in climate change litigation [Sean Wajert, Jim Huffman]

Who did the fact-checking? Questions over award to Harper’s journalist Scott Horton [Stimson, Heritage "Foundry", my '08 take]

“Nightmare scenario for higher education”: copyright case against Georgia State seeks sweeping injunction [Duke University Libraries]

“Vast wasteland” broadcast regulator: “Glenn Garvin scales and guts Newton Minow” [Miami Herald via @jackshafer]

Teacher in suburban DC still devastated by false abuse charges [WaPo, Lanny Davis, David Bernstein]

Sweetness and light: “Rising tide of litigation lifts [law] firms” [WSJ Law Blog]

Tags: beer and brewers, broadcasters, child abuse, climate change, colleges and universities, copyright

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Tags: broadcasters, Canada, movies film and videos

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Tags: broadcasters, gambling, New Jersey

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry may urge the state to take a step toward loser-pays [NJLRA]

“FCC push to regulate news draws fire” [The Hill]

Could litigation on behalf of Madoff victims get more than all their money back? [Salmon, more, NYT, Above the Law]

“Chevron Says Documents Show Ecuador Plaintiffs Worked With Government” [Dan Fisher/Forbes, more]

Organized trial lawyers expect to fare less well in next Congress, but prospects for actual liability reform remain slender [Joseph Weber/Wash. Times, Matthew Boyle/Daily Caller]

Mount Laurel rulings in New Jersey (towns given quotas to build low-income housing) described as “libertarian”, I express doubts [Hills, Prawfsblawg]

Criminal law’s revolving door: “prosecutors turn up the fire and then sell extinguishers” [Ribstein, TotM]

The wages of unconstitutionality: a Utah attorney’s curious fee niche [five years ago on Overlawyered]

Tags: Bernard Madoff, broadcasters, Chevron, loser pays, New Jersey, prosecution, Texas, Utah

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Dodd-Frank major oops: Faced with new liabilities, agencies refuse to let their ratings be used in bond issuance [WaPo, Salmon] SEC scurries to suspend requirement for six months while it figures out what to do [Salmon]

Left-leaning law lectern: study of newly hired lawprofs identifies 52 liberals, 8 conservatives [Caron, ABA Journal, Lindgren/Volokh]

“Progress in protecting gripe site owners against silly trademark claims” [Levy, CL&P]

“Congress Investigates Beck, Ingraham Advertisers” [Stoll]

“Uncle Sam Kicks Out Legal Immigrants for Down Profits in Recession” [Shapiro, Cato]

Judge punishes Goodyear for discovery heel-dragging by denying it chance to disprove liability in $32M case [Las Vegas Sun]

“$2.3M verdict against Dole thrown out on fraud grounds” [PoL, background]

Paul Campos vs. Elena Kagan: this time it’s personal [Lawyers Guns & Money]

Tags: broadcasters, discovery, Elena Kagan, immigration law, law schools, online speech, sanctions, trademarks, Wall Street

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Tags: broadcasters, disabled rights, music and musicians, United Kingdom

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“Teen beauty queen portrayed as spoiled brat on ‘Wife Swap’ files $100M lawsuit” [NY Daily News]

“Viva el cupcake!” NYC parents and kids protest the Bloomberg administration’s anti-bake-sale rules [Philissa Cramer, GothamSchools] Bill in Congress would thrust federal government much more deeply into school food issues [Al Tompkins, Poynter]

For improved disabled access to online resources, look to technical advance, not regulation [Szoka, City Journal]

“Ministry of Justice Rolls Out New Measures to Reform U.K. Libel Law” [Legal Week/Law.com] “Success Fees in U.K. Libel Cases to Be Slashed by 90 Percent” [same]

“They’re overlawyered. They’re poisoned by lawyers.” (Markopolos critique of SEC, cont’d) [Gordon Smith, Conglomerate]

A sentiment open to doubt: Prof. Freedman contends that lawyers’ ethics are higher than doctors’ [Legal Ethics Forum]

Quotas for women executives in boardroom and top corporate posts spread in Europe. Maybe someday here too? [NYT "Room for Debate"]

Yes to better indigent criminal defense, no to a court order taking over the subject [Greenfield]

Tags: broadcasters, ethics, NYC, obesity, racial quotas, schools, web accessibility

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Renewed attention to Amirault case contributed to Coakley’s political nosedive [e.g., Jacob Weisberg of Slate via Kaus, earlier] First time a Massachusetts prosecutor has paid a political price over that episode?

Many, many Democratic elected officials call for rethinking/renegotiating Obamacare rather than trying to force it through [e.g. Barney Frank] Blue Mass blogger: talk radio fueled ire at Coakley, let’s have FCC shut it down [Graham]

“Big Brother and the Salt Shaker” [NY Times "Room for Debate", Food Liability Law, earlier on NYC initiative and more] NYU’s Marion Nestle “loves” being called a nanny statist, so we’ll just go right on calling her that [Crispy on the Outside]

Terror suspects win right to seek compensation from UK government over restrictions on their activities [Canadian Press]

“Men Without Hats. Meaning no hard hats. Meaning The Safety Dance never met OSHA requirements. No wonder it was shut down.” [Tim Siedell a/k/a Bad Banana]

Italian judge orders father to go on paying $550/month living allowance to his student daughter, who is 32 [Guardian/SMH, earlier on laws mandating support of adult children]

Two informants vie for potential bonanza of whistleblower status against Johnson & Johnson [Frankel, AmLaw Litigation Daily]

“Polling Firm Says John Edwards Is Its Most Unpopular Person Ever” [Lowering the Bar]

Tags: Barney Frank, broadcasters, child abuse, child support, Italy, John Edwards, Massachusetts, nanny state, OSHA, prosecutorial abuse, safety, salt, terrorism, United Kingdom, whistleblowers

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