http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/judge-rejects-injured-beer-pong-champ/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/judge-rejects-injured-beer-pong-champ/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:11:27 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27461 “A New Jersey man who got so drunk playing beer pong at a Greenwich Village pub that he thought walking across a busy highway was a good idea cannot sue the bar over his injuries, a judge has ruled.” [Dareh Gregorian, NY Post]

Tags: alcohol, dramshop statutes, NYC, personal responsibility

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Tags: criminals who sue, dramshop statutes, personal responsibility

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Tags: dramshop statutes, personal responsibility, South Carolina

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Self-referent notice required by law on Florida vending machines might baffle onlooker [Popehat] More from Lowering the Bar: “Please Report Me If I Am Missing. Thank You.”

Bryan Walsh at Time magazine happily spun by Chevron/Ecuador plaintiffs. Not so Roger Parloff at sister magazine Fortune;

Doubts re: foster mom’s conviction following youngster’s salt-poisoning death [Texas Monthly via Ted Frank; controversy over science behind "shaken-baby" cases] Charges against parents to move forward in Utah “co-sleeping” death case [ABA Journal]

In Philadelphia shooting case, lawsuits like bullets fly in every direction [Above the Law]

More on constitutionality of Obama recess appointments [Todd Gaziano/Heritage "Foundry", Mickey Kaus, Mike McConnell via Adler and more, earlier]

New site design at my old blog Point of Law;

Podcast: Prof. Mike McConnell on Hosanna-Tabor [Fed Soc, earlier] More: Bader. And shorter David Sessions/Daily Beast: since SCOTUS unanimously rejected Obama position on church liberty, critics were wrong to get so alarmed about that position. Makes sense to him…

Tags: Chevron, dramshop statutes, Florida, Philadelphia, Texas

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Tags: alcohol, dramshop statutes, personal responsibility

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Large newspaper group drops RightHaven; “it was a dumb idea” [Kravets/Wired, more] Courtroom reverses for copyright aggregator assume a comic tone [BoingBoing, Slashdot, Corporate Counsel]

Dan Snyder drops suit against Washington City Paper [WCP, Wolfman/CL&P, Adler, earlier here, here, etc.] More reactions to TSAer’s lawsuit threat against columnist/blogger Amy Alkon [Treacher, Balko, Bader]

Jury declines to credit testimony about when victim took Children’s Motrin [Beck]

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Decline of chemistry sets tells a story of fear and liability [John Browning, SETR, earlier]

“Expectedly pleasing,” that’s me [Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason]

Tags: chemistry sets, dramshop statutes, lead paint, libel slander and defamation, Mississippi, pharmaceuticals, RightHaven

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Nice going, sex offender registries [Brian Dickerson, Detroit Free Press] And I’m quoted in a syndicated column by Lenore Skenazy (and thence by Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing) on the registries’ tendency to sweep in much wider circles of offender than many advocates originally had in mind. More: a tale of child-abuse registries [Skenazy];

New York Times exposes scandal: businessman holds seat in Congress. Quick, replace him with another lawyer! [Ribstein]

Race separation’s unlawful for school attendance. So why’s it OK for school voting districts? [Quin Hillyer, Mobile Press-Register]

Speech and property rights in peril: “Fear of a Muslim America” [Cathy Young, Reason]

Before blaming bank dereg for “Too Big To Fail,” read this [Mark Calabria, Cato at Liberty]

After fatal one-car crash, drunk driver’s survivors sue popular Irish bar that served him [NJLRA; Trenton, N.J.]

Scotland: Thief wants victim prosecuted for keeping gun in her house [Daily Record]

Tags: banks, churches, dramshop statutes, guns, Michigan, New York Times, United Kingdom, Voting Rights Act

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Tags: dramshop statutes, New Jersey, personal responsibility

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Tags: alcohol, dramshop statutes, New Jersey, restaurants

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