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/2011/09/september-16-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/september-16-roundup/#comments Fri, 16 Sep 2011 15:11:55 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24652

House Judiciary holds hearing on asbestos-claim fraud and abuse, with Prof. Brickman headlining [Main Justice, Legal NewsLine, WSJ law blog, PoL, Brickman testimony]

Endangered species habitat in Nevada: “Elko County wants end to 15-year-old trout case” [AP]

“Why is the Eastern District of Texas home to so many patent trolls?” [Ted Frank/PoL, more] Tech giants say multi-defendant patent suits place them at disadvantage [WSJ Law Blog] Plus: “Patent company has big case, no office” [John O'Brien, Legal NewsLine]

Lawsuit settlement and the lizard brain [Popehat]

“U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Looks Into Eminent Domain Abuses” [Kanner, Somin] U.K.: “Squatters could be good for us all, says judge in empty homes ruling” [Telegraph]

Madison mob silences Roger Clegg at news conference where he releases new study of UW race bias [ABA Journal, Althouse]

Life in Australia: “Another motorized-beer-cooler DUI” [Lowering the Bar]

Tags: asbestos, Australia, Eastern District of Texas, eminent domain, endangered species, Lester Brickman, Nevada, patent trolls, settlement, United Kingdom

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Tags: Eastern District of Texas

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Tags: Eastern District of Texas, patent litigation

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Speech-curbing proposals continue to get polite academic reception: NYU’s Jeremy Waldron, big advocate of laws to curb “hate speech”, delivered Holmes Lectures at Harvard this past week [HLS, schedule]

Lawsuit over collectible baseball hit into stands by Phillies’ Ryan Howard, his 200th career homer [Howard Wasserman, PrawfsBlawg; NJLRA]

Orchid-importer prosecution a poster case for the evils of overcriminalization? Maybe not [Ken at Popehat]

Texas State Fair and city of Dallas don’t have to allow evangelist to distribute religious tracts inside the fair, judge rules after three years [Dallas Observer blog]

Drug maker: FDA’s curbs on truthful promotion of off-label uses impair our First Amendment speech rights [Beck and Herrmann and more, Point of Law and more]

Did plaintiff Eolas Technologies go to unusual lengths to ensure Eastern District of Texas venue for its patent litigation? [Joe Mullin, IP Law and Business via Alison Frankel, AmLaw]

Update: “Lesbian Denied Infertility Treatment Settles Lawsuit” [San Diego 6, earlier]

Even in the Ninth Circuit, “psychological injury resulting from a legitimate personnel action” is not compensable [Volokh]

Tags: baseball, crime and punishment, Dallas, Eastern District of Texas, emotional distress, FDA, forum shopping, free speech, Harvard, hate speech, law schools, off-label, patent litigation, prosecution, workers' compensation

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2009/10/october-12-roundup-2/feed/ 4 http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/troll-tracker-blog-suit-settles/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/troll-tracker-blog-suit-settles/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:52:57 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=13813 As the East Texas jury was set to begin deliberations. Per Joe Mullin’s must-read coverage at IP Law and Business, Rick Frenkel’s lawyer-critical blog is now entirely closed down even to private readers except as an archive for the use of lawyers in the related litigation. More: Mullin, Sept. 18 (Frenkel “wouldn’t have the financial resources to defend himself” had his employer Cisco not covered his legal costs), Sept. 21 (”You don’t wrestle with a snake, you cut its head off,” said plaintiff T. John (”Johnny”) Ward, Jr. “We shut the blog down, is what we did.”)

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Tags: Eastern District of Texas, patent trolls

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Tags: Eastern District of Texas, Microsoft, patent litigation

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“Plaintiffs’ Attorneys to Get $800,000 in Preliminary Settlement, Class Members Receive Zero” [Calif. Civil Justice covering Bluetooth settlement in which Ted was objector; earlier here and here]

“Lawyer Jailed for Contempt Is Freed After 14 Years” [Lowering the Bar, earlier]

Money makes the signals go ’round: another probe of red-light cameras yields few surprises [Chicago Tribune, Chicago Bungalow, Bainbridge on Washington, D.C.]

Previously little-known company surfaces in E.D. Tex. to claim Apple, many other companies violate its patent for touchpads [AppleInsider via @JohnLobert]

Child endangerment saga of mom who left kids at Montana mall is now a national story [ABC News; earlier post with many comments; Free Range Kids and more]

Meet Obama Administration “special adviser on ‘green’ jobs” Van Jones ["Dunphy", McCarthy at NRO "Corner"]

Irrationality of furloughs at University of Wisconsin should provide yet another ground to question New Deal-era Fair Labor Standards Act [Coyote]

Australia’s internet blacklist is so secret you can’t even find out what sites are on it [Popehat - language] Oz to block online video games unsuitable for those under 15 [BoingBoing]

Tags: Apple, Australia, class action settlements, contempt, Eastern District of Texas, online speech, patent litigation, red light cameras, wage and hour suits

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