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Speeches this week: Syracuse, Cleveland, Pittsburgh

Walter Olson — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 12:01:11 +0000

I’ll be discussing Schools for Misrule today at Syracuse University College of Law, tomorrow in Cleveland at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at 4 p.m., and Thursday in Pittsburgh at noon at Pitt Law with critical commentary from Prof. Peter Oh. Federalist Society student chapters are sponsoring the events, which are open to the public. Come out and introduce yourself!

Thanks to my hosts over the past two weeks at Fordham (where I debated Prof. Zephyr Teachout), Brooklyn Law School, and Yale (where Prof. John Fabian Witt contributed generous comments).

Why not book me to speak at your own city or campus? You can contact me directly at editor – at – overlawyered – dot – com, call the Cato Institute at 202-789-5269, or, if you’re a Federalist Society chapter, through the Society’s home office.

Tags: Cleveland, Federalist Society, live in person, Pittsburgh, Yale

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Medical roundup

Walter Olson — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 05:21:13 +0000

Talking back to the “malpractice litigation is no big deal, docs should grin and bear it” theorists [David Sack, ACP via White Coat] “Worst states for medical malpractice risk” [White Coat]
Jury awards $25 million against hospital that didn’t file abuse report after boy came in with broken wrist [Fayetteville, N.C. Observer]
“Doctors Question Disability Decisions as Agency Moves to Speed Up Process” [WSJ via Walter Russell Mead]
New “Federalist Society equivalents” in medicine (Benjamin Rush Society), business, foreign affairs [John J. Miller, Philanthropy]
Fieger wins $144 million verdict blaming hospital for newborn’s cerebral palsy [suburban Detroit Tribune]
Feds force birth control coverage on Catholic organizations, and free association suffers [Roger Pilon, Cato]
Phone call from doc to patient’s home did not establish subsequent jurisdiction to sue there [Madison County Record] NY steps up program to streamline courts’ handling of med-mal claims [WSJ]

Tags: child abuse, Federalist Society, Geoffrey Fieger, hospitals, medical malpractice, New York

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Federalist Society convention in D.C.

Walter Olson — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:15:08 +0000

I’ll be there today, so feel free to step up and say hello if you’re a reader.

Tags: Federalist Society

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Federalist Society podcast on Schools for Misrule

Walter Olson — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:35:22 +0000

Just out: one of the most serious and wide-ranging podcasts yet on my new book, Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America. I’m interviewed by James Haynes of the Society’s Professional Responsibility & Legal Education Practice Group Executive Committee and Baltimore Federalist Society Lawyers Chapter. It’s 53:25 minutes in length and you can listen here. Thanks also to the 100+ Facebook users so far who’ve “liked” the podcast.

Tags: Facebook, Federalist Society, law schools, on TV and radio, Schools for Misrule

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Federalist Society videos online

Walter Olson — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:55:43 +0000

The Federalist Society has posted numerous videos from its recent National Lawyers’ Convention, including sessions on the aggressive regulatory stance of today’s Environmental Protection Agency, the constitutionality of Obamacare, anonymity and the First Amendment in media and campaign-regulation law, NYU’s Richard Epstein debating Yale’s Bill Eskridge on the court battle over California’s Prop 8, recusal and campaign rules for judges, Dodd-Frank, and the Christian Legal Society v. Martinez case on accreditation of student groups, among other topics. And civil procedure/Iqbal-Twombly buffs may be interested in a luncheon panel held just yesterday in D.C. (I was in the audience) in which four law professors (Don Elliott of Yale, Martin Redish and Ronald Allen of Northwestern, and Rick Esenberg of Marquette) outlined ideas for reforming the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to reduce discovery costs and improve screening of cases in the earliest stages of filing.

The video above is of the Society’s 10th annual Barbara Olson Memorial Lecture, in which Second Circuit Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs provocatively criticizes legal academia and other precincts of influential legal thinking for misunderstanding the role of the military and its relation to the law.

Tags: campaign regulation, discovery, Environmental Protection Agency, Federalist Society, law schools, military, pleading, recusals, same-sex marriage

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November 21 roundup

Walter Olson — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:08:24 +0000

Federalist Society annual convention (which I attended) included panels on anonymity and the First Amendment, judicial recusals, many other topics;
Nomination of R.I.’s McConnell to federal bench could soon reach Senate floor [ProJo]
“Why U.S. Taxpayers Are Paying Brazilian Cotton Growers $147 Million” [NPR via Popehat]
“Litigation Governance: Taking Adequacy Seriously” [Trask, Class Action Countermeasures]
“Family” groups vs. a family, cont’d: Vermont Supreme Court upholds Miller-Jenkins custody ruling [Volokh, BTB]
OSHA allows more comment on what could be an extremely expensive mandate against noise in the workplace [ShopFloor]
Cops who inform on cops are often left to twist in wind [Balko]
Interview with Mark Zaid, collector of comic book art with law/legal themes [Abnormal Use]

Tags: class actions, Federalist Society, Miller-Jenkins case, OSHA, police, recusals, Rhode Island

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October 25 roundup

Walter Olson — Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:48:07 +0000

And she’s a psychology professor too: “Pro se litigant of the day” [ATL]
“Access to justice” makes handy slogan, but has its limits re: appeal bonds [Ted at PoL]
New Federalist Society white papers on Michigan, Illinois, California and Alabama supreme courts;
Per her opponent this year, CPSIA proponent and perennial Overlawyered bete noire Jan Schakowsky ranks as most left-wing member of Congress [ExtremeJan.com]
Naming opportunity at Faulkner U.’s Jones School of Law falls to Greg Jones of Beasley Allen [BA press release]
Lockyer pushes divestment of firms for taking wrong stance on ballot controversy [Coyote]
“Patent marking” suits continue to proliferate as Reps. Latta, Issa propose measures to curb opportunistic filings [Gray on Claims]
“South Carolina tobacco fees: how to farm money” [ten years ago on Overlawyered]

Tags: access to justice, Alabama, Bill Lockyer, California, Federalist Society, Illinois, Jan Schakowsky, Michigan, patent marking, pro se, South Carolina, state high courts

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Speaking at several law schools in 2010

Ted Frank — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 01:37:25 +0000

It’s the 2010 Ted Frank law-school-speaking tour!

September 9: Louisiana State
September 15: New York University
September 16: Columbia
October 6: Texas Wesleyan
October 7: St. Mary’s (San Antonio)
November 9: Ohio State
November 10: Toledo

It’s not too late to get on the calendar if your school’s Federalist Society is interested.

Tags: Federalist Society, law schools, Ted Frank

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July 6 roundup

Walter Olson — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:14:14 +0000

“Kagan refused to identify anything the government couldn’t do under its Commerce Clause power” and “consciously left herself plenty of breathing room to cite foreign law inappropriately” [Ilya Shapiro, more]
Multiple civil/criminal hats? “The odd responses of the attorney general to the oil spill” [WaPo editorial]
Phillies Phanatic, “‘Most-Sued Mascot in the Majors’ Is Back in Court” [Lowering the Bar, which also hosts Blawg Review #271 this week]
Federalist Society has a new blog;
California will pay $20 million to woman abducted for nearly two decades [AP]
Charges dropped against teen who tried to help lost kid in shopping mall [Lenore Skenazy, earlier]
Two libertarians arrested after videotaping police in Greenfield, Mass. [Balko, earlier here and here]
“‘Ambulance Chaser’ Lawsuits Hound Apple Over iPhone 4″ [Atlantic Wire]

Tags: Apple, baseball, BP Transocean oil spill, California, cellphones, Elena Kagan, Federalist Society, police

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Speaking in Chicago Monday, April 12

Ted Frank — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:11:58 +0000

Chicago-area readers may be interested in attending a 12:15 pm lunchtime debate sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School Federalist Society between me and Tom Geoghegan about tort reform and the role (or non-role) of Republican deregulation in the litigation explosion—a debate I’ve previously engaged in in print.

Tags: Chicago, Federalist Society, live in person, Ted Frank, Thomas Geoghegan

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