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/2012/01/shes-had-to-double-her-blood-pressure-medication/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/shes-had-to-double-her-blood-pressure-medication/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:33:08 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27177 A discarded Arkansas Lottery ticket turns out to be a $1 million winner, and now three women are fighting over who owns it. [ABC]

Tags: gambling, property law

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Jury acquits ex-firefighter who claimed disability while competing as a bodybuilder [Boston Herald]

Authorities snatch kids from homes after parents busted with small amounts of pot [NYT, Tim Lynch/Cato]

“Case Study on Impact of Tort Reform in Mississippi” [Mark Behrens via Scheuerman/TortsProf]

When opt-in works: “More than 27,000 S. Korean users join class-action suit against Apple” [Yonhap]

Casino liable after customers leave kids unattended in cars? [Max Kennerly]

All is forgiven, says frequent investment plaintiff: “State Street Rehired by Calpers After Being Likened to ‘Thugs’” [Business Week]

Vintage comic book covers on law themes are a regular Friday feature at Abnormal Use.

Tags: child protection, class actions, gambling, illegal drugs, legal blogs, Mississippi, South Korea

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Supreme Court disbars Bill Lerach [Richard Samp, WLF] And check out the byline of the former class-action king’s recent contribution to The Nation; do you think it omits anything material? [h/t Bob Lenzner]

Ted Frank guessed right on outcome of Wal-Mart case but still lost big betting on it [PoL]

After feds seize online bettors’ money, Anne Arundel County, Maryland police department crows over windfall [CEI] And c’mon Maryland, surely we in the home state of H.L. Mencken and Frederick Douglass can do better in the liberty rankings than this;

“Wrongful-Death Lawsuit Filed After Man Killed by Rooster” [Lowering the Bar]

Hotel union behind California bill mandating fitted sheets [Daily Caller, earlier]

Fifth Circuit upholds constitutionality of Texas law banning barratry (stirring up litigation) [Christian Southwick, Legal Ethics Forum]

A Linda Greenhouse column I agree with? One of us must be slipping [vagueness in criminal statutes, see related Harvey Silverglate]

Tags: animals, Bill Lerach, chasing clients, crime and punishment, gambling, hotels, Maryland, New York Times, Ted Frank, Texas

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/june-22-roundup/feed/ 0 http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/claim-chuck-e-cheese-kids-games-amount-to-gambling/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/claim-chuck-e-cheese-kids-games-amount-to-gambling/#comments Mon, 16 May 2011 05:18:28 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23001 “A San Diego woman has sued the company that owns the Chuck E. Cheese’s family restaurant chain, claiming that many of the games intended for children at these locations are actually illegal gambling devices — like slot machines.” [San Diego Union-Tribune, Above the Law ("Can you imagine growing up and being known as the kid whose mom sued Chuck E. Cheese?")] For other class actions based on creative theories that something “amounts to” gambling, see this site’s reports from 1999 (Pokémon and other kids’ trading/collecting cards) and 2008 (”Deal or No Deal” TV show).

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Tags: broadcasters, gambling, New Jersey

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Wouldn’t it be nice if Congress lifted the ban on Internet gambling [Steve Chapman]

Design of New Orleans shotgun houses is an adaptation to tax laws [Candy Chang]

Lawyer-enriching Costco class action settlement draws an objection from a blogger often linked in this space [Amy Alkon]

“Fourth Circuit slaps down N.C. attorney general’s suit against TVA” [Wood/PoL, Jackson]

South Carolina jury’s $2.375 million award based on premise that Nissan should have followed European, not U.S. crashworthiness standards [Abnormal Use]

City of Cleveland won’t take no for answer in dumb lawsuit against mortgage lenders [Funnell]

Charles H. Green at TrustMatters hosts Blawg Review #275;

Duke lacrosse fiasco: Nifong’s media and law-school enablers [three years ago at Overlawyered]

Tags: attorneys general, autos, class action settlements, Cleveland, gambling, mortgages, New Orleans, taxes

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/august-5-roundup/feed/ 0 http://overlawyered.com/2010/07/alabama-law-contracts-based-on-gambling-are-void/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/07/alabama-law-contracts-based-on-gambling-are-void/#comments Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:36:02 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=18541 And electronic bingo players have now sued under the 158-year-old law to demand reimbursement of their losses. [Kent Faulk, Birmingham News]

Tags: Alabama, gambling

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Tags: gambling, Indiana, lottery

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Tags: gambling, Kentucky

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