http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/japanese-anime-pokes-fun-at-america%e2%80%99s-legal-system/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/japanese-anime-pokes-fun-at-america%e2%80%99s-legal-system/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 05:06:35 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=21418 A recent anime (Japanese cartoon) portrays America as a land where pretty much any misadventure can be turned into grounds for a lawsuit. Siouxsie Law has the (funny? horrifying?) video clip, the plot line of which involves the catastrophic misuse of a microwave oven and its fictional legal consequences.

Tags: Japan, wacky warnings

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“Japanese landlords sue families of suicide victims” [Telegraph via Tyler Cowen]

Best candidate you’ve never heard of: lawprof Jim Huffman runs for a U.S. Senate seat in Oregon [Weekly Standard]

“Freedom of culinary expression: Chefs speak out on behalf of salt” ["My Food, My Choice" via Ponnuru, NRO]

“In-House Counsel Expect More Regulatory Litigation, Survey Finds” [NLJ]

“Oladiran’s ‘Motion of the Year’ Earns Him Sanctions” [AtL]

Resisting a music-delivery-system claim: “Patent Trolls and Public Goods” [Julian Sanchez]

More transparency for New Jersey lawyer/lawmakers? [Philly.com]

“Ninth Circuit: marine mammals don’t have standing…yet” [six years ago on Overlawyered]

Tags: Japan, music and musicians, New Jersey, Oregon, patent trolls, salt, suicide

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TSA asserts security-line authority against … suspected embezzlers? [Coyote, Ken at Popehat]

“How the Next Hurricane Could Bankrupt Florida” [Eli Lehrer, Frum Forum]

In Yahoo settlement “vast majority of the class gets nothing” [Frith, Cal Civil Justice]

Royal road to legal riches: work for the federal prosecutor in Manhattan [David Zaring, Conglomerate]

Taxpayers, get ready to bail out union pension plans [The Lid]

Japan moving closer to U.S.-style securities litigation? [D&O Diary]

“Is the Contemporary Supreme Court Really That Conservative?” [Bartels, ConcurOp]

“EEOC encourages anonymous harassment complaints” [eleven years ago at Overlawyered]

Tags: class action settlements, Florida, Japan, labor unions, prosecution, securities litigation, Supreme Court, terrorism

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Tags: discovery, Japan, media bias, Toyota

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Tags: Japan

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Whoops! Insurer’s lawyer backtracks and scrambles for cover after saying some Miami/Dade judges “are being paid off” [Daily Business Review; possibly related, scroll to mention of Miami near end]

Climate’s different up there: Google and Wikipedia sued for libel in Canada over user-generated content [Rob Hyndman]

Lawyers implicated in Ky. fen-phen scandal are owners of Curlin, horse that placed third in Kentucky Derby [Courier-Journal, Sun-Times, Sports Network, WSJ law blog]

“As a lawyer, I hear stories about lawsuit abuse all the time,” but Judge Pearson’s pants suit takes the cake [Nasty Brutish & Short; also lively discussion at Digg]

Ramps of gold: serial ADA-suit filers George Louie, David Gunther and others launch wave of sidewalk suits against Northern California towns [Contra Costa Times]

$250 fine for releasing a balloon into the air in New Hampshire? Criminalizing nearly everything [National Law Journal; also Ayn Rand]

Helpful, if scary: “12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs To Know” [Aviva Directory]

U.K. lawyers ordered to pay back tens of millions of pounds in excessive fees earned for representing sick miners [Times Online Apr. 16, Apr. 25, Apr. 10; Telegraph]

Did Rosie O’Donnell come out for loser-pays on ABC’s “The View”? Someone please get a transcript [Bill Boushka]

Japan doesn’t furnish us with much material, but here’s one about magicians suing TV broadcasters for revealing secrets behind coin tricks [Above the Law]

Sensitivity vs. sensitivity: female drummers allowed to sue over their (culturally authentic) exclusion from ritual drumming at Native American powwow [five years ago on Overlawyered]

Tags: ADA filing mills, bloggers and the law, Curlin, fen-phen, free speech in Canada, George Louie, Google, Japan, Kentucky, libel slander and defamation, loser pays, magicians, nanny state, New Hampshire, roundups, Roy Pearson, Seattle

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