Overlawyered » John Edwards 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 Update: Pierce O’Donnell cops a plea http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/update-pierce-odonnell-cops-a-plea/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/update-pierce-odonnell-cops-a-plea/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 11:49:40 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24184 The prominent Los Angeles lawyer accepts a misdemeanor rap for laundering John Edwards contributions. [L.A. Times, earlier]

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  • Mother ship? White House staffers depart for Harvard Law School [Politico]
  • New York: “Lawmakers consider lawyer-friendly med-mal bills,” even as many key legislators moonlight at personal injury firms [Reuters]
  • David Brooks on explosive political potential of Fannie Mae scandal [NYTimes] After Kentucky bar panel’s vote to disbar Chesley, Ohio AG pulls him off Fannie Mae suit [Adler, Frank, Beth Musgrave/Lexington Herald-Leader]
  • Alabama legislature removes Jim Crow language from state constitution — but black lawmakers oppose the idea [Constitutional Daily]
  • AAJ lobbyist Andy Cochran works GOP turf, has convinced trial lawyers to sponsor Christian radio program [Mokhiber, "Seventh Amendment Advocate"]
  • Centers for Disease Control funnels grants to allies for political advocacy on favored public-health causes [Jeff Stier, Daily Caller]
  • Must have mistaken her for a jury: “John Edwards Sought Millions From Heiress” [ABC News] “One thing [worse than Edwards's] conduct is the government’s effort to put him in jail for it.” [Steve Chapman]
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  • Claim: unwanted sugar in Dunkin’ Donuts coffee order sent customer into diabetic shock [AP]
  • Schadenfreude aside, key theory in feds’ case against John Edwards looking mighty strained [Meck Deck/John Locke Foundation, Steve Hayward/Power Line, Ted Frank, Jacob Sullum] “They’ve indicted one former presidential candidate on one count of false statements?” [Caleb Brown] American Lawyer looks back at the law firms that backed Edwards in 2008; our coverage of his ‘04 law-firm backers and of moneyman Fred Baron, and my commentary on Baron’s ethical standards;
  • Edwards-reminiscent? Theory that earlier C-section would have averted cerebral palsy nets $58 M verdict [Thomas Scheffey, Connecticut Law Tribune]
  • Carter Wood, key business-policy blogger, departs NAM for Business Roundtable;
  • Tenderer tort-law treatment for trespassers, courtesy 3rd Restatement? [David Freddoso/Examiner, Richard Cupp via TortsProf]
  • Non-shockingly, some litigation defense lawyers aren’t enthusiastic about lawsuit reform [Texas Lawyer]
  • “Attorney charged with stealing clerk’s textbook from courtroom” [Baltimore Sun]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/june-7-roundup-3/feed/ 5     John Edwards, victim http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/john-edwards-victim/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/john-edwards-victim/#comments Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:18:02 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=21846 Even the disgraced White House hopeful deserves better than to be tripped up by slippery and undefined campaign-finance laws, argues Mickey Kaus (at the Daily Caller, new home of Kausfiles).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/john-edwards-victim/feed/ 0     February 15 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/february-15-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/february-15-roundup-3/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:23:00 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=21479
  • Artist Jeff Koons drops his lawsuit against maker of resin balloon dogs [Legal Blog Watch, BoingBoing, earlier]
  • The car pile-up happened fast, the come-ons from lawyers and chiropractors were almost as speedy [Adler/Volokh]
  • Andrew Thomas update: former Maricopa County Attorney intends to sue former bar president and ethics investigators [ABA Journal, Coyote]
  • Litigation finance: “Poker Magnate, London Firm Bankroll Chevron Plaintiffs” [Dan Fisher, Forbes] Case for champerty pleaded before ethics commission [Podgers, ABA Journal] The experience in Australia [Karlsgodt]
  • Judge: Kansas City stadium mascot hot dog toss suit can go to trial [OnPoint News, earlier]
  • How National Enquirer matched wits with John Edwards to expose scandal [David Perel, HuffPo] More: Justice Department building a case? [AW]
  • “The Whooping Cough’s Unnecessary Return” [Paul Howard/Jim Copland, City Journal] Theodore Dalrymple reviews new Paul Offit vaccine book [same]
  • Many trial lawyers yank funding from Ralph Nader operations in pique over his role in depriving Al Gore of White House victory [ten years ago on Overlawyered]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/february-15-roundup-3/feed/ 1     Alienation of John Edwards’ affections? http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/alienation-of-john-edwards-affections/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/alienation-of-john-edwards-affections/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:02:28 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=16062 Per ABC News, Andrew Young says that Elizabeth Edwards has threatened him with a lawsuit under North Carolina’s law permitting lawsuits against third parties — not limited to paramours — who helped break up a marriage. We’ve been covering the workings of this law for years at Overlawyered, and Ted may have been the first to spot its possible application to the Sen. Edwards squalor-ama. Much more at Death by 1000 Papercuts. (Rewritten somewhat for clarity 1 p.m. Eastern; & welcome Mickey Kaus readers)

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/02/alienation-of-john-edwards-affections/feed/ 9     January 27 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/01/january-27-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/01/january-27-roundup/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:52:03 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=15772
  • U.K.: Recruitment firm told ad for “reliable workers” would discriminate against the unreliable [Telegraph]
  • “Against Civil Gideon (and for Pro Se Court Reform)” [Benjamin Barton (Tennessee), SSRN, via Legal Ethics Forum]
  • Sewn-in “Made in USA” suit-label figures in tell-all book by John Edwards aide [WSJ "Washington Wire", Hotline On Call] Did Edwards, great denouncer of M.D.s’ errors, propose getting a doc to fake DNA results? [Charles Hurt/N.Y. Post]
  • Lucky cops! There just happened to be $672K in the car they stopped and they plan to keep it [Freeland] “The Forfeiture Racket: Police and prosecutors won’t give up their license to steal” [Radley Balko, Reason]
  • Family and Medical Leave Act doesn’t cover faith-healing trips that include a vacation aspect [Michael Maslanka, Texas Lawyer]
  • “Dangerism” — how society constructs what’s supposedly dangerous for kids [Free-Range Kids]
  • This is one of those links buried deep in a roundup that hardly any readers will actually get around to clicking [Chris Clarke]
  • Update: Landlord’s suit over critical Twitter post dismissed [Cit Media Law, AP/Chicago Tribune, Business Insider (court sides with defense argument that so much of it's just "pointless babble"); earlier here and here]
  • And: Did the press jump the gun with its report that it’s now lawful to import haggis into the U.S.? A letter to Andrew Sullivan says nothing has been decided yet, though the ban seems to be under review.
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/01/january-27-roundup/feed/ 7     January 20 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/01/january-30-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/01/january-30-roundup-3/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:19:41 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=15683
  • Renewed attention to Amirault case contributed to Coakley’s political nosedive [e.g., Jacob Weisberg of Slate via Kaus, earlier] First time a Massachusetts prosecutor has paid a political price over that episode?
  • Many, many Democratic elected officials call for rethinking/renegotiating Obamacare rather than trying to force it through [e.g. Barney Frank] Blue Mass blogger: talk radio fueled ire at Coakley, let’s have FCC shut it down [Graham]
  • “Big Brother and the Salt Shaker” [NY Times "Room for Debate", Food Liability Law, earlier on NYC initiative and more] NYU’s Marion Nestle “loves” being called a nanny statist, so we’ll just go right on calling her that [Crispy on the Outside]
  • Terror suspects win right to seek compensation from UK government over restrictions on their activities [Canadian Press]
  • “Men Without Hats. Meaning no hard hats. Meaning The Safety Dance never met OSHA requirements. No wonder it was shut down.” [Tim Siedell a/k/a Bad Banana]
  • Italian judge orders father to go on paying $550/month living allowance to his student daughter, who is 32 [Guardian/SMH, earlier on laws mandating support of adult children]
  • Two informants vie for potential bonanza of whistleblower status against Johnson & Johnson [Frankel, AmLaw Litigation Daily]
  • “Polling Firm Says John Edwards Is Its Most Unpopular Person Ever” [Lowering the Bar]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/01/january-30-roundup-3/feed/ 8     “New Allegations About Fred Baron’s Role in Edwards Deception” http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/new-allegations-about-fred-barons-role-in-edwards-deception/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/new-allegations-about-fred-barons-role-in-edwards-deception/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:31:02 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=13791 A book proposal by former John Edwards aide Andrew Young is sensationally said to allege “that Edwards asked [the late asbestos-suit impresario] Baron if he could find a doctor who would falsify a DNA report.” [New York Times via (quoted) AmLaw Litigation Daily] Now where would anyone have gotten the impression that Baron was a good person to talk to if you wanted to misrepresent medical facts about someone?

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  • Liability protection for doctors, premised on “best-practices” medicine: a proposal to address the federalism difficulties [Bernstein/MacCourt, MI Center for Medical Progress, PoL]
  • Fraud in immigration law victimizes both U.S. and aspiring immigrants [NYT]
  • Paralyzed while tackling opponent, high school footballer now suing Barre, Vt. school system [Barre-Montpelier Times Argus]
  • Memo to Sen. Edwards: voters forgave Grover Cleveland the paternity, but they do mind lies [Mickey Kaus]
  • Issue in New Orleans case: defamatory to call tour guides “thugs”? [Times-Picayune]
  • No more Lux et Veritas: Yale press mohammed_cartoon_bombwimps out on Mohammed cartoons [NYT, Moynihan/Reason "Hit and Run", Steyn/NRO "Corner", Hitchens]
  • More on NYC woman’s “wasted-tuition” suit against college [Mark Gimein, NY Mag via Genova, earlier]
  • Do we really want to let CPSIA’s drafters within a mile of redesigning our health care system? [Inoculated]
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