Overlawyered » jury nullification 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 Further update roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/further-update-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/further-update-roundup/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:10:08 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25626
  • More on prosecution of “jury nullification” activist Julian Heicklen [Brian Doherty, Tim Lynch/Cato, earlier]
  • Age-bias litigant who complained about 88 year old judge is reassigned same judge [NYDN via Ellie K., earlier]
  • Court certifies Nutella class action [Russell Jackson, earlier here and here]
  • D.C. agency dismisses Banzhaf’s complaint about single-sex dorms at Catholic U. [Caron, earlier]
  • After SCOTUS decision in Brown v. Plata, L.A. faces possible release of thousands of inmates [PoL, earlier here, here and here, Federalist Society panel]
  • Cautionary tale of star attorney Stanley Chesley [Corporate Counsel] Ken Feinberg, Harvey Pitt back off expert avowals in Chesley cases [Robert Ambrogi] Judge Bamberger disbarred in Kentucky fen-phen scandal [ABA Journal]
  • Texas doctor will surrender license in case where nurses faced false criminal charges [PoL, earlier]
  • Mistrial in case of New Jersey lawyer Paul Bergrin [Star-Ledger, earlier]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/further-update-roundup/feed/ 2     February 28 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/february-28-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/february-28-roundup/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:08:21 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=21738
  • Feds indict activist for handing out “jury nullification” tracts outside courthouse [Volokh, Greenfield] Anti-abortion billboard taken down after demand by NYC pol; co. says fear of violence was spur [NY Times]
  • Pigford class action (USDA bias against black farmers) defended and assailed [Friedersdorf and readers, Daniel Foster/NR, Mark Thompson/LOG, earlier here, here, here, etc.]
  • Avik Roy on Pennsylvania defensive-medicine study [Forbes]
  • Backstory: Scott Walker battled AFSCME for years as Milwaukee County exec [Aaron Rodriguez, Hispanic Conservative] “Wisconsin’s teachers required to teach kids labor union and collective bargaining history” [Daily Caller]
  • “The return of the $0 Costco fuel settlement” [CCAF]
  • Historic preservation vs. the obesity crusade: should a vintage Coke sign in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood come down? [SFGate]
  • Law blog that covers a single beat closely can turn itself into a valued practice tool [Eric Turkewitz on John Hochfelder's New York Injury Cases]
  • “Soda suits: Banzhaf browbeats school officials” [five years ago on Overlawyered]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/february-28-roundup/feed/ 5     U.K.: “Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the law” http://overlawyered.com/2008/09/uk-jury-decides-that-threat-of-global-warming-justifies-breaking-the-law/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/09/uk-jury-decides-that-threat-of-global-warming-justifies-breaking-the-law/#comments Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:03:31 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7527 “The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday. In a verdict that will have shocked ministers and energy companies the jury at Maidstone Crown Court cleared six Greenpeace activists of criminal damage.” (Michael McCarthy, Independent (U.K.), Sept. 11).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/09/uk-jury-decides-that-threat-of-global-warming-justifies-breaking-the-law/feed/ 6     Palin and jury nullification http://overlawyered.com/2008/09/palin-and-jury-nullification/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/09/palin-and-jury-nullification/#comments Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:50:38 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7497 Expect some controversy over hints that the Alaska Governor may have expressed sympathy with the argued right of criminal juries to decide on matters of law as well as fact, perhaps in the process acquitting some violators of unjust laws. Despite its extensive pedigree in Anglo-American legal history, that position has become highly unpopular with most authorities in bench and bar, even as it remains popular with many Americans at the grass roots. (Eugene Volokh, Sept. 3). Some blog background on the subject: Randy Barnett, Dan Markel, Anne Reed, Eric Muller, Tim Lynch.

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