Overlawyered » Kansas 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 Update: convicted kidnapper’s suit against victims dismissed http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/update-convicted-kidnappers-suit-against-victims-dismissed/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/update-convicted-kidnappers-suit-against-victims-dismissed/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:17:08 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26916 A Kansas judge “last week dismissed Jesse Dimmick’s lawsuit against the couple he kidnapped in southwest Shawnee County.” [Topeka Capital-Journal, earlier]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/november-2-roundup-3/feed/ 1 OK for private school to have English-only rule http://overlawyered.com/2008/09/ok-for-private-school-to-have-english-only-rule/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/09/ok-for-private-school-to-have-english-only-rule/#comments Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:07:19 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7539 “A federal judge ruled [last month] that a Wichita Catholic school policy requiring students to speak only English didn’t break any civil rights laws.” U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten still felt free to give St. Anne Catholic School a tongue-lashing over the alleged divisiveness of its policy, though he found it did not rise to the level of creating a “hostile educational environment”, which would apparently have triggered liability even in a private religious school setting. (Ron Sylvester, “School prevails in English-only lawsuit”, Wichita Eagle, Aug. 16, GoogleCached).

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  • Educator acquitted on charges of roughness toward special ed student sues Teacher Smackdown website over anonymous comments criticizing her [NW Arkansas Morning News, Citizen Media Law Project, House of Eratosthenes]

  • Lorain County, Ohio judge who struck down state’s death penalty has Che Guevara poster in his office, though Guevara wasn’t exactly an opponent of killing [USA Today]

  • Privatization of U.S. Senate food service is a parable for wider issues [Tabarrok]

  • Low-end strategies for acquiring criminal-law clients include trolling the attorney visiting area at the federal lockup, paying the hot dog guy in front of the courthouse [Greenfield]

  • A Canadian Senator on why his country’s medical malpractice law works better than you-know-whose [Val Jones MD leads to audio]

  • U.K.: convicted rapist sexually assaults and murders teenage girl after housing authority is told evicting him would breach his human rights [Telegraph]

  • No word of legal action (yet, at least) in Salina, Kansas car crash that driver blames on “brain freeze” from Sonic restaurant frozen drink [AP/K.C. Star]

  • In Michigan, some mysterious entity is trying to drop an electoral anvil on two of our favorite jurists [PoL]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2008/06/june-16-roundup/feed/ 6 The Phelps verdict, free speech, and fighting words http://overlawyered.com/2007/11/the-phelps-verdict-free-speech-and-fighting-words/ http://overlawyered.com/2007/11/the-phelps-verdict-free-speech-and-fighting-words/#comments Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:20:33 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5535 Eugene Volokh has an extensive analysis up at the Conspiracy (see Nov. 2). For some flavor of the Phelps group’s extreme forays into picketing and public abuse of hapless Topeka residents, and intensive lawsuit-filing against countless defendants, see SPLC’s “A City Held Hostage” and “Halting Abusive Lawyers“.

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