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Trying cases in the press

Walter Olson — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:59:27 +0000

Yes, media coverage does affect the outcome of court cases, and here are some of the ways [Andrew Trask]

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“How Campaign Finance Laws Made the British Press so Powerful”

Walter Olson — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 05:21:19 +0000

My Cato colleague John Samples detects a perhaps intended consequence of the imposition of regulations that stifle political speech other than that conveyed by the institutional press. More: Paul Sherman, Make No Law (Institute for Justice blog).

Tags: campaign regulation, media, United Kingdom

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Claim: Huffington Post built on swiped business model

Walter Olson — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:42:11 +0000

Politico reports on a lawsuit that doesn’t much impress Ann Althouse.

Tags: media

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Litigation as public relations battle

Walter Olson — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 05:11:28 +0000

I’ll be a panelist this Friday on a Washington Legal Foundation webcast on the topic, joining class action specialist and blogger Andrew Trask.

Tags: media, on TV and radio

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Politico (the website) vs. “College Politico”

Walter Olson — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:06:12 +0000

Ron Coleman examines a trademark brouhaha that has roused blogosphere interest.

Tags: media, trademarks

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June 29 roundup

Ted Frank — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:48:34 +0000

New FASB regulation may provide fodder for trial lawyers: publicly disclose your internal analysis of liability (thus giving away crucial settlement information and attracting more lawsuits), and/or face lawsuits when your disclosure turns out to be incorrect. [CFO.com; CFO.com; NLJ/law.com ($); FASB RFC]
NBC settles a “You-made-me-commit-suicide-by-exposing-my-pedophilia” lawsuit. [LA Times; WSJ Law Blog; Conradt v. NBC Universal]
A victim of overwarning? 17-year-old loses hat on Six Flags Batman roller-coaster ride, ignores multiple warning signs to jump multiple fences into unauthorized area, retrieves hat, loses head. [FoxNews/AP; Atlanta Journal-Constitution; TortsProf]
Lots of Ninth Circuit reversals this term, as per usual. [The Recorder/law.com]
A no-Twinkie defense doesn’t fly in a maid-beating case. [CNN/AP via ATL]
The Chinese government demonstrates that it can enforce laws against IP piracy when it wants to [Marginal Revolution]
“Justice Scalia said he thought that the United States was ‘over-lawed,’ leading to too many lawyers in the country. ‘I don’t think our legal system should be that complex. I think that any system that requires that many of the country’s best minds, and they are the best minds, is too complex. If you look at the figures, where does the top of the class in college go to? It goes into law. They don’t go into teaching. Now I love the law, there is nothing I would rather do but it doesn’t produce anything.’” [Telegraph]
Above the Law commenters decidedly unimpressed by my looks. Looking forward to feminists rushing to my defense against “silencing insults.” [Above the Law]

Tags: accounting, defense lawyers, media, Ninth Circuit, overwarning, sued if you do, suicide, Supreme Court, trademarks

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June 21 roundup

Ted Frank — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:10:50 +0000

Sure enough, former Milberg lawyers sue the convicted ex-Milberg lawyers for breach of fiduciary duty. I was wondering when that was going to happen. [WSJ Law Blog; NYLJ/law.com; earlier]
Why file grievance against a fellow attorney who’s only stolen $200,000 from clients? Colleagues wonder [Las Vegas Review-Journal via ABA]
Judge: No evidence of wrongdoing by Kenneth Pasternak. Too bad he can’t get his three years back. Meanwhile SEC keeps bringing enforcement cases on same repeatedly rejected theory of liability. [WSJ; Law Blog]
“What the AP and The New York Times’ Hansell don’t seem to realize is how hostile an act it is to send lawyer letters to individuals.” [Jarvis via Patterico]
“When judges act like politicians, the judicial selection process – elected or appointed – becomes increasingly political. Action and reaction. The politicization of the court led to the politicization of the elections for justices. … When justices arrogate political policymaking to themselves, they should not be surprised when they are held to the same standards as politicians.” [Wisconsin Policy Research Institute via American Courthouse; I said that, too]
Even Susan Estrich finds the Alex Kozinski web site mini-to-do as evidence of media bias. [Estrich; Patterico link roundup]
Senator McCaskill shows her ignorance on the Anheuser-Busch merger and corporate officer duties. [Hodak]
A clever attorney will already have a fill-in-the-blanks product liability complaint drafted against Lego. [Childs]
Hugo Chavez expropriates wealth to consolidate dictatorship. American lawyer helps. Somehow I don’t think we’ll see an Alien Tort Claims Act suit against his law firm. [AmLaw Daily]

Tags: Alex Kozinski, antitrust, bullying businesses, ethics, judicial elections, media, media bias, Milberg Weiss, Missouri, nastygrams, state high courts, Wisconsin

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