Overlawyered » Michigan 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 Adventures in abortion regulation http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/adventures-in-abortion-regulation/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/adventures-in-abortion-regulation/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:27:24 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26343 A proposed Michigan law would apply legal scrutiny to men’s motives for walking out of relationships. [Fathers and Families via Amy Alkon]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/adventures-in-abortion-regulation/feed/ 10 Court: IVF clinic cannot turn away single customers http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/court-ivf-clinic-cannot-turn-away-single-customers/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/court-ivf-clinic-cannot-turn-away-single-customers/#comments Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:20:17 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25760 “A single woman who was denied treatment by a west Michigan in vitro fertilization clinic can proceed with a lawsuit claiming unlawful discrimination, the state Court of Appeals ruled in a decision released today. The case against Grand Rapids Fertility and IVF was filed after a doctor there told Allison Moon that his clinic could not provide the service out of concern that Michigan paternity law is so vague that a child conceived by IVF and born to a single mother could successfully sue the clinic for child support.” [Dawson Bell, Detroit Free Press] The appeals court said Michigan’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act, which prohibits services of public accommodation from discriminating on the basis of marital status among other grounds, extinguishes doctors’ common law right to decide with whom to undertake a physician-patient relationship. [Michigan Health Law Link]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/court-ivf-clinic-cannot-turn-away-single-customers/feed/ 8 Who was that court-appointed expert again? http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/who-was-that-court-appointed-expert-again/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/who-was-that-court-appointed-expert-again/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:30:10 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25557 “Macomb County Probate Court officials can’t explain how a man falsely claiming to be a medical doctor was allowed to decide whether people were mentally competent to handle their own estates and whether jail inmates needed mental health care.” [Detroit News]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/who-was-that-court-appointed-expert-again/feed/ 2 “Upset Moviegoer Sues Over ‘Misleading’ Trailer” http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/upset-moviegoer-sues-over-misleading-trailer/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/upset-moviegoer-sues-over-misleading-trailer/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:46:06 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25066 Sarah Deming has sued the distributor of the critically acclaimed Ryan Gosling thriller DRIVE under Michigan’s Consumer Protection Act, saying it was promoted “as very similar to the Fast and Furious, or similar, series of movies” but “bore very little similarity to a chase, or race action film…having very little driving in the motion picture.” The suit aims for class-action status. [Lawyerist, Guardian]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/upset-moviegoer-sues-over-misleading-trailer/feed/ 23 “How To Make A Mockery Of Your Own Law School: Sue Your Critics” http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/how-to-make-a-mockery-of-your-own-law-school-sue-your-critics/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/how-to-make-a-mockery-of-your-own-law-school-sue-your-critics/#comments Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:55:18 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24204 Which is good advice for many other touchy sorts of plaintiffs too, not just for the Thomas M. Cooley Law School of Lansing, Michigan [Mike Masnick, TechDirt, earlier]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/how-to-make-a-mockery-of-your-own-law-school-sue-your-critics/feed/ 4 July 29 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-29-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-29-roundup/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 12:47:11 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24068
  • Don’t: “Lawyer Disbarred for Verbal Aggression to Pay $9.8M Fine for Hiding Cash Overseas” [Weiss, ABA Journal]
  • Loser-pays might help: “Dropped malpractice lawsuits cost legal system time and money” [Liz Kowalczyk, Boston Globe]
  • “Kim Kardashian and the Problem With ‘Celebrity Likeness’ Lawsuits” [Atlantic Wire]
  • Kim Strassel on the Franken-spun Jamie Leigh Jones case [WSJ]
  • Peggy Little interviews Prof. Lester Brickman (Lawyer Barons) on new Federalist Society podcast;
  • Worse than Wisconsin? “Weaponizing” recusal at the Michigan Supreme Court [Jeff Hadden, Detroit News]
  • New York legislature requires warning labels for sippy cups [NYDN]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-29-roundup/feed/ 5     July 25 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-25-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-25-roundup-2/#comments Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:16:01 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24008
  • Nice going, sex offender registries [Brian Dickerson, Detroit Free Press] And I’m quoted in a syndicated column by Lenore Skenazy (and thence by Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing) on the registries’ tendency to sweep in much wider circles of offender than many advocates originally had in mind. More: a tale of child-abuse registries [Skenazy];
  • New York Times exposes scandal: businessman holds seat in Congress. Quick, replace him with another lawyer! [Ribstein]
  • Race separation’s unlawful for school attendance. So why’s it OK for school voting districts? [Quin Hillyer, Mobile Press-Register]
  • Speech and property rights in peril: “Fear of a Muslim America” [Cathy Young, Reason]
  • Before blaming bank dereg for “Too Big To Fail,” read this [Mark Calabria, Cato at Liberty]
  • After fatal one-car crash, drunk driver’s survivors sue popular Irish bar that served him [NJLRA; Trenton, N.J.]
  • Scotland: Thief wants victim prosecuted for keeping gun in her house [Daily Record]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/july-25-roundup-2/feed/ 5     “Law School Sues Law Firm and Bloggers for Criticizing its Placement Data” http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/law-school-sues-law-firm-and-bloggers-for-criticizing-its-placement-data/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/law-school-sues-law-firm-and-bloggers-for-criticizing-its-placement-data/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 11:37:38 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23878 Watch what you say about lawyers — and now it seems about law schools as well, specifically Michigan’s Thomas M. Cooley Law School. [TaxProf, Above the Law]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/law-school-sues-law-firm-and-bloggers-for-criticizing-its-placement-data/feed/ 4     Jurors as grown-ups http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/jurors-as-grown-ups/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/jurors-as-grown-ups/#comments Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:04:30 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23729 New Michigan rules allow juries to ask questions and judges to summarize evidence for their benefit. Michigan Chief Justice (and Overlawyered favorite) Robert Young Jr. “says jurors will no longer be treated like kindergarteners” under the new rules. [ABA Journal; my take back when]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/07/jurors-as-grown-ups/feed/ 7     Great moments in teacher tenure http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/great-moments-in-teacher-tenure/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/great-moments-in-teacher-tenure/#comments Sat, 27 Nov 2010 16:30:31 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=20275 Julie Mack, Kalamazoo Gazette (via Mark Hemingway, Examiner):

    In 1993, Chelsea High School teacher Stephen Leith shot to death his superintendent and wounded his principal and another teacher during a confrontation at the school. Leith was convicted of homicide and given a life sentence; from prison, he continued to pursue an appeal of his firing from Chelsea Public Schools, blaming his actions on medication.
    “He murdered his superintendent. It’s crazy,” said Tom White, associate director of labor relations for [the] Michigan School Board Association.

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