Overlawyered » Milwaukee 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 A swipe at school choice? http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/a-swipe-at-school-choice/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/a-swipe-at-school-choice/#comments Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:31:19 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25566 “The Department of Justice has begun an investigation into Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction, probing whether Milwaukee’s state-administered voucher system is discriminating against students with disabilities.” [Joy Resmowits, Huffington Post]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/03/update-milwaukee-teachers-drop-viagra-suit/feed/ 6 Wisconsin: a frisky-union vignette http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/wisconsin-a-frisky-union-vignette/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/wisconsin-a-frisky-union-vignette/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:37:25 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=21646 Headline from last August, recalled by James Taranto: “Milwaukee teachers union files suit over lack of Viagra coverage.” The lack of coverage for erectile dysfunction drugs amounted to sex discrimination, according to the complaint. [Journal-Sentinel]

More on the Wisconsin union showdown from Cato Institute scholars Chris Edwards (Virginia has much sharper restrictions on public-employee unionism than what Gov. Scott Walker is proposing), Neal McCluskey (for the kids? really?), David Boaz (president, with his entire political machine, “is inserting himself into a medium-sized state’s battle over how to balance its budget,” Roger Pilon (unions’ quarrel is with voters) — and see also this 2009 background paper on the unsustainable costs of some union victories.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2009/11/milwaukee-law-firms-in-google-keywords-dustup/feed/ 0 “Felon posing as lawyer spoke at local legal seminar” http://overlawyered.com/2009/04/felon-posing-as-lawyer-spoke-at-local-legal-seminar/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/04/felon-posing-as-lawyer-spoke-at-local-legal-seminar/#comments Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:02:28 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=10817 You supply the quips: “Dozens of Milwaukee-area lawyers earned education credits a little while back for attending a local seminar featuring a convicted felon posing as an expert on criminal sentencing.”

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  • No back-alley bikini lines: New Jersey consumer affairs director rejects proposed ban on Brazilian waxing [Asbury Park Press, JammieWearingFool, Jaira Lima and protest site, Popehat, News12 video] Florida, however, won’t let you get a fish-nibble pedicure [WWSB]
  • Kids doing well in homeschool but divorcing dad disapproves, judge says they must be sent to public [WRAL, Volokh]
  • Al Franken comes out for loser-pays in litigation (well, in this case at least) [MSNBC "First Read"]
  • U.K.: “A man who tried to kill himself has won £90,000 in damages from the hospital which saved his life but hurt his arm in the process” [Telegraph]
  • Life in places without the First Amendment: “Australia’s Vast, Scattershot Censorship Blacklist Revealed” [Slashdot, Volokh, Popehat]; British Telecom passes all internet traffic through “‘Cleanfeed” filters to identify (inter alia) racist content [Glasgow Herald]
  • More on that suit by expelled student against Miss Porter’s School; “Oprichniki” said to be not identical to Keepers of Tradition [NYTimes; our December coverage]
  • “Why We Need Cop Cameras” [Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune] Shopkeepers terrorized in Philadelphia: “The thugs had badges.” [Ken at Popehat]
  • Counting former lobbyists in Obama Administration? Don’t forget Kathleen Sebelius [Jeff Emanuel, RedState]
  • Wisconsin: “$50,000 claim filed over girl’s time-out in school” [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/03/march-22-roundup/feed/ 2     Annals of environmental justice http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/annals-of-environmental-justice/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/annals-of-environmental-justice/#comments Sun, 18 Jan 2009 19:10:20 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=8411 Or what passes by that name: lawyers for the ACLU say the design of a Milwaukee highway project is unfair to minorities (Rick Esenberg, Prawfsblawg; complaint, PDF, at WisPolitics.com).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/annals-of-environmental-justice/feed/ 1     Welcome New York Post readers http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/welcome-new-york-post-readers/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/11/welcome-new-york-post-readers/#comments Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:26:24 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7795 I’m quoted in a sidebar about colorful or long-shot employment litigation, and mention the Rachael Ray anorexic employee suit and the Milwaukee cop who got disability for the stress of being fired over roughing up a suspect. On the latter case, by the way, rather than saying that the cop’s disability payments continue “to this day”, I should have used a phrase like “at last report”. (Brian Moore, “Tort Stories”, New York Post, Nov. 3; revised slightly to clarify final point).

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