Overlawyered » Netherlands 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 Netherlands: Wilders not guilty, prosecutors say http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/netherlands-wilders-not-guilty-on-all-counts/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/netherlands-wilders-not-guilty-on-all-counts/#comments Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:54:15 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19721 Prosecutors say the evidence does not support convicting prominent Dutch politician Geert Wilders of violating hate speech laws. [Dutch News] On the other hand, Andy McCarthy points out that the Dutch legal system — which obviously differs on this point from our own — allows judges to force the case to continue notwithstanding the prosecutors’ view that it should be dropped. [NRO "Corner"]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/netherlands-wilders-not-guilty-on-all-counts/feed/ 0 The Economist: “Swimming and freedom” http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/the-economist-swimming-and-freedom/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/the-economist-swimming-and-freedom/#comments Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:06:32 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19102 Forwarded by Pete Warden with the comment, “This post sums up why I’m a pretty liberal guy *and* a strong supporter of Overlawyered.”

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/the-economist-swimming-and-freedom/feed/ 1 Dutch nurse imprisoned for six years over patients’ unexplained deaths http://overlawyered.com/2010/04/dutch-nurse-imprisoned-for-six-years-over-patients-unexplained-deaths/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/04/dutch-nurse-imprisoned-for-six-years-over-patients-unexplained-deaths/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:14:38 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=17186 And then came the second look [Scott Greenfield]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2010/04/dutch-nurse-imprisoned-for-six-years-over-patients-unexplained-deaths/feed/ 8 Around the web, July 3 http://overlawyered.com/2009/07/around-the-web-july-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/07/around-the-web-july-3/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 04:12:36 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=12107
  • Transportation Security Administration detained comic book artist based on art he was carrying with him [Popehat]
  • More unease over Federal Trade Commission move to regulate bloggers’ freebies [Citizen Media Law, CEI "Open Market", earlier] “I could care less that Milly the Yarn Spinner at millysworldofyarn.com is getting free samples of yarn to review on her blog.” [John Dvorak, PC Mag]
  • “Judge Calls Frivolous Suits Against Attorneys a ‘Disturbing Trend’” [NYLJ; Staten Island, N.Y.]
  • Sad news: Excellent online music service Pandora, unable to negotiate rights affordably, shuts down for customers outside the U.S. [Prefixmag, earlier]
  • Joseph Stiglitz says the UN has a key role to play in “reforming the global financial and economic system”, which “is a bad idea. It is a very bad idea.” [Tyler Cowen]
  • All assemble for trial: more installments in White Coat’s saga of his malpractice case [Emergency Physicians Monthly, parts seven and eight]
  • Netherlands: site gets sued because of the way Google indexed it [TheNextWeb.com]
  • Phone company faces grievance after disallowing workers’ metal facial jewelry as electricity-conducting risk [eight years ago on Overlawyered]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/07/around-the-web-july-3/feed/ 1     March 20 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2009/03/march-20-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/03/march-20-roundup/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 05:15:51 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=9888
  • Elena Kagan’s changing views of Senate confirmation process: “Lobster in Pot Re-Evaluates Pro-Boiling Stance” [Spruiell, NR "Corner"]
  • “Federal Courts React to Tide of Pro Se Litigants” [NLJ]
  • We get permalinks in nice places including a prominent Dutch business paper [NRC Handelsblad]
  • Someone who needs research done should snap up Kathleen Seidel, model practitioner of citizen journalism on autism-vaccine fray [Neurodiversity] When she got a call from a charity telemarketer recently, she began checking them out online. Results? Devastating. [Neurodiversity, Popehat]
  • How far does Britain’s new animal welfare law go? Does it really cover little Nicholas’s pet cricket? [Never Yet Melted]
  • Constitutionalizing judicial ethics: Caperton v. Massey case before Supreme Court is a bit more complicated than you’d think from the NYT editorial [Point of Law]
  • If you’re not in favor of government cracking down on what is said in online forums, are you “trivializing women’s harms”? [Danielle Citron/ConcurOp, Scott Greenfield] On the other hand, it doesn’t take a commitment to feminism to note that there are online bullies and they’re a nasty, overwhelmingly male lot [Popehat, language]
  • Attorney walks away from a whole bunch of cases after accusation he bribed a Royal Caribbean Cruise Line employee, and his troubles may not be over yet [Florida Daily Business Review]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/03/march-20-roundup/feed/ 0     January 29 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/january-29-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/january-29-roundup-2/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 14:07:14 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=8615
  • Free class-action swag if you bought department store cosmetics between 1994 and 2003; not that they’re giving away the very best stuff or anything [Tompkins/Poynter, California Civil Justice, WSJ Law Blog, settlement site] We’ve been covering the story for quite some time;
  • Law school “can be a financial disaster” for unwary students [Law and More] Law schools not immune from economic downturn [Above the Law]
  • Bruce Bawer on Dutch prosecution of Islam-criticizer Geert Wilders [City Journal]
  • More on possible passenger suits after the miracle Hudson-landing USAir Flight #1549 [USA Today, earlier] Update: NY Post, NY Mag.
  • Bad news for patients and other living things: Sidney Wolfe of Public Citizen somehow got named to a key FDA panel during the late Bush administration [Point of Law, Postrel, Bernstein/Volokh, Hooper & Henderson/Forbes]
  • “Friends weren’t really trying to reach me!” class action against Reunion.com encounters another setback [Spam Notes]
  • Stand and deliver it back: “Minnesota: $2.6 Million in Red Light Camera Tickets Refunded” [The Newspaper]
  • Gary, Indiana’s is the last standing of what were once thirty “gun sales = nuisance” suits filed by cities; now Indiana high court says it can go to trial [Point of Law]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/01/january-29-roundup-2/feed/ 4     July 15 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2008/07/july-15-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/07/july-15-roundup/#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:02:25 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7274
    • New York attorney suspended from practice after attempting as guardian to extract $853,000 payday from estate of Alzheimer’s victim [ABA Journal, Emani Taylor]

    • Bought a BB gun to fend off squirrels, now his 20-year-old son faces three years for bare possession [MyCentralJersey.com via Zincavage]

    • U.K.: “Sports clubs face being put out of business following a landmark court ruling forcing them to be liable for deliberate injuries caused by their player to an opponent.” [Telegraph]

    • Prosecutors in Norwich, Ct. still haven’t dropped their case against teacher Julie Amero in malware-popup smut case. Why not? [TalkLeft, earlier]

    • Dealership protection laws, deplored earlier in this space, work to make a GM bankruptcy both likelier and messier [The Deal]

    • Strange new respect for talk show host Joe Scarborough in quarters where conservatives are ordinarily disliked? Some of us saw that coming [NYMag]

    • Following Rhode Island rout of lawsuit against lead-paint makers, Columbus, Ohio drops its similar case [PoL, Akron Beacon Journal editorial]

    • In latest furor over free speech and religious sensitivity in Europe, Dutch authorities have arrested cartoonist “suspected of sketching offensive drawings of Muslims and other minorities” [WSJ; "Gregorius Nekschot"]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/07/july-15-roundup/feed/ 3     February 6 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2008/02/february-6-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/02/february-6-roundup/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 07:31:23 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5826
    • Calling it “oppressive”, committee chair in Mississippi legislature vows to defeat proposal to ban restaurants from serving obese patrons [AP/Picayune-Item; earlier]

    • Latest in whales vs. sub sonar: judge deep-sixes Bush’s attempt to exempt Navy from rules against bothering marine mammals [CNN; earlier]

    • Much-criticized opener of ABC’s new series Eli Stone aired last Thursday, and Orac takes a scalpel to the vaccine-scare script [Respectful Insolence, which also covers new autism studies]

    • Scary proposal approved by California assembly would strong-arm larger private foundations — and businesses that deal with them — into “diversity” numbers game [Lehrer/Hicks @ L.A. Times]

    • New Dutch study finds thin people and nonsmokers cost health system more in long run than obese and smokers — theories behind Medicaid-recoupment litigation are looking more fraudulent every day, aren’t they? [AP]

    • Late, but worth noting: blogger nails John Edwards’s demagoguery on Nataline Sarkisyan case [Matthew Holt @ Spot-On, via KevinMD; more here, here, and from Ted here]

    • Puff piece on food-poisoning lawyer William Marler [AP/KOMO]

    • Ready, set, all take offense: Sen. McCain likes to tell lawyer jokes [WSJ law blog]

    • In suit charging UFCW with “racketeering”, Smithfield cites as an underlying offense union’s having lobbied city councils to pass resolutions condemning the meatpacker; company has hired Prof. G. Robert Blakey, who denies the RICO law he drafted is a menace to liberty [Liptak, NYT; some earlier parallels in federal tobacco suit]

    • Golden age of comic books was 1930s-1950s, but golden age of comic book litigation is now [NLJ]

    • New at Point of Law: Hillary’s “disastrous” mortgage scheme; Qualcomm sanctions ruling could curb discovery abuse; if Mel Weiss has been kind to you, why drop him down memory hole?; new academic theory on uniformity of contingency fees; the trouble with patenting tax avoidance strategies; and much more [visit][bumped Wed. a.m.]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/02/february-6-roundup/feed/ 4     By reader acclaim: Dutch woman loses suit over not entering lottery http://overlawyered.com/2007/06/by-reader-acclaim-dutch-woman-loses-suit-over-not-entering-lottery/ http://overlawyered.com/2007/06/by-reader-acclaim-dutch-woman-loses-suit-over-not-entering-lottery/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:40:09 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=5040 You can’t win if you don’t play: “A Dutch woman who claimed she suffered emotional damages due to not winning the lottery missed the jackpot in court too. Amsterdam District Court judges Wednesday rejected the claim of Helene de Gier, who said she was traumatized by not winning the country’s National Postcode Lottery, which she didn’t enter, while her neighbors did.” DeGier said one lucky neighbor had rubbed in his good luck by showing off a new Porsche, and claimed lottery ads had engaged in “emotional blackmail” by suggesting that non-entrants like herself might be sorry afterward. (AP/IHT, Reuters).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2007/06/by-reader-acclaim-dutch-woman-loses-suit-over-not-entering-lottery/feed/ 4     February 12 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2007/02/february-12-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2007/02/february-12-roundup/#comments Mon, 12 Feb 2007 00:09:19 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=4517
    • Divorcing Brooklyn couple has put up sheetrock wall dividing house into his and hers [L.A. Times, AP/Newsday]

    • Boston Herald appeals $2 million libel award to Judge Ernest Murphy, whom the paper had portrayed as soft on criminals (earlier: Dec. 8 and Dec. 23, 2005) [Globe via Romenesko]

    • Updating Jul. 8 story: Georgia man admits he put poison in his kids’ soup in hopes of getting money from Campbell Soup Co. [AP/AccessNorthGeorgia]

    • Witness talks back to lawyer at deposition [YouTube via Bainbridge, %&*#)!* language]

    • Prominent UK business figure says overprotective schools producing generation of “cotton wool kids” [Telegraph]

    • State agents swoop down on Montana antique store and seize roulette wheel from 1880s among other “unlicensed gambling equipment” [AP/The Missoulian]

    • “You, gentlemen, are no barristers. You are just two litigators. On Long Island.” [Lat and commenter]

    • Some Dutch municipalities exclude dads from town-sponsored kids’ playgroups, so as not to offend devout Muslim moms [Crooked Timber]

    • As mayor, Rudy Giuliani didn’t hesitate to stand up to the greens when he thought they were wrong [Berlau @ CEI]

    • Australia: funeral homes, fearing back injury claims, now discouraging the tradition of family members and friends being pallbearers [Sydney Morning Herald]

    • Asserting 200-year-old defect in title, Philly’s Cozen & O’Connor represents Indian tribe in failed lawsuit laying claim to land under Binney & Smith Crayola factory [three years ago on Overlawyered]

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