Overlawyered » NYC 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 Fordham Law School tomorrow http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/fordham-law-school-tomorrow/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/fordham-law-school-tomorrow/#comments Mon, 13 Feb 2012 05:38:50 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27545 I’ll be speaking about my book Schools for Misrule tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12:30 at Fordham Law School in New York City. The Federalist Society is sponsoring, and Prof. Zephyr Teachout will provide critical commentary. The event is open to the public, so feel free to introduce yourself afterward as an Overlawyered reader.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/fordham-law-school-tomorrow/feed/ 0 “Judge rejects injured beer-pong champ” http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/judge-rejects-injured-beer-pong-champ/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/judge-rejects-injured-beer-pong-champ/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:11:27 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27461 “A New Jersey man who got so drunk playing beer pong at a Greenwich Village pub that he thought walking across a busy highway was a good idea cannot sue the bar over his injuries, a judge has ruled.” [Dareh Gregorian, NY Post]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/judge-rejects-injured-beer-pong-champ/feed/ 0 Tales from NYC’s “rubber room” http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/tales-from-nycs-rubber-room/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/tales-from-nycs-rubber-room/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:39:34 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27226 The New York Post checks on on some unfireable teachers.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/tales-from-nycs-rubber-room/feed/ 2 January 21 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/january-21-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/january-21-roundup-3/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:52:42 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27016
  • Because judges should decide cases the way clamoring crowds want them to: “Occupy the Courts” [Althouse, Somin, earlier] Pittsburgh lawprof: bank’s office park has become public forum and is ours to seize [Daily Caller]
  • Some reactions to Megaupload indictment [Julian Sanchez, Ken at Popehat]
  • Kozinski, others trade quips at oral argument in Disneyland Segway ADA case [Courthouse News via Disabilities Law, earlier] “Ouch! Judge Posner eviscerates both a damages expert and the trial judge who let him testify against FedEx” [Technology Law Notes]
  • Victim of NYC gun laws: “Free Meredith Graves” [NRO] “NYC Business Bled To Death Over Toy Guns” [Moonbattery]
  • “Old Enough to Fight, Old Enough to Swipe: A Critique of the Infancy Rule in the Federal Credit Card Act” [Andrew Schwartz (Colorado), SSRN, via Ted Frank]
  • Federal drug cops unapologetic about role in Adderall shortage [Rob Port] A failure of central planning [Reuters, Jacob Sullum and more ("Does the DEA know what 'quota' means?")] Some trial lawyers pushing to ban the drug [via Ted Frank].
  • Go, my child, and steal no more: TSA agents who pilfered $40K from luggage get six months [AP via Balko]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/january-21-roundup-3/feed/ 6     Judge: new Gotham cabs must have wheelchair access http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/judge-new-gotham-cabs-must-have-wheelchair-access/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/judge-new-gotham-cabs-must-have-wheelchair-access/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:16:10 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26683 Agreeing with the Obama Department of Justice, a federal judge has ruled that New York City cannot create more taxicab medallions unless they are for wheelchair-accessible vehicles [AP]. The administration of Mayor Michael Bloomberg says full wheelchair conversion of the taxicab fleet, as demanded by litigants, would cost on the order of $900 million over five years. It would prefer to serve wheelchair patrons through a network that could summon specialized cabs on demand, but some of its adversaries dismiss that alternative as smacking of separate-but-equal.

    Lawyer and author Philip K. Howard points out in a NYDN op-ed that the relief demanded

    would require, over the next five years, that all 13,000 New York City medallion cabs be replaced by cabs that cost about $15,000 more – basically to have their frames cut and then stretched to accommodate a ramp and room inside for a person in a wheelchair. …

    The larger taxis are generally about 800 pounds heavier and use about 20% more fuel – raising costs and polluting the air. Stretched taxis have harsher suspensions, and are therefore less comfortable for most users, as well as more dangerous (because they are less maneuverable and harder to stop).

    See also NY1, WSJ, NYDN (DoJ weighs in on plaintiffs’ side); Matthew Daus/NYT; NYDN (editorial backing mandate), NY Post (opposing mandate); Capital New York (city files notice of appeal).

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/judge-new-gotham-cabs-must-have-wheelchair-access/feed/ 26     NYC diner owner decides to record food inspection on cellphone http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/nyc-diner-owner-decides-to-record-food-inspection-on-cellphone/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/nyc-diner-owner-decides-to-record-food-inspection-on-cellphone/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:54:22 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26875 And soon finds cause for regret [NY Post via Radley Balko, to whom congratulations are in order; related]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/nyc-diner-owner-decides-to-record-food-inspection-on-cellphone/feed/ 1     Labor and employment law roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/labor-and-employment-law-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/labor-and-employment-law-roundup-3/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:12:05 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26697
  • NLRB rules employment contracts that specify arbitration for group grievances violate federal labor law even in nonunion workplaces [D. R. Horton, Inc. and Michael Cuda; Ross Runkel, Corporate Counsel]
  • Richard Epstein on “living wage” legislation [Defining Ideas]
  • In Greece, law providing early retirement for “hazardous” jobs was extended to some that are not so hazardous, like hairdressing, pastry making and radio announcing [Mark Steyn via Instapundit, IBTimes, Reuters]
  • “Prosecutor’s double-dippers draw millions from New Jersey pension funds” [Mark Lagerkvist, DC Examiner] Even if convicted on felony charges of misappropriation of public funds, Beverly Hills school superintendent unlikely to forfeit pension [LA Times]
  • “Against Forced Unionization of Independent Workers” [Ilya Shapiro on Cato amicus brief in Harris v. Quinn]
  • Whoops: UAW officials appeal extortion sentence, 6th Circuit sends it back as too lenient [AutoBlog via Kaus]
  • New York appeals court makes it harder to get weak NYC job-bias cases dismissed on summary judgment [Judy Greenwald, Business Insurance] Connecticut’s job-bias commission doesn’t seem to consider any cases frivolous any more [Daniel Schwartz]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/labor-and-employment-law-roundup-3/feed/ 2     January 11 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/january-11-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/january-11-roundup-2/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:14:38 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25794
  • California’s Prop 65 and the numbness of overwarning [Tung Yin via Bainbridge]
  • Time to kill off medical-method patents [Alex Tabarrok, Medical Progress Today]
  • Spite decoration: “Gretna fence squabble continues in bitter fashion” [NOLA.com, Louisiana]
  • “The Problem With Immigration Lawyers and How to Fix It” [Dzubow/Asylumist via Legal Ethics Forum]
  • “Are NYC transit bus drivers prevented from calling police?” [Turkewitz]
  • “Circumvention tourism” is travel intended to sidestep medical regulation [Glenn Cohen, Prawfs]
  • Abolition of wasteful, arrogant California redevelopment agencies has Tim Cavanaugh ready to kiss a nurse in Times Square [Reason, similarly Gideon Kanner and Steven Greenhut]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/january-11-roundup-2/feed/ 0     Hitchens on nannyism and NYC http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/hitchens-on-nannyism-and-nyc/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/hitchens-on-nannyism-and-nyc/#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:46:36 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26282 David Boaz recalls the great essayist’s remarks at a Cato Institute event. Other tributes: David Frum, D.G. Myers, Chris Buckley.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/hitchens-on-nannyism-and-nyc/feed/ 0     Labor law roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/labor-law-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/labor-law-roundup/#comments Sat, 10 Dec 2011 12:24:30 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25844
  • Union withdraws, and NLRB drops, complaint against Boeing over plant location decision [Adler, earlier] “Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-GA) Introduces Bill to Reverse NLRB’s ‘Micro-Union’ Decision” [LRT via @jonhyman] Video of “Organized Labor & Obama administration” panel [Federalist Society convention]
  • Suing Atlantic City is an established sport for current, former employees [Press of AC] After lawsuit win, former Gotham sanitation worker litters neighborhood with cars [NY Post via Christopher Fountain] Why have House, Senate reversed usual ideological lines on federal employee workers’-comp reform? [WaPo]
  • Murder of reformist professors reinforces difficulty of changing Italian labor law [Tyler Cowen] UK considers relaxing “unfair dismissal” controls on employers [BBC, earlier]
  • Taylor Law and NYC transit strike: “ILO Urges that U.S. Stop Violating International Obligations It Hasn’t Agreed To” [Ku, OJ; Mitch Rubinstein, Adjunct Law Prof]
  • Maryland’s misnamed 2009 “Workplace Fraud Act” bedevils carpet installers and other firms that employ contract workers, and perhaps that was its point [Ed Waters Jr./Frederick News-Post, Weyrich Cronin & Sorra, Floor Daily]
  • “Government pay is higher” [Stoll] Notwithstanding “Occupy” themes, interests of unions and underemployed young folks might not actually be aligned very well [Althouse]
  • More on outcry over proposed federal restrictions on kids’ farm chores [WSJ, NPR, Gannett Wisconsin, CEI, earlier]
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