December 12 roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

Court dismisses suit blaming cellphone firms for driver distraction is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

• On Oklahoma ballot: grossly overbroad measure to ban use of foreign law [Atlantic Wire, Transplanted Lawyer, earlier Volokh]
• Michigan race: “Dems cross the line with bigoted Supreme Court ad” [Stephen Henderson, Freep; earlier on attacks on Justice Robert Young]
• Jacob Sullum is another non-fan of Andrew Cuomo’s record;
• What was the exact nature of that Vancouver fundraiser so many Senate hopefuls attended? Carter Wood wishes he could add a footnote to an already strong column by George Will on the Linda McMahon-Richard Blumenthal Senate race in Connecticut;
• Speaking of which, Will’s latest election roundup column is just out, while Nate Silver at the NYT’s Five Thirty Eight blog offers an outstanding hour-by-hour election-night guide;
• Iowa poll shows former AAJ/ATLA president Roxanne Conlin, of SomePeopleJustNeedToBeSued.com fame, trailing far behind in bid to unseat Sen. Chuck Grassley [WHO-TV via Carter Wood's PoL election roundup;
• Trial lawyers pour cash into California insurance commissioner race [CJAC]
• Latest effort by New York Times to lionize activist AGs as “next Eliot Spitzers” recalls earlier Times pieces written to same formula, in the most amusing of which it lionized as the next Spitzer Ohio’s since-disgraced Marc Dann. Yet (the shaky electoral performance of such Times favorites as Massachusetts’ Martha Coakley aside) there’s reason to suspect voters this year will return a roster of AGs that’s less inclined toward business-bashing, not more [Jack Fowler at NRO].
• Government a threat to liberty? Doesn’t just depend on whether “our” team’s in charge [Gene Healy, Examiner]

November 1 roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

Meanwhile, scientists, universities and museums are considering their legal options in the face of new Interior Department interpretations of NAGPRA mandating “that after appropriate tribal consultation, transfer of culturally unidentifiable remains is to be made to a tribe from whose tribal or aboriginal lands the remains were excavated or removed.” [Indian Country Today, April; earlier posts on Kennewick Man controversy]

Mauch Chunk once more? is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

Delegate to Durban conference up for 10th Circuit nod is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

The plaintiffs alleged that the bike was “inherently defective and dangerous” because of the defective front fender bracket, which broke within the first week the bike was used.

Pacific Cycle countered that it had designed and manufactured an ordinary “pedal powered” bicycle but that a third party had retrofitted it with a motor.

The company claimed that the mounting of the motor was “unforeseeable misuse and modification” of the bike.

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Law firm ad: “The California Switchblade” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

March 24 roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

“Prosecutor Pays a Price for Chasing Commenters” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system

November 2 roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system