The premise is that they are a public health menace since standing water in them might afford a haven for mosquitoes that carry West Nile virus. [Gideon Kanner]
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Meet the meddlers: officials from California to Gotham to London who believe that so long as we remain free to smoke, drink and consume potato chips in the privacy of our home, “government isn’t doing its job.” [Gene Healy, Examiner]
P.S. As readers rightly point out, the post should have noted that the speaker quoted in the headline was referring to the subsidized food stamp program, not the same thing as restricting consumer access to foods generally (though some “food policy” buffs certainly do favor the latter.)
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- Will they get group discounts on lawyers? Groupon vs. MobGob patent brawl [TechCrunch]
- Why American courts should sometimes recognize Islamic law [series of Eugene Volokh posts]
- No, it’s not a “public health issue”: “The Case Against Motorcycle Helmet Laws” [Steve Chapman, syndicated/RCP]
- Failed system of justice on some Indian reservations [McClelland, Mother Jones]
- Ten years ago: Morgan Lewis & Bockius handed mlb.com domain over to its client Major League Baseball [Ross Davies, SSRN]
- City of Boston adds insult to injury after employee runs into building [TJIC, Popehat]
- Citing fans’ drug use, feds seek forfeiture of farm used for Grateful Dead tribute concerts [Greenfield]
- Johann Sebastian Bach, serial copyright violator [Cavanaugh, Reason]
Alcohol and obesity risk, together: Jacob Sullum may have identified the next target of ire for the disapprovers of fun. [Reason "Hit and Run"] Related: “The Case Against Health” [Richard Klein, Chronicle of Higher Education]
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- Growth of regulatory state makes lobbying more attractive path than innovation [Morris Panner, WaPo]
- Long-awaited Norma Zager book flays Erin Brockovich role in Beverly Hills High School controversy [CJAC]
- Colorado high court: no need to limit medical fee awards to sums plaintiffs actually paid [CCJL, Law Week Colorado]
- Please, law firm marketers, don’t assume we’re in need of your services [Popehat]
- Updates on prosecutorial silencing of pain treatment activist Siobhan Reynolds [Sullum, more, yet more, Balko]
- Comments of NTSB official notwithstanding, riding motorcycle without helmet is no “public health issue” [Boaz, Cato] Watch out for more paternalism premised on government health care expenditures [Coyote]
- No contracting out? Can California really be this screwed up? [Coyote]
- Claim: railroad should have warned against walking on the right-of-way [six years ago on Overlawyered]
- Florida AG probes foreclosure lawyers [Neil, ABA Journal; related, Mother Jones]
- “ABA Ponders Accrediting Offshore Law Schools” [Mystal, AtL]
- DC pressured states to mount those signs heralding stimulus projects [Tad DeHaven, Cato "Downsizing the Federal Government"]
- “Epidemiologist Fired for Reporting Unhelpful Results” [Sullum, Reason "Hit and Run", update]
- Critique of barber licensing crosses ideological lines [Tabarrok]
- “Oops! Cheerleader sued wrong company” [Fox Sports]
- “Trial Lawyer: Raise an ‘Army’ to Pressure Ecuadorian Court” in Chevron case [ShopFloor] Parallels between Chevron-Ecuador & Dole-Nicaragua litigation episodes [California Civil Justice channeling sub-only Recorder]
- “Access suit closes landmark California eatery” [105-year-old On Lock Sam in Stockton; seven years ago on Overlawyered]
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Once upon a time, the main mission of “public health” was to prevent the spread of contagious illnesses, and handing the members of that profession a lot of coercive power may have seemed like a sound idea. But now many of the profession’s members are demanding that government intervene against unhealthy individual lifestyle choices. Keep your laws off our bodies, please (Ronald Bailey, “Is Diabetes a Plague?”, Reason, Mar. 17).
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