Overlawyered » San Francisco 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 February 14 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-14-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-14-roundup-2/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:08:05 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27567
  • “Brazil Sues Twitter in Bid to Ban Speed Trap and Roadblock Warnings” [ABA Journal]
  • Obama nominates Michigan trial lawyer Marietta Robinson to vacancy on Consumer Product Safety Commission, ensuring aggressively pro-regulatory majority [Bluey, Heritage]
  • “AMA reports show high cost of malpractice suits” [HCFN] “Average expense to defend against a medical liability claim in 2010 was $47,158″ [American Medical News, more] Survey of 1,200 orthopedic surgeons finds defensive medicine rife, at cost of billions, accounting for 7 percent of all hospital admissions [MedPageToday]
  • “Sue us only in Delaware” bylaws would kill off forum-shopping and what fun is that? [Bainbridge]
  • Trial by media: Lefty “SourceWatch” posts, then deletes, docs from Madison County pesticide suit [Madison County Record]
  • Think you’ve beaten FCPA rap? Meet the obscure “Travel Act” [Mike Emmick, Reuters] Federal court expands “honest services fraud” in lobbying case [Paul Enzinna, Point of Law]
  • “On the horrors of getting approval for an ice-cream parlour in San Francisco” [NYT via Doctorow/BoingBoing]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/february-14-roundup-2/feed/ 1     San Francisco Happy Meal ban http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/san-francisco-happy-meal-ban/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/san-francisco-happy-meal-ban/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:01:40 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26032 It takes effect Thursday, but, as some had predicted, the hamburger chain seems to be evading its reach fairly easily just by assigning a separate price to the toy. [SF Weekly]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/san-francisco-happy-meal-ban/feed/ 9     ADA roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/ada-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/ada-roundup/#comments Mon, 10 Oct 2011 05:21:37 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24883
  • “Federal judge: ADA makes porches in new stores illegal” [PoL]
  • “San Francisco Manages to Spend $700K for a Wheelchair Ramp” [Lowering the Bar] Taco Bell hit with potentially expensive California verdict [AP]
  • Looking for regulations that burden economy? Look no further than the ADA [Bader]
  • Website critical of serial California filers [Highest Paid Lawyer]
  • Parking lot rules imperil historic re-creation of Victorian setting in east L.A. [EastSider]
  • “Morbidly” obese, at least, covered: EEOC sues over firm’s dismissal of 680-lb. man [Houston Chronicle, Hyman, MySanAntonio]
  • $1.1 million verdict against Iowa university for failing to accommodate worker’s mental state could encourage more suits [Fox]
  • Missed this in June: “Netflix sued by deaf group over lack of subtitles” [Lance Whitney, CNet]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/ada-roundup/feed/ 0     Pet shop banners http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/pet-shop-banners/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/pet-shop-banners/#comments Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:10:15 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23615 The San Francisco board of supervisors will consider a measure that would ban the sale of all pets in the city [L.A. Times, Outdoor Life, Telegraph (U.K.)] (& welcome Above the Law readers)

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/pet-shop-banners/feed/ 3     June 24 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/june-24-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/june-24-roundup-2/#comments Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:04:47 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23536
  • “Law Prof Threatens Suit over University’s Plan to Reinstitute Single-Sex Dorms” [ABA Journal, WSJ Law Blog; John Banzhaf vs. Catholic U. in Washington, D.C.]
  • Mississippi: Dickie Scruggs files motion to vacate conviction in Scruggs II (DeLaughter case) [Freeland, YallPolitics] Before defending Paul Minor’s conduct in cash-for-judges scandal, review the evidence [Lange, YallPolitics and more]
  • Woman who filmed cop from own yard charged with obstructing his administration of governmen [BoingBoing]
  • East St. Louis, Ill. jury awards $95 million in sexual harassment, assault case against Aaron’s rental chain [ABA Journal]
  • Connecticut unions demand investigation of conservative Yankee Institute think tank [Public Sector Inc.]
  • “Court Upends $1.75M Award, Finding Plaintiff Lawyer’s Remarks Prejudicial” [NJLJ]
  • Hold it! San Francisco debates bathroom rights for schoolkids [C.W. Nevius, SF Chronicle]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/june-24-roundup-2/feed/ 1     San Francisco proposed ban on infant circumcision http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/san-francisco-proposed-ban-on-infant-circumcision/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/san-francisco-proposed-ban-on-infant-circumcision/#comments Wed, 25 May 2011 05:16:35 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23116 Eugene Volokh has a legal analysis of the ballot proposal, which includes no religious-belief exemption. More: Dave Hoffman.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/san-francisco-proposed-ban-on-infant-circumcision/feed/ 18     “‘Social justice’ in contracts costs S.F. millions” http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/social-justice-in-contracts-costs-s-f-millions/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/social-justice-in-contracts-costs-s-f-millions/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 05:16:23 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23025 San Francisco’s public contracting requirements could drive both taxpayers and vendors batty: “[C]ity purchasing policies, if followed, would mean paying about $240 for getting a copy of a key that actually cost a worker $1.35 to get done at a hardware store on his break,” according to one whistleblowing employee. [SF Chronicle via Matt Welch]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/social-justice-in-contracts-costs-s-f-millions/feed/ 0     San Francisco panel: places of public assembly should have to photograph patrons http://overlawyered.com/2011/04/san-francisco-panel-places-of-assembly-should-have-to-photograph-patrons/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/04/san-francisco-panel-places-of-assembly-should-have-to-photograph-patrons/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 05:05:57 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22597 “The Electronic Frontier Foundation joined civil liberties and privacy groups in criticizing a proposal from the San Francisco Entertainment Commission that would require all venues with an occupancy of over 100 people to record the faces of all patrons and employees and scan their ID’s for storage in a database which they must hand over to law enforcement on request. … Events with strong cultural, ideological, and political components are frequently held at venues that would be affected by these rules.” [EFF]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/04/san-francisco-panel-places-of-assembly-should-have-to-photograph-patrons/feed/ 5     Radio: Dennis Prager show today, Ronn Owens show tomorrow http://overlawyered.com/2011/04/radio-dennis-prager-show-today-ronn-owens-show-tomorrow/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/04/radio-dennis-prager-show-today-ronn-owens-show-tomorrow/#comments Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:31:27 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22485 I’m scheduled to be a guest on two of the nation’s leading radio programs, both California-based: Dennis Prager’s today (Tuesday) (broadcast times vary; find a station), and Ronn Owens at San Francisco’s KGO AM 810 tomorrow (Wednesday) at 11 a.m. Pacific. Tune in and listen!

    P.S. Both shows were a pleasure; host Prager generously singled out the book as “so devastating” and “mandatory reading,” and said it was “difficult to overstate the importance of this book.”

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/04/radio-dennis-prager-show-today-ronn-owens-show-tomorrow/feed/ 1     February 28 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/february-28-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/02/february-28-roundup/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:08:21 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=21738
  • Feds indict activist for handing out “jury nullification” tracts outside courthouse [Volokh, Greenfield] Anti-abortion billboard taken down after demand by NYC pol; co. says fear of violence was spur [NY Times]
  • Pigford class action (USDA bias against black farmers) defended and assailed [Friedersdorf and readers, Daniel Foster/NR, Mark Thompson/LOG, earlier here, here, here, etc.]
  • Avik Roy on Pennsylvania defensive-medicine study [Forbes]
  • Backstory: Scott Walker battled AFSCME for years as Milwaukee County exec [Aaron Rodriguez, Hispanic Conservative] “Wisconsin’s teachers required to teach kids labor union and collective bargaining history” [Daily Caller]
  • “The return of the $0 Costco fuel settlement” [CCAF]
  • Historic preservation vs. the obesity crusade: should a vintage Coke sign in San Francisco’s Bernal Heights neighborhood come down? [SFGate]
  • Law blog that covers a single beat closely can turn itself into a valued practice tool [Eric Turkewitz on John Hochfelder's New York Injury Cases]
  • “Soda suits: Banzhaf browbeats school officials” [five years ago on Overlawyered]
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