Overlawyered » Second Circuit 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 Law schools roundup http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/law-schools-roundup-13/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/law-schools-roundup-13/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:14:47 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25879
  • Second Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes, at AALS meeting, gives legal academics frank appraisal of where law school needs fixing, to the delight of many of us who’ve advanced a broadly similar critique [Caron, Above the Law, Sloan/NLJ]
  • “Let’s Regulate Harder. That’ll Provide More Jobs For Young Law Grads!” [my new Cato post, citing an official from the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT)]
  • ABA accreditation rules discourage reliance on less expensive (and often more practice-oriented) adjunct faculty [latest in David Segal series on law schools in New York Times; Catherine Dunn, Corporate Counsel] Plus: video of law school accreditation panel at Federalist Society national convention;
  • Law school without undergrad degree first? Many other advanced countries do it that way [McGinnis and Mangas, Northwestern dean Dan Rodriguez response, M&M rejoinder; ABA Journal on views of NYLS's Rick Matasar] Yet more on law school reform [Jim Chen via Caron, Caron, Mark Yzaguirre, Frum Forum]
  • Complete point-counterpoint at ELF last summer on Tulane law clinic fracas (I’m counterpoint) [ELF]
  • Why not rob the rich? Ask Prof. Leiter [Sullivan]
  • Does law and economics amount to “studies in social engineering”? [Kenneth Anderson]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/second-circuit-repeated-use-of-bitch-may-be-enough-to-create-hostile-work-environment/feed/ 8     Big win for global-warming litigators http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/big-win-for-global-warming-litigators/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/big-win-for-global-warming-litigators/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:22:22 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=13815 A Second Circuit panel, reversing the district court judge, says a suit against utilities can go forward characterizing carbon dioxide as a nuisance. [American Lawyer, Point of Law first, second, third posts]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/09/big-win-for-global-warming-litigators/feed/ 11     The return of Grand Theft Auto: Class Action http://overlawyered.com/2009/08/the-return-of-grand-theft-auto-class-action/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/08/the-return-of-grand-theft-auto-class-action/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:45:30 +0000 Ted Frank http://overlawyered.com/?p=13025 With a million dollars of attorneys’ fees at stake, the trial lawyers in the infamous Grand Theft Auto case appealed the lower court decertification ruling to the Second Circuit.

    In response, I filed this brief today.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/08/the-return-of-grand-theft-auto-class-action/feed/ 6     October 24 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2008/10/october-24-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/10/october-24-roundup-2/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:29:06 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7731
  • Chemerinsky, other critics should apologize to Second Circuit chief judge Dennis Jacobs over bogus “he doesn’t believe in pro bono!” outcry [Point of Law and update]
  • New York high court skeptical of ultra-high contingency fee in Alice Lawrence v. Graubard Miller case [NYLJ; earlier here and here]
  • Panel of legal journalists: press let itself be used in attack on Judge Kozinski [Above the Law]
  • Unfree campaign speech, cont’d: South Dakota anti-abortion group sues to suppress opponents’ ads as “patently false and misleading” [Feral Child]
  • Even if you’re tired of reading about Roy Pearson’s pants, you might still enjoy Carter Wood’s headlines on the case at ShopFloor ["Pandora's Zipper", "Suit Alors!"]
  • Rare grant of fees in patent dispute, company had inflicted $2.5 million in cost on competitors and retailers by asserting rights over nursing mother garb [NJLJ]
  • Time to be afraid? Sen. Bingaman (D-N.M.) keen on reintroducing talk-radio-squelching Fairness Doctrine [Radio Equalizer]
  • “Yours, in litigious anticipation” — Frank McCourt as child in Angela’s Ashes drafted a nastygram with true literary flourish [Miriam Cherry, Concurring Opinions]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2008/10/october-24-roundup-2/feed/ 1     October 22 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2008/10/october-22-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/10/october-22-roundup/#comments Wed, 22 Oct 2008 12:49:12 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7717
  • Bulgarians employ “decoy lawyers” to get around corruption in official bureaus [Cowen, MargRev]
  • Forum-shopping vol. MMMCCXII: Taiwan company claims Apple broke California unfair-practices law so of course it sues in Texarkana [AppleInsider]
  • “U.S. produces far too many lawyers for society to absorb” and one reason is that law schools want warm seats on chairs [Greenfield]
  • Second Circuit: lawyers can’t buy their way out of sanctions for filing meritless lawsuit [Krauss, PoL]
  • Some reasons furor over free speech in Canada is relevant this side of the border [Bernstein @ Volokh]
  • We’re quoted on the subject of those websites that offer “point-and-click access to trial lawyers” [Business First of Columbus]
  • Tight lid kept on study of disposable diapers’ environmental impact since findings were … inconvenient [Times Online (U.K.) via Stuttaford]
  • Judge backs Kentucky’s bid to seize domains of online gambling sites, implications for everyone else [Balko, "Hit and Run"; earlier here and here]
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