Overlawyered » serial litigants http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 “To say that Zaffina is particular about the spelling and presentation of his name would be an understatement” http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/to-say-that-zaffina-is-particular-about-the-spelling-and-presentation-of-his-name-would-be-an-understatement/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/to-say-that-zaffina-is-particular-about-the-spelling-and-presentation-of-his-name-would-be-an-understatement/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 12:47:17 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27350 Members of an L.A. group devoted to darts, the bar sport, are among those plunged into litigation by a fellow enthusiast. “Says one well-known bar owner who did not wish to be identified for fear of retribution, ‘I’m weary of being involved with this guy because he’s just been firing off lawsuits. Some of us wanted to fight, but these things can be very expensive.’” [L.A. Weekly]

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  • Dodd-Frank, arms-trade laws serve to entrench bigger business against smaller [Tim Carney, Rand Simberg] Similarly with automakers and coal producers [David Henderson]
  • One guess as to why: “Many Physicians Feel They’re Delivering Too Much Care” [WSJ health blog, CJAC] Insurers report incidence of med-mal claims has dropped, severity has increased [National Underwriter] Roundtable on defensive medicine [Orthopedics Today]
  • Pinball Hall of Fame adversary doesn’t like being called a vexatious litigant [Las Vegas Weekly via @loweringthebar]
  • U.K. “Solicitors from Hell” gripe site has so far defied multiple efforts to shut it down [Independent]
  • WTC dust inhalation suits grind on on despite doubts on scientific effect [PoL, more] “Improbable Chain of Events Dooms Con Ed’s 9/11 Lawsuit” [Mark Hamblett, NYLJ]
  • Nathan Glazer’s work in perspective, and an interview [City Journal];
  • In the mail: Curtis Wilkie’s Dickie Scruggs book, “The Fall of the House of Zeus.”
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/october-6-roundup-3/feed/ 0     “I, on the other hand, will not let people push me around” http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/%e2%80%9ci-on-the-other-hand-will-not-let-people-push-me-around/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/%e2%80%9ci-on-the-other-hand-will-not-let-people-push-me-around/#comments Mon, 22 Aug 2011 14:01:54 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24265 Says the Arkansas man who has sued Microsoft for $500 billion over his XBox Live contract. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/%e2%80%9ci-on-the-other-hand-will-not-let-people-push-me-around/feed/ 4     U.K.: Woman’s hobby of filing bias complaints costs others dearly http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/u-k-womans-hobby-of-filing-bias-complaints-costs-others-dearly/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/u-k-womans-hobby-of-filing-bias-complaints-costs-others-dearly/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:42:41 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23410 The Telegraph profiles a “race equality campaigner [who] has cost taxpayers more than £1 million by bringing a string of discrimination claims – several of them against anti-racism groups.”

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/u-k-womans-hobby-of-filing-bias-complaints-costs-others-dearly/feed/ 2     Perennial litigant cuts wide swath among Newark landlords http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/perennial-litigant-cuts-wide-swath-among-newark-landlords/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/perennial-litigant-cuts-wide-swath-among-newark-landlords/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 05:15:52 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23013 Well-written article about the lengthy career of one pro se litigant in Newark who has been tying up landlords and others in court for years; it took a fair bit of gumption to publish, given the tendency of many litigious persons to sue those who would expose their litigiousness to public notice. Worth careful study for the light it sheds on the difficulty our legal system so often has in bringing down the curtain on determined perennial litigants [Barry Carter, Newark Star-Ledger]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/perennial-litigant-cuts-wide-swath-among-newark-landlords/feed/ 2     Digging for ADA gold http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/digging-for-ada-gold/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/digging-for-ada-gold/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 05:05:14 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22898 Well-known serial ADA litigant George Louie has hit the California Gold Rush country [CJAC] Not that far away: “Serial ADA filer targets popular Davis burger joint” [same, Scott Johnson]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/digging-for-ada-gold/feed/ 1     September 7 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/september-7-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/september-7-roundup/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:31:17 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19144
  • “If someone wants to sue you, they can. Easily, too.” Amy Wallace on being sued over her vaccine story [Reporting on Health, earlier]
  • Jury tells Ford to pay $131 million after minor league ballplayer crashes Explorer at 80 mph+ [WaPo]
  • Winnipeg judge scandal has sex, race, coercion and most riveting of all a legal ethics angle [Alice Woolley, LEF]
  • “$667M Nursing Home Verdict Surprised Even the Plaintiffs’ Lawyers” [ABA Journal, earlier]
  • “Maryland Woman Sues After Being Banned by Facebook” [Kashmir Hill/Forbes, MSNBC "Technolog"]
  • The trouble with (some) defense-side trial lawyers [Ted Frank, CCAF] And: defense bar briefing prosecutorial agencies on ins and outs of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Ethics/loyalty problem in that, or no? [Koehler]
  • Bow-tied troll? Patent-marking suits hit the big time [WSJ Law Blog and more, ABA Journal, Glenn Lammi/Forbes]
  • “A girl named Sue who sues and sues and sues” [SE Tex Record]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/september-7-roundup/feed/ 8     October 14 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2009/10/october-14-roundupt/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/10/october-14-roundupt/#comments Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:44:05 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=14179
  • Uh-huh: new report from federal Legal Services program calls for gigantic new allocation of tax money to, well, legal services programs [ABA Journal]
  • “Judge: Man’s a ‘vexatious litigator’” [Cincinnati.com]
  • Wisconsin governor signs bill requiring prescription to buy mercury thermometer [Popehat]
  • “Injured by art?” Woman sues Museum of Fine Arts Houston after fall in artist-designed light tunnel [Mary Flood, Houston Chronicle "Legal Trade"]
  • On Carol Browner and the cry of “environmental racism” (a/k/a “green redlining”) [Coyote]
  • New York: “Lawyers implicated in $9 million mortgage fraud” [Business Insider]
  • In Canada, as in the U.S., medical privacy rules hamper police investigations [Calgary Herald]
  • Stalin’s grandson loses lawsuit in Russia against newspaper that supposedly defamed the dictator [WSJ Law Blog, Lowering the Bar, Volokh]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/10/october-14-roundupt/feed/ 5     “Obsessed with Lawsuits” http://overlawyered.com/2008/09/obsessed-with-lawsuits/ http://overlawyered.com/2008/09/obsessed-with-lawsuits/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:48:25 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=7525 This network report on serial litigants seems to have trouble distinguishing those with a psychological need to be involved in litigation from those who approach it coolly as a business proposition. (Russell Goldman, ABC News, Jul. 31).

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