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March 16 roundup

Walter Olson — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:50:35 +0000

“A new target for tech patent trolls: cash-strapped American cities” [Joe Mullin, Ars Technica] Crowdsourcing troll control [Farhad Manjoo, Slate] “Why patent trolls don’t need valid patents” [Felix Salmon] “Why Hayek Would Have Hated Software Patents” [Timothy Lee, Cato] Et tu, Shoah Foundation? [Mike Masnick, TechDirt]
Cory King case: “Not Everything Can Be a Federal Crime” [Ilya Shapiro, Cato]
“Ban on smoking in cars with young children clears Md. Senate” [WaPo]
On religious exemption to birth control mandate, NYT wrestles with unwelcome poll numbers [Mickey Kaus]
“Undocumented Law Grad Can’t Get Driver’s License, But Hopes for Fla. Supreme Court OK of Law License” [ABA Journal]
Department of Justice launches campaign against racial disparities in school discipline [Jason Riley, WSJ via Amy Alkon]
James Gattuso and Diane Katz, “Red Tape Rising: Obama-Era Regulation at the Three-Year Mark” [Heritage]

Tags: immigration law, patent trolls, regulation and its reform, school discipline, smoking bans

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March 6 roundup

Walter Olson — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:11:54 +0000

D.C. Circuit’s Janice Rogers Brown: three-decade-long case over Iran dairy expropriation raises “harshest caricature of the American litigation system” [BLT]
Legal blogger Mark Bennett runs for Texas Court of Criminal Appeals as Libertarian [Defending People, Scott Greenfield] And Prof. Bill Childs, often linked in this space, is departing TortsProf (and legal academia) to join a private law practice in Texas;
Ambitious damage claims, more modest settlements abound in Louisiana oil-rig cleanup suits [ATLA's Judicial Hellholes, more, more, earlier]
Better no family at all: Lawprof Banzhaf jubilant over courts’ denial of adoption to smokers [his press release]
“The worst discovery request I’ve ever gotten” [Patrick at Popehat] And yours?
Concession to reality? Class action against theater over high cost of movie snacks seen as dud [Detroit Free Press]
FCPA is for pikers, K Street shows how real corruption gets done [Bill Frezza, Forbes] Dems threatening tax-bill retribution against clients whose lobbyists who back GOP candidates [Politico]

Tags: adoption, D.C. Circuit, discovery, environment, legal blogs, lobbyists, Louisiana, movies film and videos, oil industry, smoking bans, Texas

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Ban on backyard smoking by homeowners?

Walter Olson — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:55:06 +0000

A family in Rocklin, Calif. is bothered by neighbors who light up on their patio and wants the town to pass a law. [Placer Herald]

Tags: California, smoking bans

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Hitchens on nannyism and NYC

Walter Olson — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:46:36 +0000

David Boaz recalls the great essayist’s remarks at a Cato Institute event. Other tributes: David Frum, D.G. Myers, Chris Buckley.

Tags: nanny state, NYC, smoking bans

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Ban on smoking by renters

Walter Olson — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:09:59 +0000

The Bay Area town of Larkspur plans to forbid most apartment and condominium tenants from smoking in their own units. [Marin Independent Journal; related]

Tags: Bay Area, real estate, smoking bans

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U.K.: “Roadblocks set up to catch drivers smoking”

Walter Olson — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 14:02:30 +0000

Authorities in Essex say they will check ashtrays and impose fines over smoking in company cars and commercial vehicles, which has been banned in England since 2007. [Telegraph via Stuttaford, NRO] We may need to develop a new terminology here: was Nanny herself ever so bossy and intrusive?

Tags: nanny state, smoking bans, traffic laws, United Kingdom

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Mayor Bloomberg’s outdoor smoking ban

Walter Olson — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 16:55:54 +0000

When you go too far even for the editorialists at the Times, you know you’ve really gone overboard.

Tags: Michael Bloomberg, smoking bans

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Smoking bans and heart attack “miracles,” cont’d

Walter Olson — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:10:43 +0000

After much uncritical reportage of claims that heart attacks in this or that community fell immediately and precipitously after a smoking ban went into effect, a larger and more careful study finds no evidence for any such miraculous effect [Jacob Sullum, Reason] Earlier here, etc.

Tags: smoking bans, tobacco

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A story that can’t be true

Walter Olson — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 19:21:10 +0000

We know it can’t, because Mayor Bloomberg has assured us that smoking bans don’t cut into restaurants’ business. [Saginaw News via Fountain; Vassar, Mich.]

Tags: Michael Bloomberg, restaurants, smoking bans

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NYC: “Smoke-easies” under siege

Walter Olson — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:34:24 +0000

The city moves to yank the licenses of nightclubs that it considers too tolerant of covert cigarette use. [NYT via Sullum, Reason "Hit and Run"]

Tags: NYC, smoking bans

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