subpoenas

Things you’re missing if you aren’t checking out my other site:

• Iowa federal judge hits EEOC with $4.5 million attorney fee award over “sue first, ask questions later” litigation strategy;
• Jim Copland continues his weeklong blogging of Trial Lawyers Inc.: K Street with posts on the plaintiff’s bar’s Washington, D.C. presence (with discussion of CPSIA, employment litigation, qui tam, and arbitration, among other topics); state lobbying; and public relations, including legal academics, the media, and consumer groups;
• Hmm: House committee conveniently subpoenas Toyota defense documents that plaintiffs had been seeking to unseal (and more on Toyota);
• Obama administration plans crackdown to make more employers reclassify independent contractors as employees;
• Trial bar stirs pot in Florida politics;
• Feds swoop down on 2003 settlement to demand that parties reimburse Medicare as provided by retroactive law.

Tagged as: arbitration, CPSIA, CPSIA and Congress, EEOC, Florida, loser pays, Medicare, on other blogs, politics, qui tam, retroactive, subpoenas, Toyota, trial lawyer earmarks

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