Overlawyered » suicide http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 November 24 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/november-24-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/november-24-roundup-2/#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:20:34 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=20281
  • Jack Park on Bruesewitz v. Wyeth vaccine preemption case at Supreme Court [Heritage]
  • Incidentally happening to assure lawyers more access to work: Harvard’s Tribe devises “access to justice” initiatives for Obama administration [BLT]
  • New Haven cops accidentally photograph themselves deleting video of an unlawful arrest [Balko]
  • How elite law culture miscomprehends the military [Second Circuit chief judge Dennis Jacobs speech at Federalist Society convention, YouTube]
  • “Later, Bad Lawyer”: a blogger heads to prison [Greenfield]
  • Reform medical liability? Depends on how badly you want neurosurgeons’ services [Michael Lavyne, NYDN]
  • “Cab-rank principle” in legal ethics explained [Lawyers' Lawyer, Australia; via Legal Ethics Forum]
  • $3.5 million award to unsuccessful suicide-while-in-custody is one of long series of such cases [six years ago on Overlawyered]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/november-24-roundup-2/feed/ 0     October 21 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/october-21-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/october-21-roundup-3/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:29:49 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19786
  • “Japanese landlords sue families of suicide victims” [Telegraph via Tyler Cowen]
  • Best candidate you’ve never heard of: lawprof Jim Huffman runs for a U.S. Senate seat in Oregon [Weekly Standard]
  • “Freedom of culinary expression: Chefs speak out on behalf of salt” ["My Food, My Choice" via Ponnuru, NRO]
  • “In-House Counsel Expect More Regulatory Litigation, Survey Finds” [NLJ]
  • “Oladiran’s ‘Motion of the Year’ Earns Him Sanctions” [AtL]
  • Resisting a music-delivery-system claim: “Patent Trolls and Public Goods” [Julian Sanchez]
  • More transparency for New Jersey lawyer/lawmakers? [Philly.com]
  • “Ninth Circuit: marine mammals don’t have standing…yet” [six years ago on Overlawyered]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/10/october-21-roundup-3/feed/ 2     Subrogation without adult supervision http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/subrogation-without-adult-supervision/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/subrogation-without-adult-supervision/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:10:36 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=18851 How litigious can insurance companies be when they find themselves in the plaintiff’s seat during the process known as subrogation? This litigious, per Patrick at Popehat.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/subrogation-without-adult-supervision/feed/ 6     On trial for vehicular homicide, sues family she killed http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/on-trial-for-vehicular-homicide-sues-family-she-killed/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/on-trial-for-vehicular-homicide-sues-family-she-killed/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:40:27 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=18803 Citing text messages she sent her boyfriend shortly before the incident, Montana prosecutors contend that Justine Winter’s crash at 85 mph into an oncoming vehicle was a deliberate suicide attempt. Winter, who faces trial on homicide charges in the deaths of Erin Thompson, the woman she ran into, and Thompson’s 13-year-old son, has now sued Thompson’s estate as well as the construction company that built the interstate overpass where the accident occurred. [Daily Inter Lake, Siouxsie Law]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/on-trial-for-vehicular-homicide-sues-family-she-killed/feed/ 11     The fatal workplace joke http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/the-fatal-workplace-joke/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/the-fatal-workplace-joke/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 20:38:13 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=17370 A lab technician in Bolton, Lancashire, U.K. kills himself after an offhand joke at his workplace is denounced as insensitive [Telegraph, Mail]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/the-fatal-workplace-joke/feed/ 3     May 10 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/may-10-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/may-10-roundup/#comments Mon, 10 May 2010 19:42:34 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=17292
  • Failure to warn? “Non-Child Sues For Slide-Related Injury” [Lowering the Bar]
  • “AG Cuomo Sues Lawyer for Fraud, Says He Sold His Name to Debt Collector for $141K” [ABA Journal]
  • Ted Frank on his move to the Manhattan Institute and Point of Law [CCAF]
  • “Viacom is becoming a lawsuit company instead of a TV company” [Doctorow, BoingBoing]
  • UK: “NHS pays £10,000 to family of psychiatric patient who committed suicide” [Times Online]
  • American Cancer Society: federal advisory panel’s chemicals-cause-cancer alarms are overblown [NYTimes] More: Taranto, WSJ.
  • “Who Knew Bankruptcy Paid So Well?” [NYTimes]
  • Famed sleuth Bloomberg Holmes on the case: was the Pathfinder headed for a vile sodium den? [IowaHawk]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/may-10-roundup/feed/ 1     Jumps over fence to prevent a suicide http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/jumps-over-fence-to-prevent-a-suicide/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/jumps-over-fence-to-prevent-a-suicide/#comments Thu, 06 May 2010 18:06:22 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=17255 And then sues would-be suicide over foot injury sustained in the jump. The unusual case reached an Illinois appellate court last year, which ruled that a suit could proceed against the would-be suicide, though not his wife, who had also been named as a defendant on the grounds that she had requested the plaintiff’s help. [Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/05/jumps-over-fence-to-prevent-a-suicide/feed/ 4     Teen commits suicide, 9 classmates charged with felonies http://overlawyered.com/2010/03/teen-commits-suicide-9-classmates-charged-with-felonies/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/03/teen-commits-suicide-9-classmates-charged-with-felonies/#comments Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:12:57 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=16734 “See if you can figure out how the shock and sorrow of the young girl’s death got processed into criminal charges against 9 teenagers and whether this reaction is helpful or just.” [Ann Althouse]

    More: there’s not enough in the article to reach conclusions either way, says Scott Greenfield.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/03/teen-commits-suicide-9-classmates-charged-with-felonies/feed/ 14     “Wal-Mart Wins Suicide Case in Illinois” http://overlawyered.com/2009/12/wal-mart-wins-suicide-case-in-illinois/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/12/wal-mart-wins-suicide-case-in-illinois/#comments Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:07:54 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=15200 “The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a case against Wal-Mart for selling bullets to a person without requiring her to present an identification card as required by Illinois law. Candice Johnson later used the bullets to commit suicide.” [Day, MoreLaw]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2009/12/wal-mart-wins-suicide-case-in-illinois/feed/ 0     “Harvard professor says Nancy Grace was contributor in Florida woman’s suicide” http://overlawyered.com/2009/12/harvard-professor-says-nancy-grace-was-contributor-in-florida-womans-suicide/ http://overlawyered.com/2009/12/harvard-professor-says-nancy-grace-was-contributor-in-florida-womans-suicide/#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:35:49 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=15054 A wrongful-death suit claims the TV host’s badgering drove a woman over the brink. [AP/L.A. Times, Brian Cuban; more on Grace, and our earlier coverage of this suit; OnPoint News]

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