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“He couldn’t prove it was legitimate”

Walter Olson — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:05:58 +0000

Nice $22,000 you’re carrying, Mister Motorist, but I think it would look nicer in the police department’s bank account [News Channel 5 Nashville via Radley Balko]. Driver George Reby, a professional insurance adjuster from New Jersey, was then permitted to go on his way since he “hadn’t committed a criminal law [violation],” as the police officer later explained to a reporter. It happened in Monterey, Tenn., not Monterrey, Mexico.

Tags: forfeiture, Tennessee

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At Vanderbilt tomorrow

Walter Olson — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:44:26 +0000

Tomorrow, Wednesday, I’ll be giving a lunchtime talk on Schools for Misrule in Nashville at Vanderbilt Law School, hosted by the student Federalist Society chapter there. It’s open to the public, so drop by and say hello.

Tags: live in person, Tennessee

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April 9 roundup

Walter Olson — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 04:12:25 +0000

Forfeiture-happy customs agents bedevil family flying to Ethiopia [Volokh]
Lawmakers, ABA ex-bigs back campaign to grant law license to illegal alien [Miami Herald]
“NYT reports the FDA is stunned democracy requires they answer to elected political leaders as part of enacting laws” [@CraigBruney]
When did doghouses become a crime? [Alex Ballingall/Maclean's via @amyalkon]
Why Tennessee, famous for distilleries, used to have so few of them [Nashville City Paper via @radleybalko]
ESPN tells only one side of Title IX story [Eric McErlain, Daily Caller; Saving Sports]
Greece: “At the health department they were told that all the shareholders of the company would have to provide chest X-rays” [Mark Perry]

Tags: alcohol, animal rights, bar associations, FDA, forfeiture, immigration law, regulation and its reform, Tennessee, Title IX

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“Suspect in MTSU player’s death sues apartment complex for not intervening”

Walter Olson — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:33:12 +0000

Murfreesboro: “A former MTSU student accused of stabbing a Lady Raider basketball player to death at Raiders Crossing Apartments in 2011 is suing the complex and its management company for failing to separate the two despite knowing they had problems with one another. … The attorney [Joe Brandon Jr.] included Twitter postings by Stewart as supporting evidence of a negative and deteriorating relationship between the two women.” [The Tennessean]

Tags: criminals who sue, Tennessee, third party liability for crime, Twitter

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Getting a bad judge off the bench

Walter Olson — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:47:01 +0000

Sinking deeper into substance abuse, a prominent Tennessee judge spins ever further out of control. How long does it take before he’s removed and the public alerted to his problem? Way too long for comfort [Knoxville News Sentinel]

Tags: judges, Tennessee

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Home office? Keep it quiet

Walter Olson — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 14:21:14 +0000

If you run a home office in Nashville, you mustn’t let clients visit, while in Montgomery County, Maryland, employees may not pick up paychecks at a home-based business [Radley Balko; Harvey Jacobs, WaPo]

Tags: land use and zoning, Maryland, Tennessee

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June 14 roundup

Walter Olson — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:29:29 +0000

Bizarrely overbroad: “Tennessee law bans posting images that ’cause emotional distress’” [Tim Lee, Ars Technica]
“Superlawyer Stanley Chesley Faces Reckoning Tuesday” [Dan Fisher, Forbes, Cincinnati Enquirer, reporter Jim Hannah, earlier]
More on record run-up in used car prices [Perry; my Cato take]
Winkler County, Texas nurses case illuminates evils of prosecution-as-weapon [Texas Observer via PoL; earlier here, here, and here]
Not a parody: claim that litigious celebs should be doing more to support Litigation Lobby [CJD]
“Feminism by Treaty: Why CEDAW is Still a Bad Idea” [Christina Sommers, Policy Review]
Why do agents of so many miscellaneous government agencies pack guns? [Quin Hillyer last year]
New idea for who to sue over sex scandals [Conan show lawyer ad parody, adult content]

Tags: autos, emotional distress, international human rights, Kentucky fen-phen settlement fraud, litigation lobby, online speech, Stan Chesley, Tennessee

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April 10 roundup

Walter Olson — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:17:06 +0000

Civil libertarian Wendy Kaminer on feminism and the Yale speech complaint [Atlantic, earlier]
Baylen Linnekin’s Keep Food Legal organization is having a membership drive;
Bounty-hunting West Coast lawyers can now sue employers for large sums over temperature and worker-seating violations of the California Labor Code [Cal Labor Law]
Current set of urban, suburban parking policies amount to “another great planning disaster.” [Donald Shoup, Cato Unbound]
$7500? Tennessee lawyer charged with rape of client released on $7500 bond [WMC via White Coat]
Stella Liebeck hot coffee case: Abnormal Use suspects that Cracked never read its FAQ on the subject (or for that matter many of our own postings);
Baltimore public housing refuses to pay lead poisoning awards; “too strapped” [Baltimore Sun]
“Mr. Potato Head” contest cited in discrimination lawsuit charging anti-Irish bias [Lowering the Bar]

Tags: Baltimore, California, colleges and universities, eat drink and be merry, lead paint, Tennessee

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International human rights law roundup

Walter Olson — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:52:21 +0000

Recent clips on a subject treated in much more detail in Schools for Misrule:

Claim: Wisconsin Gov. Walker’s reforms to public sector labor law violate international human rights [HRW, Mirer/Cohn, FoxBusiness (views of Marquette lawprof Paul Secunda)] Related: UAW threatens charges against automakers [ShopFloor]
Per some advocates, “right to health” has emerged as an “established international legal precept” even if it is “still to be fully embraced in the United States” [Friedman/Adashi, JAMA]
GWB at risk of arrest if he visits Europe? Or are some of his enemies just posturing? “Bush trip to Switzerland called off amid threats of protests, legal action” [Atlantic Wire, WaPo, Daily Dish and more, Frum Forum, more and yet more]
Oh, good grief: Tennessee solon “proposes law to make following Shariah law a felony” [Tennesseean] More states prepare to join unsound “ban all recogition of international law” movement [Ku, OJ] Background: Volokh.
For those interested in the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples recently given a favorable nod by the Obama administration, a copy of the text is available here [CWB]
“Conceptualizing Accountability in International Law and Institutions” [Anderson, OJ]
Human rights initiative in UK: “Rapists and killers demand right to benefits” [Telegraph] European Court of Human Rights, Human Rights Acts “merely pretexts for judicial activism, argues Alasdair Palmer” [Telegraph]
Claim: U.S. is odd-country-out in international law. Reality check please [Bradford, Posner et al, OJ]
Opponents charge trying Pennsylvania 13 year old for murder as adult could violate international law [AI]

Tags: George W. Bush, Indian tribes, international human rights, international law, labor unions, medical, Tennessee, United Nations, Wisconsin

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October 30 roundup

Walter Olson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:10:33 +0000

Annals of discrimination lawsuits: a Tennessee cop contests his firing [Chattanooga Pulse]
New book on lawsuits against universities: Amy Gajda, “The Trials of Academe: The New Era of Campus Litigation” [Harvard University Press via Stanley Fish, NYT]
Bernard Kerik’s bail revoked because he used Twitter to promote a website put up by his friends flaying the prosecution? [Scott Greenfield] Plus: More complicated than that, says Bill Poser in comments;
Another big setback for birther litigation [Wasserman/ Prawfsblawg, Little Green Footballs, earlier]
“I won’t be able to function,” says Missouri woman after judge rules her monkey is not a service animal [On Point News, Molly DiBianca] More: service ferret gets owner kicked out of North Carolina mall [DigTriad]
Eleventh Circuit agrees that U.S. cannot prosecute criminal defense lawyer Ben Kuehne for money laundering charges for having written opinion letter saying untainted money was available for legal fees [WSJ Law Blog, coverage (and update) at Scott Greenfield's site, Miami Herald]
One for the Coase Theorem literature? Cranky neighbor forces closure of famed South Carolina recording venue [Ribstein]
Hallowe’en is safe [BoingBoing, earlier on Pennsylvania town's trick-or-treating ban] “Toronto schools: Hallowe’en insensitive to witches” [four years ago on Overlawyered]

Tags: Barack Obama, child protection, colleges and universities, defense lawyers, Missouri, music and musicians, police, prosecution, service animals, South Carolina, Tennessee

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