Overlawyered » terrorism http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:11:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Some heroes for our time http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/some-heroes-for-our-time/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/some-heroes-for-our-time/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:53:06 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27242 My new post at Cato at Liberty is on Italian labor law professors Pietro Ichino and Carlo Dell’Aringa, who live under police protection because of their support for liberalization of the job market; two other professors, Massimo D’Antona and Mario Biagi, have been killed by Red Brigades gunmen. More: Coyote.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/some-heroes-for-our-time/feed/ 1 “Human rights court blocks Abu Qatada deportation” http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/human-rights-court-blocks-abu-qatada-deportation/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/human-rights-court-blocks-abu-qatada-deportation/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:29:49 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27224 British prime minister David Cameron is fuming over the latest in a long string of rulings by the European Court of Human Rights, which now has stepped in to protect a militant Islamist cleric from deportation to Jordan, where he has been convicted in absentia of plotting terrorist attacks. [Independent, Telegraph]

More: Cameron calls for reform of ECHR, says it is turning into court of “fourth instance” for general appeal of British judicial decisions [Telegraph, Guardian, New Statesman, Conservative Home]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/human-rights-court-blocks-abu-qatada-deportation/feed/ 0 November 22 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-22-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-22-roundup-3/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:35:53 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25773
  • Furor continues over insider trading by Congress [Roger Parloff/Fortune, Bainbridge ("unimpressed" with reform proposal entitled STOCK Act), earlier] Rep. Bachus disputes claims in Peter Schweizer book [AW, Perry]
  • “Fort Hood victims’ families seek $750M from feds” [Kenneth Timmerman, Daily Caller]
  • “Chicago Lawyer Sues Southwest, Says Airline Breached Free-Drink Coupon Contract” [ABA Journal]
  • “Lawyer Solicitation: Penn State Sex Abuse Edition” [Turkewitz] Slate slags Merck CEO [Ted Frank]
  • Akaka Hawaii-racialization bill, smuggled in through the back door? [Ilya Shapiro, background]
  • Suits over Hurricane Irene electrical outages expected to spread [Connecticut Law Tribune, Chris Powell]
  • Fiasco envy? “RIAA Thinking Of Backing Righthaven” [Masnick, TechDirt] “Righthaven ordered to pay nearly $120,000 in attorney fees, court costs” [VegasInc., Ars Technica, American Power Blog]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-22-roundup-3/feed/ 2     October 14 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/october-14-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/october-14-roundup-3/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:24:11 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25030
  • Pre-terror-attack antibiotic availability? HHS doesn’t think you’re sophisticated enough to handle that freedom [Stewart Baker]
  • Uh-oh: some New York lawmakers want “a more refined First Amendment” [Slashdot, Lucy Steigerwald]
  • Wal-Mart v. Dukes decision could curb certification of some wage and hour class actions [Fox]
  • “Miss. Supreme Court Removes Judge from $322M Asbestos Case Because of Dad’s Lawsuits” [ABA Journal]
  • Mass. town wants to seize family motel under forfeiture law, IJ objects [Jacob Sullum, Mark Perry]
  • Will FDA use its new tobacco-regulatory power to stub out cigars? [DC]
  • “Dole settles pesticide litigation” [WSJ Law Blog, background]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/october-14-roundup-3/feed/ 1     “UK advocacy group proposes to sue predator drone operators” http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/uk-advocacy-group-proposes-to-sue-predator-drone-operators/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/uk-advocacy-group-proposes-to-sue-predator-drone-operators/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 13:38:40 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22946 Kenneth Anderson at Instapundit notes the latest outbreak of “lawfare,” the use of litigation against diplomatic and military actors. “As with most of these advocacy campaigns, the point is not to win cases, but to create a public narrative that says the practice is unsavory and illegitimate, and leverage that into personal legal uncertainty for officials, whether in office or once they leave government.” I’ve got much more on the phenomenon — and its large base of support in present-day legal academia — in Schools for Misrule.

    Separately, Gabriel Schoenfeld at National Affairs argues that “when it comes to the American government’s efforts to provide for the common defense, a far-reaching legalism has taken hold,” and Anderson has more on the legalities of last week’s Bin Laden raid.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/05/uk-advocacy-group-proposes-to-sue-predator-drone-operators/feed/ 9     9/11 first responders compensation bill http://overlawyered.com/2010/12/911-first-responders-compensation-bill/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/12/911-first-responders-compensation-bill/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:32:36 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=20728 Only stony-hearted Scrooges could oppose it, right? Earlier here, here, etc. More: PoL; Senate passes modified bill.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/12/911-first-responders-compensation-bill/feed/ 5     “A 9/11 Bonanza for Trial Lawyers” http://overlawyered.com/2010/12/a-911-bonanza-for-trial-lawyers/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/12/a-911-bonanza-for-trial-lawyers/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:14:01 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=20533 The National Review on a dubious federal compensation bill for Ground Zero emergency responders. More: PoL.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/12/a-911-bonanza-for-trial-lawyers/feed/ 1     November 26 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/november-26-roundup-3/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/november-26-roundup-3/#comments Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:07:52 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=20332
  • Reason TV interviews Richard Epstein;
  • On the SEC’s big new “insider trading” sweep [Ribstein, Bainbridge, Lambert, Salmon, more Ribstein]
  • Losing = winning? Ambitious claim for fees in environmental case [California Civil Justice, scroll]
  • “Unintended consequences department: canceled flights” [Ted at PoL] And check out Ted’s new TSA Abuse Blog, on one of the hottest issues of the moment. More on that from Popehat and Simple Justice;
  • H.R. 1408, the Inclusive Home Design Act, would compel handicap accessibility in private home design, yet another dreadful idea from Rep. Jan Schakowsky of CPSIA fame [AmendTheCPSIA]
  • “This place would be a shoplifter’s paradise (and a liability insurance abuser’s motherlode) in the United States, but we were in Japan, where they don’t seem to worry as much about that kind of thing.” [Mark Frauenfelder, BoingBoing, on the Showa Kan museum of everyday midcentury life in Takayama]
  • UK: “I moved out for decorators and squatters took over my house” [Evening Standard]
  • From the ruins of Pompeii, a reflection on government and disaster relief [Dum Spiro Spero]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/11/november-26-roundup-3/feed/ 2     September 3 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/september-3-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/september-3-roundup-2/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:26:44 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19068
  • TSA asserts security-line authority against … suspected embezzlers? [Coyote, Ken at Popehat]
  • “How the Next Hurricane Could Bankrupt Florida” [Eli Lehrer, Frum Forum]
  • In Yahoo settlement “vast majority of the class gets nothing” [Frith, Cal Civil Justice]
  • Royal road to legal riches: work for the federal prosecutor in Manhattan [David Zaring, Conglomerate]
  • Taxpayers, get ready to bail out union pension plans [The Lid]
  • Japan moving closer to U.S.-style securities litigation? [D&O Diary]
  • “Is the Contemporary Supreme Court Really That Conservative?” [Bartels, ConcurOp]
  • “EEOC encourages anonymous harassment complaints” [eleven years ago at Overlawyered]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2010/09/september-3-roundup-2/feed/ 0     U.K.: Great moments in legal aid http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/u-k-great-moments-in-legal-aid/ http://overlawyered.com/2010/08/u-k-great-moments-in-legal-aid/#comments Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:45:47 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=19047 “The widow of a July 7 suicide bomber yesterday launched a High Court bid to be represented at the victims’ inquest – saying she had also suffered the loss of a loved one in the atrocity. Hasina Patel, whose husband was terrorist mastermind Mohammad Sidique Khan, is seeking legal aid to challenge the coroner’s decision to exclude Khan’s death from the hearing for the 52 victims of the 2005 London bombings.” [Daily Mail via Amy Alkon]

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