• Don’t forget Point of Law’s featured roundtable discussion on the midterm elections. [Point of Law]
• Public Citizen’s consumer law blog is holding a book club, and they’ve invited AEI’s Michael Greve into the hostile territory to discuss his book on consumer-fraud class actions. Both the book and the discussion are must-reading. [CL&P; CL&P; CL&P]
• Lester Brickman and others talk about mass tort screening fraud on your iPod. [Federalist Society]
• November 8 in DC: the Kaiser Family Foundation is hosting a big panel on health courts. [Common Good]
• Roundup of links on the outrageous Illinois Chief Justice Robert Thomas libel suit. This really deserves a longer post by itself. [Bashman]
• Melvin Dummar is back in court with his implausible Howard Hughes lawsuit. [AP/MSNBC via ATL]
• Barney Frank also doesn’t like the internet gambling ban. [Frank via Evanier]
• Today’s outrageous Ninth Circuit decision: a 2-1 invalidation of a meth-addict’s guilty plea for murder. Judge Bybee’s dissent tears it apart. [Smith v. Baldwin; The Recorder; Above the Law]
• Clint Bolick of Institute for Justice, on the other hand, defends judicial activism in an interview with Russell Roberts. [Cafe Hayek]
• Have we mentioned the new website with all of Judge Richard Posner’s opinions in one place? [Project Posner]

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