- New legislation aimed at regulating “grassroots lobbying”: will it hit political bloggers? (Answer: apparently not.) [McCullagh, Hardy, Sullum, Bainbridge, Reynolds]
- Upper East Side merchant sues vagrants whose cardboard-box loitering ruins his location [NYSun, NYTimes]
- “People probably aren’t thinking about potential legal liability when they’re having casual sex,” says lawprof about new Calif. trend of spousal VD suits [KEYE-TV via KevinMD]
- “Devious, dissembling, dodgy. And that’s just the police”. Theodore Dalrymple on UK criminal justice [Times Online]
- Daniel Boulud of restaurant fame, targeted by lawsuit campaign, says he won’t pay to make worker advocates go away [NYTimes]
- Erin Brockovich on the warpath against recycling facility in Apple Valley, Calif. [Fumento/TCS]
- As a lawyer, Pres. John Adams represented Redcoats after Boston Massacre; what would he say about Guantanamo flap? [NYSun editorial]
- Nearly all radiologists frustrated with practice, liability is top reason [LocumTenens.com]
- Duke profs who egged on lynch mob in bogus rape case stand on melting ice floe of credibility [Reynolds, Althouse, Podhoretz, Bainbridge here and here, Allen]
- Ringling Bros. trainee says clown college was harder to get into than law school [Five years ago on Overlawyered]
January 19 roundup
New legislation aimed at regulating “grassroots lobbying”: will it hit political bloggers? (Answer: apparently not.) [McCullagh, Hardy, Sullum, Bainbridge, Reynolds] Upper East Side merchant sues vagrants whose cardboard-box loitering ruins his location [NYSun, NYTimes] “People probably aren’t thinking about potential legal liability when they’re having casual sex,” says lawprof about new Calif. trend of spousal […]
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