• Dickie Scruggs will host Dec. 15 Hillary fundraiser headlined by Bill [Clarion-Ledger via WSJ law blog]
• Megabucks campaigns for state judicial office: Symptom? Illness? Both? [Justice O’Connor @ OpinionJournal.com, Adler @ Volokh; Pero]
• U.K. kids’ author says publisher’s safety worries vetoed depiction of fire-breathing dragon in book [Daily Mail]
• Roger Parloff describes the Judith Regan complaint as bizarre, and angry commenters are soon denouncing him as a Fox’s-paw [Fortune Legal Pad; Althouse; ritual disclaimer]
• Wonder why booking a dance venue can get pricey? Here’s one reason [WV Record]
• “Why should I take a dollar out of [my neighbor’s] pocket?”: a Virginia Tech family wrestles with the temptation to sue [Mundy, WashPostMag]
• Essential silliness of the “media diversity” scare [Welch, LAT]
• Boston’s James Sokolove, known for his heavy rotation of personal-injury TV ads, is now chasing for … patent plaintiffs? [WSJ law blog; earlier]
• Great big gobs of mutilated monkey meat could bring five years in slammer for NYC immigrant [IHT]
• Recounting the tale of Miami’s one-time high-living “King of Torts” Louis Robles, who stole from around 4,500 clients [AJP “CEO Alert” series, PDF]

• Campaign regulation laws spell incumbent protection in New Zealand too [Bainbridge]
• Influence of newspaper lobby retards natural migration to the web of fine-print legal notices [Liptak, NYT]

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