Welcome back from the July 4 weekend. Here are some popular stories you might have missed from a busy last month:

• Milberg settles; Weiss sentenced; Bill Lerach gloats. Scruggs also sentenced, but Fieger beats the rap.
• Yeah, my client’s son jumped two fences labeled with a “danger” warning, but Six Flags over Georgia should have done more to keep him from being decapitated by a Batman roller coaster.
• Another lawyer blames the lawn mower manufacturer for the fact that his client was backed over with it by his father.
• My client’s 18-year-old daughter got drunk and fell off a stranger’s hotel balcony; this is the chaperone’s fault.
• I briefed and argued an objection to a bogus class action settlement–and got New York Times press coverage in the process. I also filed an amicus brief on behalf of economists in Wyeth v. Levine.
• Most-read post: Judge Kozinski’s web site and Cyrus Sanai. A gift that kept on giving.
• Jack Thompson finally faces legal discipline. But Stan Chesley gets immunity to testify.
• Two more parts of Jim Copland’s excellent series on asbestos.
• Sued for dangerous workplace if you allow loose-fitting clothing, sued for religious discrimination if you don’t.
• The case against Civil Gideon.
• Judge claims never to have heard of an attorney working a 15-hour day.
• Jackpot justice in Tennessee: $105 million verdict reduced to “only” $5 million on appeal as Chrysler blamed for death caused by car being hit at 70 mph. And, in Texas, forum-shopping plus failure to wear seat-belt leads to $29 million verdict against Ford over tires where car owner ignored recall of ten-year-old tire.
  
• New York court: just because you have proof of insurance fraud doesn’t mean you’re entitled to summary judgment.
• Trial Lawyers Inc.: Michigan.
• Former West Virginia Justice Richard Neely makes implausible claims about his earlier forthright statements about judicial bias in favor of wealth-redistribution.
• Spineless sycophants of the world, unite!

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