The mother of Kevin Devuono of Tinley Park, Ill., feels it was the fault of the car dealership where he worked; at least, she’s suing them, along with a nightclub. (Daily Herald, Dec. 28).
Archive for January, 2009
Annals of environmental justice
Or what passes by that name: lawyers for the ACLU say the design of a Milwaukee highway project is unfair to minorities (Rick Esenberg, Prawfsblawg; complaint, PDF, at WisPolitics.com).
“Aggressive behavior” warnings on videogames
Oh, spare us, Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.).
“Flowery Fall Baby Rag Quilt”
You may want to buy this cute item before the requirements of CPSIA go into effect on Feb. 10, when according to the Etsy listing its price will go up from $58 to $3,530 to cover the required testing.
January 17 roundup
- Tons and tons of favorable reaction to my Forbes piece on CPSIA: commenters there, Etsy thread, sampling of blogs: Polka Dot Patch, Heartkeeper’s Common Room, Colby Lane Designs, Baby Gardner’s (aw), Tristan Benz (double aw). Others who’ve gotten into the act: Iain Murray/Open Market, Jeff Nolan, Patrick @ Popehat (SSFC). New: Superblogger Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit, John Schwenkler, Carter Wood at ShopFloor, Ramesh Ponnuru at National Review “Corner”.
- “California Lawmakers Rush to Rescue Good Samaritans in Wake of Court Ruling” [The Recorder, Calif. Civil Justice Blog, earlier]
- “America needs a tax code simple enough for the Treasury secretary to figure out” [Taranto, WSJ]
- “Federal judge might ax $2M legal fee in Seattle ‘pro bono’ case” [ABA Journal, earlier here and here]
- Indictment of Long Island attorney Felix Vinluan dismissed; charged for advising nurses it was okay to quit their jobs [Cernovich, Volokh, Greenfield, Mitchell Rubinstein]
- “Apartment owner sued for common area second hand smoke” [Womble Carlyle]
- “Tulsa World sues alt-weekly over circulation story” [Romenesko and more, Shafer, BatesLine with many links] Update: drops suit against publication, leaving suit against columnist [Romenesko]
- “No evidence of a causal link between restaurants and obesity”. Hey, that could derail some lawsuits [Pethokoukis, U.S. News, on Northwestern/Berkeley study]
“Minor Has No Grounds for Wet T-Shirt Suit, Court Rules”
“The federal appeals court in Atlanta says a woman who took part in sexually explicit contests at a Daytona Beach, Fla., hotel two months shy of her 18th birthday cannot sue over Internet images of her, even though she was a minor.” [AP; Atlanta Journal-Constitution] We had a discussion of similar, more successful litigation a couple of years ago here and here.
Thanks, voters
Thanks to our readers for the more than respectable showing Overlawyered made in the “Best Law Blog” section of the 2008 WeblogAwards. The winner was the very deserving Volokh Conspiracy.
Also while we’re on popularity, my piece yesterday at Forbes on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) is #6 top rated among the magazine’s articles at the moment. Thanks!
Chicago: $260 million in public borrowing…
…just to pay Cook County’s outlays on lawsuits and settlements? Earlier here.
Florida judge: stripper just his business partner
Well, that sounded plausible enough. Who knew there’d turn out to be more to the story?
“Can the Passengers of Flight 1549 Sue for Emotional Distress?”
Asks Dan Slater at the WSJ Law Blog.