• Litigation over high-tech products is rife, but major benefits for consumers can be hard to discern [Low End Mac]
• “United settles with female ex-pilot who found p0rn in cockpits” [Obscure Store]
• California suit charges negligent “laying on of hands” at church service [Lowering the Bar]
• UN resolution against “defamation of religion” imperils free speech [Paula Schriefer, Freedom House/CSM, Steyn/NR “Corner”, National Secular Society (U.K.), Ilya Somin @ Volokh
• DivorceNetwork.com, social networking for those caught up in family law battles? [Ambrogi, Legal BlogWatch]
• Prosecutors behaving badly in Wayne County (Mich.), Miami, Santa Clara County [Radley Balko, Reason “Hit and Run”]
• After nine years, the notorious Bill Lerach California-unfair-competition-law suit against Kwikset (over several screws from Taiwan in a lock marked “Made in America”) finally winds down [California Civil Justice, earlier]
• Oklahoma AG Drew Edmondson to poultry companies: my pals will bankrupt you with massive verdicts unless you settle [Rizo/Legal NewsLine; more]

Filed under: agriculture and farming, attorneys general, aviation, Bill Lerach, California, churches, divorce, family law, free speech, hostile environment, Oklahoma, s. 17200, social networking, technology