If you’re not reading my other legal site, Point of Law, here’s some of what you’re missing:

• Taft-Hartley and the secret ballot in union-representation elections, part of a new category on labor law;
• Also, a new category on international law and international human rights law with coverage of such topics as the Harold Koh nomination, other lawprofs joining the Obama administration, the Alien Tort statute, the proposed Spanish prosecution of Bush administration lawyers, and piracy and international law;
• One form of executive pay they don’t care to limit: Senate rejects proposed $50 million ceiling on bounties paid to informants (“relators”) in federal whistleblowing suits;
• Pay-for-play in state drug-recoupment litigation: Pennsylvania, New Mexico furors just the start of much more to come;
• We’ve heard the line, “Want less litigation after the fact? Then support more regulation before the fact.” Here’s one of many reasons to take that with a grain of salt;
• “File case in Texas. Take plaintiff deposition. Dismiss case, and refile in California.” Asbestos litigation has some of the best forum-shopping gamesmanship;
• Plaintiff’s lawyers in California spent more than $4.1 million in that state’s 2007-2008 election cycle;
• Miranda warnings for company counsel?

Filed under: asbestos, attorneys general, California, forum shopping, international human rights, international law, labor unions, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, politics, prosecution, whistleblowers