• Myrtle Beach Chamber of Commerce: “Elmer Fudd” commenter defamed us [Sun-News via Patrick at Popehat]
• “New Texas law seeks common sense instead of ‘zero tolerance’ in punishment of students” [Star-Telegram]
• Oprah can relax, poet’s self-scripted $1 trillion lawsuit against her is dismissed [THR Esq., Lowering the Bar and more, New Jersey Lawsuit Reform Watch]
• Overview of big push for new federal food safety laws [Kristin Choo, ABA Journal]
• And thanks for all the booze: “Chronic drunk costs SF taxpayers at least $150,000/year” [Obscure Store, Common Room]
• “We have made a grave mistake in politicizing the economy so deeply, and should back away now.” [Tyler Cowen, NYT]
• As a phrase, “sex toy product liability” is probably going to bring us the wrong sort of search engine traffic [Law and More]
• Overturning Supreme Court’s Iqbal/Twombly pleading jurisprudence emerging as key Congressional objective for trial lawyer lobby [Freddoso, Examiner; recent post of mine at Point of Law, and much other coverage there]

Filed under: food safety, libel slander and defamation, Oprah Winfrey, pleading, product liability, taxpayers, Texas, zero tolerance