• Caution: Warning label overload. Why wacky warnings matter. [Ted Frank @ Sphere]
  
• Further evidence of efficiency of product liability limits when federal safety regulation is already in place. [Philipson/Sun/Goldman NBER Working Paper No. 15603]
• Army seeks to court-martial soldier in Afghanistan for possessing “child pornography” when his mother sends him family photos that include a four-year-old in a swimsuit. [AP/WaPo via Riehl; WQAD]
  
• Burger King coffee is hot, too. [Virginian-Pilot]
  
• The “slush pile” disappears, in part because of fear of plagiarism litigation. [WSJ]
  
• Schwarzenegger faces fight on his proposed tort reforms. [Legal Newsline (I’m quoted)]
  
• I’m speaking at NYU Law January 21 at an American Constitution Society panel on class action issues. [NYU Law]
  
• Off topic, but I believe that this may be the first time I’ve been listed in the index of a book.

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