Overlawyered: Chronicling The High Cost Of Our Legal System

January 30 roundup

  • Attention journalists: a trademark opposition and a trademark lawsuit are two different things [Legal Satyricon]
  • I explain (slightly rudely) why I think the Citizens United decision will probably help the Dems this cycle [National Journal blogger poll] Plus: no big effect on campaigns? [Ann Althouse] And it’s not as if Chuck Schumer has made up his mind or anything: he’s titled his hearing on Citizens United next week “Corporate America vs. the Voter” [PoL, yet more here and here]
  • Olson and Boies should realize these are not the days of the Warren Court [Dale Carpenter, Independent Gay Forum]
  • Motorists beware Tenaha, Texas: the legal sequel [WSJ Law Blog, earlier here, etc.]
  • “Detroit Lawyer Fined For Chasing Buffalo Air Crash Victims” [Turkewitz]
  • Symbolic venue? Administration chooses to unveil new press-lenders-to-serve-minorities campaign at Jesse Jackson event [N.Y.Times]
  • Remembering pinball prohibition [Popular Mechanics back in August, Radley Balko]
  • Judge cuts “shocking”, “monstrous” $2 million award to $54,000 in Jammie Thomas-Rasset music-download suit [AmLaw Litigation Daily, earlier] Naughty librarians: “Offline Book ‘Lending’ Costs US Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion” [Eric Hellman]

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4 Comments

  • Legal Satyricon is funny. Grading comments on reading comprehension is very entertaining.

    • By Doug

  • I was hoping that the Proposition 8 trial would be televised, as that option piece you cited concurred. It would have thrown a spotlight over the less-than-honest tactics (related to using tax-exempt Churches for political lobbying) and the thin arguments. Without televised trials the usefulness of this challenge (which has a slim chance of winning, especially with anti-SSM Barack H. Obama in charge) is questionable.

    • By Reuven

  • While past lending discrimination cases primarily focused on “redlining” — a bank’s refusal to lend to qualified borrowers in minority areas — the new push will instead center on a more recent phenomenon critics have called “reverse redlining.”

    Damned if you don’t and damned if you do.

  • Re Citizens United: Fascinating to see how the Democrats are now explicitly opposed to the first amendment.

    • By GregS