Things you’re missing if you aren’t checking out my other site:
- Iowa federal judge hits EEOC with $4.5 million attorney fee award over “sue first, ask questions later” litigation strategy;
- Jim Copland continues his weeklong blogging of Trial Lawyers Inc.: K Street with posts on the plaintiff’s bar’s Washington, D.C. presence (with discussion of CPSIA, employment litigation, qui tam, and arbitration, among other topics); state lobbying; and public relations, including legal academics, the media, and consumer groups;
- Hmm: House committee conveniently subpoenas Toyota defense documents that plaintiffs had been seeking to unseal (and more on Toyota);
- Obama administration plans crackdown to make more employers reclassify independent contractors as employees;
- Trial bar stirs pot in Florida politics;
- Feds swoop down on 2003 settlement to demand that parties reimburse Medicare as provided by retroactive law.
4 Comments
That is a blatant direct violation of Article 1, Section 9, clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, isn’t it? It seems as though they aren’t even bothering to pretend any more.
What Rob said. Ok smart lawyers – how is this NOT an ex post facto law?
no name guy – your mistake is looking to the Constitution and thinking that it has much relevance to governance today.
Don’t beat yourself up though, everyone else pretty much has bought into it too.
Yeah, silly me, thinking we were a nation of laws that have a constant meaning through time so that people can make rational decisions and predict outcomes so as to choose courses of action reasonably understanding the consequences.
Silly me……
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