• Judge Kozinski blasts prosecution of McAfee exec Probhat Goyal [Ribstein, Greenfield; related on federal overcriminalization, Rittgers/Cato]
• “If only laws were like sausages” [Robert Pear, NY Times]
• “Public Radio Looks at California ADA Lawsuits” [Frith, CJAC on “This American Life,” Thomas Mundy and Morse Mehrban]
• Guitar maker described as “litigation-addled”: “Gibson continues its IP-based business plan” [Coleman]
• Judge who heard Madison County, Ill. asbestos docket retires, is picked by lawyers as trustee of asbestos bankruptcy trust [Chamber-backed MC Record]
• Ted Frank’s Center for Class Action Fairness objects to Classmates.com class action settlement [CCAF, more, yet more]
• New Labor Department regs could chill management speech to workforce [Russ Brown, Open Market]
• Too bad there weren’t legal blogs around in 2000, some light might have been shed on Bush v Gore [Legal Blog Watch, Ann Althouse] Hey wait a minute [ten years ago on Overlawyered]

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