By reader acclaim: “Two sets of parents are suing the Greater Toronto Hockey League, one of its clubs and four coaches for $25,000 each because their sons were cut by the Avalanche Minor Sports Club midget junior A team during tryouts in April.” One father claims the defendants’ conduct “destroyed the dignity” of his son and caused him to suffer “irreparable psychological damage.” [Toronto Star]
Archive for 2010
June 30 roundup
- Real-life Lysistrata: “Kenyan man sues over sex boycott ‘stress'” [Telegraph]
- Kagan record not reassuring on campaign-speech issues [Allison Hayward, CCP, Daniel Shuchman/Reason] A “fair-weather originalist”? [Ilya Shapiro, Cato]
- Eugene Volokh thinks the Court made the right call in the student-group-recognition Christian Legal Society case, while Richard Epstein thinks it didn’t;
- Coverage of Ted Frank’s objection in A.G. Edwards settlement [Daniel Fisher, Forbes; Bill McClellan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
- West Virginia: “Was DuPont railroaded in Harrison County?” [Don Surber]
- “Predicate” approach hasn’t always worked well as way to curb government privacy incursions [Stewart Baker]
- “Florida Court Tosses Out $522 Million Verdict Against Accounting Firm” [Daily Business Review]
- Justice Department dereliction? “Inside the Black Panther case” [J. Christian Adams, Washington Times]
Elena Kagan on liability limits
She’s not expected to sympathize with them, for reasons Ted outlines at Point of Law.
“Bill Passed in Albany to Make Insurers Pay for Autism Care”
So puzzling and inexplicable that health insurance rates keep rising. [NYT]
Schmooze-fests for public pension officials
Thrown with help from a class action law firm [Peter Beller, Forbes]
San Francisco cellphone radiation warnings
Study after study finds no health effects to worry about, but the city by the Bay wants warnings anyway. [Bruce Nye, Ted Frank/PoL]
New York cop’s $80,000 bias award
The most curious element is not the alleged fight over a Scrabble game, but Sonya Glover’s allegation that she was retaliated against by being made to “perform heavy manual tasks normally assigned to males.” Isn’t there some sort of potential discrimination suit if tasks are normally assigned to males and a female employee is not asked to perform them? [NYDN]
Christian Legal Society v. Martinez
By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court upholds a policy at the University of California’s Hastings Law that gives short shrift to the principle of freedom of association. [Roger Pilon, Cato at Liberty] More: Eugene Volokh thinks the Court made the right call in the case, while Richard Epstein thinks it didn’t.
“New Suits Could Chill Writers’ Use of Own Experiences”
Two lawsuits filed last month claim that writers improperly based fictional characters on the complainants. [Matthew Heller, OnPoint News] A much noted case last November, in which a Georgia jury awarded $100,000 to a woman who said she had been wrongly used as the basis in part for a character in the novel “The Red Hat Club”, may have encouraged the filing of such suits.
Define “forced,” please
“We were forced to try a case against the most innocent guy of all.” — medical malpractice lawyer Daniel Buttafuoco last month, explaining why a Queens, N.Y. jury ruled against his suit blaming a surgeon for a transplant patient’s death. [NYDN via Tuteur (“Parse those sentences and you will come face to face with what is wrong with the malpractice system in this country.”)]