• Supreme Court disbars Bill Lerach [Richard Samp, WLF] And check out the byline of the former class-action king’s recent contribution to The Nation; do you think it omits anything material? [h/t Bob Lenzner]
• Ted Frank guessed right on outcome of Wal-Mart case but still lost big betting on it [PoL]
• After feds seize online bettors’ money, Anne Arundel County, Maryland police department crows over windfall [CEI] And c’mon Maryland, surely we in the home state of H.L. Mencken and Frederick Douglass can do better in the liberty rankings than this;
• “Wrongful-Death Lawsuit Filed After Man Killed by Rooster” [Lowering the Bar]
• Hotel union behind California bill mandating fitted sheets [Daily Caller, earlier]
• Fifth Circuit upholds constitutionality of Texas law banning barratry (stirring up litigation) [Christian Southwick, Legal Ethics Forum]
• A Linda Greenhouse column I agree with? One of us must be slipping [vagueness in criminal statutes, see related Harvey Silverglate]

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