A Florida bill would criminalize that. [Lowering the Bar, Volokh]
Archive for 2011
British government unveils libel-reform proposals
“I do not advocate violence in Wisconsin”
Schools for Misrule: next week at Heritage and in Chicago
At NRO “Corner”, Hans von Spakovsky invites readers to my noon talk next week at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. And on Thursday the Heartland Institute in Chicago will have me at a lunchtime member event.
I’m also happy to announce that next Thursday night, barring news-related bumps, I’m set to appear on one of radio’s premier discussion shows, WGN’s Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg.
You can (and should) buy the book here, or at your favorite bookseller.
Update: Oregon home brewers and vintners
Court dismisses suit blaming cellphone firms for driver distraction
A novel lawsuit theory that obtained more-than-respectful coverage in the New York Times did not succeed in convincing the Oklahoma courts, notes Russell Jackson. “The Court of Civil Appeals’ decision in Doyle is a strong demonstration that trying to use civil legal duties to make the US a Nanny State is simply wrongheaded.”
Toilets that “frankly…don’t work”
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul is voicing citizen discontent about federal low-flow plumbing mandates, a mandate intended to force conservation of a resource that in many parts of the country is not even particularly scarce [Atlantic Wire, Nick Gillespie]
Related: Where is the market failure with incandescent light bulbs? [Thomas Firey, Cato at Liberty]
Update: Adorno & Yoss law firm to dissolve
“[B]efore founding partner Henry ‘Hank’ Adorno was suspended for his handling of a $7 million class action settlement[, the] Florida law firm was once the nation’s largest certified minority-owned firm.” [ABA Journal] Our earlier coverage of the Miami fire-fee scandal (“A case of unchecked avarice coupled with a total absence of shame,” wrote one judge) is here, here, here, here, and here.
By reader acclaim: Minneapolis blogger told to pay $60K over post
“Though blogger John (Johnny Northside) Hoff told the truth when he linked ex-community leader Jerry Moore to a high-profile mortgage fraud, the scathing blog post that got Moore fired justifies $60,000 in damages, a Hennepin County jury decided Friday.” Moore, who was fired by the University of Minnesota after the post appeared, sued on a theory of “tortious interference” with his employment. [Minneapolis Star-Tribune]
“I really don’t care what the law allows you to do…”
“…It’s a more practical issue. Do you want to send your attorney a check every month indefinitely as I continue to pursue this?” [Paul Alan Levy, CL&P, on a business’s threats against the “Insurance Forums” website]