- Administration tees up massively expensive regulation docket for after election [Sam Batkins, American Action Forum]
- More on FedEx’s resistance to fed demands that it snoop in boxes [WSJ Law Blog, earlier]
- Ethics war escalates between Cuomo and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, but is sniping in press suitable role for prosecutor? [New York Post, Ira Stoll]
- “Mom Hires Craigslist Driver for 9-Year-Old Son, Gets Thrown in Jail” [Lenore Skenazy]
- One-way fee shifts, available to prevailing plaintiffs but not defendants: why aren’t they more controversial? [New Jersey Lawsuit Reform Watch]
- Water shutoff woes sprang from Detroit’s “pay-if-you-want culture” [Nolan Finley, Detroit News]
- “CPSC Still Trying to Crush Small Round Magnet Toys; Last Surviving American Seller Zen Magnets Fights Back” [Brian Doherty]
Filed under: Barack Obama, Buckyballs, child protection, Detroit, loser pays, New York, prosecution, regulation and its reform, surveillance
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Regarding the appropriateness of sniping in the press by Preet Bharara, I’m having a problem generating the right amount of sarcasm for the comment I want to make. Here it goes anyway (please read in a southern dandy accent). “A grand standing prosecutor angling for higher office!?!?! What is the world coming to? Pass me a mint julep I do declare that I am coming down with a case of the vapors.”