• Supreme Court agrees to review CRST Vans Expedited v. EEOC (Eighth Circuit) on standard for prevailing-party fee awards in EEOC cases, could mean help for defendants against overzealous government lawyering (and thanks for quote) [Sean Higgins, Washington Examiner, earlier here and here]
• 6-3 win for arbitration and freedom of contract in DirecTV case [Deborah LaFetra/PLF, Daniel Fisher, ABA Journal] WSJ editorial: Bravo to Justice Breyer for upholding as precedent what he’d earlier dissented from on substance [Texans for Lawsuit Reform reprint]
• OK to choke off legal defense by freezing all assets before trial, even if not criminally obtained? [Radley Balko]
• South Carolina $124 million penalty against Risperdal maker should be recognized as violating Excessive Fines clause [Ilya Shapiro and Randal John Meyer, Cato]
• “Supreme Court will review state laws making it a crime to refuse blood-alcohol tests” [ABA Journal, Reason]
• Helpless against the administrative state: revisiting SCOTUS’s awful 1944 Yakus case [James Conde and Michael Greve, SSRN via Michael Greve, Law and Liberty]
• New Akron Law Review symposium on class action jurisprudence of Roberts Court [Paul Karlsgodt]

Filed under: administrative law, arbitration, class actions, DUI, EEOC, Supreme Court