- Fee-vergnügen: John Edwards, who knows a thing or two about tactical concealment, seeks to rep Volkswagen owners in mass litigation [Grist, Politico]
- Speaking of auto litigation: first General Motors ignition case goes to trial, automaker charges fraud, plaintiffs hire criminal counsel [Bloomberg, more]
- The Maryland redistricting project I was involved in this past fall has now resulted in a bill filed with the legislature by Gov. Larry Hogan [Danielle Gaines/Frederick News-Post, WBAL, Anjali Shastry/Washington Times, Baltimore Sun, earlier]
- Discovery and other procedural reforms in the federal courts: “Chief Justice Roberts on speedier civil litigation … and dueling?” [Howard Wasserman, PrawfsBlawg]
- Shackled Philly priest died in prison, accused by “Billy Doe.” But how well does Doe’s story hold up? Questions about another big sex assault story from Rolling Stone/Sabrina Rubin Erdely that preceded their U.Va./”Jackie” tale [Ralph Cipriano/Newsweek, Robby Soave/Reason].
- “Oversimplification is at the heart of a Coates-style approach to the reparations issue.” [John McWhorter on an unexpected bid to get me to side with Bernie Sanders; more on reparations, Glenn Loury and (missed this earlier) Jonathan Blanks, Rare, 2014]
- Federal Trade Commission went after LabMD on data security complaint. Unlike so many targets, LabMD chose to fight the FTC. And then… [Steven Boranian, Drug and Device Law, earlier]
Filed under: autos, discovery, Federal Trade Commission, General Motors, John Edwards, redistricting reform, reparations, sexual assault, Volkswagen
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If any government is to pay reparation for slavery, why shouldn’t it be the governments of the former slave states rather than the federal government? Coates invokes reparations for Japanese-American internment, but that was a federal remedy for a federal action.
This is not to say that the federal government and the free states never discriminated against blacks, but their lesser sins ought to be covered by the reparations already paid under other names that McWhorter listed, as well as by the blood and treasure they committed to the Civil War and to Reconstruction.
@Ed Roberts–
Pursuant to your last sentence, I have sometimes invoked Old Osawatomie: “the crimes of this guilty land can not be purged away but with blood.” That might cover slavery, but there remain the lesser but still serious crimes of Jim Crow.