My Twitter comments as the Presidential debate was in progress can be read here.
Class action lawyers: lipstick and lip gloss do not last for hours as advertised
Class-action lawyers target L’Oreal’s Maybelline subsidiary. [WSJ Law Blog]
“Former Copyright Boss: New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise”
The debatable premises of an amicus brief. [Mike Masnick, TechDirt]
The multiple “Hammers” of injury advertising
Rochester’s Jim Shapiro (“I cannot rip out the hearts of those who hurt you. I cannot hand you their severed heads“) is not the only injury lawyer who advertises as “The Hammer.” Natasha Lydon offers a YouTube-powered guide to the various injury lawyers to have adopted that monicker [Above the Law]
DoJ: recreation program discriminates against disabled
The U.S. Department of Justice has sued the Northern Illinois Special Recreation Association, saying that it is in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act because it refuses to administer a medication for the relief of grand mal seizures. Two students wish to participate in the program who have a potential need of the medication on an emergency basis. “The medication, Diastat AcuDial, comes in a pre-filled syringe with a plastic tip and must be administered through a person’s rectum.” [Daily Herald]
“Fee Request Found ‘Grossly Inflated’ Denied in Entirety”
“Four law firms that submitted a “grossly inflated” $2.7 million fee request after winning $12,500 for their client should go away empty-handed, a federal judge has ruled. Eastern District Judge Joanna Seybert, sitting in Central Islip, condemned the fee application submitted by real estate investor Robert Toussie’s attorneys, including $2.65 million for Chadbourne & Parke, as ‘outrageously excessive’ and done in ‘bad faith.'” [NYLJ]
Federalization of everything, cont’d
Advocates press for a national law on college hazing [ABA Journal]
A revolution in asbestos litigation?
An MDL judge says no-go to unimpaired plaintiffs [David Oliver] “Judge Tosses 1,600 Asbestos Cases, Rules Scarred Lungs Not an Injury” [Legal Intelligencer]
“What Could Possibly Go Wrong?”
From Reason.tv, and new to us, at least, if not exactly new, with vignettes on reef reconstruction, ethanol subsidies, and child health insurance (via Hodak Value). And from Mark Perry, “Some Great Examples of Unintended Consequences from Wikipedia’s Listing for ‘Perverse Incentives.'” An example, from an economics text by James Gwartney and Richard Stroup:
In the former Soviet Union, managers and employees of glass plants were at one time rewarded according to the tons of sheet glass produced. Not surprisingly, most plants produced sheet glass so thick that one could hardly see through it. The rules were changed so that the managers were rewarded according to the square meters of glass produced. The results were predictable. Under the new rules, Soviet firms produced glass so thin that it was easily broken.
Don’t miss the rat-farming and dinosaur-bone examples, either.
University of Richmond drops men’s soccer and track/field
Yes, Title IX has struck again [Saving Sports]