Posts Tagged ‘accolades’

Welcome Free Range Kids readers

As readers may have noticed, I’m a big booster of Lenore Skenazy’s wonderful Free-Range Kids website (subtitle: “Giving our kids the freedom we had without going nuts with worry”), and yesterday she returned the favor with some more than kind words about this site (“great, nay mindblowing”) and a discussion of our recent post about a Staten Island mother’s suit against Little League and volunteer coaches. Interesting reader discussions ensue. (Also, more on her book here.)

While on the topic of that Little League suit, Rick Reilly of ESPN Magazine has a new column that a lot of people are talking about: “A tale of two Little Leaguers”

Filed under: accolades, Little League, on other blogs

Great moments in litigation defense

Connecticut Post: “Attorneys representing the Stamford Marriott Hotel & Spa and other firms being sued by a woman raped in their parking garage in 2006 withdrew special defenses Monday that claimed the woman was negligent and careless and that she and her children failed to ‘mitigate their damages.'” [via Christopher Fountain and followup] More: John Bratt, Baltimore Injury Law (with kind words for this site).

Filed under: accolades, defense lawyers, hotels, third party liability for crime

Medicare Secondary Payer expansion, cont’d

James Glassman at The American takes a look at the attempt to slip through a massive expansion of industrywide tort liability as part of the House health-care-reform bill a couple of weeks ago, a story that seems to have been broken for the first time in this space.

Filed under: accolades, Medicare, qui tam

Welcome Volokh Conspiracy readers

Following two posts by Jonathan Adler, readers there are discussing CPSIA’s effects on vintage kids’ books and on rhinestones and crystals. More: Glenn Reynolds, Instapundit (with link to Adler), Megan McArdle (linking to my City Journal piece). And Joseph Bottum at First Things has generous words for our coverage of the story.

Filed under: accolades, CPSIA, CPSIA and apparel/needle trades, CPSIA and books

Now at Forbes.com: “Inside the Health Care Bill”

Forbes is just up with a new, improved version of my piece on the amazing trial lawyer bonanza that someone quietly tucked into last week’s draft of the health care bill. An earlier version of the piece ran at Overlawyered on Friday. The Forbes version takes note of the names of the House members who were pushing for and against the idea on the Ways & Means panel. Michelle Malkin gives it a recommendation here.

P.S. Some kind words, as well as a link, from Ashby Jones at the WSJ Law Blog (calling us “the granddaddy of legal blogs”). Plus: Don Surber, Charleston (W.V.) Daily Mail, Bainbridge, Wood/ShopFloor, Riehl World View, Bader/CEI “Open Market”.

Filed under: accolades, Medicare, ObamaCare, qui tam, U.S. House of Representatives, WO writings

Overlawyered turns 10

Ten years ago — July 1, 1999 — I put up the first post in this space. You can read the first fifteen days’ worth of posts here.

Thanks for the congratulations and kind words that have been coming in:

Patrick, Popehat: “Here’s to ten more years for Overlawyered. And may your name never be featured there.”
Scott Greenfield, Simple Justice: “That’s 10 years of holding lawyers’ feet to the fire. Thank you!” [Twitter]
Social-media champion Kevin O’Keefe, of the LexBlog empire: “Don’t always agree, but inspired me to blog.” [Twitter]
Eric Turkewitz of New York Personal Injury Law Blog has an exceedingly generous post that notes my interest in linking to views from across the conventional divide. I hope I succeed in living up to his high praise.
Carter Wood, NAM “ShopFloor”: “the Web’s single most effective puncher-of-holes in the excesses of the litigation industry”.
Ron Miller, Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog: “You always feel like you are getting his thoughtful views as opposed to a knee jerk ‘party platform’ opinion.”
David Bernstein, Volokh Conspiracy: “I think it was the first legal blog, and I know it’s still one of the best.”
Cathy Gellis (Statements of Interest): “Blog so old he used to post with typewriter and carbon paper ;)”
Robert Ambrogi, Law.com “Legal Blog Watch”: “That is a full decade of chronicling the abuses and excesses of the litigation system, of commentary that is consistently cutting and wry. I may not always agree with Walter Olson, but I sure as heck always read him.”
Mickey Kaus, Slate “Kausfiles”: “The high process costs of litigation are what lawyers — for obvious reasons — habitually leave out of their let’s-have-notice-and-a-hearing-for-everything reasoning. One thing Olson does is to put them back in.”
And more: Doctor Wes of the eponymous blog [Twitter], Steven Cohen’s LibraryStuff, Spada (U.K.) Swordplay, Wise Law Blog (Toronto), Milwaukee Federalists, Ron Coleman/Likelihood of Confusion, and Christopher Robinette at TortsProf.

Filed under: about the site, accolades

Now up at Forbes.com: my reactions on Ricci

I’ve got an opinion piece up at Forbes.com on today’s Supreme Court decision in Ricci v. DiStefano, the New Haven firefighter reverse-discrimination case. The title: “Sued If You Do, Sued If You Don’t: Through the Looking Glass on Affirmative Action” (& link thanks to Ramesh Ponnuru, NRO “Corner”, Daniel Schwartz, Connecticut Employment Law Blog, Jon Hyman, Ohio Employment Law (to whom thanks for the kind comments as well), and Scott Greenfield, Simple Justice).

Filed under: accolades, discrimination law, firefighters, Supreme Court, WO writings

Things I am never going to live down dept.

A White House press release quotes my comments on Judge Sotomayor (in which I have been critical of some of the critics). More: Boston Globe.

Filed under: accolades, Sonia Sotomayor

May 16 roundup

At “Hit and Run”, Damon Root deems a certain website “indispensable” [Reason; accolades file]
Montgomery Blair Sibley, colorful lawyer for the “D.C. Madam” and a figure much covered on this site, has new book out [Doyle/McClatchy]
Although Indian tribal litigators attacked it as “disparaging”, the Washington Redskins football team can keep its trademark, for now at least. “My ancestors were both Vikings and Cowboys. Do I have a course of action?” [Volokh comments]
“Is Patent Infringement Litigation Up or Down?” [Frankel, The American Lawyer]
Maryland high court dismisses autism-mercury lawsuit [Seidel, Krauss @ Point of Law]
Chrysler dealers are lawyering up against the prospect of being cast off [WSJ Law Blog]
“Should doctors who follow evidence-based guidelines be offered liability protection?” [KevinMD]
Obama proposes $1.25 billion to settle black farmers’ long-running bias claims against the U.S. Department of Agriculture [AP/Yahoo]

Filed under: accolades, agriculture and farming, autism, auto dealership protection laws, Chrysler, Montgomery Blair Sibley, patent litigation, patent trolls, vaccines

LawLine.com blog of the week

LawLine.com (“Celebrating 10 Years of Online CLE”) has begun a new weekly series that “will recognize some of the most notable legal blogs on the web”, and is kind enough to begin it with this one. Christie LaBarca says she enjoys running across “unique” and even sometimes “outlandish” stories that other law blogs don’t pick up on. She quotes me on a couple of theories that might explain the blog’s longevity (as I’ve mentioned, it’s coming up on its tenth anniversary in just a month and a half).

Speaking of kind things people say about us, I don’t think there’s any way I’m going to live up to the headline on Brandon Martin’s generous column at Daily Uprising.

Filed under: about the site, accolades, interviewed