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Gov. Christie commutes Brian Aitken sentence
NJ.com, Radley Balko and David Rittgers have some of the first details. The gun-possession case aroused wide interest among blogs; we covered the story here, here and here.
December 20 roundup
- Texas Gov. Rick Perry may urge the state to take a step toward loser-pays [NJLRA]
- “FCC push to regulate news draws fire” [The Hill]
- Could litigation on behalf of Madoff victims get more than all their money back? [Salmon, more, NYT, Above the Law]
- “Chevron Says Documents Show Ecuador Plaintiffs Worked With Government” [Dan Fisher/Forbes, more]
- Organized trial lawyers expect to fare less well in next Congress, but prospects for actual liability reform remain slender [Joseph Weber/Wash. Times, Matthew Boyle/Daily Caller]
- Mount Laurel rulings in New Jersey (towns given quotas to build low-income housing) described as “libertarian”, I express doubts [Hills, Prawfsblawg]
- Criminal law’s revolving door: “prosecutors turn up the fire and then sell extinguishers” [Ribstein, TotM]
- The wages of unconstitutionality: a Utah attorney’s curious fee niche [five years ago on Overlawyered]
Brian Aitken case, cont’d
A seven-year New Jersey gun-possession sentence gets coverage in the Philadelphia Daily News [via TigerHawk; earlier here and here]
Plus: David Rittgers, Cato at Liberty (urging pardon by Gov. Chris Christie).
Law schools roundup
- Making waves in the law blogs: critique of elite law schools’ continuing tendency to elevate theoretical over practical forms of scholarly work [Brent Evan Newton (Georgetown), SSRN, forthcoming in South Carolina Law
Review; some reactions from Steve Bainbridge and, at Prawfsblawg, from Rick Garnett, Kristen Holmquist, and Paul Horwitz]. I argue along similar though not identical lines in the earlier chapters of my forthcoming book. - Law schools inflate placement statistics by only interviewing alums who are employed [Above the Law] And does sheer spending dominate the U.S. News algorithm for ranking top law schools? [same]
- Calls grow for disclosing academic economists’ conflicts of interest [Salmon]. Will lawprofs’ be next?
- Rutgers-Newark law school clinic pursues long-shot lawsuit seeking to hold Iraq war unconstitutional [Jonathan Adler/Volokh]. If you’re a New Jersey taxpayer with doubts about whether you should be obliged to support such lawsuits, you may be one of those horrid meanies guilty of “‘kneecapping’ academic freedom” according to one not especially temperate defense of clinics’ work [Robert R. Kuehn and Peter A. Joy, AAUP] More: Adam Babich, “Controversy, Conflicts, and Law School Clinics” [SSRN via Legal Ethics Forum, and thanks for kind mention in latter]
- “Should Conservative and Libertarian Law Students Consider a Career in Legal Academia?” [David Bernstein/Volokh; some further thoughts from Paul Horwitz, Prawfs]
New Jersey gun transport case, cont’d
We earlier linked the story of Brian Aitken, a man convicted under New Jersey’s tough gun control laws of transporting his own firearms at a time when he said he was between household moves. Some readers felt the reporting on the case had not drawn out as many of the details as they wished, and Radley Balko has now moved to fill the gap with a column at Reason delving further into the story (more).
“Lawsuits have cost Atlantic City $39 million in just 10 years”
That includes $14 million in payouts to defense lawyers, many of whom have close ties to local politicians, and $25 million to claimants, a figure that “dwarfs what area municipalities and larger cities including Camden and Trenton have paid, and nearly equals payouts in Newark, where the population is eight times larger than Atlantic City.” The casino town’s population is 35,000. [Press of Atlantic City]
“My Web Designer Goes to Jail”
In some states, the penalties for transporting one’s own firearms can be dire. [Jeffrey Miron; Brian D. Aitken website; David Codrea/Examiner]
October 21 roundup
- “Japanese landlords sue families of suicide victims” [Telegraph via Tyler Cowen]
- Best candidate you’ve never heard of: lawprof Jim Huffman runs for a U.S. Senate seat in Oregon [Weekly Standard]
- “Freedom of culinary expression: Chefs speak out on behalf of salt” [“My Food, My Choice” via Ponnuru, NRO]
- “In-House Counsel Expect More Regulatory Litigation, Survey Finds” [NLJ]
- “Oladiran’s ‘Motion of the Year’ Earns Him Sanctions” [AtL]
- Resisting a music-delivery-system claim: “Patent Trolls and Public Goods” [Julian Sanchez]
- More transparency for New Jersey lawyer/lawmakers? [Philly.com]
- “Ninth Circuit: marine mammals don’t have standing…yet” [six years ago on Overlawyered]
N.J.: Drunk drivers can sue the bars that served them, cont’d
The New Jersey Supreme Court will take up the appeal of a case where a Brick, N.J. man hurt in a motorcycle crash was allowed to proceed with a suit against the Toms River restaurant that had served him. [Asbury Park Press via NLJRA, earlier]