- UK panel declines to ban “I like gin” tea ad [Campaign]
- Do pics of tree-shaped air fresheners violate trademark rights of product marketer? [PoL]
- Man’s EU trademark for “Keep Calm and Carry On” raises hackles [Maria Bustillos, The Awl]
- When was the last time Congress chose to repeal a law restricting employers? Surely more recently than with the Portal to Portal Act of 1947 [Fox, Jottings]
- NYC: “City’s Top Lawyer Details Payouts of $561 Million in Lawsuits” [NYT]
- Calif. Gov. Brown vetoes attorney-backed bill widening fee entitlement where claimed damages not recovered [CJAC]
- Ira Stoll has been assembling a list of cost-free measures to help the economy, #17 is the proposed EPA-curbing Cement Regulatory Relief Act, #13 is “Eliminate requirements for legal ads in print newspapers in connection with business formation.” [Future of Capitalism]
Posts Tagged ‘NYC’
October 7 roundup
- Prodded by UNICEF and the Hague Convention, countries cut back on international adoption, leaving kids to future of orphanage life [Reason.tv video, interviewing among others Harvard’s Elizabeth Bartholet; more]
- Critics: lawyers are main winners in NYC rent settlement [NYDN] NYC rent stabilization rules gave landlords incentive to do luxury conversions [FWIW]
- Breast-aurant rivals in court: “Hooters Suing Twin Peaks, Which Previously Sued Grand Tetons” [Lowering the Bar, earlier]
- Jonathan Chait: it’ll be “useful” for debate if CEOs “fear for their personal safety” [Matt Welch, related, similar (see “Patterns of Intimidation”), also related to “occupation” as tactic]
- Ethics complaint charges that boilerplate affidavits led to fee approval for lawyer in Bronx Surrogate’s Court [ABA Journal]
- “Widow allowed to sue tobacco companies [whose products] husband didn’t use” [Florida, DBR] Appeals court: manufacturer not under legal duty to warn of asbestos injury caused by another manufacturer’s products [Business Insurance]
- Debit card fee: made in D.C. [Glenn Reynolds; related, Joe Weisenthal]
October 4 roundup
- Mass torts specialists vs. vendor: “Prominent Plaintiffs’ Attorneys Ordered to Pay Up After Losing Breach of Contract Trial” [Above the Law]
- “You’ll have to get it on the street” — NYC’s thriving black market in pesticides [NYT, more]
- Benjamin Barton on his new book, “The Lawyer-Judge Bias” [Truth on the Market, earlier here, etc.]
- Medicare will not press “secondary payer” liability clawback claims below $300 [Miller and Zois, PoL, NLJ]
- Class action roundup: “Sleeper” Supreme Court case raises question of whether class action certification requires consumer harm [Fisher/Forbes] Important Easterbrook opinion in Aqua Dots case puts curbs on class certification [PoL, Fisher/Forbes, Beck] Frey, Mortenson et al.: “The non-fiction class action” [Trask, OUP blog; earlier here, etc.]
- Free speech roundup: Canada proposal could criminalize linking to alleged hate speech [Hosting Industry Watch] More on Canadian denouncers of speechcrime [Ken at Popehat] You don’t say: “$60,000 Ruling Against Truthful Blogger Tests Limits of the First Amendment” [Citizen Media Law] What happens when a defamation plaintiff asks a court for a takedown order? [same] Argentina: subpoenas step up pressure on reporters, editors who report on economy [NYT via Walter Russell Mead]
- Should the law punish energy companies whose operations kill birds? Depends on whose osprey is being gored [Perry]
“Baby Mixup Does Not Support Claim for Emotional Distress”
Though given the wrong baby to nurse, a New York mother cannot recover cash for “extreme emotional pain,” the state’s highest court having declined review of her case. [Brooklyn Eagle via Scheuerman/TortsProf, earlier]
NYC cracks down on dogs in bars
And community is undermined as a result, argues Thom Lambert at Truth on the Market.
Defending Cy Vance
In the Strauss-Kahn affair, the New York prosecutor saw his case was bad and pulled back. You would prefer otherwise? [Dorothy Rabinowitz, WSJ] More: Scott Turow, NYT.
Tricks of the traffic-cam trade
Per Henry Blodget, New York City freebooters are authorized to tow your other family car to enforce unpaid camera tickets. [Business Insider]
July 8 roundup
- New movie “InJustice: A Film About Greed and Corruption in America’s Lawsuit Industry” premieres on Reelz Channel July 11 [film website; Bryan Quigley, U.S. Chamber]
- “Failure to Warn Suit Filed Against Tanning Salon” [AboutLawsuits via TortsProf; melanoma, Pennsylvania]
- NYC: “Politically Tied Lawyers Win Jobs Handling Foreclosures in the City” [NYT]
- Beldar tells a war story about the nature of de novo review, in the Prop 8 context;
- “Viacom’s Sumner Redstone: The Mogul Named ‘Sue!'” [Johnnie L. Roberts, The Wrap]
- Chairman of Dallas Fed salutes litigation reform’s role in Texas economic strength [CJAC; Rick Wartzman, L.A. Times]
- “Righthaven cheerleader wanted by irony police” [Kurt Opsahl, EFF, Citizen Media Law] “Righthaven pressing for right to seize defendants’ websites, computers” [Vegas Inc. via @PogoWasRight]
July 6 roundup
- Mayor La Guardia on overlawyering [Lawrence Cunningham, Concur Op]
- Update: “Forever 21 Backs Off On Blogger Lawsuit” [Jezebel via @LawandLit, earlier]
- Pennsylvania governor Tom Corbett signs joint and several liability reform [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
- Legislation introduced in Trenton to overturn New Jersey Supreme Court decision OKing suits by drunk drivers against bars that served them [NJLRA, earlier]
- Angelos firm scores $495 million award against Exxon in Baltimore gas leak [Sun]
- How plea bargaining warps justice [Tim Lynch, Reason]
- California considers following New York’s lead in regulating employment of domestic workers [Workplace Prof]
Tavern’s terrifying Taurus, cont’d
Yet another lawsuit against a Manhattan bar filed by a patron who fell off its mechanical bull [New York Post]