This morning I was a guest on Cleveland’s WMJI radio with popular morning hosts Lanigan and Malone. They’d heard through a listener about the kids’ motorbike ban, and we also discussed ballpoint pens and pre-1985 kids’ books, as well as the question of whether anyone in Congress reads the bills they pass.
Posts Tagged ‘on TV and radio’
Pajamas Radio interview on CPSIA
Ed Driscoll interviewed me for about ten minutes on the law and its effects; you can now listen to the Sirius/Pajamas Radio show here, or download it as a podcast.
CPSIA on the radio
Yesterday I taped a ten-minute segment with Ed Driscoll for his weekly Pajamas Radio show, which will air this weekend on Sirius. We talked about the legal dangers to vintage children’s books as well as the wider problems with the law in general. And conservative host Rush Limbaugh took up the subject yesterday on his show as well.
Podcasts on CPSIA: CraftSanity, “America’s Business”
I was a guest this week on the 93rd podcast in Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood’s CraftSanity series, talking about the Consumer Product Improvement Safety Act. As readers know, the CPSC issued a one-year stay of enforcement of some of the law’s provisions on Friday; the interview was recorded two days before that, on Wednesday, so inevitably some of the issues we discuss are of less immediate urgency now (though kicking them down the road is not the same thing as solving them).
Also recorded on Wednesday, I did a (shorter) prerecorded interview on CPSIA as a guest on the National Association of Manufacturers’ weekly audio show “America’s Business”, hosted by Mike Hambrick. Same caveats apply.
On WMBI (Chicago) discussing eHarmony settlement
I’m scheduled to discuss the eHarmony settlement and litigation between 3 and 3:30 Central on the PrimeTime Chicago show on WMBI Friday.
November 14 roundup
- Pajamas TV interviews me on Obama cabinet prospects (RFK Jr., Caroline Kennedy, Schwarzenegger, Gorelick, etc.) (Nov. 13, subscription-only)
- Federal court in New Orleans hits attorney with five-year practice suspension after “intentionally contemptuous” filing and other misconduct [Times-Picayune, Ashton O’Dwyer]
- Lawyer sues his straying wife for giving him herpes, but her lawyer says a test proves she doesn’t have the malady in the first place [Above the Law]
- Doctors (e.g.) being put through hostile depositions are often tempted to talk back sharply to the lawyer. Bad move, says Ronald Miller [Maryland Injury]
- It’s a shame most of the press remains incurious about that episode a few days ago in which talk of compulsory national service appeared, then vanished from the Obama site [K. Ryan James]
- Batting cage pitching machine without prompting hits customer in most sensitive part of male anatomy, he collects $1.2 million [The Big Lead]
- ACLU will defend preacher sent to prison on parole violation charge after writing “God will smite this judge” newspaper article (having earlier been convicted of election misconduct)[AP/FoxNews, western Michigan]
- On appeal, Long Island attorney beats charges of coaching clients to fake injury and using “steerers” to gain business [NYLJ]
Lynn Woolley show
I was a guest this morning of the Texas-based radio broadcaster, discussing my recent City Journal article on supposed “criminal incitement” via campaign speech, as well as the danger of a straitjacket for broadcast opinion in the form of a revived Fairness Doctrine.
NPR on high court docket
They quote Ted twice.
Interviewed on KTUU-2, Anchorage
Anchorage is beautiful this time of year, but, alas, my interview discussing the Exxon Shipping v. Baker case was over the phone. Not sure when they’ll run the clip, but probably tonight, since the decision has a good chance of being issued tomorrow.
Update: Here’s the story.
WAMU Kojo Nnamdi show
I’m scheduled to be one of the guests on the popular Washington, D.C. public radio show today, during the 12 to 1 p.m. segment. We’ll be discussing BlackBerry legal issues, in particular, the degree to which employers are at risk of big retroactive wage-hour suits if they issue the communications devices to workers and then require (or even permit) them to use the devices for work purposes outside their normal hours. Our BlackBerry posts from this website can be found here. A while back I dismissed as unlikely, in the Times (U.K.), the notion of suits over BlackBerry “addiction” (truncated version here).