I was quoted at length about the Kentucky fen-phen settlement fraud scandal; the article mentions our coverage, which we’ve been engaged in since the story broke years ago.
Posts Tagged ‘Ted Frank’
Exxon Shipping v. Baker podcast
I’ve done a podcast for the Federalist Society on the Supreme Court punitive damages decision in Exxon Shipping v. Baker.
Pre-emption debate in Chicago Tribune
Grand Theft Auto: Class Action – in NY Times
The hearing is in a New York City courtroom this morning, and the NY Times is there, complete with a photo of me.
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.
The case against “Civil Gideon”
Here are my prepared remarks for the June 14 panel at the ACS convention. My actual remarks differed from this somewhat, as I extemporized a bit and, by my watch, I didn’t get my full ten minutes before the moderator cut me off:
ACS Convention, June 14
(Bumping from original post on May 14. If I thought I had competition from Judge Kozinski before, I can only imagine what it will be like now.)
I’ll be one of the token libertarians speaking at the Sixth Annual ACS National Convention on June 14, on a 11-12:30 breakout panel with Paul Bland, John Amaya, and Eleanor Acer on “Right to Counsel in Civil and Immigration Cases.” If I were you, and I’d paid good money to attend the convention, I’d go to the simultaneously-scheduled Alex Kozinski-Stephen Reinhardt debate about religious liberty or the panel on post-9/11 privacy rights with Orin Kerr and Jeffrey Rosen, but my panel should have some interesting discussion as well.
On Good Morning America
Thirteen words of a taped interview of me discussing Barack Obama’s Senate record on tort reform appeared on ABC’s Weekend Good Morning America Sunday. Since they didn’t identify me by name, it probably won’t increase blog traffic.
I also wrote about this for Point of Law in December 2006. For more on Barack Obama, click the tag.
More on the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund
Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee posed additional questions to me about my congressional testimony on the legislation to expand the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund to cover Ground Zero dust litigation and “psychological injury.” I have posted my answers on line.
Grand Theft Auto: Class Action – The Frank Brief
Full proof that I don’t think all pro se representation is a bad thing: Following up our previous discussion of the GTA class action settlement and my objection: This morning, Friday, June 6, I filed this brief (which unlike the previous brief, I wrote myself), in opposition to the plaintiffs’ motions for court approval of the settlement and attorneys’ fees, in the Southern District of New York and served it upon counsel. With luck, I didn’t file the wrong brief.