- Bay City, Mich. business finds itself the target of frequent litigant [Faces of Lawsuit Abuse (auto-plays video) via NJLRA]
- An “all-Taco-Bell future”: government nutrition guidelines press restaurants toward “standardization of recipes and methods of preparation” [Suderman, Reason “Hit and Run”]
- Class actions: thoughts on “professional objectors” [Ted at CCAF]
- Report on business influence on California politics smuggles in trial lawyers as “business” [Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee via CJAC]
- Those local homeowners protesting Wal-Mart may be getting support from a supermarket chain [WSJ via Coyote, Dan Mitchell]
- “Medicare soon to go after liability settlements” [Korris, LNL]
- “Use Your Law Deferment to Work for Liberty!” [Shapiro, Cato] And Cato’s also hiring for some video and new media positions;
- U.K.: “Drivers could be over limit after less than a pint under new law” [Daily Mail]
Posts Tagged ‘United Kingdom’
Wakefield, of autism/vaccine scare, struck off UK medical rolls
There’s even a comic book about the controversy [Darryl Cunningham via BoingBoing; earlier]
Britain tests what it hopes will be safer pub glasses
The old ones had to go because broken glass makes too handy a weapon [Lowering the Bar, earlier]
The fatal workplace joke
May 5 roundup
- Jury rules for Disney in case of man who said Tower of Terror theme park ride caused him to have stroke [Orlando Sentinel]
- The most dangerous place on earth is getting caught between Dick Blumenthal and a television camera.” Craigslist snipes back against demagogic Connecticut AG [Craigslist blog, Antle/American Spectator, earlier]
- U.K.: prisoner falls from bunk bed, wins £4.7m [Times Online]
- New York Times jealously guards its own sources’ right to speak with anonymity, doesn’t feel quite that way about others’ [Stoll]
- SUNY Buffalo mathematician/HuffPo blogger: why’d they let that awful Eugene Volokh into the country? [Volokh vs. Jonathan David Farley, Greenfield, background]
- College journalist won’t face criminal trespass charges after all in showdown over photographing escaped cows [Romenesko and update]
- Regulating “the American palate” — by what authority? [Healy, Examiner] More links on FDA salt regulation [Compton/CEI, ShopFloor (on CSPI), earlier here, here, etc.]
- Why one putative beneficiary decided not to file $2 claim after settlement of AT&T class action [Chidem Kurdas, Christian Science Monitor]
Two bad tastes, awful together
U.K. libel tourism and blasphemy law, that is: “Up to 95,000 descendants of the prophet Muhammad are planning to bring a libel action in Britain over ‘blasphemous’ cartoons of the founder of Islam, even though they were published in the Danish press.” [Times Online via Andrew Stuttaford, Secular Right]
After the volcano, a legal eruption?
A “massive plume” of legal action is likely to follow the Eyjafjallajökull eruption, reports the Times (U.K.). Along with plenty of litigation against airlines themselves and other travel companies, stranded employees might file claims against their employers for not doing enough to get them home, and disrupted employers might be sued if they dock pay of employees who considered themselves ready and able to work.
61 year old Briton cops to possessing Swiss Army knife
Rodney Knowles, who says he used the device to cut up fruit on picnics with his wife, ran afoul of Britain’s stringent anti-knife laws. [Daily Mail]
U.K.: “Rooftop ban for criminal”
“A criminal who escapes officers by climbing on the roof of his house has been banned from every rooftop in his borough — in case he falls and sues police.” [Telegraph]
Update: British chiropractors drop lawsuit against Simon Singh
They’re dropping the case rather than pursuing an appeal, so aside from having dragged him through a miserable and expensive process, it’s a happy ending. [Respectful Insolence, Popehat; earlier here, etc.]