- Whoops! Insurer’s lawyer backtracks and scrambles for cover after saying some Miami/Dade judges “are being paid off” [Daily Business Review; possibly related, scroll to mention of Miami near end]
- Climate’s different up there: Google and Wikipedia sued for libel in Canada over user-generated content [Rob Hyndman]
- Lawyers implicated in Ky. fen-phen scandal are owners of Curlin, horse that placed third in Kentucky Derby [Courier-Journal, Sun-Times, Sports Network, WSJ law blog]
- “As a lawyer, I hear stories about lawsuit abuse all the time,” but Judge Pearson’s pants suit takes the cake [Nasty Brutish & Short; also lively discussion at Digg]
- Ramps of gold: serial ADA-suit filers George Louie, David Gunther and others launch wave of sidewalk suits against Northern California towns [Contra Costa Times]
- $250 fine for releasing a balloon into the air in New Hampshire? Criminalizing nearly everything [National Law Journal; also Ayn Rand]
- Helpful, if scary: “12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs To Know” [Aviva Directory]
- U.K. lawyers ordered to pay back tens of millions of pounds in excessive fees earned for representing sick miners [Times Online Apr. 16, Apr. 25, Apr. 10; Telegraph]
- Did Rosie O’Donnell come out for loser-pays on ABC’s “The View”? Someone please get a transcript [Bill Boushka]
- Japan doesn’t furnish us with much material, but here’s one about magicians suing TV broadcasters for revealing secrets behind coin tricks [Above the Law]
- Sensitivity vs. sensitivity: female drummers allowed to sue over their (culturally authentic) exclusion from ritual drumming at Native American powwow [five years ago on Overlawyered]
Filed under: ADA filing mills, bloggers and the law, Curlin, fen-phen, free speech in Canada, George Louie, Google, Japan, Kentucky, libel slander and defamation, loser pays, magicians, nanny state, New Hampshire, roundups, Roy Pearson, Seattle
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“In 2004, a bill that aimed to outlaw so-called low-rise jeans in Louisiana was rejected, as was a similar proposal in Virginia in 2005, which would have charged violators $50 for deliberately showing their underwear.”
Every action has unintended consequences. The result of this law is clear; the criminalization of underwear will result in people skipping the underwear. Workers beware, as they’ll be legislating next against the ‘plumbers crack’.
About criminalizing everything: I see the day when jaywalking will draw the death penalty – the convicted will be used as organ donors.
Someone else here read Larry Niven. See “Jigsaw Man”