• Drunk driving by St. Louis Blues hockey player Rob Ramage killed his passenger in a Toronto crash, and now Missouri verdict puts car rental company on hook for $9.5 million [Post-Dispatch]
• Consumers trust lawyer ads in phone book, or at least so say the Yellow Pages people [WV Record]
• Latest flip in marine-mammal litigation: Ninth Circuit orders curbs on Navy’s sub-hunting sonar [L.A. Times; earlier coverage]
• More on colorful Judith Regan suit against News Corp. [Carr, NYT]
• Lesson for law-firm “foreclosure mills”: don’t file the action before your client actually acquires the instrument being sued on [ABA Journal]
• John Fund on Salvation Army and English in the workplace litigation [WSJ/OpinionJournal; earlier]
• Comstock Act for the web is one of departed Rep. Hyde’s less happy legacies [McCullagh, CNet]
• A view from Boston on Lone Star State med-mal reforms [Globe]
• Shaker abstinence, cont’d: FDA mulls petition to crack down on salt in foods, and AMA has joined busybody brigade [L.A. Times; earlier, see also]
• Texas tort tycoon John O’Quinn probably isn’t winning prizes these days from historic preservationists [ABA Journal]
• Run for your lives! Toxic chocolate! [six years ago on Overlawyered]

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