The Institute for Legal Reform has a new website, I Am Lawsuit Abuse, with some really high-quality production values. At the moment, the site highlights four stories of lawsuit abuse (including the infamously unfortunate defendant Chung Dry Cleaners), with videos for each story, and a smattering of links to news articles about wacky lawsuits. No link to Overlawyered, though.
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- LA Weekly: The Mold Rush and the case of Sharon Kramer and Bruce Kelman
- Breaking: Tennessee Supreme Court reinstates punitive damages in Flax v. DaimlerChrysler
- Yet more Edwards campaign-cash laundering
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Point of Law- Moin Yahya and Lyle Roberts live webcast Tues. Jul. 29The Washington Legal Foundation is putting on a live webcast next Tuesday on the interesting topic, "The SEC and Securities Class Action Suits: Defining the Relationship Between the Commission and the Plaintiff's Bar". The panelists are Moin Yahya of the...Walter Olson
- Comparable worth, under any other name, still invites lawsuitsHeard at the House Education and Labor mark-up of H.R. 1338, the Paycheck Fairness Act. "This should be re-named the Trial Lawyer Paycheck Expansion Act" -- Rep. Buck McKeon (R-CA) Oh, sure, we've heard wisecracks like that before, but it...Carter Wood
- New York's new video game lawNot as bad a bill as the one ex-Gov. Spitzer was pushing, but by no means uncontroversial....Walter Olson
- Transparency in selecting outside counsel? Great idea!Last November the Newark Star-Ledger reported on an eyebrow-raising instance of the Justice Department practice of leaning on companies under investigation to appoint "corporate monitors". In particular, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie had "helped the Ashcroft Group -- the...Walter Olson
- Michigan court-stripping debacleIt's gotten embarrassing enough that even the local trial lawyers' best friends, like Brian Dickerson of the Free Press, are telling them they'd be better off dissociating themselves from it....Walter Olson
- Moin Yahya and Lyle Roberts live webcast Tues. Jul. 29
Volokh- Our Litigious Society, in 1884 Montreal:Thanks to Sasha for the translation, from Lebeau v. Turcot, 7 Legal News 259 (1884) (emphasis added):...Eugene Volokh
- Interesting Case Involving Evidence of Defendant's and Witness's Being Muslims:Here's an excerpt from last week's State v. Rankin (N.C. App.) (some paragraph breaks added):...Eugene Volokh
- Killing of Sexual Partners as Mere Manslaughter:When can killing a sexual partner or a former sexual partner qualify as mere "voluntary manslaughter" rather than murder under American law? Some of the comments to my honor killing...Eugene Volokh
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- Excellent article on Hofstader's Social Darwinism in American Thought:Tim Leonard of Princeton has posted a very interesting and important paper on Hofstader's influential book, and what he calls the "myth of Social Darwinism". Leonard points out, among other...David Bernstein
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I’ve done a bunch of cartoons about frivolous lawsuits (see link).
I was sued for not building a house. The owner used another builder and sued me because he did not like the house.
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Has a link to this page on their homepage.