Well, it seemed like a good idea at the time (Diane Carroll, “Monkey’s owner sued in wake of 2003 birthday party incident”, Kansas City Star, Feb. 14).
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
Overlawyered
Point of Law- AAJ convention lists what's hot in class actions, politiciansThe annual trial lawyers convention is just around the corner, as members of the American Association for Justice gather in Philadelphia July 12-16th. The convention brochure, as always, makes for interesting reading. You get a good sense of new strategies...Carter Wood
- In other West Virginia legal newsWest Virginia Governor Joe Manchin has taken the unusual step of filing an amicus brief with the state Supreme Court of Appeals, asking the court to clarify the ability of DuPont to challenge a jury's award of punitive damages against...Carter Wood
- More West Virginia AG fee bounty; new featured columnIn West Virginia, a state where government hiring of private lawyers to pursue public lawsuits has been particularly controversial, four law firms including Hagens Berman are set to split $3.9 million for prosecuting an antitrust suit against Visa and MasterCard...Walter Olson
- Zach Scruggs Gets 14 MonthsThe government had suggested probation, but as the WSJ law blog (free!) reports, he has been sentenced to 14 months for misprision of a felony. The WSJ law blog says that this federal crime is committed by failure to report...Michael Krauss
- Around the web, July 2Kentucky jury acquits Melbourne Mills, the "too drunk to pay attention" fen-phen defendant, can't reach agreement on others [Ted @ OL] Related: Florida A&M says no one's proved $1 million law school donation from Ky. scandal's Shirley Cunningham came from...Walter Olson
- AAJ convention lists what's hot in class actions, politicians
- Volokh
- Happy Independence Day!Enjoy, and stay safe....Eugene Volokh
- You Don't Mess with the Gura:Odd factoid that I didn't know until today -- Alan Gura, the winning lawyer in the Heller v. D.C. Second Amendment case, was born in Israel....Eugene Volokh
- More on Reducing the Pain of Taking the Bar Exam:My post on reducing the pain of taking the bar exam has attracted eminent critics such as Jim Chen and Nancy Rapoport....Ilya Somin
- The VC's First Emmy Nomination:Colorado Inside Out is weekly public affairs roundtable program, on KBDI channel 12, one of the two PBS stations in Denver. Twice a year, the program tapes a Time Machine...David Kopel
- Viacom to Get Copy of Every Record of Every Access to Every YouTube Video?:...Orin Kerr
- Happy Independence Day!
“I lost my marriage, I lost my profession. I lost my life. But the worst thing was we killed a nonhuman primate who was in the middle of this whole thing for nothing.”
The worst thing is that the monkey died? I’m guessing her dead marriage has something to do with her jacked priorities. Shyeesh.