Chris Newman reports: “Opposing counsel has served a request for judicial notice of facts contained in a Wikipedia article. If you understand the operative terms in that sentence, you probably understand why I’ve been chuckling all morning.”
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
Overlawyered
Point of Law- Peter Schuck on New Zealand administered compensationThe Yale/NYU lawprof has published Tort Reform, Kiwi-Style on SSRN (via Robinette, TortsProf). Abstract: American legal scholars and social scientists have long been intrigued by New Zealand's accident compensation system, which essentially abolished common law tort almost 40 years ago....Walter Olson
- Russia vs. Bank of New York Mellon, cont'dOdd doings continue in the $22.5 billion lawsuit, per Bloomberg: ``Every legal system has its flaws,'' [plaintiff's expert and Harvard lawprof Alan Dershowitz] said in an interview yesterday. ``Who are we to cast aspersions on a country's legal system?''... Leading...Walter Olson
- McGraw and the Oxycontin sagaThe U.S. Chamber-backed West Virginia Record critically summarizes the tortuous course of the state's lawsuit against Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma, often raised by critics as symbolic of their objections to Attorney General Darrell McGraw's handling of his office. More here,...Walter Olson
- Philadelphia obstetrics crisis, cont'dNow Chestnut Hill Hospital is closing its 1,000-babies-a-year maternity unit (via Pero). More background here....Walter Olson
- No measles vaccine-autism linkAnother study helps put to rest a litigation-driven canard. And, also via Orac, Ira Flatow interviews Paul Offit, author of the important new book hitting the bookstores this month, "Autism's False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine, and the Search for...Walter Olson
- Peter Schuck on New Zealand administered compensation
- Volokh
- They broke John McCain. The most affecting part of John McCain’s acceptance speech was also the most surprising: McCain’s admission that he was broken by torture. I had read a little about this before on...Jim Lindgren
- The Republican "Triumph of the Will" (Not):I usually skip watching political conventions entirely, given that they are just staged political propaganda for each party, providing a forum for politicians on each side to present rhetoric that mostly...David Bernstein
- About that Mysterious Israeli Flag in Palin's Office:The small Israeli flag visible in Gov. Palin's office window has been the subject of much speculation. I've even seen allegations in the blogosphere that the flag was photoshopped into a...David Bernstein
- Wassily or Wasilla.At Tim Blair's blog, some are speculating about why Barack Obama might have mispronounced "Wasilla" as "Wassily."...Jim Lindgren
- Obama's favorite TV show is MASH; among McCain's is The Sopranos. Ana Marie Cox (tip to Tim Blair):...Jim Lindgren
- They broke John McCain.