• Judge cites Oregon elder abuse act in barring animal rights activists from harassing elderly furrier [Zick, Prawfsblawg]
• After fraud accusations against Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein, politicos race to return his many donations [NYT, AmLaw Daily,
  DBR and more, Ashby Jones/WSJ Law Blog and more (Ponzi investments could exceed $1 billion, per FBI)]
• Ontario court ruling may invite U.S. class action lawyers to take on more projects in Canada [Kevin LaCroix]
• “Mississippi Cardiologist Won’t Go to Prison for Online Dating” [Balko, Freeland]
• Manuscript in the mail: “Kings of Tort”, Alan Lange/Tom Dawson book on Dickie Scruggs and Paul Minor scandals, which now has its own website and will go on sale Dec. 2;
• A “cultural institution destroyed” in Louisiana: more on proposed FDA ban on raw oysters [NYT, earlier]
• Update on Google Books settlement [Sag, ConcurOp]
• Mark Steyn on the Zack Christie case and other annals of knives-in-schools zero-tolerance [NRO, Steyn Online via Skenazy]

Filed under: Dickie Scruggs, FDA, Google, Mark Steyn, Paul Minor, prosecution, Scott Rothstein, zero tolerance