• Automakers fight Bruce Braley/trial lawyer effort on Capitol Hill to overturn NHTSA preemption [Dow Jones, WSJ Law Blog, David Freddoso/Examiner, Carter Wood and more at PoL]
• Twombly/Iqbal can curb sue-’em-all, sort-’em-out-later charges of civil conspiracy [Sachse/Drug & Device Law, earlier]
• Claim: Obama, Kagan, Sotomayor typify “postradical” law school generation [David Fontana, Chronicle of Higher Ed via Wasserman/Prawfs (counter: “there are a lot of us liberal doctrinalists out here …And students are learning that vision in law school”), Althouse (“Spare me! There are plenty of strongly liberal and lefty lawprofs and if you want theoretical ambition you can find it.”)]
• FTC report contemplates much wider federal intervention in media business [Jarvis/BuzzMachine, Tapscott/Examiner, Coyote, Steele/LEF, Stoll/Future of Capitalism, LA Times, ShopFloor, Jarvis/NY Post, Pethokoukis/Reuters, Suderman/Reason] Is scary McChesneyite “Free Press” making headway in administration? [Riggs, Daily Caller]
• “Law and Society Boycott Resolution Gets Arizona Immigration Law Wrong” [Chin, Prawfs]
• “Appeal of Crunch Berries Case Dismissed” [Lowering the Bar, earlier]
• “Senior U.N. official” demanding end to U.S. use of drones against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan also happens to be NYU lawprof [NY Times, 16th/last paragraph of story]
• Unintended consequences: 1932 cut in judges’ pensions changed Supreme Court history [Magliocca, ConcurOp]

Filed under: Federal Trade Commission, international human rights, law schools, newspapers, NHTSA, pleading, preemption, Supreme Court