• More outcry over report of big new Treasury tax break for injury lawyers [Chris Moody, Daily Caller, Wood/ShopFloor]
• Geologists’ annoyance over bill to oust asbestos-containing serpentine as California state rock makes NYT front page [yesterday; Dan Walters, Facebook group, Calif. Civil Justice, Bailey via Adler, earlier]
• Great moments in international human rights: “Known al-Qaeda Operative Could Not Be Deported [from UK]” [Foster, NRO]
• “Is the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act a Government Cash Cow?” [Koehler, FCPA Professor]
• Franklin Mint case cont’d: “Manatt Tries to Beat Back Malicious Prosecution Lawsuit” [Baxter/American Lawyer, earlier]
• “Washington’s parasites take aim at Apple” [David Boaz, Philadelphia Inquirer]
• Gubernatorial bid by Rhode Island attorney general Patrick Lynch seems to have fizzled [Jessica Taylor, Politico via Law and More]
• Go explicit or go home: Georgia abolishes implied private rights of action [PoL, my Reason take years ago]

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