• Sue the NYC welfare department enough, and Mayor De Blasio might make you its chief [Heather Mac Donald, City Journal] Cozy relations between nonprofits and Gotham administration dodge accountability [Steven Malanga, same]
• Consumer objects to Muscle Milk class action settlement, and there’s a Ted Frank angle [Above the Law]
• Asking employees whether they’re disabled suddenly mandatory rather than forbidden [WSJ, earlier]
• “…not trying to tell you how to live your life, I’m just suggesting that it’s a bad idea to put sharp or explosive objects in your…” [Lowering the Bar]
• “Carnival cruise passengers sue seeking $5,000 a month for life” [Reuters]
• Husbands could sue noncompliant wives: “UAE law requires mothers to breastfeed for first two years” [Guardian]
• New symposium on “The State, The Clan, and Individual Liberty” with Mark S. Weiner, Arnold Kling, Daniel McCarthy, and John Fabian Witt [Cato Unbound]

Filed under: class action settlements, cruise ships, institutional reform litigation, NYC