“Maybe zoning laws are causing the real-estate bubble.” (Steven E. Landsburg, Slate, Jul. 29)(via Realty Baron).
Chronicling the high cost of our legal system
Point of Law- Autism-Vaccine Attorney Bill Tops $2 MillionKathleen Seidel is applying more scrutiny to bills submitted to the federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Earlier at Overlawyered here and here....Walter Olson
- Medical device preemptionA big defense victory in the Medtronic cardiac defibrillator litigation. (Beck Herrmann/Miller)....Walter Olson
- Litigation Issues Arising from the Credit CrisisAllen Farrell (Harvard), Jennifer Bethel and Gang Hu (both Babson) have this paper on SSRN which is part of a forthcoming Brookings volume on the credit crisis (Harvard Corporate Governance Blog via B. Janell Grenier at BenefitsBlog, who notes the...Walter Olson
- A site called Asbestos.comBill Childs does some digging into whos behind an ostensibly independent source of information on the dangerous mineral....Walter Olson
- Around the web, January 8Once the lawyers get through suing over Madoff feeder funds, Big 4 auditing firms might get winnowed down to 3... 2... 1? [Salmon citing NakedShorts and Bronte Capital] Leading advocate of laws to ban workplace bullying, a cause weve...Walter Olson
- Autism-Vaccine Attorney Bill Tops $2 Million
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- The Comstock Case, Gonzales v. Raich, and the Limits of Federal Power:I agree with Eugene that United States v. Comstock, today's Fourth Circuit decision invalidating a federal statute allowing indefinite civil commitment of "sexually dangerous" persons who have finished serving...Ilya Somin
- Why the Sunstein Pick is Good For Legal Academics:...Orin Kerr
- Lori Drew Hearing Update:This morning Judge Wu of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles held a hearing on our motion to dismiss in the Lori Drew case. I argued for the defense, and...Orin Kerr
- New Federal Power Case, Likely Heading to the Supreme Court:In United States v. Comstock, a unanimous panel of the Fourth Circuit (consisting of a Clinton appointee, a George W. Bush appointee, and a senior district court judge appointed by...Eugene Volokh
- The Holdren Pick:One of the few Obama appointments that has me particularly concerned is his selection of John Holdren to be his top science advisor. It's all well and good that Obama has...Jonathan Adler
- The Comstock Case, Gonzales v. Raich, and the Limits of Federal Power: