http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/ en-us 2005-08-22T23:43:22-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002666.html My first thought at reading the articles you linked to in your "Detroy Marshall v. Burger King" post (Aug. 3), which were written by Anthony Marshall of Hotel & Motel Management, was that they were satire. For if they were,... General Walter Olson 2005-08-22T23:43:22-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002023.html As an attorney I wanted to point out that it is not just jury verdicts that are driving up the cost of insurance and of doing business. While verdicts contribute to the picture, the process of litigation itself generates enormous... General Walter Olson 2005-08-22T23:24:10-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002669.html As one who myself has suffered what I believe to be wrongs at the hands of attorney Paul Minor, the news of the acquittals and non-convictions in the Mississippi judicial bribery trial (Aug. 12, Aug. 15) left me with a... General Walter Olson 2005-08-22T22:55:25-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002670.html Thank you for covering the successful effort by state senator Andrew McDonald (D-Stamford, Darien) to bail out the Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder law firm through a special legislative fix in Hartford (Aug. 11). McDonald, who co-chairs the judiciary committee and... General Walter Olson 2005-08-22T22:45:29-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002529.html Find the common theme in these three paragraphs: From a biographical page:John Paul Stevens was born on April 20, 1920, in Chicago, Illinois, as the youngest of Ernest and Elizabeth Stevens' four sons. Stevens grew up in a wealthy family.... General Walter Olson 2005-07-13T22:17:32-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002528.html I was notified by email recently that I am a member of a class whose members include those who had ordered free business cards from Vista Print. Apparently the lead plaintiff thought that the shipping and handling fees ($4.95 for... General Walter Olson 2005-07-13T22:05:26-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002527.html The Washington Post reported Apr. 27: "Sodexho Inc., the Gaithersburg-based food and facilities-management company, agreed Wednesday to pay $80 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed it systematically denied promotions to 3,400 black mid-level managers." On Steve Sailer's website, he... General Walter Olson 2005-07-13T21:45:34-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002526.html Regarding your article of May 10, I can confirm that the case was indeed handled by the Norwegian Supreme Court and that Conoco lost. The court found that porno surfing during work hours was an unlawful act, but that firing... General Walter Olson 2005-07-13T21:31:55-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002322.html A few years ago I was engineering a lifeguard tower in a South San Jose park. They wanted to install a water closet so the lifeguard would not have to be away from his post too long. We were told... General Walter Olson 2005-06-08T22:14:46-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002395.html You quote the researchers (May 1, letter May 10):The implication, says Dee Wood Harper, one of the researchers and a professor of criminal justice at Loyola University in New Orleans, is that "if this mindless software can determine who is... General Walter Olson 2005-06-08T22:09:17-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002321.html Thanks for reprinting Stuart Taylor's letter to the Washington Monthly, which was very informative. I believe the heart of our litigation problem in this country is the belief in the magical powers of the jury. You had a quote from... General Walter Olson 2005-06-08T22:06:31-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002396.html Regarding Johnnie Cochran's life and career (Mar. 30): My job at the time allowed me to watch most of the fiasco that was the OJ trial. Although Cochran did an adequate job defending OJ, and a very good job arguing... General Walter Olson 2005-06-08T21:57:09-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002328.html Your discussion of the death penalty (May 1) seems fairly clearly to imply that it is not carried out in an arbitrary and capricious manner. Since I had the great good fortune to be appointed to handle a death case... General Walter Olson 2005-05-10T15:54:12-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002324.html Like you, I have been following coverage of the fen-phen frauds exposed here in Mississippi (May 8), and yet I have never seen any reference in any paper in the state to one of the most obvious questions raised by... General Walter Olson 2005-05-10T15:41:57-05:00 http://www.overlawyered.com/letters/archives/002323.html Regarding your Apr. 19 item on the gambler suing the Atlantic City casino: I don't know about you, but I find the culture of "addictive personality" increasingly irritating. The case is on a par with people claiming that they ran... General Walter Olson 2005-05-10T15:26:24-05:00