Overlawyered: Chronicling The High Cost Of Our Legal System

January 14 roundup

These roundups aren’t so hard to do once you get the hang of them: Boutrous on suit against “recovered-memory” doubter Loftus [W$J]. Earlier: here, here. Yet another expose of the “scrumptiousness epidemic” [Beato/Reason] OK to challenge jurors based on occupation, Calif. appeals court rules [Egelko/SF Chronicle] UK: “Murderer and his fraudster wife are given £20,000 […]

These roundups aren’t so hard to do once you get the hang of them:

  • Boutrous on suit against “recovered-memory” doubter Loftus [W$J]. Earlier: here, here.

  • Yet another expose of the “scrumptiousness epidemic” [Beato/Reason]

  • OK to challenge jurors based on occupation, Calif. appeals court rules [Egelko/SF Chronicle]

  • UK: “Murderer and his fraudster wife are given £20,000 legal aid to fight for an IVF baby” [Daily Mail]

  • Truce, seemingly, between class-actioneers Bernstein Litowitz and Milberg Weiss [Koppel/WSJ Law Blog]

  • Behind one of the biggest med-mal awards in Canadian history, a question of whether risk of bearing twins was warned of [KevinMD]

  • Judge Patel grants class-action status to Costco gender-bias suit [Lattman/WSJ law blog]

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