Overlawyered: Chronicling The High Cost Of Our Legal System

March 13 roundup

$47.5 million verdict in Vioxx retrial. [Point of Law] D.C. Circuit has big Second Amendment opinion striking down DC gun ban; Brady Center inconsistent about its view of democracy versus the constitution. [Bader; NRO symposium; 18 posts at Volokh] Alien Tort Statute: legal imperialism? [Point of Law] Michigan Justice Elizabeth Weaver continues to lose it […]

  • $47.5 million verdict in Vioxx retrial. [Point of Law]

  • D.C. Circuit has big Second Amendment opinion striking down DC gun ban; Brady Center inconsistent about its view of democracy versus the constitution. [Bader; NRO symposium; 18 posts at Volokh]

  • Alien Tort Statute: legal imperialism? [Point of Law]

  • Michigan Justice Elizabeth Weaver continues to lose it [ATL; People v. Parsons]

  • Update in Navarro $217 million verdict: Defendant doctors in lawsuit now suing their own attorneys [St. Pete Times (h/t F.R.)]

  • “What did you say about my kiwi?” bill in California [Legal Pad]

  • Yeah, that will resolve the housing crisis: group intervenes to protest plan for new apartment complex under fair housing laws because “only” 16 units out of 299 have three bedrooms. [Boston Globe (h/t A.I.)]

  • Norm-shifting in the post-MySpace age. [Barnett @ Volokh v. Taylor]

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