Comments on: Daily Roundup 2008-12-29 https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/12/daily-roundup-2008-12-29/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:15:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: SSFC https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/12/daily-roundup-2008-12-29/comment-page-1/#comment-37787 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:15:12 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=8074#comment-37787 Thanks for the insight Ken.

On an unrelated, but topical note, readers in Las Vegas, or readers with an interest in intellectual property, may find the story of Glen Lerner’s battle to establish a trademark over the term “The Heavy Hitter” to be of of interest.

]]> By: Ken https://www.overlawyered.com/2008/12/daily-roundup-2008-12-29/comment-page-1/#comment-37784 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:43:29 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=8074#comment-37784 As to the adoption RICO case item: the agency may or may not have misled the plaintiffs; I have no way of knowing. But it was already evident by 2006 — when the article says they started their process — that there were grave problems with the Guatemalan institutions involved in international adoption, and reasons to have serious doubts about whether any particular adoptee was actually an orphan or otherwise properly placed for adoption. International adoption is not for anyone who wants to pick an agency out of the phone book and do whatever they say; it requires independent research and due diligence.

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