I’m happy to announce that today I sent the manuscript of my next book, tentatively titled Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America, off to Encounter Books. If you’ve noticed that posting has been light in recent weeks, that’s why. Did you know that you can pre-order the book on Amazon?
Posting will remain light for a little while longer because I plan to get an early start on enjoying the long holiday weekend.
First came the character assassination aimed at Judge Martin Feldman, then came the death threats [Jeff Crouere, BayouBuzz via Wood/PoL, earlier]
By reader acclaim: “Two sets of parents are suing the Greater Toronto Hockey League, one of its clubs and four coaches for $25,000 each because their sons were cut by the Avalanche Minor Sports Club midget junior A team during tryouts in April.” One father claims the defendants’ conduct “destroyed the dignity” of his son and caused him to suffer “irreparable psychological damage.” [Toronto Star]
She’s not expected to sympathize with them, for reasons Ted outlines at Point of Law.
So puzzling and inexplicable that health insurance rates keep rising. [NYT]
Thrown with help from a class action law firm [Peter Beller, Forbes]
Study after study finds no health effects to worry about, but the city by the Bay wants warnings anyway. [Bruce Nye, Ted Frank/PoL]
The most curious element is not the alleged fight over a Scrabble game, but Sonya Glover’s allegation that she was retaliated against by being made to “perform heavy manual tasks normally assigned to males.” Isn’t there some sort of potential discrimination suit if tasks are normally assigned to males and a female employee is not asked to perform them? [NYDN]
By a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court upholds a policy at the University of California’s Hastings Law that gives short shrift to the principle of freedom of association. [Roger Pilon, Cato at Liberty] More: Eugene Volokh thinks the Court made the right call in the case, while Richard Epstein thinks it didn’t.