• Wal-Mart spending millions to fight $7,000 OSHA fine? Not so paradoxical when you think about it [Coyote]
• Proliferation of product recalls, as with warnings, can result in consumer fatigue and inattention [WaPo via PoL]
• Settlement said to be near between casino and gambler who lost $127 million [WSJ, UPI, earlier]
• “Think Globally, Sue Locally: Out-of-Court Tactics Employed by Plaintiffs, Their Lawyers, and Their Advocates in Transnational Tort Cases” [study, PDF and press release; Jonathan Drimmer for US Chamber, related WSJ]
• “End of an Era? Another Crunch Berries Case Dismissed” [Lowering the Bar, California Civil Justice, earlier on “froot” cases here, here, etc.]
• New Jersey: “School legal costs are a killer” [Rayner, Daily Record]
• ABA Journal profiles Ted Frank;
• We’re the ones who write the laws around here, not you legislators: Washington Supreme Court strikes down med-mal notice law [SeattlePI.com]

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