• Elevator-injury case: “Citing Attorney’s Inflammatory Language, Court Erases Most of Jury Verdict” [Daily Business Report]
• “Obama’s zealous civil rights enforcer gets busy” [Byron York, Examiner]
• “Trend: Helicopter parents win kids in divorce” [Theresa Walsh Giarrusso, Atlanta Journal-Constitution “Momania”]
• Faculty fracas: “An Angry Professor Mounts His Own Labor Protest in Alabama” [Chronicle of Higher Ed]
• An opportunity for the Seventh Circuit to curb derivative strike suits? [CCAF]
• Emily Bazelon on Phoebe Prince school-bullying story, cont’d [Slate, earlier]
• Controversy as Louisiana governor Jindal hires longtime Overlawyered favorites Baron & Budd for BP suit [Dan Fisher, Forbes]
• “Oz: A$100K for prisoner who fell out of bed” [seven years ago on Overlawyered]

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