Comments on: May 23 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/05/may-23-roundup/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 05 Jan 2015 01:57:01 +0000 hourly 1 By: Reparations: more reactions - Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/05/may-23-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-288257 Sat, 31 May 2014 15:45:03 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=46034#comment-288257 […] Ta-Nehisi Coates essay in the Atlantic arguing the case for racial reparations stirred quite a bit of discussion and here are three more […]

]]> By: May 30 roundup - Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/05/may-23-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-287899 Fri, 30 May 2014 04:30:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=46034#comment-287899 […] Gabriel Kolko: “A historian who understood why big business wanted regulation” [Tim Carney, Washington Examiner, earlier] […]

]]> By: En Passant https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/05/may-23-roundup/comment-page-1/#comment-286669 Fri, 23 May 2014 18:54:55 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=46034#comment-286669 Poor John Walters (“Worst article of the week?”):

If you think trial lawyers made a windfall on tobacco, just wait until they get a handle on marijuana. The scientific and medical evidence against marijuana now dwarfs what we knew about tobacco at the time of the surgeon general’s report of 1964. No warning label in the world could shield marijuana growers and sellers from the tsunami of tort liability they should face from distributing a product with so many known harmful effects.

He’s wrong on the law and wrong on the facts. So he pounds the table.

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