• Kip Viscusi: current structure of tort law gives firms like General Motors reason not to investigate risks/benefits of their designs [Alison Frankel, Reuters]
• California woman in trouble after allegedly sending “faked treatment documents and burn photos from a hospital website” to bolster hot coffee spill claim against McDonald’s [ABA Journal]
• Despite Kumho Tire, Joiner, and amendments to evidence rules in 2000, Eighth Circuit cuts its own liberal path on expert witness admissibility [Bernstein]
• “In the BP case, the rule of law is on trial” [Lester Brickman, The Hill, on cert petition]
• “Fighting and Winning Against Pit Bull Defense Lawyers” [Ronald Miller]
• Business groups savor victory in racketeering suit over concocted asbestos claims [Barrett, Bloomberg Business Week]
• Peter Spiro adds another favorable review of Paul Barrett’s Chevron/ Ecuador book Law of the Jungle [Opinio Juris]

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