- News on legal policy front: Center for Class Action Fairness, founded and run by longtime Overlawyered co-blogger Ted Frank, merging into Competitive Enterprise Institute, Ted and all [CEI]
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Arnold Kling isn’t cheering Brookings Institution’s defenestration of well-known economist Robert Litan at Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s behest. More: Sean Higgins, John Fund;
- Proposed anti-soft-drink laws favored by Michael Bloomberg & Co. have been mostly shot down, but New York Times eager to credit politicians anyway for the drop [more: Jacob Sullum];
- We interrupt the campaign season propaganda-fest with news of an actual issue sighting, on regulatory reform [Ira Stoll, Veronique de Rugy on Jeb Bush plan] After Obama initiative to eliminate red tape, agencies added $14.7 billion in regulatory costs [Sam Batkins, American Action Forum]
- Qualified immunity: “Shooting a 68-Year-Old Who Poses No Threat Violates Clearly Established Law” [Ilya Shapiro, Cato]
- If you’ve read Steve Teles’s article on upward redistribution (as you should), read Michael Greve’s reaction and Ilya Somin‘s too;
- East Texas judge throws out 168 patent cases in one fell swoop [Joe Mullin/ArsTechnica, related on popularity of East Texas among trolls]
Filed under: Elizabeth Warren, obesity, patent trolls, regulation and its reform, soft drinks, Ted Frank, Texas
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It never ceases to amaze and amuse me how accurate “Yes Minister” was… and how it proves that some things never change. The third episode, “The Economy Drive” revolved around cutting government spending where a time and motion study of the department involved hiring 500 more people and spending millions more to come to the conclusion that they could probably get rid of a tea lady or two.
The recent spate of outrageous claims of immunity by police officers make me think that we now have police who have less of a sense of shame and professionalism than hockey enforcers. That is not good.
Since the last true hockey enforcers (can’t skate but is there solely to punch) has gone the way of the dodo, one can hope the same for officers who behave outrageously and look to immunity to cover their poor actions.