• Jury tells Marriott to pay $55 million after stalker takes nude video of TV personality from adjoining hotel room [Business Insider]
• R.I.P. John Sullivan, long-time advocate for lawsuit reform in California [Sacramento Bee]
• Colleges, speed cameras, and surveillance on buses in my latest Maryland policy roundup; paid leave, publicly financed conference centers and criminalizing drinking hosts in the one before that;
• AAJ, the trial lawyers lobby, “panned companies’ method of fighting class actions as unfair after member accused it of using the same strategy” [John O’Brien, Chamber-backed Legal NewsLine]
• In the 1920s, battling chain stores was part of the mission of the Ku Klux Klan [Atlas Obscura]
• Class-action lawyer Goodson, “husband of Supreme Court justice, recommended 2 firms that got state auditor contract” [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]
• “Indian court issues summons to Hindu monkey god Hanuman” Again? [Lowering the Bar]

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