• Research by Todd Henderson et al. suggests that lawyers may often do well as CEOs, and anticipating and reducing litigation risk may be a key mechanism [Stephen Bainbridge]
• Canada: Couple sues neighbors for $2.5 million for copying their house’s architecture [Rain Noe, Core77]
• Abraham Lincoln on public choice and the aligning of interest with ethical duty [David Henderson]
• Redistricting, Anne Arundel county executive allies with trial lawyers to file opioids suit, Baltimore police, Montgomery County minimum wage in my latest Maryland policy roundup [Free State Notes]
• Black smokers in the U.S. are more likely than whites to prefer menthol, and prohibitionists frame foiling their wishes as a matter of racial justice [Christian Britschgi]
• Here come the trustbusting conservatives back again, no more convincing this time around [Steven Greenhut]

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