And a Fifth Circuit panel eats him alive.
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“EEOC Willfully Violated Pay Law, Arbitrator Rules”
Even they can’t comply with all this stuff, you know. Hans Bader at CEI Open Market has more, as does Jonathan Adler @ Volokh.
Motorcyclist crashes into wild pigs on road
And many happy returns to California taxpayers for the $8.6 million, courtesy of a Monterey County jury. Lowering the Bar: “I can’t remember how many times I have tried to warn people that bad things were going to happen if we didn’t tame our state’s boars and train them to be alert for drunk drivers when crossing the street. Why don’t people listen?”
CPSIA rally in Washington, D.C.
I’m planning to be at Wednesday morning’s event as an observer. Details here. If you’re just discovering this website and its coverage of the law, you might want to start with my first Forbes.com article (auto-plays unrelated video), City Journal piece on the threat to vintage kids’ books, and fifty-state sampling of other impacts, which concludes with some reflections on how well Washington, D.C. does at listening to the rest of the country. Then proceed to the tagged pages for CPSIA posts generally and any subtopics of special interest to you (such as resale/thrift stores, libraries, powersports, etc.)
About the Forbes piece, by the way, I’m happy to report it was just given a boost by actress Demi Moore in her very popular Twitter persona of @mrskutcher. You can follow me on Twitter, as well as Overlawyered itself.
Back in this spot on Thursday.
Public domain graphic: Ruth Mary Hallock, Grandma’s Graphics.
RFK Jr. defends Paul Minor
Over the years we’ve traced some of the shifting theories by which it’s been argued that once-prominent attorney Paul Minor was railroaded and didn’t really deserve conviction in that seedy Mississippi cash-for-judges scandal. Now America’s Most Irresponsible Public Figure®, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has started banging his bowl in Minor’s cause, prompting Alan Lange to do what Kennedy does not do, namely provide supporting documents and links by which the interested reader can check out the actual details of the Minor-Whitfield-Teel scandals rather than taking someone’s word for it.
P.S. Tom Freeland analyzes the legal issues in the Minor oral argument, and follows up. P.P.S. Freeland’s reaction to the RFK Jr. work is not a placid one.
“Plea Deal Includes Resurrection Clause”
Baltimore: “Accepting a plea bargain that her attorney described as unprecedented in American jurisprudence, a 22-year-old Maryland woman yesterday agreed to cooperate in the prosecution of other defendants in the death of her son under the condition that charges against her be dropped if the child rises from the dead.”
Corri Fetman sues Playboy
Chicago attorney Corri Fetman won a secure place in the Tasteless Lawyer-Ad Hall of Fame with her firm’s billboard showing a temptress and muscleman with the slogan: “Life’s short. Get a divorce.” She parlayed that fame into a spot as “Lawyer of Love” columnist (and subject of undressed photography) for the magazine Playboy. Now she’s suing, alleging she was sexually harassed and later deprived of her column by a lascivious executive at the publication. Her suit charges, among other things, “gender violence” and emotional distress.
Fetman lost her focus at work, grew depressed and anxious and sought medical care, [attorney Timothy] Ashe said. “Everybody has a breaking point,” he said. “She is not an overly sensitive person.”
[Chicago Tribune via Obscure Store].
Weakness of our partisan expert witness system
The L.A. Times notices it in the context of the Phil Spector trial, and concludes that there must be a better way.
Milk. “Contains milk”.
Flickr user IWouldStay (Creative Commons, some rights reserved) snapped this one on a milk jug in the U.K.: 
Related, earlier (chocolate milk).
March 31 roundup
- Litigation over high-tech products is rife, but major benefits for consumers can be hard to discern [Low End Mac]
- “United settles with female ex-pilot who found p0rn in cockpits” [Obscure Store]
- California suit charges negligent “laying on of hands” at church service [Lowering the Bar]
- UN resolution against “defamation of religion” imperils free speech [Paula Schriefer, Freedom House/CSM, Steyn/NR “Corner”, National Secular Society (U.K.), Ilya Somin @ Volokh
- DivorceNetwork.com, social networking for those caught up in family law battles? [Ambrogi, Legal BlogWatch]
- Prosecutors behaving badly in Wayne County (Mich.), Miami, Santa Clara County [Radley Balko, Reason “Hit and Run”]
- After nine years, the notorious Bill Lerach California-unfair-competition-law suit against Kwikset (over several screws from Taiwan in a lock marked “Made in America”) finally winds down [California Civil Justice, earlier]
- Oklahoma AG Drew Edmondson to poultry companies: my pals will bankrupt you with massive verdicts unless you settle [Rizo/Legal NewsLine; more]