Readers may remember the extensive litigation in and around Granite City, Illinois, involving the frequently aggrieved Peach family. Now Armettia Peach has settled with the last defendant, Kevin Link, in the suit described here, here, and here. (Madison County Record).
Unrelatedly, the Lakin Law Firm, which has represented the Peach family in numerous cases, has changed its name to LakinChapman LLC.
The mother of Kevin Devuono of Tinley Park, Ill., feels it was the fault of the car dealership where he worked; at least, she’s suing them, along with a nightclub. (Daily Herald, Dec. 28).
Or what passes by that name: lawyers for the ACLU say the design of a Milwaukee highway project is unfair to minorities (Rick Esenberg, Prawfsblawg; complaint, PDF, at WisPolitics.com).
Oh, spare us, Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.).
You may want to buy this cute item before the requirements of CPSIA go into effect on Feb. 10, when according to the Etsy listing its price will go up from $58 to $3,530 to cover the required testing.
“The federal appeals court in Atlanta says a woman who took part in sexually explicit contests at a Daytona Beach, Fla., hotel two months shy of her 18th birthday cannot sue over Internet images of her, even though she was a minor.” [AP; Atlanta Journal-Constitution] We had a discussion of similar, more successful litigation a couple of years ago here and here.
Thanks to our readers for the more than respectable showing Overlawyered made in the “Best Law Blog” section of the 2008 WeblogAwards. The winner was the very deserving Volokh Conspiracy.
Also while we’re on popularity, my piece yesterday at Forbes on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) is #6 top rated among the magazine’s articles at the moment. Thanks!
…just to pay Cook County’s outlays on lawsuits and settlements? Earlier here.
Well, that sounded plausible enough. Who knew there’d turn out to be more to the story?