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Atlas carrying the law firm’s weight on his shoulders: a mobile photo from Steve Dillard of Georgia.
Title IX squashes high school soccer
The College Sports Council has recent reports from New York City, where both boys’ and girls’ squads have been sidelined following a New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) suit over fall vs. spring scheduling (related earlier here, here, and here), and Kentucky, where quotas have prevented formation of a boys’ team.
“Deposition Tricks: The Dirty Dozen”
Twelve ways lawyers try to gain (often unfair) advantage when interrogating captive opponents. [Maryland Bar Journal/SSRN via Legal Ethics Forum]
October 19 roundup
- Supreme Court case: “Family’s vaccine claim is not sustainable” [Washington Post editorial, earlier] More: John Calfee, The American.
- GAO: HHS acted in “unusual” way when it muzzled health plans on ObamaCare costs [Cannon/Cato-at-Liberty, earlier]
- “Trial Opens for Adoption Attorney Accused of Stealing From Clients” [NYLJ]
- U.K.: A “human right” to have someone prosecuted? [Greenfield]
- “Dodd-Frank, Bubble Laws, and Quack Corporate Governance” [Bainbridge]
- Child overprotection: “Pack away the cotton wool” [Sydney Morning Herald editorial, scroll]
- Here comes another SCOTUS case in the Twombly-Iqbal series? [WLF] Update: Apparently not [Ted at PoL] Why Iqbal and Twombly were rightly decided [Beck]
- Don’t link, criticize, use our name, refer to us, view our source code… [three years ago on Overlawyered]
Watching, watching, ever watching
“Should red light cameras be used to catch drivers on cellphones?” [L.A. Times]
“JFK University removes garden over disability concerns”
Pleasant Hill, Calif.: “John F. Kennedy University this week removed a garden that had been at issue in a disabled-access lawsuit, stunning students and instructors who had raised thousands of dollars to fix the problem.” A graduate student had sued over lack of wheelchair access to the garden, which was used by about 60 students a year; the estimated cost of accessibility fixes was $56,000. [San Jose Mercury-News]
Fans can’t use Illinois mascot
“A Chief Illiniwek performance planned for homecoming weekend has been postponed indefinitely after the University of Illinois threatened legal sanction.” [Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette] Update: sponsors plan to proceed anyway.
October 18 roundup
- Touchy tandem jump: “Gay Skydiving Instructor Sues Over Firing” [Legal Blog Watch]
- Bucks County, Pennsylvania, plans to ticket people who forget to lock their cars [Ryan Young, CEI]
- Soft surface contact only next time: man hit in eye by exotic dancer’s heel wins $650K [NBC Miami, evidently a different case from this 2008 hit-by-exotic-dancer’s-shoe mishap, also in Florida]
- Breyers ice cream class action settlement with $0 for class might draw objections [CCAF]
- “Who are the Top Plaintiff’s Lawyers?” [Mark Behrens and Cary Silverman via AmLaw]
- California voters mulling attorney general choice should keep in mind lawsuit abuse issues [John Sullivan, Daily Journal courtesy CJAC]
- Mine safety enforcement push bogging down in litigation [WaPo]
- Liability a concern as elementary school in Attleboro, Mass. bans game of “tag” [four years ago on Overlawyered]
Great moments in lawyer TV advertising: “BullyLawyer.com”
Schiro & Zarzynski, Wisconsin:
Via Asylum.com’s selection of “10 Hilariously Awful Television Commercials for Lawyers”, which includes one or two others we haven’t featured here before.