- Report: European sunscreens use superior ingredients US regulators haven’t gotten around to approving [NYT]
- Some in Pakistan want Zuckerberg executed for hosting “draw Mohammed” [Freethinker, UK]
- GM fought Clean Air Act? “Sen. Franken’s bad environmental history” [Adler/Volokh]
- Scary McChesneyite plans for federal intervention in media: FTC seems to be listening [Thierer, City Journal] FCC relations with Free Press on the skids? [Mike Riggs, Daily Caller]
- In 1978 Canada Supreme Court judicially imposed cap on noneconomic damages, world doesn’t seem to have ended for Canadian litigants [Wood, PoL]
- “Landlord victorious in Peeps trial” [Lowering the Bar, earlier]
- Who’ll wind up paying in Chinese drywall litigation? [Risk and Insurance]
- How not to get out of jury duty [Abnormal Use]
Author Archive
“9 in 10 docs blame lawsuit fears for overtesting”
Few of our readers will be surprised at the new survey published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, but since some in the litigation lobby seem to go on denying the reality of defensive medicine problem year in and year out, it’s probably useful to keep piling on the evidence. [AP/WaPo]
Adventures in legislative debt collection
A hedge fund accumulates foreign debt and then maneuvers in Albany to make it more collectible. [Felix Salmon]
$1 million awarded in bicycle crash
Most curious angle, as reported in the Tulsa World:
The plaintiffs alleged that the bike was “inherently defective and dangerous” because of the defective front fender bracket, which broke within the first week the bike was used.
Pacific Cycle countered that it had designed and manufactured an ordinary “pedal powered” bicycle but that a third party had retrofitted it with a motor.
The company claimed that the mounting of the motor was “unforeseeable misuse and modification” of the bike.
France makes “psychological violence” a crime
Ken at Popehat laments, “My Entire Existence Is Now Against The Law In France.” [New York Times]
“Another frooty lawsuit”
Something about fruit-flavored snack foods seems to get the class-action lawyers going. A Brooklyn woman is now suing General Mills, saying its Fruit Roll-Ups, popular with kids, are not as healthy as buyers might think from its marketing. [California Civil Justice Blog, Reuters, New York Daily News]
New York may ban informal short-term rentals
Is it too cynical to detect a whiff of hotel-protection in this crackdown? [Sean O’Neill, Newsweek Budget Travel]
Sent off
I’m happy to announce that today I sent the manuscript of my next book, tentatively titled Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America, off to Encounter Books. If you’ve noticed that posting has been light in recent weeks, that’s why. Did you know that you can pre-order the book on Amazon?
Posting will remain light for a little while longer because I plan to get an early start on enjoying the long holiday weekend.
Federal judge who lifted Gulf drilling ban
First came the character assassination aimed at Judge Martin Feldman, then came the death threats [Jeff Crouere, BayouBuzz via Wood/PoL, earlier]
Canada: boys dropped from junior hockey team, parents sue
By reader acclaim: “Two sets of parents are suing the Greater Toronto Hockey League, one of its clubs and four coaches for $25,000 each because their sons were cut by the Avalanche Minor Sports Club midget junior A team during tryouts in April.” One father claims the defendants’ conduct “destroyed the dignity” of his son and caused him to suffer “irreparable psychological damage.” [Toronto Star]