An Ontario woman wants Rogers Wireless Inc. to pay C$600,000 for sending her household a “global” invoice that wrongly alerted her husband to lengthy phone calls from which he deduced her extramarital affair, leading him to walk out on her. [Toronto Star]
Author Archive
Hardships of prolonged jury service
They’re felt more than ever in today’s economy, notes Amy Alkon.
Alan Dershowitz
Scott Greenfield thinks it must be wonderful to be him.
Welcome WRKO listeners
I was a guest this evening on Kevin Whalen’s Pundit Review talk show on the Boston station. We mostly discussed the Elena Kagan Supreme Court nomination, on which I’ve blogged here, here, here, and here. More: a write-up, and audio.
May 16 roundup
- Doc self-injects with Botox, wins $15 million on failure-to-warn claim [Legal Blog Watch]
- Kindergarten teacher Tonya Craft acquitted in widely watched abuse-allegation case [Sullum and more, Greenfield, Popehat, A Public Defender, Lynch]
- Naughty Toyota, it defends itself when attacked [Fumento, Ted at PoL]
- Washington Post profiles economist/perennial blogroll favorite Tyler Cowen (Marginal Revolution) with guest appearance by fashion business mentor/outspoken CPSIA critic Kathleen Fasanella;
- Business groups oppose nomination to federal judgeship of Rhode Island trial lawyer/political kingmaker Jack McConnell [ShopFloor]
- “CEI’s FTC Complaint Against GM: A Response to Walter Olson” [Fred Smith/Open Market, earlier]
- Bad: New York’s highest court limits assumption of risk defense [NYLJ, Mura, Rapp]
- Why we can’t represent you in your suit demanding removal of your microchip brain implant [Popehat]
Disability-related commuting difficulties
The Third Circuit has ruled that under the Americans with Disabilities Act “employers may need to make reasonable shift changes in order to accommodate a disabled employee’s disability-related difficulties in getting to work.” The case involved a Rite Aid worker who could not drive at night because of glaucoma and wanted a transfer to the day shift. [Colwell v. Rite-Aid, PDF, via Hyman]
Sophisticated advisors?
According to the New York Law Journal, “hundreds” at least of law firms have fallen victim to advance-fee and counterfeit-check scams in recent years.
The fatal workplace joke
“Palm Beach Gardens firm accused of filing lawsuits just to collect legal fees”
The firm often sues insurance companies for amounts under $50, sometimes under $5. A manager with one defendant said the lawyers can use a $1 settlement to leverage a demand for thousands in legal fees payable by defendants. The firm, which has filed more than a thousand cases since last summer, acquires potential claims from medical clinics which bill the insurers over care dispensed after no-fault auto accidents; often the clinics have been paid for the bulk of the case, leaving a small unpaid sum. [Jane Musgrave, Palm Beach Post]
Talking-squirrel injury lawyer ad
With extra cheese:
Via Above the Law last month, which also found a decidedly strange reggae video singing the praises of a Los Angeles entertainment-law firm.