March 19 roundup

Walter Olson — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:04:46 +0000

UK: Paramedic twists ankle on steps responding to emergency call, plans to sue elderly couple [Daily Mail]
Critics say litigiousness is part of the business plan for rental outfit Leasecomm, which has sued its customers more than 92,000 times [Boston Globe, Daily News Transcript]
Great big predators of the alternative press? Jury awards $15 million against SF Weekly to its main competitor, Bay Guardian [SF Chronicle]
Tacoma public schools sued after mentally ill student brings gun to school and kills classmate [KOMO]
How the parties traded positions with each other on trade [Gordon, Commentary]
Now Canada has its own “human rights” complaint against plastic surgeon who declines to undertake transgender-related surgery [Steyn, Macleans; earlier Catholic hospital case from California]
Florida Supreme Court hears appeal of Joe Anderson $18 million “false light” defamation verdict against Gannett’s Pensacola News-Journal [WSJ law blog; earlier]
Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman keeps suing bloggers and dragging websites before those Canadian hate-speech tribunals, so no criticizing him please [Levant, Five Feet of Fury (& more), Steyn]
Discontent continues over judges’ standardless discretion in granting alimony awards [NLJ]
Death of widow Alice Lawrence isn’t expected to end her litigation with law firm Graubard Miller over contingency fee [NYLJ; earlier]
Labor arbitrator tells Florida school to rehire employee who reported to work with cocaine in his system [six years ago on Overlawyered]

Tags: Canada, competition through litigation, contingent fee, false light, free trade, hate speech, hospitals, Leasecomm, libel slander and defamation, Richard Warman, roundups, third party liability for crime, transgender, United Kingdom

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March 19 roundup