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July 12 roundup

Walter Olson — Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:09:42 +0000

Mother who gives 10 year old the run of a Lego store: Mom of the Year, or candidate for arrest? [Lenore Skenazy on Ontario County, N.Y. incident]
Sorry to see WSJ Law Blog close. A wealth of valuable content, often first on stories, showcase for rising writers [farewell post]
Oops! “The bill as [passed] …allows a pregnant woman to commit homicide without consequences.” [Lowering the Bar on New Hampshire measure]
No, a court really didn’t overturn Florida stand-your-ground law. Let Eugene Volokh explain [Volokh Conspiracy] Still, the recently enacted procedural fillip the court did strike down was one of practical significance to many defendants [C.J. Ciaramella, Reason]
In the mail: John Corvino et al., Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination. Good opening essay [Oxford University Press]
What one bad lawyer can do: feds chase $600 million in disability claims linked to fugitive Eric Conn [Chris Edwards, Cato]

Tags: child protection, discrimination law, Florida, legal blogs, New Hampshire, religious liberty, stand your ground

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Take care where you reincarnate

Walter Olson — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 10:31:10 +0000

On my trip to San Francisco last week I was delighted finally to meet Kevin Underhill, longtime writer of one of the most consistently funny and well-written of legal blogs, Lowering the Bar. If there were any justice in the world I would link a post of Kevin’s every day or two, but for the moment I’ll just note this one from last month: For years now, China has “forbidden anyone to reincarnate without [its] express written permission.”

Tags: China, humor, legal blogs, religious liberty

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17 years ago today…

Walter Olson — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 12:29:04 +0000

Overlawyered was founded on July 1, 1999. You can read the first posts here.

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Tags: about the site, legal blogs

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Great moments in immigration law

Walter Olson — Tue, 10 May 2016 10:14:07 +0000

I’ve already recommended Short Circuits, the well-written newsletter by John Ross of the Institute for Justice that briefly digests interesting decisions from the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal. Until recently you needed to subscribe if you wanted to read it, but now it’s also being shared by Eugene Volokh on the Washington Post’s Volokh Conspiracy blog. Here’s one case write-up from the most recent number:

Naturalized citizen hasn’t been able to renew her California driver’s license since 2004 because two different federal agencies have two different birthdates on file for her (which they decline to reconcile). Can the courts intervene? Sadly not, says the Ninth Circuit, as Congress delegated exclusive power over naturalization to the executive branch (to make the process easier for immigrants).

Tags: immigration law, legal blogs

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Free speech roundup

Walter Olson — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 04:05:41 +0000

Eric Turkewitz has collaborated with other law bloggers on a series of April Fool’s blog hoaxes, but this year many bloggers sat out his joke about Donald Trump suits against the press. Sort of a canary in the coal mine right there [Paul Alan Levy]
It’s come to this: Providence Journal runs pro/con debate on whether to criminalize “climate denial” [Michael E. Kraft, H. Sterling Burnett, link fixed now h/t Gitarcarver] Putting the R.I. in RICO: Sen. Whitehouse trades charges with WSJ, other malefactors (hello!) who keep fighting him on climate probe [Edward Fitzpatrick, Providence Journal, WSJ]
“Judge Dismisses Felony Charge Against Michigan Jury Rights Pamphleteer” [Jacob Sullum, earlier on nullification activists and the law here, etc.]
Feminist urges banning porn on the rationale least consistent with the First Amendment: that it operates as propaganda, the way a philosophical treatise might [Washington Post]
FIRE announces free online First Amendment library; also interviews Eugene Volokh in a seven-minute video [Ronald Collins/Concurring Opinions]
Greater Glasgow Police to social media users: “Think before you post or you may receive a visit from us this weekend.” [Alex Massie, Spectator, earlier on Scotland speech bans]

Tags: climate deniers to the wall, free speech, jury nullification, legal blogs, Rhode Island, Scotland

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December 9 roundup

Walter Olson — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 05:15:10 +0000

Judge Posner cites a Cato amicus brief: Cook County sheriff can’t browbeat Visa and MasterCard into dropping business with sex ad site [Ilya Shapiro, Eugene Volokh] And Daniel Fisher speculates that Posner’s thoughts on how far law enforcers can push around private actors on First Amendment-related subject matter (but without filing charges against them) might carry over to Eric Schneiderman’s ExxonMobil climate-advocacy inquisition [Forbes]
“How To Blog: A Primer (And Not A Boring Primer, Either)” [Jim Dedman, Abnormal Use]
What the campus protests are about: power [Jonathan Last, Weekly Standard]
Eric Turkewitz draws a connection between the debate on guns and my recent work on redistricting, and Ken White at Popehat has more on the debate on guns;
Vibrations from “ridge-like” BMW motorcycle seat said to have had unwanted stimulative effect on male user [Marin Independent Journal]
Why are Republicans not moving to block Department of Justice settlement slush funds “funneling more than half-a-billion dollars to liberal activist groups” that in some cases route dollars “back to programs that congressional Republicans deliberately stripped of funds”? [Kim Strassel, WSJ]
What happens at CLE stays at CLE: doings get wild at a famous mass torts seminar in Las Vegas [Above the Law]

Tags: advocacy funding, colleges and universities, guns, legal blogs, on other blogs

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“American Law Is In A State Of Crisis”

Walter Olson — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 05:15:19 +0000

James DeLong, lawyer, author, astute analyst of regulation and longtime friend of Overlawyered, has begun writing for Forbes and this is his inaugural post. It’s short — go read it now. His second post is on “ObamaCare, Chevron, and Congressional Delegation.”

Way back in 1997 I reviewed Jim’s book Property Matters for the Wall Street Journal.

Tags: administrative law, legal blogs, property rights

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Impeaching opposing counsel by citing blog posts

Walter Olson — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 09:29:33 +0000

It didn’t work in the case recounted here, but it’s something lawyer-bloggers must worry about [Jim Dedman, Abnormal Use] (& Timothy Sandefur with stories from his own practice)

Tags: bloggers and the law, legal blogs

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August 21 roundup

Walter Olson — Thu, 21 Aug 2014 04:05:30 +0000

“Brady Campaign loses lawsuit against Armslist (a gun classified ad site)” [Volokh]
Train for your bright future in federal employment as a FOIA Denial Officer [Katherine Mangu-Ward]
Chamber of Commerce alarmed at rise of class actions in Latin America [Kevin LaCroix/D & O Diary, Chamber report and Brazil sidebar]
Dear CBS Los Angeles: it’s okay to show a little skepticism regarding creationist’s claims in employment lawsuit [Skeptical Libertarian]
Historic role of guns in black civil rights struggle departs from polite conventional account [Charles E. Cobb, Jr., guestblogging on new book at Volokh: samples one, two, three, four]
Ranking law blogs based on their number of Feedly subscribers [Derek Muller; only a few single-author blogs score higher]
At the height of county fair season, it’s depressing to read about 4-H suits [Legal Geeks]

Tags: about the site, agriculture and farming, Brazil, guns, legal blogs

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Goodbye, Durham-in-Wonderland

Walter Olson — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 13:11:50 +0000

KC Johnson is closing his definitive blog on the Duke lacrosse case and its aftermath, and reflects on it all in this final essay.

Tags: colleges and universities, Duke lacrosse, legal blogs

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