The rule of law: Why is predictability important?
As if to demonstrate that their website is simply reflexively anti-reform rather than anything to do with the justice they supposedly aspire to, one of their trolling bloggers attacks the American...
View ArticleThe absent defendant: arbitration vs. court
At Bizarro-Overlawyered, Justinian Lane states: Ted Frank at Overlawyered falsely claims that “In civil court, a default judgment can be obtained merely on a plaintiff’s say so. In contrast, most...
View Article“As long as I am allowed to redistribute wealth…”: was Richard Neely being...
As I’ve previously noted: “As long as I am allowed to redistribute wealth from out-of-state companies to in-state plaintiffs, I shall continue to do so. Not only is my sleep enhanced when I give...
View ArticleJune 12 roundup
As I type this post, I’m listening to Andrew Frey argue Conrad Black’s appeal before Judge Posner and the Seventh Circuit. Posner seems to be confused over whether incorrect jury instructions can be...
View ArticleKnology arbitration clause
Overlawyered favorite Justinian Lane thinks he’s discovered a smoking gun in the Knology arbitration clause: All disputes arising out of or relating to this agreement (other than actions for the...
View ArticleRichard Neely’s lack of irony (III)
You may recall a manufactured dispute over the former West Virginia Justice Richard Neely‘s quote in The Product Liability Mess: As long as I am allowed to redistribute wealth from out-of-state...
View ArticleAn interesting double-standard
Justinian Lane crows: Pfizer fined by an Australian trade group! Indeed it was; drug reps went off the reservation of what they were supposed to talk about without telling managers, and exaggerated the...
View ArticleHow trial lawyer urban legends get started
Public Citizen wrote a report about New York medical malpractice that said: Physicians who made three or more malpractice payments between 1990 and 2006 – accounting for no more than 4 percent of New...
View ArticleWhoCanISue.com
Another entry into the genre of for-profit websites offering to match aggrieved visitors with lawyers, this one is said to be based on a slightly tweaked format (including “talk to a live lawyer”...
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CPSIA chronicles, March 3
There’s new blogging on the fate of pre-1985 children’s books from book restorer and conservator Javamom, Jane Badger (iBookNet, U.K.), Dillon Hillas, Wellspring Creations, and Small-Leaved Shamrock....
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