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PrawfsBlawg
PrawfsBlawg
By Professors Dan Markel, Ethan J. Leib, Rob Howse, Paul Horwitz, Rick Garnett, Matt Bodie, Steve Vladeck and Orly Lobel.
http://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsblawg/
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Sep 18
JOTWELL: Smith on Baude on Qualified Immunity
JOTWELL: Smith on Baude on Qualified ImmunityThe new Courts Law essay comes from new contributor Fred Smith (Emory), reviewing William Baude, Is Qualified Immunity Unlawful?, 106 Cal. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2018). This is a great article that Justice Thomas citing in his concurring… -
Sep 18
Police Riot in a Failed City: On the Streets of St. Loui
Police Riot in a Failed City: On the Streets of St. LouiSince Friday, the streets of St. Louis, Missouri, have been filled with competing groups of demonstrators and protestors. For most purposes, the police were nowhere to be found. Instead, uniformed law enforcement professionals consistently… -
Sep 18
Thompson v. Arkansas and Ineffective Assistance of Counsel at Sentencing
Thompson v. Arkansas and Ineffective Assistance of Counsel at SentencingEarlier this summer, I helped write a cert petition for the US Supreme Court. The case involves an ineffective assistance claim out of Arkansas. The petitioner, Mario Thompson, was represented at trial by a lawyer who didn’t do very much on…
Rank this Week: 43
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
By Professors Byron G. Stier, Howard M. Erichson, Alexandra D. Lahav, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch and Sergio J. Campos.
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/mass_tort_litigation/
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Aug 16
What duties do lead counsel owe plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation?
What duties do lead counsel owe plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation?There is a persistent question in multidistrict proceedings: what duties do lead lawyers owe to individual plaintiffs who have no direct attorney-client relationship with them? That's the question at the heart of a recent opinion by Judge… -
Aug 7
For Journalists Reporting on Bellwether Trial
For Journalists Reporting on Bellwether TrialBellwether trials are a mass tort phenomenon that is often reported in the media, but too often journalists put more emphasis on an individual trial or even a small set of trials than is warranted. This post tries to explain... -
Aug 6
James Henderson on the Impropriety of Punitive Damages in Mass Tort
James Henderson on the Impropriety of Punitive Damages in Mass TortProfessor James Henderson (Cornell Law) has posted to SSRN his article, The Impropriety of Punitive Damages in Mass Torts, 52 Ga. L. Rev. (forthcoming). Here is the abstract: Punitive damages have been around for centuries in classic…
Rank this Week: 71
Entertainment Law Reporter
Entertainment Law Reporter
From the Donald E. Biederman Entertainment & Media Law Institute at Southwestern Law School.
http://www.entertainmentlawreporter.com/
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Jun 5
Entertainment Law Reporter on hiatu
Entertainment Law Reporter on hiatuI've discovered that publishing a one-man blog - even a blog that primarily calls attention to the fine work of others - is a surprisingly time-consuming activity. My work on the Entertainment Law Reporter got interrupted by the need to… -
May 2
The Donald, The Apprentice, the FCC, and the broadcast law issues if Trump runs for President
The Donald, The Apprentice, the FCC, and the broadcast law issues if Trump runs for PresidentThose who watch politics (the way others watch sports) wonder whether Donald Trump is seriously thinking about running for President, or whether he is simply generating publicity for his television show "The Apprentice." Only "The Donald"… -
May 2
FTC reports on compliance with entertainment industry age and content rating
FTC reports on compliance with entertainment industry age and content ratingThe Federal Trade Commission has found that video game retailers enforce industry age and content ratings more vigorously than other entertainment retailers, and that music CD retailers are the most lax at doing so. In the words of the…
Rank this Week: 1055