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21 Jan 2012, 6:52 am
Because judges should decide cases the way clamoring crowds want them to: “Occupy the Courts” [Althouse, Somin, earlier] Pittsburgh lawprof: bank’s office park has become public forum and is ours to seize [Daily Caller] Some reactions to Megaupload indictment [Julian Sanchez, Ken at Popehat] Kozinski, others trade quips at oral argument in Disneyland Segway ADA case [Courthouse News via Disabilities Law, earlier] “Ouch! [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 5:15 am
Louisiana funeral regulators [Ken at Popehat] Careful about repeating claims that bad stuff in the environment is causing children to go through puberty earlier [Sanghavi, Slate] Grilled chicken: “California Restaurants Lose Appeal On Cancer Warnings” [Dan Fisher/Forbes, earlier] Randy Maniloff on the uncertain foundations of insurance bad faith law [Mealey's, PDF] “Why Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Fashion” [Raustiala/Sprigman, NY Times, earlier on… [read post]
25 Jun 2013, 5:00 pm
Ken White, the defense lawyer behind the legal blog Popehat, has offered pro-bono legal assistance to Finnicum. [read post]
25 May 2012, 6:39 am
On the same subject, Popehat has a piece on why free speech is important, not just for those you agree with, but for those you don’t. [read post]
13 Sep 2016, 9:05 pm
” [Jacob Gershman, WSJ Law Blog; Ken White, Popehat] Don’t make housing discrimination law a money tree for municipal government plaintiffs [Thaya Brook Knight and Ilya Shapiro on Cato amicus brief in Supreme Court case of Bank of America v. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 6:40 am
[Perry, more] Workers’ comp OK’d in case where simulated chicken head blamed for subsequent emotional disability [Lowering the Bar] “NBA referee sues sports writer over tweet” [Siouxsie Law] “Lessons from Dan Snyder’s Libel Suit” [Paul Alan Levy/CL&P, earlier] Litigation rates similar for poor and good nursing homes, researchers find [US News] Effects of medical liability reform in Texas [White Coat, scroll] New York’s Cuomo caves on… [read post]
7 Nov 2018, 2:56 am
Main reasons: 1) Small states get rounded up or down; 2) demographics change in existing districts over 10-year Census cycle especially where new housing is being built [Hristina Byrnes, 24/7 Wall Street, I’m quoted] “‘Outrageously excessive’ requests for attorney fees can be altogether denied, 3rd Circuit says” [ABA Journal] Prenda copyright troll Paul Hansmeier, who also did mass ADA filings, pleads guilty to fraud and money laundering charges [Dan Browning,… [read post]
1 Feb 2012, 9:05 pm
Ask the Swedes how that worked out [Mike "Mish" Shedlock, Business Insider] Notes from conference on globalization of class actions [Karlsgodt] Related: Adam Zimmerman; “Another conviction in Europe for insulting religion” [Volokh; Polish pop star] Campus secularists’ speech under fire in the U.K. as “Jesus and Mo” controversy spreads to LSE [Popehat] British speech prosecution of soccer star [Suneal Bedi and William Marra, NRO] Tags: Child… [read post]
3 Nov 2013, 8:05 pm
,” whose identity I never learned [Ron Coleman/Likelihood of Confusion, ABA Journal, Mark Bennett/Defending People; Overlawyered hosted Blawg Review #33 in 2005 and #220 in 2009; see also mentions and #56 at Point of Law] “Emotional linkbait”: police, press rush far ahead of evidence in many claims of bullying-induced suicide [Kelly McBride, Poynter] Wow: Columbia, S.C. interim police chief says he’ll come after advocates of pot law reform [Popehat] Tweet … [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 2:08 pm
[Popehat]* My father used to say: If old white ladies are yelling at you, you must be doing something right. [read post]
1 May 2016, 9:05 pm
Peter Roskam would keep IRS from collecting names of donors to nonprofits [Center for Competitive Politics] Newly enacted Tennessee conscience exemption for psychological counselors and therapists avoids some of the dangers of compelled speech [Scott Shackford, Reason] Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart, benchslapped by Judge Richard Posner after sending credit card companies letters urging them to cut off dealings with Backpage.com, now seeks Supreme Court certiorari review [Ronald Collins, earlier… [read post]
26 May 2010, 4:16 am
Francis (”Girls Gone Wild”) and his nastygrams [Popehat] More on SEIU’s tactic of sending mob to banker’s home in suburban Maryland [Volokh and more, earlier] “Intensive Parenting Enforced: Parents Criminal Liability for Children Skipping School” [Gaia Bernstein, ConcurOp on a California bill] Julian Ku unimpressed with United Nations officials’ claims that Arizona immigration statute violates international civil rights law [Opinio Juris] Plus, a… [read post]
24 May 2012, 9:34 pm
Boilermaker union president resorts to litigation against satirical site [Levy; another case on demands for disclosure of anonymous commenters] More on ghastly NY bill to strip protection from anonymous online speech [David Kravets/Wired, Daily Caller, my take] Defending people like Aaron Worthing and Patterico shouldn’t be a left-right matter [Popehat, Tapscott/Examiner, earlier] Maryland and indeed all states need stronger statutory protection against vexatious litigants [Ace of… [read post]
1 Jun 2015, 9:05 pm
” Popehat’s wicked satire of academia looks so real; Throwing Skittles on a school bus = “interference with an educational facility” [Louisiana, Lowering the Bar] To reduce stigma, or so it’s said, Maryland will serve free school breakfast and summer meals to more children whether they’re poor or not. [read post]
24 Jan 2020, 3:02 am
[Molly Ratty, Popehat] “Court Strikes Down NECC Convictions [New England Compounding Center] for Vagueness” [Stephen McConnell, Drug & Device Law] Defense perspective: the ten worst and best prescription drug and medical device decisions of 2019 [Jim Beck, Drug & Device Law] “If there are people out there with no options and they have terrible diseases, we are going to get those drugs to them as fast as feasible. [read post]
19 Nov 2010, 5:17 am
That turned out to have what I'm sure were decidedly uncomfortable gastrointestinal consequences and consequently he sued Houston's for not warning him that there were portions of the artichoke that are not edible and you scrape the meaty, edible plant flesh off the leaves and then discard them.Ken at Popehat more than adequately describes the massive forehead-slap lawyers around the country will go through upon hearing of this utter nonsense. [read post]
1 May 2009, 1:11 pm
Link: The Smoking GunLink: Popehat [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 8:54 am
Copyright 2017 by the named Popehat author. [read post]
5 Mar 2009, 9:05 pm
He files a federal civil lawsuit (thanks to Popehat for posting the complaint, and to my brother lawyer Larry Walters for alerting me to the story) seeking to enjoin Craigslist from enabling the posting and continued public availability of ads that might be for prostitution. [read post]
4 Jul 2012, 5:19 am
That means we, unlike Lincolnshire pensioner John Richards, are unlikely to be threatened with arrest should we choose to put up a small sign in our window promoting atheism, on the grounds that it might cause distress to passersby [Boston Standard via Popehat] Relatedly, we need not worry that NYU law prof Jeremy Waldron, advocate of “hate speech” bans, will see his views enacted into U.S. policy anytime soon [Erica Goldberg, ConcurOp], despite repeated signals from places like… [read post]
