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22 Feb 2017, 4:51 am
That should make for a start at least. https://t.co/g0QKura7op — Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 21, 2017 Walter did not pull any punches in his book chapter. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 6:55 am
Walter Olson asks what we’re getting from our medical malpractice system — with “jury trials, contingency fees, lack of loser-pays, extensive lawyer-driven discovery” — that Canada, at 10% of the cost for its medical malpractice system does not. [read post]
1 Dec 2006, 1:55 pm
WALTER OLSON: "Tumbleweeds are not yet blowing through Manhattan's vacant streets, but if New York is to hold onto its precarious pre-eminence in global finance, the US will need to get serious about reforming its costly and punitive legal environment for capital issuance. [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 7:51 am
(Walter Olson, "Saving Spitzer", Mar. 11). [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 8:36 am
Well, Walter Olson demonstrates that it has led the Consumer Products Safety Commission to advise thrift shops, secondhand stores, and others to throw out books if they were made before 1985, and if the shops cannot pay for ruinously expensive and impractical testing: To take just one example, that of resale, thrift and consignment stores, the CPSC guidance advises that such stores discard, or refuse to accept donations of, a very wide range of children's items unless they are… [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 9:43 am
An interesting op-ed piece by Walter Olson in the LA Times (10/31/2008) ponders possible reasons for the apparentdemise of the reparations movement. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 12:30 pm
Neal Solomon: The Transformation Of The American Patent System Ephrat Livni: Do Cake Designs Count As Intellectual Property Walter Olson: TC Heartland v. [read post]
22 Apr 2017, 6:56 am
Profile of veteran class action and mass action lawyer Steve Berman of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro quotes me [Damien Garde, STAT]: “You will search with some difficulty for people who successfully do what he does and do not have a big personality,” said Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies. [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 4:20 pm
Many friends-of-the-VC will be panelists or moderators, too, including Walter Olson, Ilya Shapiro, Roger Pilon, and John Eastman. [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 1:40 pm
My new column in the Times (U.K.) is on the many costs of HIPAA, the federal law which even now prevents institutions from releasing the Virginia Tech psychopath's health records (privacy rights extend after death) and played a notable role (along with the Buckley Amendment/FERPA) in restricting the chances for relevant actors to compare notes on his symptoms of madness before it was too late (Walter Olson, "Could less rigid privacy laws have prevented the Virginia… [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 3:00 am
He sees law schools, as Walter Olson does, as “Schools for Misrule. [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 9:15 pm
Regulations that drive up closing costs make things worse [Naomi Schaefer Riley/New York Post, thanks for quotes] Cato Institute Senior Fellow Walter Olson says that it’s not just the taxes that make some states more expensive than others. [read post]
18 Apr 2018, 2:52 am
I’m quoted in Michael Sandoval’s account in Western Wire: Walter Olson, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, told Western Wire that besides pushing for settlement, an additional objective is implementing new regulation via the courts, rather than legislation or administrative rulemaking…. [read post]
20 May 2011, 11:14 am
In the Yale Alumni Magazine, as far as I know the only alumni magazine worth reading qua magazine. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 5:53 am
As Walter Olson notes, Ohio is likely today to overturn the public-sector-union reforms the Kasich administration achieved. [read post]
2 Nov 2011, 5:00 am
My manifesto—the Employer’s Bill of Rights—continues to generate links (thanks Kris Dunn and Walter Olson) and comments. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 5:47 am
In a post Friday, Walter Olson over at Overlaywered posed this question, “If I could press a button and instantly vaporize one sector of employment law…” (His suggestion? [read post]
24 Mar 2014, 8:15 am
Olson said. [read post]
25 Feb 2014, 4:22 am
I’m quoted in this report by Steven Nelson of US News: Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies, blogged about the bill earlier this month and tells U.S. [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 6:14 am
From Fox News via Walter Olson at Overlawyered, former Alaska Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Mike Gravel explained to a crowd in Washington, D.C. the way to "persuade" an Assistant United States Attorney, Gordon Kromberg, from the Eastern District of Virginia, to drop a case: In the tape, Gravel can be heard telling people to pressure Gordon Kromberg, an assistant U.S. attorney in the eastern district of Virginia, to drop the charges… [read post]
