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19 Mar 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Sue the NYC welfare department enough, and Mayor De Blasio might make you its chief [Heather Mac Donald, City Journal] Cozy relations between nonprofits and Gotham administration dodge accountability [Steven Malanga, same] Consumer objects to Muscle Milk class action settlement, and there’s a Ted Frank angle [Above the Law] Asking employees whether they’re disabled suddenly mandatory rather than forbidden [WSJ, earlier] “…not trying to tell you how… [read post]
18 Feb 2014, 3:51 am by Walter Olson
” [James Loeffler and Moria Paz, Slate] Earlier on lawsuits over terrorism: suing U.S. government over Kenya, Tanzania embassy bombings; Ted Frank 2007 essay; everybody “except the guys who did it“; Egyptian hotel forum-shopping; Tanzania gem smuggling; 9/11 suits and more. [read post]
12 Feb 2014, 2:01 pm by Joe Patrice
Isn’t Ted Cruz still around? [read post]
17 Jan 2014, 7:28 am by Ronald Mann
  Many years ago (in the 1960s) one or more people, including one Frank Petrella, wrote a screenplay about the boxer Jake LaMotta. [read post]
9 Jan 2014, 6:03 pm by Jared Correia
: Not So Much In July, Jeffrey Clark warned of the impending perils related to continued use of the Windows XP operating system @ Sundown, You’d Better Take Care: Windows XP Extended Support to End (This) Year In November, Ted DeBettencourt offered some suggestions for dealing with negative reviews online @ Embracing Online Reviews and Dealing with Negative Publicity Our New Year’s resolution for 2014: more guest blog posts. [read post]
17 Dec 2013, 2:41 am by Andrew Trask
(You can read Ted Frank's original writeup of the case here, and let me offer the usual disclaimer: I have worked with the CCAF in the past.) [read post]
5 Dec 2013, 8:05 pm by Walter Olson
AU Optronics, new Fifth Circuit decision will fuel parens patriae actions by AGs in state courts [Alison Frankel, earlier] Justice Alito blasts federal district judge Harold Baer for insisting on race quotas for class action lawyers [Michael Greve/Liberty Law, Tom Goldstein/SCOTUSBlog] “Unfortunately, even if SCOTUS does away with fraud on the market, plaintiff lawyers will still bring omission cases” [Bainbridge, earlier] Ted Frank’s adventures, as… [read post]
3 Dec 2013, 6:30 am by Camilla Alexandra Hrdy
The article makes another quite significant contribution to potentially be incorporated into IP casebooks: the "first patent" may not have been, as patent law historian Frank Prager has asserted, a silk-specific directive from late 14th or early 15th century Venice. [read post]
26 Nov 2013, 3:10 am by Andrew Trask
In this case, CCAF's Ted Frank filed an appeal challenging the practice on Constitutional grounds. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 8:26 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
It was a stroke of brilliance on the part of Ted Turner: like almost everyone else in the South, we became fast fans of “America’s team. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 3:57 am by Walter Olson
[Adam Steinman, Civil Procedure and Federal Courts Blog, earlier here, here; see also Archis Parasharami, Mayer Brown "Class Defense"] Relatedly, “Taking on Class Action abuse: A conversation with Ted Frank, founder of the Center for Class Action Fairness” is a new podcast at Liberty Law. [read post]
4 Nov 2013, 6:19 am by Wystan Ackerman
  Ted Frank of the Center for Class Action Fairness, who was on that panel, indicated that he thinks cy pres should be viewed as a last resort, and that escheat to the state(s) would be preferable because it has a statutory basis and avoids potential conflicts of interest. [read post]
3 Nov 2013, 8:05 pm by Ken White
"Ed," the anonymous proprietor of the Blawg Review, passed away this week. [read post]
21 Oct 2013, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
Most damning of all, as readers of posts in this space (especially those by Ted Frank) will recall, Jones was given center stage in Susan Saladoff’s film “Hot Coffee,” which periodically airs on HBO and on college campuses and has established itself as one of the litigation industry’s most durable and successful propaganda vehicles. [read post]
16 Oct 2013, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Oh wait [CBS Dallas] National Association of the Deaf files lawsuit against Maryland, seeking captioning at sporting events [WaPo] “NYC will spend $29 million on salaries, benefits of educators it can’t fire” [NY Daily News] [NY Times] Gotta-cover-yourself incident and accident reports clog the classroom day with paper [Ted Frank, Point of Law] “IRBs and mission creep” [Dave Hoffman, Prawfs, earlier] Boy who drew cartoonish bomb at… [read post]
9 Oct 2013, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Dukes [Ted Frank, my take] How many online readers need to follow OFCCP press releases on federal-contractor law but have so little fluency in English that they require a version in Hmong, Lao, Tagalog, or Urdu? [read post]
30 Sep 2013, 1:52 am by Kevin LaCroix
Due to the complexity both of the D&O insurance policy and of the kinds of claims that can arise, the question of whether and to what extent a particular claim may be covered is often disputed. [read post]
29 Sep 2013, 9:52 am by Walter Olson
Bi-State Development Agency, as described by Ted Frank here, it’s $742.50 at most to class members, $2,500 each to two class representatives, and $190,000 in attorneys’ fees and expenses, down from a request by the lawyers of $400,000. [read post]