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27 Nov 2014, 4:09 am
Walter Olson comments on the complications and potential unintended consequences of such a mandate. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 9:15 pm
Louis County that get in some cases, 40 percent of their municipal revenue in fines and fees, they have chosen a very expensive way of taxing their population, one that creates maximum hassle and maximum hostility,” says Walter Olson, senior fellow at the Cato Institute and publisher of the blog Overlawyered. [read post]
22 Nov 2014, 4:01 pm
His excellent post begins: To the extent America has made progress in recent years in rolling back the extreme litigiousness of earlier years, one main reason has been the courts’ increased... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
21 Nov 2014, 4:47 am
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination Pick a number, any number: $185 million for pregnancy bias — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Employers Must Treat Pregnant Workers Mindfully to Avoid Compliance Challenges — via Smart HR Manager Personal desktop printers: convenience or reasonable accommodation? [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 8:40 am
Steve Bainbridge has a wish list for reforms to financial and securities law in the new Congress, especially the damaging Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley laws. [read post]
7 Nov 2014, 4:23 am
— via Evil Skippy at Work Wage & Hour Morgan & Morgan: For The Overtime — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Motion To Dismiss FLSA Collective Action On Pleadings Fails: An Interesting Tactic — via Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights Eleventh Circuit Upholds District Court’s Rejection of Challenge to Employer Records — via Wage and Hour Law Update Employee Wins Cross-Country Wage War Against CEO — via Suits by Suits … [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 5:28 am
Walter Olson at Overlawyered posts about it, offering a far more detailed explanation of why it exists and its critical importance. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 8:35 am
Description: Featuring the author Damon Root, Senior Editor, Reason magazine and Reason.com; with comments by Jeffrey Rosen, Professor of Law, George Washington University, and President & CEO, National Constitution Center; and Roger Pilon, Vice President for Legal Affairs, Cato Institute, and Director, Cato Center for Constitutional Studies; moderated by Walter Olson, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 5:53 am
Walter Olson at Overlawyered exposes the silly side of over-emotionalism in the embrace of comfort animals under the Americans with Disabilities Act. [read post]
19 Oct 2014, 8:32 pm
Walter Olson, Show Me The Way To Frederickstown Sure it was just a verbal flub © 2007-2014 by the authors of Popehat. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 6:56 am
From Walter Olson's Overlawyered, I learned about this post by Jim Dedman who writes at the blog, Abnormal Use. [read post]
10 Oct 2014, 3:09 am
But as Walter Olson notes at Overlawyered, none has been more controversial than gravity knife. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 6:52 am
Now Walter Olson reports that now the RIAA might have to pay attorneys’ fees for going overboard in one of its “sue the phone book” copyright blunderbuss suits. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 6:52 am
Republished by Blog Post PromoterHello, Walter Olson?! [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 8:58 am
Perhaps the most notable thing about Sotomayor’s opinion, however, is that, as Walter Olson puts it, she “gerrymanders the word race itself a way convenient to her purposes, using it to include Hispanics (who, as official forms remind us, ‘can be of any race’), while breathing not one word about Asian-Americans. [read post]
3 Oct 2014, 5:10 am
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination EEOC files first transgender suits against private employers — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor Insider Three more courtroom defeats for EEOC — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Is Your Company’s Dress Code Discriminatory? [read post]
29 Aug 2014, 5:10 am
City of Hillsboro both got it wrong — via Understanding the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) NYC: “‘Ban the Box’ bill worries businesses” — via Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Sexy ADA issue: Bad breakup may not justify employer-mandated medical exam — via Robin Shea’s Employment & Labor InsiderSocial Media & Workplace Technology Looking back on Zubulake, 10 years later — via Electronic Discovery Law How NOT to… [read post]
13 Aug 2014, 10:26 pm
Walter Olson of the Cato Institute – the nation’s leading libertarian think tank – recently wrote a post describing the events in Ferguson as an example of indefensible police militarization, an issue he and others at Cato have focused on for years. [read post]
12 Aug 2014, 1:30 am
, by Walter Olson (Cato Institute): A former employee has filed a lawsuit charging that Vanguard Group, the gigantic ($2 trillion under management) and very successful mutual fund company, provides services to the funds it manages at "artificially low," "at-cost" prices,... [read post]
27 Jul 2014, 12:30 am
Olson's Redeeming the Dream: The Case for Marriage Equality (Viking), and Walter Frank's Law and the Gay Rights Story: The Long Search for Equal Justice in a Divided Democracy (Rutgers University Press). [read post]
