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24 Jul 2007, 4:13 am
The London Times reports that children of Holocaust survivors have filed a class action suit against Germany seeking payment for psychiatric treatment for psychological problems related to their childhood. [read post]
1 Aug 2007, 4:29 am
An update on what's happening - or not happening as the case may be - in Washington. [read post]
7 Oct 2007, 5:42 am
Eric Turkewitz has posted (also at his own site) a rebuttal of sorts to the NYT piece I mentioned a couple of days ago. [read post]
31 Oct 2007, 4:49 am
From the New York Times: A new federal study issued by the Congressional Research Service reports that 21 states will run out of money for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in the coming year, and of those states, 9... [read post]
3 Jun 2008, 3:45 am
Kathy Fackler of SaferParks.org has an editorial about what she sees as the lessons learned from the Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom accident and the regulatory implications. [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 12:17 pm
The American Tort Reform Association has released its annual "Judicial Hellholes" (pdf) ranking: West Virginia South Florida Cook County, Illinois Atlantic County, New Jersey Montgomery and Macon Counties, Alabama Los Angeles County, California Clark County, Nevada Rio Grande Valley and... [read post]
26 Jan 2009, 4:58 am
James Lileks, whom I like when he's funny and get annoyed by other times, has one of the former type columns today, discussing the peanut butter salmonella situation. [read post]
15 Mar 2017, 4:06 am
Nora Engstrom has a short piece on the bill to mandate sanctions for "frivolous" lawsuits in which she looks at an earlier attempt to do the same thing. [read post]
3 Sep 2006, 5:37 am
Did I mention that you should be visiting the Mass Tort Litigation Blog, edited by Byron Stier (Southwestern)? [read post]
25 Feb 2007, 5:03 pm
Nicely-timed, thanks to the Williams case, comes this article on SSRN (actually several years old, published in the Minnesota Law Review, but just posted) from Thomas Colby (GWU). [read post]
11 May 2007, 6:30 am
The Drug Device Blog has a thorough look at the newest draft of the ALI's principles of aggregate litigation. [read post]
26 Feb 2008, 6:32 am
In his latest Findlaw column, Tony Sebok discusses the Riegel decision and how it may reveal the Court's approach to the remaining preemption cases on the Court's docket. [read post]
30 Apr 2008, 4:56 am
As noted yesterday, a federal district judge has upheld the NYC regulation requiring chain restaurants to post calorie information. [read post]
6 Jul 2008, 3:14 pm
The tomato produce salmonella outbreak has gotten the most attention recently. [read post]
2 Sep 2008, 11:18 am
The American Bar Association is sponsoring a one-hour teleconference on "State Tort Remedies for Consumers: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? [read post]
25 Nov 2008, 2:16 pm
In his latest Findlaw column, Tony Sebok examines President-elect Obama's impact on tort law and the civil litigation system generally. [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 12:02 pm
The Australian reports that the Victorian Court of Appeal in Australia has expanded the old tort of "breach of confidence" to allow liability even if the publisher of material created in confidence was "unaware the material in question is covered... [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 11:33 am
Kate Butler (Cooley) points out that the story on which the Sundance entrant Crazy Love was based is also a reported case (Riss. v. [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 12:51 pm
Tony Sebok has a Writ piece on the Williams case that makes close to the same argument I made (I would wager it will make exactly zero difference in the outcome.) -- that is, that the result of Williams may... [read post]
31 Jan 2008, 3:28 am
The Lexington paper has a story with details of Katie Lassiter's account of her ride on Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom's "Superman: Tower of Power" ride on which she lost her feet. [read post]
