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25 May 2007, 4:22 am
Long-time readers know that I have an odd side interest in amusement park safety. [read post]
24 May 2007, 9:19 am
Today's New York Times reports that the New York medical examiner has officially listed dust from the Twin Towers as a contributory cause of the death of a civil rights lawyer who was engulfed in clouds of dust as she... [read post]
24 May 2007, 4:05 am
WRAL in North Carolina reports that the North Carolina House passed a bill that would cap monetary damages in negligence cases against doctors and hospitals at $1 million. [read post]
24 May 2007, 3:24 am
Med Ad News (a publication I admit never having heard of before getting the call from their reporter) has a lengthy piece about the Zyprexa document story, quoting me fairly extensively (at a glance, at least mostly accurately). [read post]
23 May 2007, 11:03 am
On Tuesday, the House passed the No Oil Producing and Exporting Act of 2007, which would allow the Department of Justice to sue members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in U.S. court. [read post]
23 May 2007, 10:22 am
The AP has more.The White House said "it became evident to Mr. [read post]
23 May 2007, 3:51 am
On Monday, the Supreme Court invited the Solicitor General to file a brief in Wyeth v. [read post]
22 May 2007, 9:20 am
Michael Moore (of Farenheit 911 fame) premiered his new film, Sicko, at Cannes this past weekend. [read post]
22 May 2007, 4:28 am
Thanks to Bill for the welcome! [read post]
21 May 2007, 1:15 pm
The Post has more. [read post]
21 May 2007, 7:51 am
The WSJ Law Blog reports on the class settlement in the Million Little Pieces litigation. [read post]
21 May 2007, 7:48 am
I'm in New York for most of this week. [read post]
20 May 2007, 6:20 am
Hey, look over there to the left - TortsProf has a new co-editor, Sheila Scheuerman of the Charleston School of Law! [read post]
20 May 2007, 4:22 am
The Hill has a piece about foreign executives seeking changes to the U.S. liability system: Threats of class-action lawsuits constitute a serious disincentive to conducting business in the U.S., according to several top executives of foreign companies invested in the... [read post]
17 May 2007, 4:07 am
LegalNewsLine has an article addressing the recent punitives remand and suggesting that it may be part of a trend of remands based on vague instructions rather than concerns about the constitutionality of the size of the damages awarded. [read post]
16 May 2007, 5:26 pm
Google's GoogleLabs is often interesting. [read post]
16 May 2007, 5:49 am
In yet another adventure in the tension between bias and experience, President Bush has nominated Michael Baroody (of the National Association of Manufacturers) to head up the CPSC. [read post]
16 May 2007, 4:20 am
This Saturday is the Western New England College School of Law graduation. [read post]
15 May 2007, 8:45 am
Eight state attorneys general wrote MySpace Monday (press release from Connecticut AG, letter [PDF]) requesting information about registered sex offenders using the service. [read post]
15 May 2007, 4:22 am
A few years back, a California plaintiff got a judgment for a total of $82.6 million ($55 million of it in punitive damages) in a Ford Explorer rollover case. [read post]
