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14 Mar 2007, 4:02 am
Point of Law is featuring a debate on the Supreme Court's punitives caselaw (focusing on Williams, but not exclusively). [read post]
13 Mar 2007, 6:30 am
Speaking of broadening the law of nuisance (honest, I was), here comes a new posting on SSRN (published in 2001 in the Emory Law Review) from John Copeland Nagle (Notre Dame) on moral nuisances. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 10:11 am
This month's ABA Journal has a lengthy article about how greed, hubris and high-stakes lobbying laid waste to the $246 billion tobacco settlement. [read post]
12 Mar 2007, 5:03 am
Interesting WSJ piece (rerun in the Baltimore Sun) about defense firms taking occasional contingent fee work, framing the story with a discussion of Faegre Benson's plaintiffs' work in the Exxon Valdez case. [read post]
10 Mar 2007, 7:44 am
I really enjoyed the DRI Toxic Torts conference. [read post]
8 Mar 2007, 11:51 am
A presenter this morning mentioned this student Note [PDF] about the settlement of Oxycontin litigation in West Virginia, where, among many claims, the plaintiff asserted that improper marketing of the drug created a public nuisance. [read post]
8 Mar 2007, 8:28 am
Connecticut is considering statutory provisions requiring MySpace and similar sites to confirm ages and to obtain parental permission for kids under 18. [read post]
8 Mar 2007, 2:26 am
Two outstanding posts on the subject to get anyone up to speed are from David Michaels at The Pump Handle (More Consequences of Undisclosed Science: Pennsylvania Sues Drug Makers) and William Childs at TortsProf Blog (Zyprexa: Pennsylvania Sues and Thoughts on Sequestered Science).If you are following the ongoing Vioxx litigation, Evan Schaeffer's Legal Underground has a list of upcoming trials.On the other side of the aisle is Walter Olson at Point of Law, in a discussion of how tort… [read post]
7 Mar 2007, 6:22 am
A quick pre-New Orleans celebrity torts note -- P. [read post]
6 Mar 2007, 9:15 am
That's what a Nashville Post story suggests. [read post]
5 Mar 2007, 1:13 pm
The LA Times has the story of a regulatory agency tasked with evaluating human risks of various chemicals outsourcing that work to Sciences International. [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 3:45 pm
David Michaels (GWU) has a useful post noting the Pennsylvania suit (Bloomberg story) against Lilly and others for allegedly fraudulent marketing of Zyprexa and other anti-psychotic medications. [read post]
3 Mar 2007, 11:39 am
Apologies for the slightly below-average post counts lately -- I'm presenting at this DRI conference next week and it's taking some of my time that I might otherwise be doing this. [read post]
2 Mar 2007, 5:31 am
Yet another good Writ column on Williams, this one from Vikram David Amar (Hastings), looking at it as a more generally helpful device for examining the current Court's tendencies and makeup.... [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 6:32 am
If you teach a longish Torts class (say, more than four credit hours), you may get to some immunity doctrines. [read post]
28 Feb 2007, 2:12 pm
(TortsProf) Will these be claims of the future? [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]
28 Feb 2007, 4:17 am
That's what Beck Herrmann think, due to the Williams case. [read post]
27 Feb 2007, 4:08 am
Marlynn Wei (a joint degree student at Yale Law Yale Medicine) examines the variety of apology bills that have been proposed at the federal and state level in a forthcoming Journal of Health Law article up on SSRN. [read post]
26 Feb 2007, 12:11 pm
Story here, quoting me. [read post]
