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29 Oct 2010, 5:40 am by Ted Frank
[Jenkins @ WSJ via Stoll] Credit scores are handy ways to predict job performance in hiring. [read post]
22 Apr 2011, 5:23 am by Walter Olson
Furor as NLRB issues complaint against Boeing for planning to open S.C. plant [Wichita Business Journal, Costa/NR "Corner", Wood/ShopFloor, more, Tom Bevan/RCP, Ira Stoll, Hirsch/Workplace Prof, Megan McArdle, Jonathan Adler] Perp meanwhile declared not criminally responsible and awaits release: “Jury orders Nordstrom to pay $1.6 M to Bethesda stabbing victims” [WaPo] Not so reliable: how eyewitness and confession testimony can result in convicting the innocent… [read post]
8 Sep 2019, 8:58 am by Walter Olson
Warren and Sanders to retire the metaphor of the financial sector as vampires or “vultures” engaged in “sucking” or “bleeding” [Ira Stoll, related] Volume of securities litigation is on sharp upswing, policy remedies needed [Kevin LaCroix/D&O Diary and more, Chubb “Rising Tide” report] Rising in Australia too [Nicola Middlemiss, Insurance Business Australia] Unconstitutionality of CFPB structure hasn’t gone away and neither has… [read post]
11 Jun 2010, 4:11 am by Walter Olson
")] FTC report contemplates much wider federal intervention in media business [Jarvis/BuzzMachine, Tapscott/Examiner, Coyote, Steele/LEF, Stoll/Future of Capitalism, LA Times, ShopFloor, Jarvis/NY Post, Pethokoukis/Reuters, Suderman/Reason] Is scary McChesneyite “Free Press” making headway in administration? [read post]
6 Oct 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
More: Sean Higgins, John Fund; Proposed anti-soft-drink laws favored by Michael Bloomberg & Co. have been mostly shot down, but New York Times eager to credit politicians anyway for the drop [more: Jacob Sullum]; We interrupt the campaign season propaganda-fest with news of an actual issue sighting, on regulatory reform [Ira Stoll, Veronique de Rugy on Jeb Bush plan] After Obama initiative to eliminate red tape, agencies added $14.7 billion in regulatory costs [Sam Batkins, American… [read post]
1 May 2012, 9:04 pm by Walter Olson
” [Coyote] Timothy Kincaid: why I oppose the California “don’t say ex-gay” therapy-ban bill [BTB] More on unreasonable IRS demands of tea party groups seeking nonprofit status [Stoll, Anne Sorock/Bill Jacobson, Houston Chronicle, earlier] Denmark Supreme Court, 7-0, strikes down conviction of Lars Hedegaard for criticizing Islam in own home [Mark Steyn] Institute of Public Affairs launches campaign to defend free speech in Australia [Andrew Bolt case earlier] … [read post]
9 Jun 2010, 10:12 pm by Walter Olson
Times] Teacher plans to sue religious school that fired her for having premarital sex [Orlando Sentinel] Now sprung from hoosegow, class-actioneer Lerach on progressive lecture circuit and “living in luxury” [Stoll, Carter Wood at PoL and ShopFloor (Campaign for America's Future conference), San Diego Reader via Pero] Connecticut law banning “racial ridicule” has palpable constitutional problems, you’d think, but has resulted in many prosecutions and… [read post]
17 Nov 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
I’m quoted dissenting from the seeming ENDA consensus [Caroline Preston, Al Jazeera America; earlier here and here; related, Mark Lee, Washington Blade last year, "ENDA and the Seduction of Symbolic Gestures"] EEOC gears up to fight employer wellness programs under ADA [Stephen Miller/SHRM, ABA Journal, John Holmquist/Michigan Employment Law Connection, Robin Shea/Employment and Labor Insider] Evidence still points to disemployment effects for low-skilled workers from minimum… [read post]
21 Aug 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Obstacles to craft brewing [Matthew Mitchell, Christopher Koopman, Mercatus; Michelle Minton/DC Beer] Brown U. professor Dwight Heath on why drinking age should be lowered [WJAR] Feds go after hobby distillers [Jacob Sullum] When a liquor license sells for $425,000, as happened in Boston recently, it’s become virtually a taxi medallion [Ira Stoll] Maryland grain alcohol ban tripped up violin restorers, cake pros, craft bitters folk. [read post]
26 Jul 2017, 3:01 am by Walter Olson
Side note: Ira Stoll has a comment about the Times’s use of the phrase “largely unregulated. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 8:04 am by Walter Olson
Michael Krauss, Ted Frank will file objection to Classmates.com class action settlement [CCAF] Not without condescension, Harvard historian/New Yorker writer Jill Lepore asks why Woodrow Wilson’s so disliked these days; Radley Balko offers some help [The Agitator, NYT "Room for Debate"] China needs true private property rights, according to Charter 08 document, which helped Liu Xiaobo win Nobel Peace Prize [Tyler Cowen] Axelrod “foreign funders under every rug”… [read post]
29 Jan 2010, 1:42 pm by Jake Ward
“The USPTO is working to modify its computer program to comply with the Federal Circuit’s decision as soon as possible,” said Commissioner for Patents Robert Stoll. [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 5:02 am by Walter Olson
Dukes here, here, and here (& welcome readers from Ira Stoll/Future of Capitalism, Jonathan Adler/Volokh Conspiracy, State Bar of Michigan blog, Omaha World Herald (editorial), Real Clear Politics, and, on the headline issue, Elie Mystal/Above the Law). [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 5:57 am by Walter Olson
Rogers case last week [Concurring Opinions symposium, ABA Journal] Feds (in particular, the FTC) go after Google [AW, Manne & Wright/TotM, Stoll] “The Dept of Education, Yale, and the New Threat to Free Speech on Campus” [Greg Lukianoff/HuffPo] “In Making Campuses Safe for Women, a Travesty of Justice for Men” [Christina Sommers, Chron Higher Ed] Feds crack down on campus flirting and sex jokes [Michael Barone, D.C. [read post]
10 Nov 2016, 3:34 am by Walter Olson
Circuit panel, Judge Brett Kavanaugh writing, strikes down structure of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as unconstitutional [Thaya Brook Knight, Ira Stoll back in 2013] Sounds like the ACLU’s internal “Civil Liberties Caucus,” as it’s been nicknamed, continues to lose clout within the org [David Meyer Lindenberg, Fault Lines] It’s not just Baltimore: unreasonable and unconstitutional police searches are common [Steve Chapman] A curious… [read post]
16 Dec 2011, 1:00 pm by Aaron Barkoff
" The agenda features the following presentations: A keynote address by Robert Stoll, Commissioner for Patents, USPTO "The Timeline of Enactment: Identifying What Needs to be Done Now and Planning for Future Changes" "First to File: Developing an Updated and Comprehensive Intellectual Property Strategy in the New Race to the Patent Office Regime" "Examining the Consequences of Changes to Inventorship Provisions" "Prior Art and Public Disclosure:… [read post]
8 Mar 2012, 9:50 pm by Walter Olson
[Stoll] Stossel on illegal lemonade stands and vague laws that make everyone guilty; guest star is Cato’s Harvey Silverglate [YouTube] No Fluke? [read post]
18 May 2009, 5:20 pm by Steve Terrell
  Take a stoll across the grassy lawn behind the hotel and spend a while just watching the river flow by. [read post]