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19 Jun 2011, 2:46 am
Walter Olson at Overlawyered has made a cottage industry out of explaining the insanity of trying to create this perfect world, of believing that government can somehow manage to get the system right this time where it has failed so many times before. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 5:01 am
Olson 2,700 0 0 0 2,700 Walter Scott, Jr. 2,700 0 0 0 2,700 Director Compensation.In 2010, the board held an annual meeting of directors, an annual meeting of shareholders, and two special meetings. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 8:26 am
Separately, Walter Olson, like Bainbridge, points to an Economist story how California law makes an artisanal yogurt business untenable. [read post]
13 Jun 2011, 8:38 pm
~~~ Related: Walter Olson at Overlawyered is the latest to report that Butlin's, the UK operator of holiday resorts, has resorted to banning bumping on its bumper cars to counter potential liabilities. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 4:58 am
– from John Holmquist’s Michigan Employment Law Connection “Acrophobic bridge worker protected by ADA” – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered EEOC proposes records rule on Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act – from Judy Greenwald at Business Insurance 5 signs that your sexual harassment case may be a dog – from Employment and Labor Insider Sixth Circuit Grants Rehearing En Banc in the Lewis Case Involving Discrimination Claims… [read post]
8 Jun 2011, 4:51 am
Tags: on TV and radio Related posts Young Walter Olson (1) Why Toyota stock rose after yesterday’s recall (0) Wherein I become a three-continent pundit (0) Westwood One’s “Jim Bohannon show” tonight (0) Welcome WTIC listeners (0) [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 1:23 pm
"He is a very straight-shooter, as honest as the day is long," Olson said of Verrilli. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 5:58 pm
Overlawyered has published an interesting post written by Walter Olson titled Acrophobic bridge worker protected by ADA: The Seventh Circuit said a bridge worker with fear of heights can proceed with his suit contending the Illinois Department of Transportation should have done more to accommodate his wish to work only on those bridge maintenance tasks that [...] [read post]
3 Jun 2011, 4:11 pm
(hat tip to Walter Olson) [read post]
2 Jun 2011, 10:13 pm
Tags: ADR, on TV and radio Related posts Young Walter Olson (1) Why Toyota stock rose after yesterday’s recall (0) Wherein I become a three-continent pundit (0) Westwood One’s “Jim Bohannon show” tonight (0) Welcome WTIC listeners (0) [read post]
27 May 2011, 4:38 am
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination Court dismisses the age bias claims of a pistol-packin’ old cripple – from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog 9 signs that you’ll lose your age discrimination case – from Employment and Labor Insider “Ex-Colts cheerleader sues team over nude body-paint photos” – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Another EEOC Lawsuit Is Rejected – from… [read post]
26 May 2011, 4:34 am
Some things I’d love to write more about if only I had more time… Walter Olson speaks out against federal medical malpractice “reform”; (I had previously written about a federal power grab of state tort issues while Bush II was in office.) [read post]
26 May 2011, 3:14 am
That's Walter Olson's provocative question, echoing Georgetown's Randy Barnett's op-ed. [read post]
WALTER OLSON ON FEDERALISM AND MED-MAL REFORM: “Thanks to star libertarian lawprof and Cato senior …
25 May 2011, 4:30 am
WALTER OLSON ON FEDERALISM AND MED-MAL REFORM: “Thanks to star libertarian lawprof and Cato senior fellow Randy Barnett for pointing out something that has needed saying for a while: most proposals in the U.S. [read post]
24 May 2011, 4:49 pm
Adler) Over on Cato@Liberty, Walter Olson joins the discussion on federalism and medical malpractice reform started by our own Randy Barnett and continued by Ilya Somin.Olson makes the important point that federalism is not about keeping as much authority as possible in state hands, nor does a commitment to federalism require leaving state courts alone across-the-board. [read post]
24 May 2011, 11:50 am
Update: Walter Olson weighs in with similar analysis. [read post]
23 May 2011, 10:56 am
I think the “bat virus reservoir” analogy may be an instant classic: Walter Olson thinks that American law schools are the origin of some very bad ideas, in something like the way bats are said to be the reservoir of certain nasty viruses in Africa: the germs of pernicious concepts incubate there in relative obscurity between epidemics, erupting occasionally to spread destruction and misery. [read post]
21 May 2011, 10:48 am
LAWPROF BLOGGER TOM SMITH reviews Walter Olson’s new book, Schools For Misrule: Legal Academia And An Overlawyered America. [read post]
20 May 2011, 3:11 pm
Law prof/blogger Tom Smith reviews Walter Olson's book Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America: Walter Olson thinks that American law schools are the origin of some very bad ideas, in something like the way bats are said to be the reservoir of certain nasty viruses in Africa: the germs of pernicious concepts incubate there in relative obscurity between epidemics, erupting occasionally to spread destruction and misery. [read post]
20 May 2011, 11:14 am
In the Yale Alumni Magazine, as far as I know the only alumni magazine worth reading qua magazine. [read post]
