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22 Jul 2011, 3:24 pm
Via Walter Olson. [read post]
22 Jul 2011, 3:24 pm
Via Walter Olson. [read post]
19 Jul 2011, 11:43 am
Walter Olson: “[The] Delaware [court system] is now almost actively hostile toward cases they think are without merit,” Widener lawprof Larry Hamermesh tells the Wall Street Journal, regarding flimsily based suits in which lawyers seek to block corporate mergers and then collect fees when the target agrees to settle in order to get the deal done. [read post]
18 Jul 2011, 4:06 am
I hadn’t intended to write again so recently about emergency medicine malpractice, but last week Walter Olson sent WhiteCoat the opinion in King v. [read post]
13 Jul 2011, 11:33 am
Today, courtesy of the redoubtable Walter Olson, I saw a new instance inflaming the news media and blogosphere today: two Harvard researchers have written a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association called “State Intervention in Life-Threatening Obesity” suggesting that obese children should, in some instances, be removed from their parents by the state for the good of the children. [read post]
9 Jul 2011, 3:42 pm
[See this article by Walter Olson in a 2003 issue of Reason for further thought.] [read post]
8 Jul 2011, 4:48 am
– from Philip Miles’s Lawffice Space Employee misconduct and ADA protections – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Think Twice Before Firing for Misconduct Related to a Disability – from SmartHR Age Discrimination: Going Away or Alive and Well? [read post]
6 Jul 2011, 9:39 am
You can never be too careful.H/T Walter Olson© 2011 Simple Justice NY LLC. [read post]
3 Jul 2011, 5:17 am
So too the six women suing Bayer for sex discrimination.While there are plenty of other causes of action that suggest they have some very real gripes. this, via the Evil HR Lady by way of Walter Olson at Overlawyered, is not their strongest point: The few women who have advanced beyond the director level and into the highest echelon of management have achieved this rank by sacrificing their personal lives and abandoning work-life balance. [read post]
1 Jul 2011, 4:41 am
– from David Yamada’s Minding the Workplace Justices “split largely along gender lines” – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Copland on Wal-Mart v. [read post]
29 Jun 2011, 8:18 am
Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, told the Daily Beast that the litigation surrounding James Frey’s 2003 memoir A Million Little Pieces helped start the trend in literary lawsuits against high-profile books. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 11:12 am
Walter Olson: The patenting of software, in contrast to the patenting of chemical and pharmaceutical compounds, generates relatively high litigation costs and low benefits . . . [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 9:53 am
(HT: Overlawyered, through Walter Olson, who runs the pro-tort reform blog, doesn't like the Stuever column and comments favorably on the Miami Herald's less-glowing review, calling the documentary "an unpaid advertisement for personal-injury attorneys and their eternal quest for jackpot justice."). [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 9:53 am
" (HT: Overlawyered, through Walter Olson, who runs the pro-tort reform blog, doesn't like the Stuever column and comments favorably on the Miami Herald's less-glowing review, calling the documentary "an unpaid advertisement for personal-injury attorneys and their eternal quest for jackpot justice. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 6:38 am
” But at Cato@Liberty, Walter Olson interprets the decision as a welcome “sign that the current Supreme Court leans toward a principle of ‘individualism’ in applying the rules of civil litigation. [read post]
27 Jun 2011, 5:57 am
I've also previously written about the Jamie Leigh Jones case featured in the movie; and anyone who buys the movie's claim that Oliver Diaz was unfairly treated should read Walter Olson's contemporaneous coverage of his criminal trials. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 12:16 am
(Walter Olson, at Cato, has a different view.) [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 4:37 pm
(PDF) Brief for the Intervenor United States (PDF) Brief of Amicus CuriaeChamber of Commerce of the United States of America in SUpport of Defendant-Appellee and Affirmance (PDF) Brief for the Cato Institute and Walter Olson as Amici Curiae in Support of Defendant-Appellee and Affirmance (PDF) Gray on Claims, in conjunction with Docket Navigator®, is providing a false marking chart that is updated daily with new false marking cases as well as status… [read post]
24 Jun 2011, 4:58 am
– from HR Cafe Now Your Embarrassing/Job-Threatening Facebook Photos Could Haunt You For Seven Years – from Kashmir Hill’s The Not-So Private Parts Prosecutor’s Facebook postings did not warrant overturning conviction – from Evan Brown’s Internet Cases How To Respond To A Social Media Crisis or Scandal: Don’t Be A Weiner – from Shear on Social Media Law Even More Social Stats – from Mark Toth’s Manpower Employment Blawg … [read post]
22 Jun 2011, 2:08 pm
[The Careerist]* Unlike that Stanford guy, Walter Olson eschews sensational headlines, even though editors can sometimes overrule him. [read post]
