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21 May 2012, 9:10 pm
[Bedard, DC Examiner; earlier; recent Heritage Foundation work; reworded to reflect comment from "Density Duck," below] Contributors to new “Privatization Blog” include friend of this blog Coyote, e.g. here and here; “Big Government Causes Hyper-Partisanship in the Judicial Appointment Process” [Ilya Shapiro] Fuels Culture War, too: “The faster the state expands, the more likely it is to violate your values” [Matt Welch] Demagogy on expatriates:… [read post]
15 Feb 2007, 2:59 pm
Cy Pres and Kickbacks: Ted Frank of the conservative anti-litigation blog Point of Law posts on some problems with the use of cy pres awards. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 10:07 pm
“Raging Bitch”: Frederick (Md.) brewery says its beer label is a First Amendment issue [Frederick News-Post] UK soccer: Sunderland fan sues club after being hit by stray Djibril Cissé shot [Guardian] DirectBuy: “When 36 AGs Object to Your Class Action Settlement, That’s Not a Good Sign” [Karlsgodt] “Court reduces fees after CCAF objection to HP settlement” [Ted Frank] Russell Jackson on ink-cartridge settlements; Time for… [read post]
16 Jun 2010, 6:07 am
Shameless: House leadership exempts NRA lest it sink bill to regulate political speech [John Samples, Cato] Employment law: “Arbitration Showdown Looms Between Congress, Supreme Court” [Coyle, NLJ] “Wake Up, Fellow Law Professors, to the Casualties of Our Enterprise” [Tamanaha, Balkinization] Move to allow international war crimes trials over “aggression,” a notoriously slippery term [Anderson, Brett Schaefer/NRO "Corner" via Ku] Litigation slush… [read post]
26 Aug 2014, 6:05 am
H/T Ted Frank via Twitter, who also provided the title for this post. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 9:22 pm
Judge Kozinski blasts prosecution of McAfee exec Probhat Goyal [Ribstein, Greenfield; related on federal overcriminalization, Rittgers/Cato] “If only laws were like sausages” [Robert Pear, NY Times] “Public Radio Looks at California ADA Lawsuits” [Frith, CJAC on "This American Life," Thomas Mundy and Morse Mehrban] Guitar maker described as “litigation-addled”: “Gibson continues its IP-based business plan” [Coleman] Judge who heard… [read post]
2 May 2011, 4:25 am
If Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank were hats [read post]
16 Sep 2011, 8:11 am
” [Ted Frank/PoL, more] Tech giants say multi-defendant patent suits place them at disadvantage [WSJ Law Blog] Plus: “Patent company has big case, no office” [John O'Brien, Legal NewsLine] Lawsuit settlement and the lizard brain [Popehat] “U.S. [read post]
29 May 2012, 9:06 pm
” [David Oliver, Ted Frank] Tweet Tags: Arizona, Chevron, environment, Erin Brockovich, international law, science and scientists, toxic torts Environment roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
3 Jan 2011, 2:47 pm
.* Aviation lawyer Arthur Wolk, who’s suing Overlawyered and blogger Ted Frank for libel, opposes the filing of an amicus brief signed by star legal bloggers Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit), Marc Randazza (Legal Satyricon), Ed Whelan (National Review Online), and Eugene Volokh (Volokh Conspiracy). [read post]
8 Dec 2006, 1:26 pm
Stephanie Mencimer is predictably in favor of more litigation (singling out "Ted Frank and his Overlawyered buddies" for some reason, though there is only one Walter Olson), but her reasoning is unusual. [read post]
6 Mar 2010, 3:23 pm
There’s a terrific lineup of speakers, including James Grimmelmann of NYLS, Chris Jay Hoofnagle of Berkeley, Sarah Jane Hughes from Indiana-Bloomington, Adam Levitin of Georgetown, Juliet Moringiello from Widener, Frank Pasquale of Seton Hall, and BLS’s Ted Janger (the driving force behind the symposium). [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 2:55 pm
PointOfLaw's Ted Frank, a tort "reform" advocate has tried to distance the tort reform movement from the mess, saying, "no reformer I know of proposes per-accident caps [on damages] or economic damages caps," insisting that bona fide tort reformers limit themselves to caps on pain-and-suffering. [read post]
20 Aug 2010, 2:05 pm
Ted Frank gives it his tentative endorsement but cautions that the numbers could be skewed by the absence of one or two large medical malpractice cases. [read post]
7 Nov 2011, 9:24 pm
More on Ohio’s S.B. 5, including political post-mortem: Michael Barone, Mark Steyn, Ted Frank, Mickey Kaus, Mytheos Holt. [read post]
3 Jan 2008, 12:31 am
" [Ted Frank Walter Olson at Point of Law] As always, if you have ideas for Lawyers' Voices Online, please send them to LawyersVoicesOnline--at--gmail.com. [read post]
5 Oct 2009, 3:03 pm
[WSJ Law Blog] * We got to him first, but do check out Forbes's interesting profile of Ted Frank, who's "on a mission to protect consumers from their own class action lawyers. [read post]
21 Nov 2011, 9:35 pm
Bachus disputes claims in Peter Schweizer book [AW, Perry] “Fort Hood victims’ families seek $750M from feds” [Kenneth Timmerman, Daily Caller] “Chicago Lawyer Sues Southwest, Says Airline Breached Free-Drink Coupon Contract” [ABA Journal] “Lawyer Solicitation: Penn State Sex Abuse Edition” [Turkewitz] Slate slags Merck CEO [Ted Frank] Akaka Hawaii-racialization bill, smuggled in through the back door? [read post]
20 Apr 2011, 12:16 pm
– Ted Frank, founder of the Center for Class Action Fairness, in a brief objecting to the proposed $3.4 billion, taxpayer-funded Cobell Indian trust settlement. [read post]
20 Jun 2010, 3:50 pm
Even so, Ted Frank is critical--I think correctly--of the Obama administration for not moving sooner on the issue: For the record: in Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration was able to get Jones Act restrictions that interfered with help from international ships waived on Day 3; for Deepwater Horizon, where international help is much more critical due to shortages of domestic shipping able to engage in oil-skimming, it's 60 days in, and the Obama administration still… [read post]
