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22 Oct 2010, 4:19 am
The Dodd-Frank Act requires U.S. issuers to hold a pay vote at their first annual meeting after Jan. 21, 2011, and directs companies to conduct a vote on the frequency of future pay votes at that meeting (and then once every six years). [read post]
20 Oct 2010, 10:10 pm
But Ted Frank explains why creating a new entitlement to taxpayer-paid civil lawyers is a bad idea [New York Daily News, PoL]: As any economist would tell you, if you lower the price of something, you get more demand for it. [read post]
19 Oct 2010, 5:17 am
[Greenfield] “Dodd-Frank, Bubble Laws, and Quack Corporate Governance” [Bainbridge] Child overprotection: “Pack away the cotton wool” [Sydney Morning Herald editorial, scroll] Here comes another SCOTUS case in the Twombly-Iqbal series? [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 2:04 pm
George Mason law professor Michael Krauss, represented by Ted Frank, is objecting to the proposed settlement. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 8:04 am
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… [read post]
10 Oct 2010, 4:42 am
As Ted Frank has reported elsewhere, he (thanks to his Center for Class Action Fairness) is my attorney in an objection I have filed to a proposed class action settlement. [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 8:00 am
Update: Ted Frank, the head of the Center for Class Action Fairness, notes in the comments that the objection has not yet actually been filed but are preparing to do so. [read post]
9 Oct 2010, 5:14 am
Update: “Tax Panel Rejects Lawyer’s Bid to Deduct Spending for Sex” [NYLJ, William Barrett/Forbes, earlier] And: “Musings on laws affecting adult entertainment, alcoholic beverages and other ‘vice’ industries” [Meeting the Sin Laws blog] Mississippi: judge jails lawyer for not saying Pledge of Allegiance [Freeland] More on much-written-about Israeli “rape by fraud” case [Volokh, more, earlier here and here] “Tribune bankruptcy talks… [read post]
5 Oct 2010, 4:59 am
“Mark Lanier, Marie Gryphon and Ted Frank debate if a free market can protect consumers as well as lawyers. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 1:13 pm
The Dodd-Frank Act, which was enacted in July, included authorization for the SEC to adopt a proxy access rule, so many SEC observers expected that the commission would move forward to implement the rule after obtaining that legal support.Con Hitchcock, a lawyer for labor funds, observed that the SEC order was "a way to lower the temperature of this debate. [read post]
1 Oct 2010, 6:06 am
Ted Frank has a speech on the perennially popular subject of lawsuits, hot-coffee-related and otherwise, against the giant burger chain. [read post]
30 Sep 2010, 7:25 am
Frank, pretty soon nobody will seek appointment as dean of any Candian law school. [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 9:04 am
This goes back aways, but Ted Frank at Point of Law blogs about the growing number of inadequate security lawsuits against banks brought by ATM customers robbed after withdrawing money. [read post]
23 Sep 2010, 4:44 am
…will be taking on class action lawyers tonight, with guests that include Ted Frank, Texas lawyer Mark Lanier, and Marie Gryphon of the Manhattan Institute [read post]
21 Sep 2010, 5:00 am
Sources: Implementating Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act — Upcoming Activity from the SEC Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act from OpenCongress.org The SEC Releases a Timetable for Dodd-Frank Rulemaking by Ted Allen in the RiskMetrics Group’ Insight [read post]
20 Sep 2010, 8:21 am
Also between October and December, the SEC plans to propose rules to implement the Dodd-Frank Act’s requirements that companies provide more disclosure related to “conflict minerals,” mine safety information, and resource extraction.The SEC said it would address other Dodd-Frank mandates between April and July 2011, including: the disclosure of pay-for-performance, pay ratios, and stock hedging by employees and directors; the recovery (or… [read post]
10 Sep 2010, 3:00 pm
Ted Frank over the the tort reform website Point of Law.com had a great post on this just the other day, where he mentioned (with disgust) defense lawyers who had confided in him that they love costly drawn out litigation. [read post]
8 Sep 2010, 2:24 pm
[Volokh Conspiracy via Instapundit]* Speaking of the principal-agent problem, Ted Frank explores it in the context of class-action litigation — and has some harsh words for the “coddled Ivy-League defense attorney that’s afraid of the inside of a courtroom and goes home at night feeling vaguely guilty that he’s working for The Man. [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 3:31 am
Amy Wallace on being sued over her vaccine story [Reporting on Health, earlier] Jury tells Ford to pay $131 million after minor league ballplayer crashes Explorer at 80 mph+ [WaPo] Winnipeg judge scandal has sex, race, coercion and most riveting of all a legal ethics angle [Alice Woolley, LEF] “$667M Nursing Home Verdict Surprised Even the Plaintiffs’ Lawyers” [ABA Journal, earlier] “Maryland Woman Sues After Being Banned by Facebook” [Kashmir Hill/Forbes, MSNBC "Technolog"] The… [read post]
7 Sep 2010, 3:31 am
” Amy Wallace on being sued over her vaccine story [Reporting on Health, earlier] Jury tells Ford to pay $131 million after minor league ballplayer crashes Explorer at 80 mph+ [WaPo] Winnipeg judge scandal has sex, race, coercion and most riveting of all a legal ethics angle [Alice Woolley, LEF] “$667M Nursing Home Verdict Surprised Even the Plaintiffs’ Lawyers” [ABA Journal, earlier] “Maryland Woman Sues After Being Banned by Facebook” [Kashmir Hill/Forbes,… [read post]
