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10 May 2010, 1:20 pm by Anna Christensen
  Walter Olson predicts at Cato@Liberty that her stance on the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy will be a “speed bump on Kagan’s road to confirmation. [read post]
7 Dec 2017, 4:23 am by Edith Roberts
” Additional commentary on Masterpiece Cakeshop comes from Jeff Milchen at The American Independent Business Alliance; Walter Olson in an op-ed for the New York Daily News; law student Justin Burnam at The Least Dangerous Blog; Mark Joseph Stern at Slate; David Boyle at Casetext; Jeffrey Toobin at The New Yorker’s Daily Comment blog; Howard Wasserman at PrawfsBlawg; Douglas Laycock and Thomas Berg at Vox; the same authors in an op-ed for the New York Daily News, where… [read post]
4 Oct 2007, 6:49 am
" I can't argue with that.So, without further ado, and without replicating any blawgs on the two lists linked above:Overlawyered - Walter Olson's blawg that needs little introduction, giving you the skinny on suits that should never have been brought, and politics from the Big Business side;TortDeform - The polar opposite of Overlawyered, currently written by Kia Franklin and bringing you the consumer side of the equation. [read post]
27 Aug 2010, 6:03 am by Jon Hyman
.): Doctor Drives Off Cliff While Sending Twitter Message – from Bruce Carton at Law.com - Inside Opinions: Legal Blogs Fired: Wore Wrong Hat, Tweeted Wrong Tweet, Misused Facebook – from The Word on Employment Law with John Phillips Germany to Outlaw Facebook Stalking Employees – from Frank Roche’s KnowHR Blog The Tsunami of Smartphones in Computer Forensics – from Sharon Nelson’s Ride The Lightning Fired Employee Makes… [read post]
21 Sep 2007, 3:46 am
Not so elsewhere as Walter Olson discusses at Overlawyered in the BP explosion case where attorney antics clearly soared over the line of legitimacy;TortsProf Bill Childs has a particularly interesting wrongful death case against U-Haul (though "interesting" is most likely not the word the bereaved family would use);In White Plains, New York, a man who served 16 years in prison for a killing he did not commit has brought suit in federal court against the police and… [read post]
13 Jul 2012, 4:45 am by Jon Hyman
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination EEOC settles complaint over heavy equipment operator with epilepsy — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Ignoring complaints about air conditioning could subject a business to a discrimination claim — from Employment Law Bits EEOC Sends Confusing Signal to Employers — from Hiring & Firing It’s tough to prove age bias after getting caught sleeping on the job — from… [read post]
20 Jul 2012, 7:16 am by Ken
Hat tip: Amy Alkon and Walter Olson. [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 2:41 am
I was going to write something deep about the damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't decisions that employers face, but I can't do it any better than Walter Olson (the proprietor of the awesome Overlawyered blog and Point of Law forum) did on Forbes.com: It's a question HR managers and company lawyers are used to facing every day. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 4:58 am by Jon Hyman
– from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog Attorneys Dancing Around Impact of Gender Identity Discrimination Law – from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog Disparate Impact and the Non-Traditional Plaintiff – from Michael Fox’s Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer Supreme Court Weighs Rights Of Parochial-School Teachers – from NPR EEOC vs. the ministerial exception – from Walter Olson’s… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 8:18 am by Matthew Lanahan
Spears , in which the Court held that the federal Drivers’ Privacy Protection Act prohibits the use of protected data from state drivers’ databases to solicit clients, comes from Jaclyn Belczyk of JURIST and Walter Olson at Cato At Liberty, who notes that the majority in the case is the polar opposite of the majority in Maryland v. [read post]
15 Sep 2010, 11:13 am by Anna Christensen
Silverglate, Ilya Somin, Walter Olson, Larry E. [read post]
28 Sep 2012, 5:07 am by Jon Hyman
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination Changing Attitudes: Why Employers Need to End Pregnancy Discrimination — from TLNT Employer’s “Shockingly Thin” Response to Anonymous Harassment = $3.5 Million in Punitive Damages — from Lorene Schaefer’s WinWinHR EEOC Announces Plan for Class Warfare — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog EEOC’s Multifaceted Effort To Aggressively Target Employer Policies… [read post]
2 Jun 2015, 6:54 am by Amy Howe
  Commentary comes from Noah Feldman for Bloomberg View, Marci Hamilton at Hamilton and Griffin on Rights, Lisa Soronen at the International Municipal Lawyers Association’s Appellate Practice Blog, Walter Olson at Cato at Liberty, Hera Arsen at Ogletree Deakins, Daniel Fisher of Forbes, and Fisher and Phillips at its blog, In Mellouli v. [read post]
15 Sep 2009, 3:09 am
New Springsville Little League (Supreme Court, Richmond County; Index # 101879/07), was settled for $125,000 and has generated a great deal of notoriety for example from Rick Reilly of ESPN The Magazine, Walter Olson at Overlawyered and Justin Rebello at Lawyers USA. [read post]
7 May 2009, 8:00 am
Olson 2,700 0 0 0 2,700 Walter Scott, Jr. 2,700 0 0 0 2,700   Director Compensation Berkshire Hathaway’s Board of Directors consists of nine independent directors and two employee directors. [read post]
13 Jan 2011, 8:00 am by Amanda Rice
At Overlawyered, Walter Olson comments on the Court’s denial of mandamus in Comer v. [read post]
8 Dec 2008, 2:00 pm
Kralowec's UCLPractitioner.com, Mike and Mark Walsh's WageLaw and Walter Olson and Ted Frank's Overlawyered.com. [read post]
26 Mar 2009, 5:40 am
  One comes via Walter Olson, with the other from David Giacalone. [read post]
21 Jun 2013, 7:28 am by Allison Trzop
Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart has a write-up of the decision, as does Walter Olson at Overlawyered, in an expanded take on an earlier post he wrote for Cato @ Liberty. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 9:45 pm
Hall Tom Hanks Tess Harper Mariette Hartley Ed Helms Marilu Henner Cheryl Hines Felicity Huffman Helen Hunt Jeremy Irons Kathryn Joosten Carol Kane Diane Keaton Jamie Kennedy Mimi Kennedy TR Knight Sarah Knowlton John Krasinski Diane Lane Michele Lee Lucy Liu Rob Lowe Tobey Maguire Janel Maloney Camryn Manheim Marlee Matlin Melanie Mayron Andrew McCarthy Mary McCormack Chris McDonald Neal McDonough Rob McElhenney Ewan McGregor Eva Mendes Debra Messing Helen Mirren … [read post]