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27 May 2009, 10:41 am
How does a Walter Olson, who is about to celebrate his 10th anniversary as a blogger, and maintains one of the oldest blogs on the web, keep doing it? [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 12:44 pm
Thanks to Walter Olson for the pointer. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 4:38 pm
" His comment was prompted by Walter Olson's devastating 20th birthday salute to the Act., in which he observed that: One reason for the law’s immunity from criticism is that it is defended as a matter of identity politics: if you’re against it, then you must be against the people it protects. [read post]
20 Sep 2006, 10:47 am
When the original bill passed in 2004, Walter Olson expressed at least tentative support for the idea, citing what has long struck me as a reasonable argument for passing all punitive damages on to the public, if one is going to permit punitive damage awards at all: Lawyers who sue for a living talk a great deal about how the general public has a stake in the success of their endeavors. [read post]
2 Apr 2010, 5:06 am
I applaud the efforts of my co-conspirators, Patrick at Popehat, Orin Kerr at Volokh Conspiracy (obviously, Kerr is a much more experienced conspirator than the rest of us), David Lat and Kash at Above the Law , Doug Mataconis at Below the Beltway, and Walter Olson at Overlawyered, who was there in reserve. [read post]
2 Dec 2011, 4:57 am
– from Texas Employer Handbook Synagogue youth workers wage-hour suit – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered End-of-Year Bonuses, the Regular Rate of Pay and Overtime – from Russell Cawyer’s Texas Employment Law Update Wage and Hour Misclassification Costs Oracle $35 million – from Rush on Business How to Explain Stock Options to a Dog – from Compensation Cafe Firing an Employee for FMLA Fraud Is Legal, But the Proof Is Hard… [read post]
24 May 2017, 4:35 am
At the Cato Institute’s Cato at Liberty blog, Walter Olson observes that the decision “is likely to stand as a landmark win for defendants in patent litigation – and, on a practical level, for fairer ground rules in procedure. [read post]
22 Jun 2012, 4:39 am
— from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions “The new workplace revolution: wage and hour suits” — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Function Over Form: The Supreme Court’s Realistic View of the FLSA — from Michael Fox’s Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer Do Hours Worked On A Second Job Count Toward Overtime? [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]
28 Jul 2008, 5:22 pm
Special thanks to Walter Olson at the Point of Law blog (here) for providing links to the proposed revised rules. [read post]
9 Sep 2009, 8:16 am
Walter Olson at Overlawyered rounds up some criticism: One blogger turns thumbs down on Google Books settlement [Patrick at Popehat] “Laundering orphan works legislation through a class action lawsuit”? [read post]
6 Apr 2012, 5:04 am
— from TLNT Olbermann Employment Law-Palooza — from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space Quoting scripture at work — from Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas “Bullying” Is Becoming Part of the Zeitgeist — from Michael Fox’s Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer Pet insurance as a benefit — from HR idiot Creating a Conflict-Conscious Workplace — from intown employer If the Facebook COO can leave the office at 5:30, maybe you can too… [read post]
25 Mar 2011, 5:32 am
– from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Wage & Hour 7th Circuit Provides Further Guidance Regarding an Employee’s Obligation to Provide Notice of FMLA Leave – from Wisconsin Employment & Labor Law Blog Supreme Court Holds that a Verbal Complaint Constitutes “Filing” Under the FLSA in a 6-2 Majority (Kagan, J., not participating) – from Fitzpatrick on Employment Law Where FMLA Bonding Leave is at Issue, Unmarried Parents… [read post]
30 Jan 2012, 3:45 am
I thought about the answer as I read three separate stories of unsympathetic plaintiffs who played a role in their own injures, two at Walter Olson’s Overlawyered and one at Daniel Cummins’ Tort Talk. [read post]
13 Aug 2010, 10:54 am
(Greg Garre was Paul Clement’s Deputy; Clement was Ted Olson’s Deputy; Barbara Underwood was Seth Waxman’s Deputy; Waxman was Walter Dellinger’s Deputy; and Charles Fried was Rex Lee’s Deputy.) [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 8:02 am
I hit that subject earlier today with links to many other bloggers on the subject;And at Overlawyered, tort "reformer" Walter Olson addresses Fred Thompson's opposition to congressional limits on liability on federalist grounds. [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]
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]
29 Jun 2009, 6:23 pm
Walter Olson, whose Overlawyered blog is celebrating TEN years this week (amazing, eh?) [read post]
8 Feb 2009, 10:41 pm
The blawgosphere has a few posts that no one should miss, so without further ado, here's what's happening in the neighborhood.At Overlawyered, Walter Olson has chronicled the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), the civil version of laws that have devastated the criminal arena for decades. [read post]
