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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]
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]
11 May 2009, 11:05 pm
Today's News (ABA Journal with many links) National Journal's Ninth Justice Blog, all about the search for Souter's replacementJustice Souter and his replacement, cont'd (Walter Olson at Point of Law rounds up posts from The Volokh ConspiracyMorning SCOTUS Roundup: A First Hispanic Justice? [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 4:30 am
As a part of the ABA’s list, we’ve been placed in the Torts category with five other stellar legal blogs, including our friends Walter Olson of Overlawyered, J. [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]
21 Jun 2013, 7:28 am
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]
13 Jan 2011, 8:00 am
At Overlawyered, Walter Olson comments on the Court’s denial of mandamus in Comer v. [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]
23 Sep 2011, 5:15 am
” – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Employees Have the Advantage At Trial in Getting to Speak First and Last – from Texas Employment Law Update “Best B*** J**s on the #8 Line” – from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space Court Not “Up In the Air”: Travel for Work Does Not Violate “Familial Association” Right – from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog Staking out the EEOC and its… [read post]
10 Nov 2009, 12:44 pm
Thanks to Walter Olson for the pointer. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 5:08 am
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination Distinguishing state & federal disability-accommodation claims — from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog Iowa sued on charge of subconscious bias — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Why You Need a Retaliation Prevention Policy — from Smart HR Manager Why Companies Need to Care about Caregivers: The EEOC's Focus on Caregiver Discrimination — from Employer… [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 5:10 am
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination “Anita Hill Defends Her Legacy: Two decades after her seismic testimony, she doesn't shy away from talking about it” – from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing Sexual Harassment 20 Years Later: Anniversary of Clarence Thomas Hearings Marks Time for Reflection – from Employment Lawyer Blog Adverse Impact Tool From Thomas Econometrics – from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer… [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]
30 Jun 2012, 1:11 pm
Tort reformer Walter Olson rounds up some commentary, most notably Torts Professor Christopher J. [read post]
