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22 Aug 2010, 3:11 am
For quite a while, I've been paying close attention to the issue of the dividing line between living and safety as discussed by The Advice Goddess, Amy Alkon, and her muse, Walter Olson. [read post]
23 Oct 2014, 5:53 am
Walter Olson at Overlawyered exposes the silly side of over-emotionalism in the embrace of comfort animals under the Americans with Disabilities Act. [read post]
7 Apr 2009, 1:30 pm
Thanks as well to Walter Olson for his link from PointofLaw Forum. [read post]
10 Jun 2011, 4:58 am
– from John Holmquist’s Michigan Employment Law Connection “Acrophobic bridge worker protected by ADA” – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered EEOC proposes records rule on Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act – from Judy Greenwald at Business Insurance 5 signs that your sexual harassment case may be a dog – from Employment and Labor Insider Sixth Circuit Grants Rehearing En Banc in the Lewis Case Involving Discrimination Claims… [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 9:02 am
The case has also been cited by the top advocates of tort "reform" in their flagship pieces of literature including: Peter Huber in Galileo's Revenge, Walter Olson in The Litigation Explosion, and Charles Sykes's A Nation of Victims in ways that characterized the CAT scan case as "typical" of law related epidemics or as "an example of routine failure by the civil courts. [read post]
30 Oct 2006, 1:54 am
Bob Coffield, SCOTUS trivia David Maister, Guns for Hire Walter Olson, Eliot Spitzer and excessive compensation and David Egilman on asbestos screenings David Giacalone, 300 million Americans: self-help relief for that bloated feeling Geoff Sharp, Mediation vBlog Project Launch Evan Schaeffer, The Weekly Law School Roundup #42: The Giving-Jeffrey-Toobin-What-He-Wants Edition Ann Bartow, I wanted to like it (a very lukewarm review of Quiet Revolution) Carolyn Elefant on the… [read post]
16 May 2014, 3:25 am
As Walter Olson pointedly frames the question: [N]ote the ambiguity of the next line, “Members of the newly formed club said that despite having no pointed tips or sharp blades, the school classifies the club’s equipment as weapons. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 10:34 am
~~~ FOR FURTHER READING: At Overlawyered, Walter Olson points to burgeoning discussions of the forestry management issues raised by large Western wildfires. [read post]
23 Dec 2010, 5:53 am
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Background Checks Newly Aggressive EEOC Sues Over Credit Checks – from John Zappe at ere.net EEOC Targets Another Employer for Credit Checks – from Nick Fishman at employeescreenIQ Blog EEOC sues over employer use of credit record in hiring – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Credit History Use Hurt African Americans, EEOC Lawsuit Alleges – from Joe’s HR and… [read post]
16 Mar 2009, 2:18 am
[some such as Walter Olson at Overlawyered suggest that juries have gone "crazy" when they allow drunks to win these types of accident cases and award big damages; while others such as the folks over at Tort Deform suggest that it would be unfair to forbid the drunks their day in court and that the rule of comparative fault is a "dandy tool" of the civil justice system that contemplates things like people getting drunk, falling onto subway tracks… [read post]
5 Jan 2022, 11:20 am
Walter Olson of the libertarian Cato Institute has been beating the same drum for some time, as has his colleague Andy Craig. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 9:25 pm
” Walter Olson at Overlawyered has made a nice living for himself by systematically attacking the “nanny state. [read post]
5 Jun 2009, 2:13 pm
O’Rourke’s threatening letter was posted and commented on — as many such letters are — and then big-time blogger Walter Olson of Overlawyered picked it up, which is where I saw it. [read post]
17 Sep 2010, 5:30 am
– from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Employee Who Opposes Unionization Can Seek Injunction, Says Eleventh Circuit from Florida Employment Law Blog HR & Employee Relations $75,000: The Magic Number – from Matt Gibson’s Wills & Wealth And This Little Workplace Piggy Had None – from Workplace Diva What I Learned From Rex Ryan, or Why Workplace Bragging is a Bad Idea – from TLNT Why… [read post]
25 Apr 2012, 2:27 am
Wal-Mart stands for America, now more than ever.As Walter Olson noted in his Cato post, Wal-Mart's biggest problem here was that it didn't even bribe smart, opening itself to charges when, had it smurfed its bribes, nobody would have broken a sweat. [read post]
7 Jul 2012, 5:06 am
Jim Chen, Walter Olson and Brian Tamanaha address the lawyers' guild. [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 5:10 am
sex harassment claim — from EmployerLINC “Court Revives Discrimination Lawsuit against … the EEOC” — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered When the EEOC Goes Too Far--Part II — from Molly DiBianca’s Delaware Employment Law Blog Can I Be Fired for Being Gay? [read post]
10 Mar 2008, 8:47 am
As others, notably including Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of the excellent book The Rule of Lawyers, have pointed out, state attorney generals and lawmakers liked the idea of what is in essence a big tax on tobacco companies that didn't need to pass legislatures or Congress. [read post]
6 Jul 2022, 1:05 pm
" I am a coauthor of the Team Libertarian report, along with team leader Clark Neily of the Cato Institute, and Walter Olson (also of Cato). [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 4:11 am
“We have to keep in mind that whatever tools we create are going to be used by people whose cases are not quite as strong,” Walter Olson, a litigation expert at the Cato Institute, told me. [read post]
