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4 Mar 2025, 4:30 am
Sautter (Southern Methodist University - Dedman School of Law) have posted The Shareholder Democracy Lie (78 Florida Law Review (forthcoming 2026)) on SSRN. [read post]
10 Nov 2023, 9:05 pm
After the War, Southern states skirted constitutional protections for Black students by enacting Jim Crow laws that diminished or eliminated educational opportunities for Black students while claiming to treat them equally. [read post]
28 Feb 2022, 9:01 pm
Michelle Alexander’s book, The New Jim Crow, is a chronicle of racially biased mass incarceration. [read post]
25 May 2020, 8:54 am
Longtime reader Jim Dedman reminds us of what this blog looked like in 1999: Requiescat in pace, @Overlawyered (1999 – 2020). [read post]
21 Sep 2015, 9:05 pm
District Attorney” comic book cover at right is from Jim Dedman at Abnormal Use, who as part of his Friday links roundup for years now has featured great law-related comic book covers related to law, crime, and justice. [read post]
1 Apr 2015, 9:05 pm
” And it relates to slip-fall cases [Eric Turkewitz] No more of Prosser’s tricks: Scalia warns modern Restatements “of questionable value, must be used with caution” [Orin Kerr] Impact of revelations in Garlock document trove continues to ripple: “Insurer Claims Asbestos Fraud Tainted Pittsburgh Corning Bankruptcy” [Daniel Fisher, Forbes, earlier] Trial lawyer allies want to make California’s insurer-shackling Prop 103 even (if possible) worse [Ian… [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 9:05 pm
“Chicago judge ruled legally insane wants to be restored to bench,” and voters don’t seem to mind that; New Kevin Underhill book on odd laws, The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance, review and interview by Jim Dedman; Music rights organization BMI sues Cleveland bar over one night’s performance by a cover band, seeking up to $1.5 million; It’s rash to assume you can fire an employee caught working another job while on FMLA leave from your workplace. [read post]
16 Oct 2014, 6:56 am
From Walter Olson's Overlawyered, I learned about this post by Jim Dedman who writes at the blog, Abnormal Use. [read post]
13 May 2014, 2:26 am
Ready to brew (h/t Ted Frank) Because the twenty-year-old Stella Liebeck case is getting another round of attention on some blogs — Susan Saladoff’s short film Hot Coffee having served quite successfully to keep the trial lawyers’ side of the controversy in circulation — it’s worth a closer look at the latest in Jim Dedman’s (Abnormal Use) writings deflating the case’s mythos [Defense Research Institute DRI Today, previously briefly noted… [read post]
29 Apr 2014, 4:02 am
Another of our favorite legal bloggers, Jim Dedman of Abnormal Use, has interviewed him about it and I was trying to decide which snippets to excerpt when I realized I liked the whole thing and should just ask to reprint it. [read post]
24 Apr 2014, 9:05 pm
By convention the business/defense side isn’t fond of jury trial while plaintiff’s side sings its praises, but Louisiana fight might turn that image on its head [Hayride, sequel at TortsProf (measure fails)] Generous tort law, modern industrial economy, doing away with principle of limited liability: pick (at most) two of three [Megan McArdle] Fallacies about Stella Liebeck McDonald’s hot coffee case go on and on, which means correctives need to keep coming too [Jim… [read post]
15 Apr 2014, 11:45 am
Thanks to Jim Dedman and the others at the award-winning products-liability blog Abnormal Use for reviewing The Emergency Sasquatch Ordinance, with a special thanks to Batten Farrar for his expert rendition of the cover. [read post]
20 Feb 2014, 3:21 pm
For now that's based solely on this online docket entry, noticed by Jim Dedman of Gallivan, White & Boyd (and of at least equal importance, the Abnormal Use blog): Back on the street If this holds up, Finley will have escaped any punishment for her alleged crime, other than (1) a night in jail, (2) having to post a $2,000 bond (seriously?) [read post]
17 Nov 2013, 8:05 pm
[NYT "DealBook" on Obama comments, Jim Dedman, Abnormal Use] “UVM, Vermont Law School consider joint degree” [Burlington Free Press] As “Old Media” shrinks, shouldn’t the number of law reviews do so too? [read post]
26 Sep 2012, 8:12 am
Find out here, at Jim Dedman's Abnormal Use: "The Most Important Unwritten Rule" of Depositions. [read post]
13 Sep 2012, 9:04 pm
[survey, PoL] “Toothless cootie” in Denver: “Jury Says PI Firm Must Pay Ex-Client $2M for Pressuring Her to Settle Auto Case for Too Little” [ABA Journal, WestWord] “Thoughts on Reporters Reading New Lawsuit Filings” [Jim Dedman] Cruise line, defending lawsuit: no, our ship didn’t pass stranded boat [AP/KATU] Two Harvard lawprofs on why it’s time to get rid of the interference-with-inheritance tort [Juan Antunez, Florida… [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 7:35 am
Finally, at Abnormal Use, check out Jim Dedman's "Friday Links. [read post]
7 Sep 2012, 7:35 am
Finally, at Abnormal Use, check out Jim Dedman's "Friday Links. [read post]
10 Aug 2012, 4:30 am
The most recent issue of the Greenville County Bar Association’s newsletter contains a reprint of our editor Jim Dedman’s recent post on the benefits of local bar membership. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 9:03 pm
[David Oliver] “Any exposure” causation: “Pennsylvania Supreme Court delivers significant asbestos ruling” [Point of Law] Maryland high court may consider pro-plaintiff shift from contributory negligence to comparative fault [Sean Wajert] In last-minute ploy, Albany lawmakers extend time limits for suing local governments [Torch via PoL, Times-Union] Mental diagnoses: what to do when courtroom experts armed with DSM-5 shoot from the hip [Jim Dedman,… [read post]
