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5 Apr 2024, 6:00 am
National/Federal From Pizzagate to the 2020 Election: Forcing liars to pay or apologize Las Vegas Sun – Elizabeth Williamson (New York Times) | Published: 4/2/2024 Michael Gottlieb, a partner at the firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher and a former associate counsel in the Obama White House, is at the forefront of a small but growing cadre of lawyers deploying defamation, one of the oldest areas of the law, as a weapon against a tide of political disinformation. [read post]
7 Jul 2022, 9:58 am
She helped to draft and pass Peace Corps reform legislation, The Sam Farr and Nick Castle Peace Corps Reform Act of 2018. [read post]
17 Jun 2022, 6:27 am
Gray and Sean Sandoloski, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 Tags: Banks, CFTC, Discovery, Financial institutions, Financial regulation, Financial technology, SEC, Securities enforcement, Securities regulation, Social media Do Equity Markets Care About Income Inequality? [read post]
17 Jun 2022, 6:27 am
Gray and Sean Sandoloski, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, on Wednesday, June 15, 2022 Tags: Banks, CFTC, Discovery, Financial institutions, Financial regulation, Financial technology, SEC, Securities enforcement, Securities regulation, Social media Do Equity Markets Care About Income Inequality? [read post]
9 Mar 2021, 6:00 am
” The bill builds on the Sam Farr and Nick Castle Peace Corps Reform Act of 2018 and the Kate Puzey Peace Corps Volunteer Protection Act of 2011 and “currently awaits action by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs,” the press release states. [read post]
23 May 2017, 9:05 pm
” [Nick Farr, Abnormal Use] Tags: ADA filing mills, animals, attorneys general, California, law schools, libel slander and defamation, product liability, Texas May 24 roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
16 Feb 2017, 3:14 am
[Katherine Mangu-Ward, Reason; Nick Farr, Abnormal Use] Tags: Apple, cellphones “Forcing Apple to Shut Down Drivers’ Phones Is a Terrible Idea” is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
29 Nov 2016, 9:05 pm
[Nick Farr, Abnormal Use; Fortune] More: Baylen Linnekin rounds up poultry-related litigation. [read post]
3 Sep 2016, 11:55 am
After years in which his blog Abnormal Use has led the way in coverage of hot-coffee-spill liability cases, it finally happens to Nick Farr: he spills some on himself. [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 11:00 pm
” While Hot Coffee is clearly a powerful legal documentary, it’s not free from criticism, writes Nick Farr for the Abnormal Use blog. [read post]
21 Jun 2016, 9:05 pm
Consumer class action alleges substitution of squid for canned octopus [Nick Farr, Abnormal Use] Those who knowingly send texts that distract drivers could face liability in Pennsylvania [ABA Journal] Zach Graves, “Optometrists Push For State Laws Blocking Online Eye Exams” [TechDirt] D.C. [read post]
28 Mar 2016, 9:05 pm
” [Arnold Kling] New research (“no consensus among scientists on whether a population-wide reduction of salt was associated with better health outcomes”) could be blow to Gotham’s sodium regulation cause [Dan Goldberg, Politico New York] “Suit Halts NYC’s Misguided Restaurant Salt Warning Labels” [Linnekin] Lawyers in hot coffee suits still pushing “unreasonably high holding temperature” theories [Nick Farr, Abnormal Use,… [read post]
25 Mar 2016, 4:15 am
Coffee giant Starbucks is said to use too low a “fill-to” line in latte cups and a class action filed in federal court in California wants money over that [Nation’s Restaurant News via Ira Stoll, Future of Capitalism] More, Nick Farr/Abnormal Use: Regardless of the merits of the short-pouring allegations, one particular allegation in the suit gave us pause. [read post]
10 Dec 2015, 9:05 pm
Sometimes defendants actually are negligent [Nick Farr/Abnormal Use, earlier here and many others] Tags: arbitration, asbestos, Chicago, class actions, discovery, forum shopping, hot coffee, Stella LiebeckLiability roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 5:16 am
Will the bar passage results this year help clear things up? [read post]
19 Aug 2015, 9:05 pm
Tufts doc who wants to “eliminate” sweetened drinks is senior author on flawed new study on their health effects [Gil Ross, ACSH] Nick Gillespie interviews celebrity chef Geoffrey Zakarian (“In Praise of Free Enterprise Food”) and Whole Foods’ John Mackey. [read post]
14 Jul 2015, 9:05 pm
[Nick Farr, Abnormal Use, Pennsylvania] Oh, great: making writers declare as taxable income the (face?) [read post]
11 Jun 2015, 9:15 pm
[Nick Farr, Abnormal Use; Orange County Register] The Orange County district attorney’s office under Tony Rackauckas is emerging as an Overlawyered favorite, having knocked an impressive $16 million out of Toyota in the sudden-acceleration affair even though the cars in question do not suddenly accelerate, of which $4 million went to a locally influential tort attorney; the office has also kept mum about arrangements it has with tort attorneys. [read post]
26 May 2015, 3:17 am
[Nick Farr, Abnormal Use] Tags: Apple, failure to warnDon’t get cozy with a laptop adapter and fall asleep is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 9:10 pm
Rauner who broke rule re: not mentioning lawyers’ campaign cash to judges [Chicago Daily Law Bulletin] “New York’s Asbestos Court Mulls Changes After Sheldon Silver Scandal” [Daniel Fisher] “‘Judicial malpractice’ not to probe court tied to Silver: Judge” [New York Post] Let’s all panic about arsenic in wine, or maybe let’s all not [Nick Farr, Abnormal Use (“The highest arsenic levels cited in the lawsuit are… [read post]
