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3 Mar 2018, 7:00 am by Walter Olson
[Simon Lester] I’m quoted saying “that the tariff decision could be a big step backward for U.S. economic policy under Trump” [Trey Barrineau, trade journal DWM Magazine]: Walter Olson, a senior fellow with the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., said in a Facebook post on Friday that the tariff decision could be a big step backward for U.S. economic policy under Trump. [read post]
1 Oct 2017, 4:08 pm by INFORRM
Trinidad Government Senator Dr Lester Henry has been ordered to pay former Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran TT$550,000 damages for defamation. [read post]
28 Sep 2016, 3:01 am by Walter Olson
Ikenson, Simon Lester, Scott Lincicome, Daniel R. [read post]
23 Aug 2016, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Simon Lester, Cato] Tags: Europe, guns, Indian tribes, politics, search engines, taxes August 24 roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
19 Apr 2015, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Simon Lester, Cato] House hearing on Obama executive order blacklisting contractors over labor violations in unrelated areas of their business, or at subcontractors [witnesses and testimony, Walberg statement, press release, video, SHRM] Sixth Circuit retaliation decision confirms need for kid-glove handling of employees who file discrimination complaints [Jon Hyman] Spontaneous protest doesn’t come cheap: SEIU spent $24 million in 2014 on fast food/retail wage movement… [read post]
24 Mar 2015, 3:02 am by Walter Olson
., Federalist Society holds star-filled conference on Treaties and National Sovereignty at George Washington University [Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz] Trade agreements are being promoted as extending progressive labor and environmental policies around the globe, hmmm [Simon Lester, related] Courts in European nations urged to use Charter to promote affirmative welfare rights, strike down laws liberalizing labor markets [Council of Europe] “Croatian-Serb war offenses litigated… [read post]
11 Nov 2014, 3:30 am by Walter Olson
” [Gerard Magliocca] Krugman not notably consistent on views of statutory interpretation [Simon Lester] ObamaCare architect Jonathan Gruber caught on camera saying “lack of transparency” key to passing the bill; he “may believe that American voters are stupid, but he was the one dumb enough to say all this on camera” [Peter Suderman, Mickey Kaus ("I am big. [read post]
5 Oct 2014, 11:22 pm by INFORRM
“Free Speech Today”, Lord Lester QC, Polish Yearbook of International Law, Vol 33 (2013), pp.129-144, SSRN. [read post]
1 Jul 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Ted Cruz publishes “Limits To the Treaty Power” in Harvard Law Review Forum [FedSoc Blog, Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz] “The Ever Expanding Role of Trade Agreements: Human Rights” [Simon Lester, Cato] EU brass, reformist NGOs insisted that Romania shut down international adoption. [read post]
23 Apr 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
[Simon Lester, Cato] “Teller Wins Lawsuit Over Copied Magic Trick Performance” [Hollywood Reporter] Custom, informal law enforce joke “property” among comedians [McGraw/Warner, Slate] I read the news today, oh boy/ And now I have to pay a license fee/ [ABA Journal on actions against song lyrics sites; earlier here and here; h/t for joke to Rogers T.] [read post]
16 Mar 2014, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
The Los Angeles Review of Books reviews Floyd Abrams's Friends of the Court: On the Front Lines with the First Amendment (Yale University Press).The New Republic reviews Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism (Simon & Schuster).New Books in History has an interview with Benjamin Elman, author of Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China (Harvard University… [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Environmental advocates and their fans in the press come off badly in Chevron/Ecuador litigation scandal [Coyote, earlier] Drought disaster unfolds in California’s Central Valley, where project water is allocated by fiat, not bid for in market [Allysia Finley, WSJ; San Jose Mercury-News] Other large democracies resist the idea of packing environmental terms into trade treaties, and maybe they’re right [Simon Lester, Cato] “A Tough Day in Court for the… [read post]
23 Nov 2013, 4:21 am by Walter Olson
[WLF] Re: copyright terms, US government shouldn’t endorse view that longer always means better [Simon Lester, Cato] Legal tiff over use of hotel carpet patterns in costumes [Io9] Tweet Tags: copyright, Google, patent trolls, publishers, trademarksIntellectual property roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
17 Sep 2013, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
” [Simon Lester, Cato] High tech cy pres and the copyright wars [Roger Parloff, Fortune] “The smartphone wars are ending, and nobody won (but the lawyers)” [Alison Frankel, Reuters] Tweet Tags: cellphones, copyright, cy pres, patent litigation, publishers, sanctionsIntellectual property roundup is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
6 Sep 2013, 12:15 pm by Ailyn Cabico
Morgan Gabriella Lombardi, Partner, Pillsbury 11:15am–12:00pm Executive Fireside Chat MODERATOR Kurt Simon, Managing Director, Head of TMT Equity Capital Markets, J.P. [read post]