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15 Sep 2017, 3:20 am by Walter Olson
SEC] Between FATCA and the Patriot Act, American extraterritorial banking rules keep wreaking havoc on other countries [Ernesto Londono, New York Times on Uruguay legal marijuana businesses] “Congress Can Rescind the CFPB’s Gift to Trial Lawyers” Ted Frank, WSJ] “Absent Reform, Little Relief in Sight from Chronic “Merger Tax” Class-Action Litigation” [Anthony Rickey, WLF] Tags: arbitration, banks, CFPB, extraterritoriality,… [read post]
14 Sep 2017, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Tags: animal rights, settlement, Ted Frank Ted Frank enters the monkey arena is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
13 Sep 2017, 3:01 am by Walter Olson
” [Ted Folkman, Eriq Gardner, earlier] A sad catalogue of litigation abuse enabled by PETA’s donors [Frank Bednarz thread] Lively First Circuit opinion upholds extortion conviction of small town police chief [Bob Dunn, Berkshire Eagle, U.S. v. [read post]
3 Sep 2017, 9:01 am by Walter Olson
7th Circuit judges take carving knife to lawyers’ “footlong” class action settlement with Subway sandwich chain, after objections from Ted Frank [Lowering the Bar, earlier] Speaking of the Seventh Circuit, Judge Richard Posner, among the most influential legal thinkers and jurists of the past half-century, is stepping down. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 5:00 am by Kevin
This is a short but devastating opinion in which the court agreed with professional class-action-settlement objector Ted Frank that the only people who benefited from this settlement were the plaintiffs’ lawyers. [read post]
18 Aug 2017, 3:11 am by Walter Olson
Ted Frank, crusader against class action abuse and formerly a contributor to this blog, profiled [Caleb Hannan, Bloomberg] Judge: “Milberg attorneys engaged in an elaborate scheme of deceptive conduct” in qui tam relator case [Bailey McGowan/WLF, opinion in Leysock v. [read post]
2 Aug 2017, 2:30 pm
"This Lawyer Is Making It Less Profitable to Sue When Companies Merge: Meet Ted Frank, professional objector. [read post]
14 Jul 2017, 3:25 am by Walter Olson
Baker, from the just-ended Supreme Court term [Federalist Society podcast with Ted Frank, earlier] Why Bristol-Myers Squibb, the Supreme Court case on state court jurisdiction, “is one of the most important mass tort/product liability decisions ever” [James Beck/Drug & Device Law, earlier] Sandy Hook massacre: “Newtown And Board Of Education Seek Dismissal Of Wrongful Death Lawsuit” [AP/CBS Connecticut] Pennsylvania: “Evidence-Manipulation… [read post]
5 Jul 2017, 9:30 pm by Bryan C. Williamson
For example, in June 2016, President Obama signed the Frank R. [read post]
29 May 2017, 10:33 am by Walter Olson
” [Ted Frank and Will Chamberlain, CEI] Tags: advertising, class action settlements Logic of olive oil settlement might be hard to press is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 3:44 am by SHG
” One can see the Ted Frank Rule coming into play, and the insertion of the buzzword “cyberbulling,” which has no apparent connection to anything here, but has become a popular catchall for any harm to a child delivered electronically, which obviously must be stopped. [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 3:03 am by Walter Olson
Per more than 30 state attorneys general, the less information lenders can draw on in credit reports, the better the credit system will work [Annamaria Andriotis, WSJ; exclusion of many tax liens and civil judgments under pressure from authorities] Federalist Society podcasts: Ted Frank on Walgreen shareholder litigation, Thaya Brook Knight on “predatory lending” cases before Supreme Court [Bank of America Corp. v. [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 8:39 am by Alan S. Kaplinsky
The following witnesses will testify: Ted Olson, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP Professor Saikrishna Prakash, James Monroe Distinguished Professor, University of Virginia School of Law Adam White, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Brianne Gorod, Chief Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center Mr. [read post]
First, the bill would amend Title X of Dodd-Frank to remove the CFPB’s primary funding mechanism, which is the transfer of funds from the Federal Reserve Board. [read post]
1 Mar 2017, 12:41 pm by Eric Turkewitz
  Even noted tort reformer Ted Frank wrote, in 2012, that the data from Texas “substantially undermines the empirical case for the conventional wisdom that Texas’s 2003 reforms against medical malpractice lawsuits attracted more doctors to Texas. [read post]