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11 Apr 2024, 9:20 am
Walter Olson: If you believe Elon Musk, “Democrats” are permitting large numbers of immigrants into the country on purpose in order to win elections. [read post]
16 Mar 2007, 7:59 am
I recently read Walter Olson's (Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute) op-ed in Times of London. [read post]
8 Jul 2018, 11:50 am
In tomorrow's WSJ, the Cato Institute's Walter Olson explains why the Supreme Court's landmark decision in OBergefell v. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 4:51 am
That should make for a start at least. https://t.co/g0QKura7op — Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 21, 2017 Walter did not pull any punches in his book chapter. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 4:51 am
That should make for a start at least. https://t.co/g0QKura7op — Walter Olson (@walterolson) February 21, 2017 Walter did not pull any punches in his book chapter. [read post]
18 May 2010, 9:48 am
Walter Olson, long time tort “reformer” and my occasional sparring partner, has moved from the Manhattan Institute (and his home base at Point of Law) to the Cato Institute. [read post]
4 Oct 2010, 10:54 am
Case in point, from Walter Olson: Surprisingly or otherwise, some big business groups like the Grocery Manufacturers of America have allied with consistent Big Government advocacy groups like the Consumer Federation of America and Center for Science in the Public Interest to push S. 510, the food safety bill pending before the Senate (which might win consideration in the lame-duck session). [read post]
30 Jun 2009, 6:55 am
Walter Olson asks what we’re getting from our medical malpractice system — with “jury trials, contingency fees, lack of loser-pays, extensive lawyer-driven discovery” — that Canada, at 10% of the cost for its medical malpractice system does not. [read post]
3 Sep 2010, 5:32 am
In a post at Overlawyered, Walter Olson notes an article that says swings sets have been removed from a playground “in part because of lawsuits over injuries. [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 1:40 pm
My new column in the Times (U.K.) is on the many costs of HIPAA, the federal law which even now prevents institutions from releasing the Virginia Tech psychopath's health records (privacy rights extend after death) and played a notable role (along with the Buckley Amendment/FERPA) in restricting the chances for relevant actors to compare notes on his symptoms of madness before it was too late (Walter Olson, "Could less rigid privacy laws have prevented the Virginia… [read post]
11 Mar 2008, 7:51 am
(Walter Olson, "Saving Spitzer", Mar. 11). [read post]
18 Aug 2011, 4:20 pm
Many friends-of-the-VC will be panelists or moderators, too, including Walter Olson, Ilya Shapiro, Roger Pilon, and John Eastman. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 12:30 pm
Neal Solomon: The Transformation Of The American Patent System Ephrat Livni: Do Cake Designs Count As Intellectual Property Walter Olson: TC Heartland v. [read post]
12 Nov 2008, 9:43 am
An interesting op-ed piece by Walter Olson in the LA Times (10/31/2008) ponders possible reasons for the apparentdemise of the reparations movement. [read post]
1 Dec 2006, 1:55 pm
WALTER OLSON: "Tumbleweeds are not yet blowing through Manhattan's vacant streets, but if New York is to hold onto its precarious pre-eminence in global finance, the US will need to get serious about reforming its costly and punitive legal environment for capital issuance. [read post]
22 Apr 2017, 6:56 am
Profile of veteran class action and mass action lawyer Steve Berman of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro quotes me [Damien Garde, STAT]: “You will search with some difficulty for people who successfully do what he does and do not have a big personality,” said Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies. [read post]
11 Feb 2009, 8:36 am
Well, Walter Olson demonstrates that it has led the Consumer Products Safety Commission to advise thrift shops, secondhand stores, and others to throw out books if they were made before 1985, and if the shops cannot pay for ruinously expensive and impractical testing: To take just one example, that of resale, thrift and consignment stores, the CPSC guidance advises that such stores discard, or refuse to accept donations of, a very wide range of children's items unless they are… [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 3:00 am
He sees law schools, as Walter Olson does, as “Schools for Misrule. [read post]
8 Jun 2016, 9:15 pm
Regulations that drive up closing costs make things worse [Naomi Schaefer Riley/New York Post, thanks for quotes] Cato Institute Senior Fellow Walter Olson says that it’s not just the taxes that make some states more expensive than others. [read post]
15 Aug 2011, 9:40 am
There’s a super-sized question floating around L&E blawgs right now, posed by Walter Olson at Overlawyered.com, that goes something like this: If you could press a button and instantly vaporize one sector of employment law, what would it be? [read post]
