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28 Sep 2009, 8:25 am
Walter Olson at Point of Law refers us to a proposal by a Democratic legislator in Maryland: Primary-care providers who practice at federally qualified health centers do not need to purchase medical malpractice insurance. [read post]
23 May 2011, 10:56 am
I think the “bat virus reservoir” analogy may be an instant classic: Walter Olson thinks that American law schools are the origin of some very bad ideas, in something like the way bats are said to be the reservoir of certain nasty viruses in Africa: the germs of pernicious concepts incubate there in relative obscurity between epidemics, erupting occasionally to spread destruction and misery. [read post]
23 Mar 2007, 7:03 am
Recently, I left a comment on the Bizarro-Overlawyered website commenting on the Milberg Weiss Fellow's appallingly dishonest misrepresentation of a Walter Olson column, reprinted on two or three other left-wing websites and still not retracted, though Milberg Weiss Fellow Cyrus Dugger has had time to write over a dozen other posts since then. [read post]
5 May 2011, 7:37 am
Walter Olson’s new book, Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America, covers the matter so well that I don’t see much to add. [read post]
8 May 2012, 1:27 pm
Neither of these blogs can claim to be the oldest legal blog out there, as that distinction appears to be held by Walter Olson's Overlawyered blog, which launched on July 1, 1999 and will become the first blog teenager this summer. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 8:06 am
The description: Walter Olson joins Aaron and Trevor for a discussion on the evolution of discrimination law in the American legal system. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 8:34 pm
" (Walter Olson, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 15)(sub-only). [read post]
5 Oct 2008, 9:20 pm
I may be attending a book signing with Walter Olson at the Harvard Club. [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 6:45 am
I’m quoted in this report today in the Washington Times by Annie Yu: “It’s often not realized that much of the civil rights movement in the 20th century was a movement for economic liberty against economic restrictions,” said Walter Olson, senior fellow at the Cato Institute’s Center for Constitutional Studies. [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 4:43 pm
Over at Overlawyered Walter Olson asks, "Should lawyers trying cases make an appeal to jurors' 'reptile brains'? [read post]
7 Aug 2008, 10:50 pm
(Elsewhere in the post, Walter also used TinyURL to link to WhoCanISue.com.) [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 5:47 am
Tags: autos, sudden acceleration, Toyota, Walter Olson Related posts Toyota acceleration: why I’m skeptical (41) Sudden acceleration: litigation springs eternal (0) “Lawyers Ask Court To Stop Toyota From Fixing Cars” (5) “I am not afraid of my Toyota Prius” (16) Update: Sudden acceleration: litigation springs eternal (10) [read post]
28 Mar 2011, 5:47 am
Walter Olson has been posting on a Colorado plan to give bonuses to prosecutors based on conviction rates. [read post]
22 Aug 2011, 5:12 am
On Monday, I asked my readers the same question posed by Walter Olson at Overlawyered: “If I could press a button and instantly vaporize one sector of employment law…”? [read post]
3 May 2007, 9:01 am
Walter Olson, in an attack against a trial lawyer, inadvertantly disclosed something about tort "reform" that many prefer to keep secret: That tort "reform" shifts costs from corporations and their insurers to the taxpayers. [read post]
17 Jul 2009, 12:22 am
Walter Olson, whose Overlawyered just celebrated its 10th anniversary, brings us what may be the greatest harassment lawsuit ever filed: "Saudi family sues genie, alleges harassment. [read post]
30 Oct 2009, 1:39 am
Walter Olson's Overlawyered brings us the most instructive story of the week - if a jury asks for a "ten-digit adding machine to assist in their deliberations," the defendant best start thinking long and hard about settlement. [read post]
24 Aug 2011, 7:12 am
Walter Olson at Overlawyered started they debate by asking “If I could press a button and instantly vaporize one sector of employment law…” He answered age discrimination. [read post]
5 Jun 2008, 3:41 pm
Walter Olson has some news, including links to a post on the folo blog and a story by Patsy Brumfield. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 7:26 am
At Watchdog.org, Jon Street quotes me suggesting it’s past time for the Green Mountain State to drop its ban: Walter Olson, a senior fellow for constitutional studies at The Cato Institute, a libertarian-leaning, Washington, D.C. [read post]
