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3 Oct 2013, 1:59 am by Jon Gelman
Unlike federal figures, the study's poverty estimates include:Government benefits; Housing prices; Health care costs; and Other expenditures (Olson, Riverside Press-Enterprise, 9/30). [read post]
30 Sep 2013, 9:15 pm by Walter Olson
Julian Hattem at The Hill has more details, and quotes me: “They have the power to be intrusive and expensive to contractors that they believe are not playing ball on this,” said Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. [read post]
6 Sep 2013, 4:47 am by Jon Hyman
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination No Ifs, Ands, or Buts: “But For” Standard Requires New Trial, Court Rules — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog Boston Globe tackles attractiveness discrimination — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Big Red and Fried Chicken: Dallas Law Firm Sued for Discrimination — from Texas Employer Handbook Employers beware: You are liable for discrimination on the part… [read post]
6 Sep 2013, 4:47 am by Jon Hyman
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination No Ifs, Ands, or Buts: “But For” Standard Requires New Trial, Court Rules — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog Boston Globe tackles attractiveness discrimination — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Big Red and Fried Chicken: Dallas Law Firm Sued for Discrimination — from Texas Employer Handbook Employers beware: You are liable for discrimination on the part… [read post]
4 Sep 2013, 2:02 pm by Joe Patrice
[The Daily Beast] * Walter Olson of Overlawyered is going on the road. [read post]
27 Aug 2013, 6:45 am by Walter Olson
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]
16 Aug 2013, 5:06 am by Jon Hyman
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination “Race-based claims thrown out in Paula Deen lawsuit” — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered How The EEOC’S Scrutiny Of Background Check Practices Has Employers Between A Rock & A Hard Place — from Employment Essentials Interactive Process is Two-Way Street — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog The EEOC Is Now Officially An Employee Side Employment Law… [read post]
16 Aug 2013, 5:06 am by Jon Hyman
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination “Race-based claims thrown out in Paula Deen lawsuit” — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered How The EEOC’S Scrutiny Of Background Check Practices Has Employers Between A Rock & A Hard Place — from Employment Essentials Interactive Process is Two-Way Street — from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog The EEOC Is Now Officially An Employee Side Employment Law… [read post]
13 Aug 2013, 7:00 am
Here we go: Walter Olson at Overlawyered provides a Maryland law roundup. [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 10:37 am by Ron Coleman
  Walter Olson rounds it up: Ralph Lauren lawyers: don’t you dare reproduce our skinny-model photo in the course of criticizing our use of skinny models [BoingBoing] Ralph Lauren Model With photoshop, evidently, quite a bit! [read post]
5 Aug 2013, 10:37 am by Ron Coleman
  Walter Olson rounds it up: Ralph Lauren lawyers: don’t you dare reproduce our skinny-model photo in the course of criticizing our use of skinny models [BoingBoing] Ralph Lauren Model With photoshop, evidently, quite a bit! [read post]
2 Aug 2013, 4:51 am by Jon Hyman
— from Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™ In Its Most Surprising About-Face To Date, DOL Abandons Administrator's Interpretation and Sides With Employer — from The Wage and Hour Litigation BlogLabor Relations The NLRB Is Back — from Workplace Prof Blog A whopper about fast-food wages — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Fast Food Strikes Catch Fire — from Workplace Fairness Your Social Media Policy Can't Be Too Restrictive,… [read post]
2 Aug 2013, 4:51 am by Jon Hyman
— from Hunton Employment & Labor Law Perspectives™ In Its Most Surprising About-Face To Date, DOL Abandons Administrator's Interpretation and Sides With Employer — from The Wage and Hour Litigation BlogLabor Relations The NLRB Is Back — from Workplace Prof Blog A whopper about fast-food wages — from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Fast Food Strikes Catch Fire — from Workplace Fairness Your Social Media Policy Can't Be Too Restrictive,… [read post]
12 Jul 2013, 11:37 am by Paul Caron
Foundation Watch: The Ford Foundation: Shaping America’s Laws by Re-Making Her Law Schools, by Walter Olson (Cato Institute; author, Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America): For over half a century, the Ford Foundation has quietly worked to turn the nation’s law schools into agents of Sixties-style “social... [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 2:10 pm by Steve Bainbridge
In this 2008 National Review article from the height of the scandal, just before he resigned, [Walter Olson] recalled how a key part of Spitzer’s “distinctively relentless style” was to demagogically... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 2:09 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Disgraced ex-governor Eliot Spitzer has announced a surprise bid for New York City Comptroller, resulting in general merriment on Twitter and joy in the world of NYC tabloids (as well as more sober... [[ This is a content summary only. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
Strangelove" (16) "Flight of the Conchords" (4) "Game Change" (2) "Get Smart" (1) "Gran Torino" (10) "Grey Gardens" (13) "I Shouldn't Be Alive" (4) "Limelight" (3) "Meet the Press" (20) "Moby Dick" (5) "My Dinner with Andre" (34) "Mystery Science Theater" (2) "Project Runway" (78) "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion" (3) "Seinfeld" (72) "Sex and the City" (14) "Slacker" (11) "Slumdog Millionaire" (16) "SNL" (60) "Sopranos" (50) "South Park" (71) "Star Trek" (12) "Star Wars" (25) "Survivor" (50)… [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 7:32 am by Sarah Erickson-Muschko
Walter Olson of the Cato Institute (audio) and Deborah Wald of California Lawyer discuss the legal implications of the Court’s holding in Adoptive Couple v. [read post]