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13 Nov 2011, 4:02 am by SHG
  The reason is unfortunately simple, as it's a law comprised of nothing more than worthless generalities, so vague and encompassing that it's made America into some Pollyanna joke in a flat world.At the Cato Institute, Walter Olson has ripped the covers off of the FCPA. [read post]
11 Nov 2011, 8:30 am by igorodetski
" There are many however, like Cato Institute's Walter Olson, who make the case that "clarification is not enough" advocating wider reform or even repeal. [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 5:53 am by Ted Frank
As Walter Olson notes, Ohio is likely today to overturn the public-sector-union reforms the Kasich administration achieved. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 4:51 am by Jon Hyman
from Mike Haberman’s Omega HR Solutions Here’s the rest of what I read this week (and last week): Discrimination Great moments in age discrimination law – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Are Gender Quotas The Key To Breaking the Glass Ceiling? [read post]
2 Nov 2011, 5:00 am by Jon Hyman
My manifesto—the Employer’s Bill of Rights—continues to generate links (thanks Kris Dunn and Walter Olson) and comments. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 10:16 pm by Walter Olson
” “Pain and suffering” (0) Young Walter Olson (1) Yale adopts submissive posture in Title-IX-vs. [read post]
31 Oct 2011, 8:41 am by Walter Olson
[TechNewsWorld] Author Vivian Wagner quotes me: “The law empowers private litigants to enforce its terms without having to show that any consumer has been exposed to any material or substantial risk, let alone harmed,” Walter Olson, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, told the E-Commerce Times. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 5:10 am by Jon Hyman
Here’s the rest of what I read this week: Discrimination “Anita Hill Defends Her Legacy: Two decades after her seismic testimony, she doesn't shy away from talking about it” – from Howard Bashman’s How Appealing Sexual Harassment 20 Years Later: Anniversary of Clarence Thomas Hearings Marks Time for Reflection – from Employment Lawyer Blog Adverse Impact Tool From Thomas Econometrics – from Stephanie Thomas’s The Proactive Employer… [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 11:19 am by Eric Turkewitz
And he writes today on the many conservative voices in academia that have risen up to oppose as unconstitutional the attempt to use federal power to limit the rights of the citizenry in state court claims: Letter to “Super Committee” Opposing Federal Tort Reform Proposals Among those conservatives that have spoken out against the hypocritical usurpation of state rights are: Professor Randy Barnett; longtime tort reform proponents Walter Olson and Ted Frank;… [read post]
12 Oct 2011, 9:02 am by Ken
As Walter Olson points out in his post at Cato, the New York Times carefully quotes environmental crimes prosecutor David Uhlmann to call this an “isolated situation. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 4:58 am by Jon Hyman
– from Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog Attorneys Dancing Around Impact of Gender Identity Discrimination Law – from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog Disparate Impact and the Non-Traditional Plaintiff – from Michael Fox’s Jottings By An Employer’s Lawyer Supreme Court Weighs Rights Of Parochial-School Teachers – from NPR EEOC vs. the ministerial exception – from Walter Olson’s… [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 6:45 am by Peter
Walter Olson reports at Cato that taxpayers can’t require their childrens’ teachers to speak proper English: As Pat Kossan reports in the Arizona Republic, the state of Arizona has averted a threatened civil-rights lawsuit from Washington by agreeing to stop monitoring teachers’ English fluency and pronunciation in the classroom. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 3:52 am by SHG
The voices of reason in this symposium turn out to be Walter Olson and Gillian Hadfield, a lawprof who has long been a forceful advocate for affordable legal representation. [read post]
23 Sep 2011, 5:15 am by Jon Hyman
” – from Walter Olson’s Overlawyered Employees Have the Advantage At Trial in Getting to Speak First and Last – from Texas Employment Law Update “Best B*** J**s on the #8 Line” – from Phil Miles’s Lawffice Space Court Not “Up In the Air”: Travel for Work Does Not Violate “Familial Association” Right – from Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog Staking out the EEOC and its… [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 8:18 am by Paul Levy
by Paul Alan Levy Over the past couple of months, I have blogged (here and here) about Arthur Alan Wolk’s campaign of intimidation against anybody and everybody who reported in unfavorable terms about his litigation against Walter Olson, Ted Frank and Overlawyered for having criticized his handling of a piece of litigation. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 6:30 pm by Josh Wright
Day 1 featured posts from: Larry Ribstein on After the Fall (Of Regulation) Eric Rasmusen on Everyday Versus Fancy Law Walter Olson on Careful What You Unleash Richard Painter on Litigation Financing and Insurance  Renee Newman Knake on Corporations, the Delivery of Legal Services, and the First Amendment (Part I) Bruce Kobayashi in Creative Destruction and the Market for Legal Services Eric Talley on Deregulating Lawyers: Comments From A Knee-jerk Skeptic  Thomas Morgan… [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 11:49 am by totmauthor
As a libertarian, I mostly concur in the critique of occupational licensure made famous by (among others) Milton Friedman. [read post]