Point of Law
"Information and opinion on the U.S. litigation system."
Author: This Web magazine is sponsored by the Manhattan Institute and the American Enterprise Institute Liability Project. The editor Walter Olson, an author and senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute; and one of its blawggers is Ted Frank, a lawyer who is resident fellow at the AEI and directs its Liability Project. These two also contribute to Overlawyered. Ted Frank also authors Lagniappe: an unserious blog.
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Recent Posts from Point of Law
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Around the web, October 12
In multiple cases, U.S. Supreme Court being asked to intervene in West Virginia state courts [Liptak, NYT] Employers buy big legal headaches when they ask for specifics from workers who call in sick. Better…
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Campaign civility, enforced by law?
The press has been full of chatter this week about the supposedly unprecedented vehemence of campaign rhetoric on the Republican side of the presidential contest -- a charge that, as my colleague John Leo has…
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Parloff on Russia v. Bank of New York Mellon
Over the past couple of years I've repeatedly expressed fascination (here, here, here, here, and here) with the lawsuit in a Moscow commercial court in which the government of Russia is invoking the RICO law…
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Around the web, October 10
25 questions you can't ask at job interviews, such as "Can you work weekends?" and "What relative should we notify in case of emergency?" [HR Daily Advisor via Ohio Employment Law Blog] "California already…
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Demonization of deregulation
I'm quoted on the subject, as is co-blogger Ted Frank, in this new piece by Joseph Lawler for the American Spectator. I should add that I'm not trying to speak to the ultimate merits of…
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U.K. class action proposals: don't worry about Americanization?
Pending proposals in the English courts would take a large step toward American-style practice by opening up so-called "opt-out" actions, in which class members are automatically counted as plaintiffs unless they go to the trouble…
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California Case Highlights Need for Litigation Insurance
Any expansion of loser pays in California should be accompanied by legislation authorizing insurance companies to insure plaintiffs against possible fee awards at the time they follow suit.
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Justices pummel FTC in "light" tobacco action
After years and even decades during which the Federal Trade Commission had reason to know there were big problems with its scoring for tar and nicotine, yet passively approved the continued use of the numbers,…
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"Where was SOx in all this...?"
"...with all of its vaunted high-cost internal controls disclosures? And what's the fix going to be this time? Throwing more executives in jail? Slapping together some more complicated rules without any real consideration given to…
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Around the web, October 8
Patent trolls -- in Germany? [IP Law and Business via Securing Innovation] Where Milton Friedman's memory is defamed, chances are someone has been reading worst-book-of-year author Naomi Klein [Norberg, Cato, Reason] More: Will Wilkinson.…