Follow POL on Twitter - Pennsylvania Supreme Court punts on ruling on state-hired contingency-fee attorneys. [Wajert; earlier from Drug & Device Law]
- Good summary of RAND report on 524(g) asbestos personal-injury trusts. [Behrens/Silverman @ WLF; RAND; Fisher @ Forbes]
- Third Circuit holds (in a non-precedential opinion) that Delaware does not recognize medical monitoring. [LNL]
- The Gulf Coast Claims Facility website is live, and Ken Feinberg is being lobbied to let the doors wide open. [WaPo/AP; NYT; more NYT; WSJ]
- Ecuador court about to issue questionable decision in Chevron case. [Recorder ($) via CJAC; Reuters/NYT]
- Refutation of Professor Fitzpatrick's claim that class-action lawyers paid too little. [Trask; Fitzpatrick]
- The problem of criminalizing fiduciary breach. [Ribstein]
- California courts are unilaterally undoing 2004 workers' comp reforms, and rates are rising as a result. [OL; OC Register; Ogilvie v. San Francisco]
- The appalling Jane Mayer hit-piece on the Koch brothers—which seems to be coordinated with and/or anticipating an Obama administration attack. [Stoll; Welch @ Reason; Erickson; Koch response; @radleybalko]
- Spitzer vs. The Wall Street Journal. [Lehmann]
- Disparate impact? New York state tax affects sliced bagels, but not sliced bread. [WSJ via @thegarance]
Around the web, August 25
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| Isaac Gorodetski Project Manager, Center for Legal Policy at the Manhattan Institute igorodetski@manhattan-institute.org |
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| Laura Eyi Press Officer, Manhattan Institute leyi@manhattan-institute.org |
