Follow POL on Twitter - The learned intermediary rule and direct-to-consumer advertising in pharmaceutical litigation. [Beck]
- Seems obvious: if unemployment is an issue, reduce the costs to employers of hiring people by reducing the legal expenses associated with employment. A shame the US has gone in the opposite direction in the last four years. [Olson @ Cato]
- In Wisconsin, third party permitted to conduct discovery of therapist-patient relationship in claim against therapist over "recovered memories." The therapist is a quack, but it's hard to see a good limiting principle for this third-party claim that isn't going to eventually intrude on legitimate privacy interests. Hard cases make bad law. [On Point]
- Cass Sunstein 1, House Republicans 0. [Weigel @ Slate]
- Money does not play a dispositive role in politics. [Sullum @ Reason]
- Greg Mankiw's clever idea for reducing the deficit. [Mankiw]
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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 |
