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December 30, 2005

Is Prilosec the next Vioxx?

Posted by Ted Frank

December 29, 2005

Steven Hantler profile

Posted by Ted Frank

December 28, 2005

Katrina lawsuits roundup

Posted by Ted Frank

December 24, 2005

Posting lull

Posted by Walter Olson

December 23, 2005

One of the Biggest Legal Scandals in History

Posted by Michael Krauss

Plaintiffs ask for $66 million, get three times that, from Wal-Mart

Posted by Michael Krauss

December 22, 2005

"I will be coming after you"

Posted by Walter Olson

Anesthesiologists' success

Posted by Walter Olson

Those 4,202 Mississippi silicosis claims

Posted by Walter Olson

December 21, 2005

Public Backs Alito

Posted by James R. Copland

Yale Backtracking: Calls Alito Project "Informal"

Posted by James R. Copland

MN Tries and Fails to Welch on Cartel With Big Tobacco

Posted by Michael Krauss

British smokers...

Posted by Walter Olson

AutoNation paperwork class action

Posted by Walter Olson

December 20, 2005

Tobacco Could Save Us All

Posted by Michael Krauss

For G-d, For Country, and For Yale

Posted by Michael Krauss

An opportunity for Spitzer

Posted by Ted Frank

Save America: Close Yale Law School

Posted by James R. Copland

Leaving "Law Vegas"

Posted by Walter Olson

Keeping records of online job applications

Posted by Walter Olson

December 19, 2005

"I felt like shouting a warning to the jury"

Posted by Walter Olson

Liability limits: violative of the U.S. Constitution?

Posted by Walter Olson

December 18, 2005

Expert medical witnesses

Posted by Walter Olson

Inuit global warming suit

Posted by Walter Olson

December 17, 2005

Mississippi court tosses 4,202 silicosis claims

Posted by Walter Olson

December 16, 2005

AEI working paper on the Vioxx litigation

Posted by Ted Frank

Trent Lott is Suing State Farm for Katrina Losses

Posted by Martin F Grace

...and Spitzer on AIG's Starr Foundation

Posted by Walter Olson

Spitzer vs. Guidant

Posted by Walter Olson

22,000 personal injury cases for Vioxx and counting; Ernst and NEJM updates

Posted by Ted Frank

CRC on Environmental Working Group

Posted by Walter Olson

December 15, 2005

The Medical Malpractice Myth? at AEI

Posted by Ted Frank

BREAKING: Illinois Supreme Court reverses $10.1 billion judgment

Posted by Ted Frank

"Law Schools: Diverse In All But Viewpoint?"

Posted by Walter Olson

"Judicial Hellholes 2005"

Posted by Walter Olson

December 14, 2005

"Neurologists Take a Stand on Bearing Witness"

Posted by Walter Olson

"Everybody should be scared"

Posted by Walter Olson

Glenn Reynolds on Vioxx

Posted by Walter Olson

December 13, 2005

Stuart Taylor, Jr. on Alito press coverage

Posted by Walter Olson

Why did the judge declare a mistrial so quickly? II

Posted by Ted Frank

Why did the judge declare a mistrial so quickly?

Posted by Michael Krauss

British taxpayers won't foot Vioxx legal bills

Posted by Ted Frank

Vioxx: Hung jury in Plunkett case results in mistrial

Posted by Ted Frank

December 12, 2005

Silica Litigation: Screening, Scheming and Suing

Posted by Michael Krauss

Taser on Trial

Posted by Michael Krauss

WSJ Reports Merck Witness has become a liability in Vioxx Trials

Posted by Michael Krauss

Alito on antitrust

Posted by Walter Olson

Why criticize Eliot Spitzer?

Posted by Walter Olson

December 11, 2005

Ross Runkel: "Employment Law 101"

Posted by Walter Olson

December 10, 2005

Vioxx: no result yet in Plunkett; more on NEJM

Posted by Ted Frank

December 09, 2005

Welding: Boren loses; Dewey Morgan caught lying

Posted by Ted Frank

Update: Egilman loses

Posted by Ted Frank

Texans for Lawsuit Reform vs. Texas Monthly

Posted by Walter Olson

Tuesday, NYC: "Should courts order school funding?"

Posted by Walter Olson

December 08, 2005

Mountains out of molehills: New England Journal of Medicine and VIGOR

Posted by Ted Frank

BREAKING: Closing arguments in Plunkett Vioxx case

Posted by Ted Frank

Consolidated trials in New Jersey Vioxx cases

Posted by Ted Frank

Texas lawyers laid off

Posted by Walter Olson

Kelo and MercExchange

Posted by Ted Frank

Bainbridge vs. Nocera

Posted by Walter Olson

December 07, 2005

2005 scorecard for med-mal reform

Posted by Ted Frank

Blame the Law, Not the Lawyers

Posted by Jonathan B. Wilson

Blawg Review #35

Posted by Walter Olson

Ortho Evra, cont'd

Posted by Walter Olson

Blog discussion of Chamber securities study

Posted by Walter Olson

December 06, 2005

Bill Sage responds

Posted by James R. Copland

GM CEO: Lawsuit abuse a competitive disadvantage

Posted by James R. Copland

Securities Class Action Litigation Fails to Compensate Investors

Posted by Jonathan B. Wilson

Sorry, Wisconsin docs

Posted by Walter Olson

How not to support Samuel Alito

Posted by Walter Olson

Scruggs' Katrina strategy

Posted by Walter Olson

December 05, 2005

Speaking of slush funds

Posted by Ted Frank

Litigation slush funds, cont'd: $2.9 million for Vanderbilt Law

Posted by Walter Olson

Yale Law vs. Alito

Posted by Walter Olson

December 04, 2005

Good Guys Win One

Posted by Michael Krauss

Newsweek's Gasparino on Vioxx

Posted by Walter Olson

December 03, 2005

WSJ on asbestos probe

Posted by Walter Olson

December 02, 2005

Usury

Posted by Ted Frank

Judge Weinstein vs Federal Gun Manufacturers' Protection Act

Posted by Michael Krauss

Plunkett v. Merck: Do I owe Lucchesi an apology?

Posted by Ted Frank

A pathologist recoils...

Posted by Walter Olson

Law profs rate Alito -- and get a shock

Posted by Walter Olson

"Punishing success in the oil business"

Posted by Walter Olson

December 01, 2005

Global warming, cont'd

Posted by Walter Olson

Plunkett v. Merck plaintiffs' motions in limine

Posted by Ted Frank

Liability reform in Georgia

Posted by Walter Olson

Codifying Daubert

Posted by Walter Olson

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Obamacare Decision: Reactions, July 2012
Law School Faculty Diversity, May-June 2012
Class Actions, May 2012
Constitutionality of Individual Mandate, March 2012
Human Rights and International Law, February-March 2012
The constitutionality of President Obama's recess appointments, January 2012
Do caps on medical malpractice damages hurt consumers?, December 2011
Trial Lawyers Inc.: State Attorneys General, October 2011
Wal-Mart v. Dukes, April 2011
Kagan Supreme Court nomination, May-June 2010
Election roundtable, November-December 2006
Who's the boss, September 2006
Medical judgement, July 2006
Lawyer Licensing, May 2006
Contingent claims, April 2006
Smoking guns, July 2004

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