Around the web, Jun. 17 - PointOfLaw Forum

House Dems keen to overturn Supreme Court's Ledbetter decision on time limits for pay claims [AP; more at Law.com; earlier]

Law firms' anti-drug ads might make viewers sick, even aside from scaring them off their meds [Beck and Herrmann; earlier]

More from inside the Lerach client-acquisition sausage factory [Parloff; related, earlier]

Trial lawyer Mikal Watts, running for Cornyn's Texas Senate seat, tacks right on abortion [Houston Chronicle; Overlawyered]

Judges keep undoing Philadelphia jury verdicts against Wyeth on hormone therapy [Legal Intelligencer]

"Because of the way its policies are worded" -- such an unfair reason to get turned down on an insurance claim, right? [Grace]

Maybe the lawyer should have vetted this faulty-elevator claim before it plunged to ignominy in the NY courts [Turkewitz]

"Can health care be reformed before malpractice law is reformed?" [Emergency Room Nurse via KevinMD]

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