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February 29, 2008

Exxon Shipping v. Baker

Posted by Ted Frank

No Taxation Without Representation

Posted by Hans Bader

Insurance company "record profits"

Posted by Ted Frank

February 28, 2008

Sexual Harassment: A Strange, Vague "Tort"

Posted by Hans Bader

Huge Punitive Damage Award Likely To Be Trimmed, Not Eliminated

Posted by Hans Bader

Presumed Guilty of Child Abuse

Posted by Hans Bader

February 27, 2008

Government Child-Snatching

Posted by Hans Bader

Not a "Pro-Business" Supreme Court

Posted by Hans Bader

It's Not a "Dream Court for American Business"

Posted by Hans Bader

Sexual Harassment Bait and Switch

Posted by Hans Bader

February 26, 2008

State Vehicle Emissions Regulations Now Vulnerable

Posted by Hans Bader

Prejudice and Double Standards in Sexual Harassment Cases

Posted by Hans Bader

Why do students go to law school? Money and power, not justice.

Posted by Michael Krauss

February 25, 2008

FDA overwarning

Posted by Ted Frank

Litigating Backwards

Posted by Hans Bader

Warner-Lambert v. Kent argument

Posted by Ted Frank

State Attorney Generals Abuse Their Power

Posted by Hans Bader

Jim Hood

Posted by Ted Frank

February 24, 2008

Guestblogger this week

Posted by Walter Olson

Double Standards at Duke -- and in the Courts

Posted by Hans Bader

ILEP: Mark Tapscott of The Examiner responds

Posted by Walter Olson

Judicial seminars: a response from ILEP

Posted by Walter Olson

February 23, 2008

Forum-shopping in the Eastern District of Texas: In re Volkswagen of America

Posted by Ted Frank

Richard Epstein on Riegel v. Medtronic

Posted by Walter Olson

February 22, 2008

The Patent Reform Act of 2007

Posted by Ted Frank

Milberg's judicial seminars

Posted by Walter Olson

False Claims Act before the U.S. Supreme Court

Posted by Walter Olson

February 21, 2008

Med-mal in the Upper Midwest

Posted by Walter Olson

Vioxx litigation update, February 21

Posted by Ted Frank

February 20, 2008

Investors' Business Daily editorial on the Williams Punitives Showdown

Posted by Michael Krauss

Riegel v. Medtronic

Posted by Ted Frank

Momentous USSC decision in Riegel v Medtronic

Posted by Michael Krauss

Spitzer and the bond insurers

Posted by Walter Olson

"Obama Comedown Syndrome"

Posted by Ted Frank

Foreclosures: clueless in Providence

Posted by Walter Olson

February 19, 2008

Preemption responsible for mortgage crisis?

Posted by Ted Frank

What was she thinking? cont'd

Posted by Walter Olson

Trasylol: what 60 Minutes didn't tell you

Posted by Ted Frank

"Polluting Medical Judgment? False Assumptions in the Pursuit of False Claims Regarding Off-Label Prescribing"

Posted by Ted Frank

Anticonvulsants and suicidality, cont'd

Posted by Walter Olson

Around the web, February 19

Posted by Walter Olson

February 18, 2008

"Why Torts Trumped Terrorism"

Posted by Ted Frank

"We're compensating the wrong patients..."

Posted by Walter Olson

February 16, 2008

WSJ on alien-hiring RICO

Posted by Walter Olson

NY high court OKs derivative suits against LLPs

Posted by Walter Olson

February 15, 2008

Clemens Throws Legal Curveball

Posted by Marie Gryphon

Vioxx settlement: February 15 update

Posted by Ted Frank

Reasonable and customary

Posted by Walter Olson

"Rules add $200,000 to Seattle house price"

Posted by Walter Olson

Florida three strikes, cont'd

Posted by Walter Olson

February 14, 2008

DC Gun Case: Et Tu, Paul Clement?

Posted by Michael Krauss

Florida neurosurgeons

Posted by Walter Olson

Employment at will in New York

Posted by Walter Olson

Update: court dismisses illegal-hiring RICO suit against Tyson

Posted by Walter Olson

February 13, 2008

The fortunes in asbestos law

Posted by Walter Olson

State AGs and individual gun rights

Posted by Walter Olson

Alabama v. AstraZeneca

Posted by Walter Olson

Sarbox whistleblower law _sans frontieres_

Posted by Walter Olson

February 12, 2008

Lerach sentencing

Posted by Walter Olson

S. 1638 and the fight for judicial education

Posted by Michael Krauss

Wall St. Journal Editorial: Lerach Gets Two

Posted by Michael Krauss

Avandia: not so harmful after all

Posted by Ted Frank

"The Dirty Dozen"

Posted by Walter Olson

February 11, 2008

The FDA's warning letter on Vioxx

Posted by Ted Frank

Richard Honaker: Bush nominates ATLA member for district court

Posted by Ted Frank

Philip Morris and punitives

Posted by Walter Olson

Lerach: "Everybody was paying plaintiffs"

Posted by Walter Olson

Around the web, February 11

Posted by Walter Olson

February 10, 2008

O'Connell papers on early offers

Posted by Walter Olson

February 9, 2008

Denmark introduces class actions

Posted by Walter Olson

February 8, 2008

How Mass Torts Are Born

Posted by Marie Gryphon

Milberg Weiss, guardians of class action collegiality?

Posted by Ted Frank

Jim Hood deposed

Posted by Walter Olson

Lawyers' Fees For Me, But Not For Thee

Posted by Michael Krauss

February 7, 2008

Site down later this afternoon

Posted by Walter Olson

History of NYC law department

Posted by Walter Olson

Around the web, February 7

Posted by Walter Olson

February 6, 2008

Suicide risk of anticonvulsants?

Posted by Walter Olson

Dann rebuked in foreclosure activism

Posted by Walter Olson

GOP candidates on judicial philosophy

Posted by Walter Olson

Update: Cates loses judicial bid

Posted by Walter Olson

February 5, 2008

Hillary's "disastrous" mortgage scheme

Posted by Walter Olson

Legal expenses insurance

Posted by Walter Olson

A milestone in curbing discovery abuse?

Posted by Walter Olson

February 4, 2008

Vioxx settlement: February 4 update

Posted by Ted Frank

Around the web, February 4

Posted by Walter Olson

Parade of new blogs

Posted by Walter Olson

February 3, 2008

New Hampshire medical screening panels, cont'd

Posted by Walter Olson

February 2, 2008

Welcome Investors Business Daily readers

Posted by Walter Olson

February 1, 2008

Contentious Contingent Fee Research

Posted by Marie Gryphon

Oregon Supreme Court plays chicken in Williams v. Philip Morris case

Posted by Ted Frank

Lerach: keep my sentencing briefs under seal

Posted by Ted Frank

New Hyman/Black/Silver/Sage paper on med mal caps

Posted by Ted Frank

Federal grand jury in Vioxx case

Posted by Ted Frank

"Patents on legal methods? No way!"

Posted by Walter Olson

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WHO'S THE BOSS, September 2006
MEDICAL JUDGMENT, July 2006
Lawyer Licensing, May 2006
CONTINGENT CLAIMS, April 2006
SELLING SHORT, February-March 2006
CONDITION CRITICAL?, November-December 2005
SUPREME COURT NOMINATION, July-September 2005
ELECTIONS AND SELECTIONS, January 2005
MALPRACTICE PRESCRIPTIONS, October/November 2004
ELECTION 2004, September 2004
FEE-DING FRENZY, August 2004
SMOKING GUNS, July 2004

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