Follow POL on Twitter - Clue to his wider views on employment law? Obama has proposed bill to end safe harbor for use of independent contractors in trucking industry, which would expose firms to possible storm of litigation [TaxProfBlog, CCJ, Truckers News]
- Dechert's Joseph Hetrick on pre-emption controversy [interviewed at Law and More] On same topic, check out WLF papers this summer (both PDF) by James Wood/James Martin on Third Circuit pharmaceuticals and Eric Lasker on pre-emption at the Texas Supreme Court, with a notable discussion of Bic lighters and the CPSC.
- House leadership rebuffed efforts to expedite judicial review of offshore drilling initiatives [Examiner editorial]
- Langston, Balducci: our felony conviction and disbarment shouldn't keep us from pocketing $14 million for repping Mississippi in WorldCom bankruptcy [NE Miss Daily Journal, Legal NewsLine, earlier]
- NYC loses a round in 9/11 toxic dust mass tort as Judge Hellerstein rules medical diagnosis not needed for a place on the compensation grid [NYLJ]
- Favorable review of new Steven Teles book on rise of the conservative legal movement [Charlotte Allen, Weekly Standard]
