Follow POL on Twitter - Judge Weinstein says racial differences in life expectancy should have no place in calculations of damages, seems fair enough if applied across the board [NYLJ]
- Reasons for worry at the direction the American Law Institute is taking on batch litigation of personal injury cases [Beck and Herrmann]
- Another unintended consequence of bailout: lenders slow their workout negotiations with distressed borrowers [Zywicki @ Volokh]
- GOP opinions on which state attorney general contests are close [Rizo, Legal NewsLine via Genova]
- Don't call it "nationalization", please, it isn't that [Simon Jenkins via Carter at NAM ShopFloor, and again]
- Coughlin Stoia: no fair cutting us out of the backdating class action by settling with another plaintiff [NLJ]
