Follow POL on Twitter - Americanization with a vengeance? Britain's National Health Service allocates more than £700 million to cover medical liability payouts, 80% rise in year [BBC News].
- Everyone agrees pretrial discovery aids in reaching settlement. Is everyone wrong? [Loewenstein & Moore, Carnegie-Mellon, via Victoria Pynchon, Settle It Now]
- How the internet could improve class action procedure [Klonoff, Herrmann, Harrison (PDF) via Beck & Herrmann]
- It's a shame when putatively liberal journalists make excuses for judicial corruption in Mississippi [Alan Lange on Paul Minor case, earlier]
- Much-discussed new empirical study on judicial selection: Joanna Shepherd, "Money, Politics, and Impartial Justice" [Duke Law Journal, PDF]
- Fifth Circuit tosses ADA case and awards attorney fees against federal EEOC, which "abandoned its duties and pursued a groundless action with exorbitant demands" [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Agro Distribution, PDF]
