Follow POL on Twitter - Hallowe'en celebrations bring specter of drinking and dramshop liability [Hochfelder] Not entirely unrelated: "Recent Bar and Restaurant Assault Cases Increase Exposure to Premises Owners" [same]
- Veteran Iowa trial lawyer Roxanne Conlin plans race against Senate's Chuck Grassley [Quad City Times, Mason City Globe-Gazette, Des Moines Register]
- More straws in wind on international climate change class actions [Carter at ShopFloor]
- "Healthy Choices" food labeling program, furiously assailed as fakery by New York Times and Connecticut AG Blumenthal, turns out to be based on the government's own nutrition standards [Allysia Finley, WSJ] More: TortsProf (some food manufacturers retreat from program).
- "Democracy in Name Only -- Election reform in New York is long overdue." [John Avlon, CityJournal]
- When ProPublica teams up with Business Week for a litigation piece, it's a pretty good bet the resulting article (on gadolinium/MRI dye suits) will please the plaintiff's side [Jeff Gerth, BW]
