November 25, 2009

• Consumer columnist's suit against Hartford newspaper could raise novel issues under Connecticut law purporting to apply First Amendment to employers [Schwartz]
• Climate flap: "If these were internal Exxon-Mobil e-mails, the trial lawyers would be racing out the door with only one pants-leg filled" [Goldberg/NRO via Reynolds]
• "Colorado Appellate Courts Continue To Tighten Class-Action Claims" [Law Week Online]
• LaShawn Barber on housing suit and Westchester County voter revolt [ACRI]
• Med-mal filings surged in Tennessee as reform effective date approached, then slumped afterward [Day, Throckmorton]
• "This creepy, cultlike form of organizing": unions and "pink sheeting" [NYT]
  Expect less transparency about union doings, though, as DoL switches off the spotlight [Heritage via ShopFloor]