- Iqbal/Twombly update: the Congressional threat to pleading standards. [Corporate Counsel]
- An example of those oh-so-valuable required disclosures about climate change risks. [Bainbridge]
- California courts continue to eat away at risk/benefit test. [Cal Biz Lit]
- Marlo Lewis isn't sanguine about the DOJ brief in Connecticut v. AEP Power. [Pajamas; earlier]
- The threat of OSHA expansion. [Olson @ Cato; McClellan]
- Petition for writ of mandamus in Comer makes a strong case.
- Another challenge to Louisiana med-mal caps. [Louisiana Record]
- More dishonesty in the Jane Mayer New Yorker hit-piece on the Kochs. [Bernstein @ Volokh]
- Why the 2012 election is critical: Senator Leahy expects three or four Supreme Court appointments next term. [Vermont Press Bureau/Times-Argus]
Around the web, September 1
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- SEC Proposes Crowdfunding Rules under the JOBS Act
- SEC Announces Meeting to Propose Crowdfunding Rules
- Bi-Partisan Group of Senators Writes to SEC to Demand Crowdfunding Action
- TLI Update: Supreme Court To Hear Patent Troll Cases
- Rumored SEC Proposal Would Ease Requirement for Investor Income Verification
- Businessweek on class actions
- In the Matter of McCutcheon: The Merits of Campaign-Finance "Aggregation"
- "A Facebook Deal That Needs Unfriending"
- SEC Steps Further Away from Its Mission
- The cy pres morass and In re BankAmerica Corp. Securities Litigation
- CEI, Cato, and PLF weigh in on Mount Holly
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Rafael Mangual Project Manager, Legal Policy rmangual@manhattan-institute.org |
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