tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2011-12-27://8 2012-02-10T13:00:27Z The Manhattan Institute's weblog of news and commentary on law, litigation and legal reform. Movable Type 5.02 tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8949 2012-02-10T13:14:18Z 2012-02-10T13:00:27Z

The Oglala Sioux tribe in the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the southwest corner of South Dakota say they have an alcoholism problem; one out of four infants born suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome. So they've attempted regulations to keep...

Ted Frank tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8948 2012-02-10T12:57:08Z 2012-02-10T12:41:07Z

1.7 million Tassimo coffee brewers are being recalled after several dozen incidents where the "T-cups" burst open and caused second-degree burns. Note the distinction between a product-liability case like Tassimo (where the allegation would be that a design defect causes...

Ted Frank tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8947 2012-02-10T12:35:23Z 2012-02-10T20:41:58Z

There have been a variety of meritless lawsuits against power companies on a theory that power companies contributed to global warming, global warming contributes to property damage, therefore power companies are liable. Randy Maniloff discusses the case of AES Corp....

Ted Frank tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8944 2012-02-08T13:19:52Z 2012-02-08T00:16:07Z

In a 2-1 split decision, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that California's 2008 law known as Proposition 8, a voter-determined ban on same-sex marriage in California, violated the equal protection clause of...

Isaac Gorodetski tag:www.pointoflaw.com,2012://8.8943 2012-02-08T13:15:31Z 2012-02-07T23:09:40Z

Kenneth R. Feinberg, partner and founder of Feinberg Rozen and administrator of the government's two outside-the-courts victims' compensation funds for September 11 and the BP Deepwater spill discusses mass injuries and alternative dispute resolution in the American legal system. Manhattan...

Isaac Gorodetski