Overlawyered.com May 26-Jul. 7
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New since the last update (highlights):
* Parent sues MySpace after teen assaulted by her online date (Jun. 21)
And: mom sues school after daughter runs off with online boyfriend
(Jun. 1)
* Barbra Streisand said she was retiring from concert tours, but now is
back on the road. Should/can fans sue? (Jun. 16)
* I've begun a new column with the online Times of London (Jun. 28)
* Foiled robber sues store employees who got rough with him (Jun. 13)
* Edward Gibbon on government by lawyers (Jul. 7)
* Pa. tort lawyer nabbed for fraud says there's a thousand more in the
state doing it (May 27)
* Oh, great: Missouri high court rules "repressed memory" can suspend
the statute of limitations (Jun. 23)
* Virginia jury "sends a message": redesign all lawn mowers (Jun. 16)
* "Tort reform for liberals" is theme of guest Prof. Bill Childs at
sister site Point of Law (Jun. 26)
* "Middle-class peeves cost more money than exists" (Jun. 29)
* Association of Trial Lawyers of America mulls changing its name (Jun.
29)
* It's so unfair: Starbucks assailed for giving away goodies for free
(Jun. 20). Plus: KFC sued over fattening menu (Jun. 14), And New
Yorker's frozen-desserts-made-me-fat lawsuit melts in court (May 30)
* Safetymania: Danger! Palm trees ahead! (Jun. 11)
* Mass. high court: use of tobacco is inherently unreasonable (Jun. 1).
And how reliable are the Surgeon General's pronouncements on smoke
hazards? (Jul. 5)
* Jury votes $61 million for racial slurs (Jun. 5)
* Expresses "glee" over lawyer's indictment, and gets sued for it (Jul.
5). Plus: when the chief justice of your state sues you, consider
yourself in deep doo-doo (Jun. 22)
* Nurse! Nurse! Erin Brockovich fronts for hospital litigation (Jun.
22)
* Damned if you do: universities trying to prevent student suicides
can't win (May 30)
* Veteran of anti-gun litigation now running for Ark. attorney general
(Jun. 16)
* Baleful Bambi: student attacked by deer at Southern Illinois U. sues
the school (May 31)
* Big Brother is Sniffing You: a breathalyzer in everyone's car? (May
28)
* He got bad reviews on DontDateHimGirl.com, now he's suing (Jul. 6)
* Contributions from guestbloggers Don Boudreaux (late May) and Hans
Bader (late June)
* Wait till malpractice lawyers start second-guessing "telemedicine"
and "virtual medicine" innovations (Jun. 9)
* Bill Lerach could bag $1 billion in fees in Enron suits (May 31)
* Plus: first lawyer indicted in Miss. fen-phen scandal; Philip K.
Howard on civil justice reform; VA laptop privacy; Washingtonienne
libel suit; IP protection for recipes; Jack Thompson still at it;
alcohol-marketing suits go flat; gambling advice columns illegal?; the
Bloomsday litigants; nanny sues hidden-camera manufacturer; Daryl
Hannah and squatting; Milberg Weiss coverage; welcome Reader's Digest
readers; Cardozo on assumption of risk; bar, Wen Ho Lee settlement;
broken pieces of mollusc shell; Boing Boing gets a nastygram; Google
rankings lawsuits; plea bargaining; National Kidney Foundation;
litigious docs; Hillary on speed limits; "intermittent explosive
disorder"; zoning against fast food; Spitzer as judge-picker?;
"wrongful life" in Australia; Poland Spring fracas; condo construction
suits; animal rights laws on the trot; court challenge to
Sarbanes-Oxley; John Stossel on Hooters case; "Do you know who I am?"
lawyers; and much, much more.