Overlawyered.com Nov. 16-Dec. 9
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New since the last update (selected highlights):
* A new feature: this site's greatest hits (Nov. 20 and sidebar)
* Warning label on chocolate milk carton: "contains milk" (Dec. 8)
* Driver falls asleep, jury tells Ford Motor to pay $61 million (Nov.
17, 21, 27)
* Miracle on 34th St.: family hurt by loose balloon at Macy's parade
won't sue (Nov. 29)
* We host Blawg Review #33, rounding up best of the legal weblogs (Nov.
21)
* L.A. crash-fraud ring recruited members at Bible study group (Nov.
29)
* $3.36 million for blind woman replaced on job by blind woman (Nov.
28)
* New on Point of Law: tons of Vioxx coverage, Jim Copland debates
William Sage on med-mal law, and Ted criticizes Judge Posner on a fee
case;
* Captain of Staten Island ferry that crashed is suing city for his job
back (Dec. 6)
* Lawyers readying "next tobacco" suit against... soft drink makers
(Dec. 5, 7)
* Drive while not impaired, get taken in by cops anyway (Dec. 1)
* We're a finalist for "Best Law Blog of 2005" (Dec. 7, 9), consider
going and voting for us at:
http://weblogawards.org/vote.php?id=19
* Unclear on the concept: motion asks judge to take judicial notice of
facts contained in Wikipedia article (Nov. 23)
* Illinois eighth-grader compiled a list of annoying people, so of
course school tossed him out (Dec. 7)
* Kazakhstan, Central Asian country, drops lawsuit against comedian who
made fun of it on HBO (Nov. 16, Nov. 29, Dec. 9)
* Supervisor's "ride 'em hard and put 'em away wet" remark costs school
district $450,000 (Dec. 7)
* Scandal in Michigan: state AG says famed lawyer Geoffrey Fieger tried
to blackmail him, and feds swoop down on Fieger's office in unrelated
probe (Nov. 17, Dec. 3)
* Plus: Roger Scruton; cerebral palsy verdicts; safety issues in
"Goodnight, Moon"; Home Depot toilet seat case; UK roundup; open-source
software insurance; gun-suit shield law challenged; police chases;
Terrell Owens case; legal dangers of nanotech; sue your mom in Alberta;
and (much, much) more.