Overlawyered.com Oct. 13-Nov. 15
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It's been more than a month since our last periodic newsletter, but
overcommitments will keep us from pulling together the usual fairly
comprehensive list of site highlights. So instead here are just a few
teasers of what's new since the last update:
* Meatpacker to pay $3 million penalty for strength tests intended to
show that applicants for lifting jobs can, in fact, lift (Nov. 15)
* Toronto school officials say celebrating Halloween is insensitive to
witches, but not all witches agree (Oct. 31)
* Jury rules Port Authority 68 percent to blame, terrorists only 32
percent, for first WTC bombing; local taxpayers could be out $1.8
billion (Oct. 27, 29)
* Netflix class action settlement rouses consumer ire (Nov. 3)
* Ted takes on some persistent civil justice legends arising from the
Stella Liebeck (McDonald's coffee spill) and Valerie Lakey (swimming
pool drain) cases (Oct. 20, 21)
* Didn't charge state sales tax on that online purchase? A
bounty-hunter may come after you (Oct. 17)
* Lumberyard paying $13 million after moldy lumber used in house
supposedly causes child's autism (Nov. 8)
* Heard about the Merck "Dodgeball" memos? You probably heard wrong
(Nov. 10)
* Plus: President signs gun-shield bill; hurricane-chasing; more
outrageousness from Michigan's Geoffrey Fieger and Miami's Jack
Thompson; ATLA astroturf and vaccines; man glued to toilet seat is
sticking to story; welcome Declan McCullagh readers; hockey fight
injury covered by workers' comp; Jay Sekulow's opulent finances;
initiatives on last week's ballot; and (this time much, much) more.