Torts
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Law Schools
If You Needed A Sign Biden Was Delusional, Look No Further
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Courts
Since When Should Happy Meals Burn A Little Kid's Legs?
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Lawsuit of the Day
Nightmare Tesla Lawsuit Is Why We Need Tort Law
Family claims man burned to death in car because doors wouldn't open.
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Law Schools
Like So Many Law School Students Before Her, Kim Kardashian Loves Talking About How Hard She Works
Sacrificing TV time to study torts? Sounds like a law student to me. -
Law Schools
Kim Kardashian Flexes Over Torts Grade
Kim Kardashian's study methods seem to be paying off for her. -
Law Schools
1L Fails Torts, Decides To Sue Law School
He wants a copy of everyone's exams in an effort to prove his wasn't the worst. -
Law Students
Law Students Survive Terrifying Elevator Torts Issue-Spotter Before Exams
Can you spot all the ways this elevator tried to murder them? -
Family Law
Time For A New Tort: Reproductive Negligence
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Labor / Employment, On The Job, Sexual Harassment
Can Harvey Weinstein Be Successfully Sued?
Can the women who have accused him of sexual harassment (or worse) recover damages? -
Biglaw, Technology
Biglaw Attorney Reengineering The Defense Of Mass Tort Claims
Could unbundling legal services be the new reality for the practice of mass torts law? -
Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 08.24.17
* If you get hurt by a tree in New York City, who is going to pay your medical bills? [Cityland]
* I don’t care what anyone says, 100% Law & Order got me through Evidence. [Law and More]
* Now there’s a lawsuit to eliminate this shocking program. [SCOT Blog]
* Can you sell used MP3 files? (Legally, I mean.) [Copyright Alliance]
* Speaking of judges using their position to make changes… [Slate]
* Building meaningful mentoring relationships. [Legal Executive Institute]
* What are the best practices when conducting a multilingual document review? [United Language Group]
* This crazy story keeps getting more interesting. [Huffington Post]
* What tools do you use to stop overthinking? [Corporette]
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 08.23.17
* Statues of Chief Justice Roger Taney may have been removed in his native Maryland, but don’t expect his bust to be removed from the Supreme Court’s Great Hall or his portrait to be taken down from the high court’s East conference room in the near future. The visage of the Dred Scott opinion’s author will remain. [National Law Journal]
* The Charlotte School of Law may be dead, but that doesn’t mean that former students’ proposed class-action lawsuits against the school have been put out to pasture. Though the bulk of the claims were dismissed, two such cases with allegations of unfair and deceptive trade practices have survived motions for summary judgment. Best of luck against Infilaw’s first fallen school. [Law.com]
* Much to his defense attorney Benjamin Bratman’s chagrin, the names of the jurors who convicted Martin Shkreli of securities fraud have been released. They’ve been talking to the press about the disgraced pharma bro, and one of them referred to him as “his own worst enemy.” [DealBook / New York Times]
* Meanwhile, Martin Shkreli’s ex-lawyer, former Kaye Scholer partner Evan Greebel, remains charged with wire fraud conspiracy, a charge on which Shkreli was acquitted by a jury. Greebel’s defense attorneys at Gibson Dunn have called this “a Kafkaesque scenario,” that is “frightening for every corporate lawyer in America simply doing their jobs representing clients.” [New York Law Journal]
* Berkeley Law is planning to launch a hybrid online/on-campus LL.M. program for foreign-educated attorneys. Students will be able to complete their fall and spring semesters online, but must attend classes on campus at the law school during the summer months. Tuition is a whopping $57,471. [The Recorder]
* Earlier this week, a California jury handed down the largest verdict thus far in a talcum powder cancer case against Johnson & Johnson. The plaintiff, Eva Echeverria, who had used J&J baby powder since the 1950s and was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2007, was awarded $417 million. [Consumer Affairs]
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 06.20.17
* Justice Thomas wants the Court to reconsider qualified immunity. [Volokh Conspiracy]
* Stephen Colbert roasts Donald Trump’s new lawyer. [Huffington Post]
* Get your damn story straight already. [Slate]
* This is just a lawsuit waiting to happen. [Lowering the Bar]
* A deep look at the gerrymandering case, with Professor Rick Hasen. [Bloomberg Law Radio]
* Rachel’s choice. [Salon]
* Dealing with debt. [Law and More]
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Litigators, Politics
State Accidentally Abolishes ‘American Rule’ For Attorneys’ Fees
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Non-Sequiturs
Non-Sequiturs: 02.24.17
* Big scoop: here’s what Merrick Garland is really up to. [Clickhole]
* “I love the First Amendment. Nobody loves it better than me.” …and other lies the president told me. [Huffington Post]
* Hey! Remember law school? Remember torts? Remember the “spring gun case”? Here’s an interview with the lawyer behind that one. [Coverage Opinions]
* In an alternative universe, Melania Trump is a deportation priority, not the First Lady. [Slate]
* Yes, after 20 pages even a federal judge’s eyes start to glaze over. [Law Prose]
* Budget cuts are behind the IRS’s 10 year low audit rate. [TaxProf Blog]
* The robots can’t duplicate expert opinions. [Law and More]
* Can two people keep a secret if one of them is a robot? [Ars Technica]
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Tort Reform
The Truth Comes Out About One Of The Most Maligned Lawsuits In History
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Morning Docket
Morning Docket: 12.13.16
* What happens when a Biglaw associate at a prestigious firm is allegedly injured so badly in the D.C. subway that he’s prevented from working as an associate at that firm? He files a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Washington Metro Transit Authority, obviously. We’ll have more on this later. [Big Law Business]
* A federal judge has dismissed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein’s bid for a recount in Pennsylvania as absurd, writing in a 31-page opinion that her theory of the hacking of the state’s electronic voting machines “borders on the irrational.” Ouch. [Reuters]
* Justice Stephen Breyer continued his assault against capital punishment this week, dissenting from his Supreme Court colleagues’ decision not to hear a death row inmate’s case. In that dissent, he didn’t discuss the evidence against the inmate, but rather, he discussed the evidence against the death penalty in America. [New York Times]
* Abortion-rights activists from the Center for Reproductive Rights have sought an injunction against the implementation of a controversial Texas regulation that would require the burial or cremation of fetal remains because it “imposes a funeral ritual on women who have … an abortion.” As if HB 2 wasn’t bad enough… [WSJ Law Blog]
* School-by-school results from the July 2016 administration of the California bar exam have finally been released (albeit not publicly, until now), and considering that the overall pass rate was the lowest it’s been in 32 years, law schools did not fare well. Which did the best, and which did the worst? We’ll have more on this later. [The Recorder]
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Law Professors, News, Technology, Video games
Pokémon Go Could Kill You, Warns Law Professor
“Death by Pokemon is coming.” -
Trivia Question of the Day
Fireworks In Legal History
Just in time for the Fourth, we have some fireworks trivia.