Medical Malpractice

* We just might be one step closer to “qualified immunity” no longer being a “license to kill.” [Reason]

* Florida’s medical malpractice law keeps litigants in the dark. [WFLA]

* Come June 12th, it’ll be even easier to carry guns in Ohio. No way this will lead to more mourning mothers! [WTOL]

* Philly wants to reinstate a law that requires the reporting of lost or stolen firearms within 24 hours. [Axios]

* We don’t do that here: The 9th Circuit rules that plaintiffs don’t have to decline the option to arbitrate medical malpractice claims for federal court. [Claims Journal]

* The 9th Circuit may be determining if Twitter can be sued for sex trafficking soon. [Bloomberg Law]

* North Carolina’s Supreme Court is positioned to determine if nurses can be sued for medical malpractice. [Carolina Journal]

 * Must be something in the water: legal standard for water in LA could still be dangerous. [ABC 7]

* is helping cancer patients figure out their legal and financial troubles. Shouts out to Virginia! [WTVR]

* Ohio governor makes it easier to let out those Dionysian urges on a few key holidays. THE EXPLOSIONS WILL BE GLORIOUS! [WHIO]

* Easing older partners out the door presents all sorts of problems in eat-what-you-kill firms. [American Lawyer]

* Doctor saves juror’s life during med mal trial. [ABA Journal]

* Remember the cyclist who flipped off the Trump motorcade and then got fired from her job at a government contractor? Yeah, she’s suing over that BS. [Courthouse News Service]

* Do you want fries with that? NLRB’s top-notch customer service bends over backward to help McDonald’s avoid answering for labor law infractions. [Law360]

* South Korea’s former president gets 24 years in corruption case. [Reuters]

* State supreme court releases its opinion allowing Tarra Simmons to take the bar exam. [Seattle Times]

* Legal aid is moving into doctor’s offices to help pregnant women fight for their rights. [Slate]

Clinics should test their donated genetic material, or, at a minimum, be clear with patients what testing they are or are not doing.

Circumvent litigation by offering prompt disclosure, apology and compensation is an alternative to malpractice suits.

Legal trivia to wow at holiday parties.

It's like Funnybot is performing surgeries.

* An Assistant DA in Barrow, Alaska, was shot and killed the other day, allegedly by a man jealous that his ex-girlfriend had started dating the ADA. [KTUU]

* Legislature amends law “to protect quacks.” That sounds like a good use of their time. [Slate]

* David appeared on Today’s Verdict to discuss his new book, Supreme Ambitions. Also on the show was the creator of Lawsuit — The Game, featured in our holiday gift guide for lawyers. [BronxNet]

* “How Many Bites Do Sloppy Lawyers Get At The Apple?” Oh. I get it. [Redline]

* Lawrence Mitchell is back and talking about inequality. It’s much more what you’d expect from a legal academic than poetry about ogling women in the park. [Washington Post]

* Sometimes even squishy toys take a hit: Nerf ordered to pay $73 million in back royalties. [North Dallas Gazette]

* Congrats to Gawker General Counsel Heather Dietrick on her new role as President. [New York Observer]

* Sad news: Kirkland associate and Northwestern Law ’13 grad Jeremy Adler died unexpectedly last week. Our thoughts are with his family and friends. [Inside Bay Area]

* California AG Kamala Harris gets a profile in Vanity Fair. That’s good, I hear she’s the hottest AG in the country. [Law and More] * If you have an erection that lasts waaaaaaay longer than four hours, file suit. [Delaware Online] * A New York-area law student wants a tutor to help with the law review write-on competition. For the low, low price of $35/hour. Eh. It’s better than contract work in most markets (in case the link breaks I’ve got a screenshot). [Craigslist] * What the hell, here’s another job listing. Highlights: Unpaid summer associates, fighting for $12/hour positions, with one voted off the island every few days. The new economy is awesome! (Screenshot here.) [Craigslist] * Patriarch Partners founder and CEO Lynn Tilton, known for saying, “There are three universal lies: Margins are weak, but we’ll make it up in volume; the check’s in the mail; and I won’t come in your mouth,” prevailed in MBIA’s suit against her. [DealBreaker] * The federal government has made legalized pot difficult for states. Now the burgeoning pot industry is lobbying Congress to change federal laws to make their jobs easier. Come on pols, it’s time to turn your “pro-business” rhetoric to action. [TaxProf Blog] * Republican master spin doctor Frank Luntz is looking into how the Washington Redskins could save their name. This all grows out of the efforts of George Washington Law Professor John Banzhaf (second link) to push the franchise to change its name by lobbying broadcasting regulators to penalize broadcasters for repeating the slur that passes for a mascot. [PR-Inside] * Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery is enjoying an FBI probe into the fact that his wife — and chief aide — earned massive referral fees for sending clients to personal injury firms while working for the court and skirting the rules established by the chief justice. Given the amounts involved, I clearly need to get into the referral business. [Philadelphia Inquirer] * I’ve given Texas a hard time over the last week, but the Texas Court of Appeals for the First District did a little to redeem themselves with this opinion citing legal luminaries Patsy Cline and Daft Punk. Full opinion after the jump. Relevant cites on Texas Courts. Check it out…

* Twitter ordered to out anti-Semitic users by a French court. France wants to know the names of the anti-Semites so they can surrender to them. [Thomson Reuters News & Insights] * How are you feeling, Vermont Law School? Right now, you don’t look so good. [Constitutional Daily] * Now you too can see why AIG decided to not sue the government that bailed them out. [Dealbreaker] * Seems like these Catholic hospitals aren’t so strident about when life begins when there’s a malpractice lawsuit on the line. [Raw Story] * Though, according to some Republicans, fetuses might still be evidence — evidence that rape victims should not be allowed to “tamper” with (what a wonderful little party the GOP has going there). [Gawker] * Orly Taitz: Still Bats**t crazy. [Huffington Post] * The Maryland State Police have to turn over racial profiling complaints to the NAACP. Man, wouldn’t that have made a good season of The Wire? “The Staties.” Carcetti would be Governor. McNulty would be getting away from it all by tending bar in the D.C. area, only to get sucked back in when he passes a state trooper arresting Bubs for driving while black through Takoma Park. [Baltimore Sun]

A medical malpractice lawsuit raises this question: Is 26 hours too long to wait before you seek medical attention for your erection?

* The TSA must be stopped. They’re now leaving creepy notes when they spy personal items in your luggage. [Not So Private Parts / Forbes] * Law students, trust me, there’s nothing on your Facebook page that three more points on the LSAT won’t fix. [WSJ Law Blog] * Berkeley Law 1Ls are playing an […]

* The Westboro Baptist Church has announced — on an iPhone — that it will be picketing Steve Jobs’s funeral. And now I have an Alanis Morissette song stuck in my head. [Los Angeles Times] * Price check on aisle seven. Price check on aisle seven for a divorce train wreck. People over in England […]

Some of you have been wondering about the whereabouts of our colleague, Elie Mystal. As several of you have noticed, he hasn’t written for these pages since last Tuesday. No, Elie’s not still on vacation. Unfortunately, he’s on sick leave: he has been bedridden since Tuesday with tonsillitis and an acute sinus infection. Either he’ll […]