Litigation

Around the web, May 17

By Ted Frank

• Review of "Inside a Class Action: The Holocaust and Swiss Banks," with attention paid to the battle between Ed Fagan and Michael Hausfeld. [Trask]
• Second Circuit acts to narrow Twombly in antitrust conspiracy case. [WLF; CPI Antitrust Journal; Loeb & Loeb; Class Action Defense blog; Starr v. Sony BMG]
• More on the party-line Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Goodwin Liu. [Bader @ Examiner; Judicial Crisis Network coverage]
• $28 million in punitive damages for bedsore in Sacramento. [Sacramento Bee via Cal Biz Lit and Cutting]
• Husband discovers wife is having affair through cell-phone bill, divorces her; wife sues cell-phone company. [Toronto Star (h/t M.Y.)]
• Governor Christie gives a straight answer, but the Star-Ledger is not impressed. [Star-Ledger]
• Obama administration apologizes to China for human rights violations. No, sadly, I don't have that backwards. [Daily Caller; Corner; Powerline]

Full post as published by Point of Law on May 17, 2010 (boomark / email).