Litigation

Around the web, July 22

By Ted Frank

• Fifth Circuit: Reasonable to dismiss individual Vioxx MDL cases where plaintiffs failed to produce supporting expert report. [Wajert]
• Third Circuit tightens standard for class certification in settlement classes. (Congratulations to blogger Howard Bashman, who argued the appeal.) [Legal Intelligencer; Sullivan v. DB Investments]
• Only eight out of 149 entry-level law-school tenure-track hires in 2005, 2007, and 2009 were identifiably conservative. Jim Lindgren comments @ Volokh. [NLJ; Spencer & Phillips @ SSRN]
• No charges in politically-motivated investigation of politically-motivated firings of political appointee U.S. Attorneys. [AP/Fox]
• Anonymous support for DISCLOSE Act, which will restrict anonymous speech. [Center for Competitive Politics via IJ]
• Five myths about the death penalty. [WaPo]
• Canada moves toward a free-market health-care model. [Gratzer]
• The ultimate NHTSA defect safety complaint. [Fumento via Overlawyered]

Full post as published by Point of Law on July 22, 2010 (boomark / email).