Litigation

Around the web, August 25

By Ted Frank

• Pennsylvania Supreme Court punts on ruling on state-hired contingency-fee attorneys. [Wajert; earlier from Drug & Device Law]
• Good summary of RAND report on 524(g) asbestos personal-injury trusts. [Behrens/Silverman @ WLF; RAND; Fisher @ Forbes]
• Third Circuit holds (in a non-precedential opinion) that Delaware does not recognize medical monitoring. [LNL]

• The Gulf Coast Claims Facility website is live, and Ken Feinberg is being lobbied to let the doors wide open. [WaPo/AP; NYT; more NYT; WSJ]
• Ecuador court about to issue questionable decision in Chevron case. [Recorder ($) via CJAC; Reuters/NYT]
• Refutation of Professor Fitzpatrick's claim that class-action lawyers paid too little. [Trask; Fitzpatrick]
• The problem of criminalizing fiduciary breach. [Ribstein]
• California courts are unilaterally undoing 2004 workers' comp reforms, and rates are rising as a result. [OL; OC Register; Ogilvie v. San Francisco]
• The appalling Jane Mayer hit-piece on the Koch brothers—which seems to be coordinated with and/or anticipating an Obama administration attack. [Stoll; Welch @ Reason; Erickson; Koch response; @radleybalko]
• Spitzer vs. The Wall Street Journal. [Lehmann]
• Disparate impact? New York state tax affects sliced bagels, but not sliced bread. [WSJ via @thegarance]

Full post as published by Point of Law on August 25, 2010 (boomark / email).