Litigation

Around the web, September 1

By Ted Frank

• Iqbal/Twombly update: the Congressional threat to pleading standards. [Corporate Counsel]
• An example of those oh-so-valuable required disclosures about climate change risks. [Bainbridge]
• California courts continue to eat away at risk/benefit test. [Cal Biz Lit]
• Marlo Lewis isn't sanguine about the DOJ brief in Connecticut v. AEP Power. [Pajamas; earlier]
• The threat of OSHA expansion. [Olson @ Cato; McClellan]
• Petition for writ of mandamus in Comer makes a strong case.
• Another challenge to Louisiana med-mal caps. [Louisiana Record]
• More dishonesty in the Jane Mayer New Yorker hit-piece on the Kochs. [Bernstein @ Volokh]
• Why the 2012 election is critical: Senator Leahy expects three or four Supreme Court appointments next term. [Vermont Press Bureau/Times-Argus]

Full post as published by Point of Law on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).