Litigation

Around the web, August 13

By Ted Frank

• Nonsensical "predatory pricing" case could bankrupt newspaper, reducing competition in San Francisco. [Welch @ Reason via Overlawyered]

• As a purchaser of Eclipse mints, I am intrigued by this Eclipse class-action settlement where the attorneys are asking for 33% of a $6M fund that is likely to mostly end up in a cy pres slush fund. [Jackson]
• A postmortem on Burrow v. Arce, a corrupt aggregate settlement, and whether new ALI rules on aggregate litigation would make any difference. [Brickman @ SSRN via TortsProf]
• New Federal Initiatives Project Paper on Title IX [Schmauch @ Fed Soc]
• The Democrats have inadvertently performed a beautiful empirical test proving the proposition that increasing unemployment benefits increases unemployment. [Lott]

Full post as published by Point of Law on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).