Miscellaneous

January 15 roundup

By Walter Olson, Ted Frank, and David Nieporent

• Client's suit against Houston tort lawyer George Fleming alleges that cost of echocardiograms done on other prospective clients was deducted as expenses from her fen-phen settlement [Texas Lawyer]
• Preparing to administer bar exam, New York Board of Law Examiners isn't taking any chances, will require hopefuls to sign liability waivers [ABA Journal]
• Thanks to Steven Erickson for guestblogging last week, check out his blogging elsewhere [Crime & Consequences, e.g.]
• "Freedom of speech" regarded as Yankee concept at Canadian tribunal? [Steyn @ NRO Corner; reactions]
• Court rules Dan Rather suit against CBS can go to discovery [NYMag; earlier here, here]
• Served seventeen years in prison on conviction for murdering his parents, till doubts on his guilt grew too loud to ignore [Martin Tankleff case]
• Orin Kerr and commenters discuss Gomez v. Pueblo County, the recent case where inmate sued jail for (among other things) making it too easy for him to escape [Volokh]
• New at Point of Law: Cleveland's suit against subprime lending is even worse than Baltimore's; Massachusetts takes our advice and adopts payee notification; law firm websites often promote medical misinformation; lawyer for skier suing 8-year-old boy wants court to stop family from talking to the press; Ted rounds up developments in Vioxx litigation; guess where you'll find a handsome statue of Adam Smith; and much more;
• Good news for "resourceful cuckolds" as courts let stand $750,000 alienation of affection award to wronged Mississippi husband [The Line Is Here; ABCNews.com]
• Kimball County, Nebraska cops don't know whether that $69,040 in cash they seized from a car is going to be traceable to drug traffickers, but plan to keep it in any case [Omaha World-Herald via The Line Is Here]
• Hunter falls out of tree, and Geoffrey Fieger finds someone for him to sue [seven years ago on Overlawyered]

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