Law Roundtable

The AP reports that a "lawsuit seeks what attorneys say could be billions of dollars from a long list of oil companies for damages to wetlands that allegedly would have softened Hurricane Katrina's blow." Attorneys...

Threatens to sue a blogger over a joke T-shirt (via Sullivan)....

Australia's ABC network discusses the idea ("Law group suggests legal action over late doctors", Sept. 13) as do KevinMD's commenters (Sept. 13). It's not actually new, though: a Nevada patient filed an action in small...

All sorts of interesting reporting on the news side of the subscriber-only WSJ:In one of Douglas Fougnies's early business ventures, he provided phony new-vehicle titles for stolen cars. His partner, Larry Day, is a onetime...

Blogger Amber points to the tale of a transsexual survivor of Katrina being arrested for using the woman's room and asks "Why not have unisex bathrooms?" One obvious reason is that, in commercial establishments at...

For the last 24 hours+ new postings to this site have been disabled due to technical difficulties. We're back up now, for the moment, but the continuing recurrence of these technical problems is going to...

"As floodwaters consumed their hospitals, nurses and doctors throughout New Orleans took heroic measures to save hundreds of patients. But could the facilities' owners still be liable for the effects of the disaster? Dallas-based Tenet...

I was a guest on Kirby Wilbur's nationally syndicated radio show last Friday, based at Seattle's KVI, to discuss the Supreme Court vacancy. Yesterday I appeared on Danny Fontana's Charlotte-based show and Ron Smith's popular...

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