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Settlement mills – how good are they for access to justice?
Settlement mills are allegedly edgy law firms that process high volume – law value personal injury cases. In a recent paper, Nora Freeman Engstrom provides detailed account of the practices of s… more →
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Outdated Legal Doctrines
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wrote 1 week ago: The law of contract, based on the consent of the parties, and the law of torts, based on our obligat … more →
Licenses & easements.
wrote 3 weeks ago: When we left Novella yesterday, she had just spoken with the owner of the large lot on which she had … more →
Guerrilla Gardening & Trespass
wrote 4 weeks ago: You may have heard of Novella Carpenter, an urban farmer with a small city lot in a particularly gri … more →
5 Questions to Ask When Considering a Structured Settlement
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wrote 1 month ago: Structured settlements — under which a plaintiff compromises a personal injury claim in exchange for … more →
It turns out that this song was ACTUALLY supposed to be about Big Brother and government... but everyone mistook it for a love song? Whoops?
wrote 1 month ago: T-Rex: It’s starting to get to the point where I now want to write an entire bar exam based of … more →
Environmental liability
wrote 1 month ago: Let me suggest a solution to the fracking problem. The self-styled energy companies want to draw nat … more →
Vicarious liability
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wrote 1 month ago: The doctrine of vicarious liability states that an employer is liable for the negligence (torts) and … more →
Supreme Court Grants Review in Takings/Flooding Case
wrote 1 month ago: Black River Wildlife Management Area The U.S. Supreme Court has granted review in what will be the f … more →
NCA Releases draft of proposed amendments to the Copyright Law for Comment
wrote 1 month ago: On March 31, 2012 the PRC National Copyright Administration (“NCA”) released for comment the first d … more →
The New York Times Goes to War Against Generic Drug Manufacturers: Schactman
wrote 2 months ago: Schactman gives an interesting legal update today on his blog concerning the issue in my post Generi … more →
10 Questions to Help Figure Out Whether a Police Officer Will Make a Good Witness
wrote 2 months ago: You’ve taken on a car accident case. Who’s going to be your best witness? Many times it … more →
You know, if I had focused on patent law I could probably make so many awesome Science/Law jokes.
wrote 2 months ago: T-Rex: Man, tort law is so old. Tort law is so old, when it started the Founding Fathers were just F … more →
I honestly feel like I'm the Utahraptor to everyone else's T-Rex a lot of the time.
wrote 3 months ago: T-Rex: Do you know what has so much promise but ends up being a huge snoozefest? T-Rex: The Alien To … more →
Sioux Sue
wrote 3 months ago: The Oglala Sioux tribe is suing a number of beer companies because they blame those companies for ch … more →
Bill Vander Zalm: Former B.C. Premiers Flustered During Testy Exchanges With Lawyer Over Lawsuit - my comment
wrote 3 months ago: My comment on a CP story in The Huffington Post Read the original story here ——— … more →
Indian News Exposes ISKCON
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The Cost of Non-Regulation
wrote 3 months ago: The debate over pipelines in New York, and from Canada through the midwest, has been cast as the val … more →
Lead Paint, Lead Poisoning, and Tort Law
wrote 4 months ago: From the Madison Capital Times: When Republicans passed their far-reaching tort reform bill last yea … more →
Personal Injury Statute of Limitations in Rhode Island
wrote 4 months ago: Many people do not know that they only have a certain amount of time to bring a lawsuit after they h … more →
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