Litigation

Around the web, March 28

By Ted Frank

• Google Book Search settlement struck down. [WLF]
• Oklahoma rejects cell phone provider liability for failure to warn for distracted driving. [Jackson]
• The problems of empirical studies on judicial preemption decisions. [Beck]
• Many Texas defense attorneys more concerned about tort reform effect on them than on their clients. [law.com/Texas Lawyer]
• California legislature rejects mild punitive damages reform. [CJAC]
• Justice at Stake proposes solution to judge-shopping problem caused by Chief Judge Lippman's new disqualification requirements. [LNL; earlier]
• $60k award reversed for theater telling patrons to turn off cell phones on theory that request was racist. [Volokh]
• Beware the estate of James Joyce. [Forbes via MR]

Full post as published by Point of Law on March 28, 2011 (boomark / email).