Litigation

Around the web, January 13

By Ted Frank

• More on the Wakefield vaccine/autism fraud. [Offit @ WSJ; Fumento; earlier @ POL]
• Privacy group lawsuit unsuccessfully asks DHS to turn over 2000 body scan images. [EPIC v. DHS (D.D.C. 2011) via BLT via Fed Soc; Kerr @ Volokh]
• Randy Maniloff, frequently cited here at POL, has co-written a new book on state insurance law. [Oxford U Press]
• How not to name a bill. [Blackman]
• UK to help address employment problem by reducing the legal expense of hiring and firing workers. NB that the last two Congresses have taken exactly the opposite approach and the unemployment rate has doubled to over 9% since then. [Olson @ Cato]
• Obamacare "neuters" HSAs. [Washington Examiner]
• Big business, Koch, free markets, and why it matters who benefits. [Tim Carney @ Washington Examiner; Tim Carney @ Washington Examiner]

Full post as published by Point of Law on January 13, 2011 (boomark / email).