Miscellaneous

January 14 roundup

By Walter Olson, Ted Frank, and David Nieporent

• Professors debate fourth-amendment implications of Supreme Court's use of videotape evidence. Orin seems to have the better of it by my eyes, but perhaps that's just my confirmation bias. [Kerr @ Volokh; Kahan/Hoffman/Braman; Youtube; Concurring Opinions] (And update: rejoinder by Braman @ Concurring Opinions)
• Repeat after me: medical errors or complications are not always medical malpractice. [Dr. Wes; Medical Progress Today]
• NC court speaks out for judicial restraint before creating new cause of action. [Beck/Herrmann]
• California proposes allowing government to remotely set your thermostat [Walter Williams; Cafe Hayek]
• Old problems not getting any better: "a New York Times article in 1897 (!), which reported that The Committee for Remedial Legislation in Regard to Expert Testimony called for all physician witnesses to be paid by the county." [PlasticSurgery101]
• Remember Lionel Tate, the 12-year-old who murdered a 6-year-old, and then provoked outrage when he was sentenced to life at the age of 14? His sentence was reversed, he was given probation, and promptly violated it by committing armed robbery, it seems. Now he wants to blame his lawyer for the resulting 30-year-sentence. [ABA Journal]

Full post as published by Overlawyered on January 14, 2008 (boomark / email).