Litigation

Around the web, January 20

By Ted Frank

• New York Times covers litigation financing; Ribstein discusses.

• Medical malpractice reform possible? The House Judiciary Committee is holding hearings today at 10:30; Rep. Lamar Smith's memo introducing the topic cited my work. But the Committee doesn't have a functional website yet, so we'll link to an ex-Obama administration official's op-ed on the topic. [Orszag @ NYT]

• Salon gets around to pulling RFK Jr.'s appalling "Deadly Immunity" anti-vaccine article; and don't miss part 2 of the BMJ expose. [Discover; Olson; Adler @ Volokh]
• Luther Campbell discusses his experience as a civil defendant, complaining that he had to pay his attorney "Elena-Kagan money." [Miami New Times]
• Oral argument in the Supreme Court Matrixx securities case. [10b-5 Daily; Securities Law Prof; WSJ Law Blog]
• CCAF wins Classmates.com objection; opinion to come. [CCAF; earlier at POL]
• Stupid legal threat against Boing Boing runs into the Streisand effect.
• Eight crazy constitutional scenarios. [Oliva]

Full post as published by Point of Law on January 20, 2011 (boomark / email).