Miscellaneous

March 19 roundup

By Walter Olson, Ted Frank, and David Nieporent

• UK: Paramedic twists ankle on steps responding to emergency call, plans to sue elderly couple [Daily Mail]
• Critics say litigiousness is part of the business plan for rental outfit Leasecomm, which has sued its customers more than 92,000 times [Boston Globe, Daily News Transcript]
• Great big predators of the alternative press? Jury awards $15 million against SF Weekly to its main competitor, Bay Guardian [SF Chronicle]
• Tacoma public schools sued after mentally ill student brings gun to school and kills classmate [KOMO]
• How the parties traded positions with each other on trade [Gordon, Commentary]
• Now Canada has its own "human rights" complaint against plastic surgeon who declines to undertake transgender-related surgery [Steyn, Macleans; earlier Catholic hospital case from California]
• Florida Supreme Court hears appeal of Joe Anderson $18 million "false light" defamation verdict against Gannett's Pensacola News-Journal [WSJ law blog; earlier]
• Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman keeps suing bloggers and dragging websites before those Canadian hate-speech tribunals, so no criticizing him please [Levant, Five Feet of Fury, Steyn]
• Discontent continues over judges' standardless discretion in granting alimony awards [NLJ]
• Death of widow Alice Lawrence isn't expected to end her litigation with law firm Graubard Miller over contingency fee [NYLJ; earlier]
• Labor arbitrator tells Florida school to rehire employee who reported to work with cocaine in his system [six years ago on Overlawyered]

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