Medical roundup
“Unthinkable”: Cuomo executive order protects New York medical professionals from liability for much care extended during the emergency [Robert Gavin, Albany Times-Union] Will liability capsize the...
View ArticleCOVID-19 pandemic roundup
As country eyes path to reopening, restart of non-COVID-19 medical care, including postponed surgeries, is desperately needed [Hans Bader, James Bacon (Virginia governor’s “statewide ban on elective...
View ArticleCrow for them, Pai for us: American Internet policies outpace Europe’s in the...
As demand for videoconferencing and other online services soars in the pandemic emergency, European policymakers “are now eating crow and entreating video platforms to downgrade the quality of their...
View ArticleJanuary 29 roundup
Authorities arrested man who stood in front of courthouse passing out leaflets encouraging jury nullification. Michigan Supreme Court should uphold his First Amendment rights [Clark Neily and Jay...
View Article“What Does California’s New Data Privacy Law Mean? Nobody Agrees”
The new California law on consumer data is stringent but, as is so often the case with that state’s legislation, less than pellucidly clear [Natasha Singer, New York Times] : “Companies have different...
View ArticleDestructive rights of student inclusion
If you have wondered how the Parkland killer could have asserted a legal right to be “mainstreamed” into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School despite a long history of violent tendencies, this...
View ArticleGerman court: search engines must deindex reports of 1981 double murder
In case you were wondering exactly where the supposed “right to be forgotten” leads in Internet regulation: A convicted murderer in Germany has the right to get all mention of his crime deleted from...
View ArticleClass action roundup
“Prices may vary” disclaimer said too small: “A Couple Is Suing Taco Bell for Overcharging Them $2.18 for Chalupas” [Jelisa Castrodale, Vice] “Bronx man sues NBC Universal over ‘unlimited’ soda...
View ArticleLiability roundup
Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, long a forum-shopping destination, draws lawyers to sue over cladding after London’s Grenfell Tower fire [David Murrell, Philadelphia magazine] Georgia lawprof...
View Article“Wuest’s litigation history is more than unusual”
Judge William Alsup of the federal court in San Francisco has refused a motion to certify a privacy class action in which the named plaintiff would be a man who has “filed 10 other California Invasion...
View ArticleMedical roundup
“Unthinkable”: Cuomo executive order protects New York medical professionals from liability for much care extended during the emergency [Robert Gavin, Albany Times-Union] Will liability capsize the...
View ArticleCOVID-19 pandemic roundup
As country eyes path to reopening, restart of non-COVID-19 medical care, including postponed surgeries, is desperately needed [Hans Bader, James Bacon (Virginia governor’s “statewide ban on elective...
View ArticleCrow for them, Pai for us: American Internet policies outpace Europe’s in the...
As demand for videoconferencing and other online services soars in the pandemic emergency, European policymakers “are now eating crow and entreating video platforms to downgrade the quality of their...
View ArticleJanuary 29 roundup
Authorities arrested man who stood in front of courthouse passing out leaflets encouraging jury nullification. Michigan Supreme Court should uphold his First Amendment rights [Clark Neily and Jay...
View Article“What Does California’s New Data Privacy Law Mean? Nobody Agrees”
The new California law on consumer data is stringent but, as is so often the case with that state’s legislation, less than pellucidly clear [Natasha Singer, New York Times] : “Companies have different...
View ArticleDestructive rights of student inclusion
If you have wondered how the Parkland killer could have asserted a legal right to be “mainstreamed” into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School despite a long history of violent tendencies, this...
View ArticleGerman court: search engines must deindex reports of 1981 double murder
In case you were wondering exactly where the supposed “right to be forgotten” leads in Internet regulation: A convicted murderer in Germany has the right to get all mention of his crime deleted from...
View ArticleClass action roundup
“Prices may vary” disclaimer said too small: “A Couple Is Suing Taco Bell for Overcharging Them $2.18 for Chalupas” [Jelisa Castrodale, Vice] “Bronx man sues NBC Universal over ‘unlimited’ soda...
View ArticleLiability roundup
Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, long a forum-shopping destination, draws lawyers to sue over cladding after London’s Grenfell Tower fire [David Murrell, Philadelphia magazine] Georgia lawprof...
View Article“Wuest’s litigation history is more than unusual”
Judge William Alsup of the federal court in San Francisco has refused a motion to certify a privacy class action in which the named plaintiff would be a man who has “filed 10 other California Invasion...
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