Peter Schuck asserts that “The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Wyeth v. Levine gives unprecedented power to juries in deciding issues far outside their expertise.” This is a very strange claim. The tort system wasn’t created this Tuesday; juries, for better or worse, have had the authority to make judgments about torts for centuries. How […]
Month: March 2009
I have created an ESPN Tournament Challenge group; winner receives an LGM related prize. Speaking of which, the owner of the Knows Pickers, victor of LGM Bowl Mania, has yet to contact me with his/her
Heh. Perhaps Hu Jintao should consider forming an exploratory committee for the 2012 Republican primary… According to Gallup, Communist, melamine exporting, beating us in the Olympics China is n
This kind of reform of draconian drug laws is, admittedly, a second best option. lower maximum sentences along with the treatment option would be preferable. Just increasing judicial discretion doesn’t always mean less draconian penalties and also makes the process more arbitrary (a particular danger where the War on (Some Classes of People Who Use […]
In re: MoDo, what Chait and Yglesias and Benen said. In criticizing Dowd for focusing almost entirely on inane personal trivia larded with her bizarre gender obsessions, I might have implied that she
Michael Lewis has a fascinating and horrifying piece in the current Vanity Fair on how Iceland went bankrupt. A handful of guys in Iceland, who had no experience of finance, were taking out tens of bi
I have an op-ed up at Comment is Free: Were Obama serious about exchanging missile defence for Russia’s assistance to Iran, he wouldn’t have been hinting at the elimination of the programme for the last several months. Rather, he’d be trying to convince the Russians that he actually valued missile defence.
Diana Levine, a professional musician, developed gangrene after taking Phenergan through a direct injection and had her arm amputated below the elbow. A jury in Vermont held that the drug’s manu
Part of the Bush administration’s strategy for “locking in” missile defense in case of a Democratic presidential victory was to conclude agreements with Poland and the Czech Republic
It probably would not shock you to know that under the Bush administration the Forest Service sold timber for logging without the legally required notice, comment and appeal provisions because of a recent regulations declining to apply these requirements to smaller parcels of land. The government settled a suit brought by several environmental organizations, but […]
This interesting-looking (well, to me) Slate book club reminds me that I just read another recent book about Marbury that attempts to at least partially debunk the decision that Sloan apparently puts
Named for the grandfathers he’ll never have the good fortune to meet, John Galt Orrin Corliss Hayes Noon was born this morning at 4:06 a.m. He weighed in at 8 lb., 1 oz., and seems to be in fant