Jonathan Cohn reports that smoking in the U.S. has hit an historic low. He explains: New survey data, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Tuesday morning, suggests that just 15.2 percent of American adults are now using cigarettes on a regular basis. That smoking rate is nearly 2 percentage points lower […]
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by Paul Alan Levy Louisiana lawyer David Groner has made a few mistakes. Which was the most serious? David Groner's Misconduct Toward Clients At some point time before January 18, 2007, one of Groner’s associates filed a lawsuit on behalf of some clients in the wrong venue; the defendants moved to dismiss. Groner’s firm nevertheless […]
We discussed last week the pending petitions in the Supreme Court regarding Obamacare coverage for contraception. Yesterday, Judge Richard Leon of federal district court in D.C. ruled in favor of contraception-mandate challenger March for Life (a pro-life, non-religious non-profit) and enjoined the federal government from enforcing the mandate against it, ruling that the mandate violated […]
The Times has the story here.
…reports The Consumerist. We all know the background: airlines have been consolidating into fewer and fewer airlines in recent years. Since July, no fewer than 75 complaints have charged that the airlines violated federal antitrust laws; according to The Consumerist, United, American, Delta and Southwest now account for 80% of all domestic air travel. Here's […]
We celebrated Dodd-Frank's 5-year anniversary on July 21 2015, by aggregating some news coverage of the event. You may also want to read a negative account of the law contained in law professor Todd Zywicki's congressional testimony, entitled The Dodd-Frank Act Five Years Later: Are We More Stable? Here is the abstract: This congressional testimony […]
…reports Bloomberg Business. A recent decision by the Second Circuit (on which the court this month rejected a motion to reconsider) restricts the so-called marketplace lenders from bypassing state usury laws by partnering with banks in states where there are no such rules. The ruling effectively would stop a practice whereby the lenders can make […]
As Reason.com reports, in a recent case in federal court in northern California, Officials sought the right to track suspects' Cell Site Location Information, or CSLI, for 60 days without gaining a warrant. Such location information lets law enforcement track the whereabouts of our cell phones in relation to cell towers. . . . The […]
…is the title of a Post op-ed questioning whether federal student loan assistance is most wisely allocated toward grad schools. The piece questions, in particular, low-rate loans for law students: Nowhere has Grad PLUS [the government's loan assistance program for graduate students] had a greater impact than in the nation’s law schools. Law-student indebtedness grew […]
A 135-page class-action-complaint filed yesterday in federal court in Los Angeles alleges that the major car manufacturers are liable because their keyless ignition systems create a carbon monoxide hazard. This story by Jonathan Stempel explains: Ten of the world's biggest automakers were sued on Wednesday by U.S. consumers who claim they concealed the risks of carbon […]