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That’s Walter Olson’s take on the left’s current campaign to shut down dollar stores. For a full discussion of this latest piece of progressive lunacy, see Unjust Deserts by Steven Malanga:…
Last week, CTV reported that, “The Federal Court has ordered Air Canada to pay a total of $21,000 to two francophones for repeated violations of their language rights including seatbelts on which…
According to reporter Julie Havlak’s most recent article in Carolina Journal, 137 optical factory workers – 76 of whom are blind – are likely to lose their jobs in Winston…
Walter Olson writes for the Washington Examiner about a frightening new policy across the pond. It’s like, “Your papers, please,” but for things you own. Authorities in Britain have begun…
That’s the first line of a New York Post story about a blind man who filed a class action lawsuit alleging that Playboy’s website violates the Americans with Disabilities Act:…
Here’s Walter Olson’s description of Elizabeth Warren’s latest proposal: Presidential candidate and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) wants to see more business people behind bars, and she’s not fussy about how…
From John Locke Foundation’s director of legal studies, Jon Guze – I’m not familiar with his work at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, and I haven’t…
When President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court, I was thrilled. I had read and admired his opinions for years, and, when people asked me what I…
Fortunately, Walter Olson has provided one at overlawyered.com: Biggest recruit yet for climate recoupment suits: NYC Mayor Bill De Blasio sues … five oil companies for Superstorm Sandy [Seth Barron/City…
That’s how a Department of Justice press release characterizes a recent memo issued by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Writing at Cato’s overlawyered blog, Walter Olson agrees: This is an initiative of potentially…
This morning, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling in TC Heartland LLC v. Kraft Foods Group. Walter Olson calls it “a landmark win for defendants in patent litigation” and adds: A…
In yet another review of Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, the London Spectator’s Helen Dale notes that: Vance makes few policy suggestions, most of them mild. However, his account of a debate in…