Interesting comments by Judge Rakoff are available in a thirty minute podcast interview on intersections between science and law. Among...

PACER’s fees are under attack in a lawsuit now at the summary judgment stage. The lawsuit is described in a very partisan article I...

As the shutdown evolves, SCOTUS will remain at work, at least for a month or so.  A January 21, 2018  post at SCOTUSblog provides a...

Jock McCulloch (and colleagues) wrote multiple books attacking companies that manufactured and/or sold asbestos-containing products in...

The lines between legal doctrines sometimes intersect. One of those intersections lies between tort law and criminal law. That...

Advances in gene therapy are accelerating the pace and scale of the revolution in molecular biology. A new, open access review article in...

Hunting down poachers using genetic data from animals is a cool new use of genetic data; the idea arose from some creative thinking.  The...

Pasted below is a fascinating press release from a proteomics company known as SomaLogic. The gist is the scientists were able to predict...

Despite a rather hysterical headline,  this January 2, 2018 Daily Mail article provides interesting pictures of the inside of an old...

Securities suits were filed at highest ever levels, as calculated by D&O Diary. The specifics are set out in January 1, 2018 post at the...

Bloomberg provided an interesting year end article (December 21 – here) with plaintiff and defense views on the class action impact (or...

The molecular revolution continues to expand. Some of the new evidence arises from the FDA’s December 19, 2017 approval of a therapy...

The times they are a changing, as evidenced by this January 10 and 11 workshop sponsored by NAS:  The Promise of Genome Editing Tools to...

The State AG Report from Cozen O’Connor provides useful insights into the actions of state AGs. The publications include a blog and a...

I remain too busy to write much, but can make time to pass on legal insight tinged with wry humor. It’s a December 8, 2017 post from...

The Bestwall chapter 11 case has a non-pacer web site that can be used to track the case. It is: https://www.donlinrecano.com/Clients/bw/...

As some of us predicted years ago, global litigation continues to expand in both class actions and other forms of collective actions. ...

Various forums continue to compete to resolve civil law issues and/or offer specialized “business friendly” laws (e.g tax shelters)....

It’s interesting to watch the missiles and counter-missiles used by “repeat players” in “mass tort” litigation. A prime example arose in...

“Ellen Wertheimer & Mark Rahdert have posted to SSRN The Force Awakens:  Tincher, Section 402A and the Third Restatement in...