Litigation

Around the web, October 19

By Ted Frank

• Wouldn't you know, those foreclosure moratoria have effects on people other than people who haven't paid their mortgages. [WaPo]
• The libertarian challenge to Obamacare. [Epstein]
• Maryland high court upholds damages caps. [Fisher]
• Paycheck Fairness Act will put small businesses out of business. [NLJ]
• NY court rejects product-liability theory when no alternative design offered. [WLF]
• Possible sanctions for lawyers who misrepresented facts to court in getting unconstitutional prior restraint on reporter in POM case. [NLJ]
• A couple of Wisconsin attorneys are skeptical of civil Gideon proposals in that state. [Wisc. LJ; Petrie Stocking]
• South Carolina high court to decide if "poker is a game of skill" loophole will permit home poker games without state interference. [Post and Courier]
• Democrats' glass house on foreign money. [Hayward @ NRO]

Full post as published by Point of Law on October 19, 2010 (boomark / email).