Weekend Various and Sundry

Request for lawyers to surge to Iraq (WSJ Law Blog).  I like how the way to find the job posting is search for “rule of law.”

FISA news round up (EFF).

More on the calls to fire John Yoo (Law.com).  I agree with this, from the Dean of the Berkeley law school:

“Assuming one believes as I do that Professor Yoo offered bad ideas and even worse advice during his government service, that judgment alone would not warrant dismissal or even a potentially chilling inquiry[.]“

Now, this is a sad example of lawyering.  A science blogger, blogging on the lack of any evidence, beside anecdotal, of a link between autism and vaccinations, is the target of a far-reaching subpoena. She has no link to the trial, so it seems to be petty intimidation.

Judge, Lawyers debate tort reform in Texas (The Southeast Texas Record, via TortsProf Blog).  The judge in question makes the point, that I’ve thrown out on occasion, that rule of law is crucial to a free market economy, and that some tort reform partisans want some parties to be unaccountable before the law.

Posted in Law
Tags: FISA, Freedom of Speech, Lawyers Amok, Misc., Tort Reform