Around the web, May 27
PointOfLaw Forum:
- Our practice of making judgeships an elected office strikes the rest of the world as bizarre if not preposterous [Liptak, Tabarrok recalling his work on bias against out-of-state litigants on which more, Josh Patashnik @ Plank]
- Bush Administration loses often in defending its environmental decisions in court; some reasons why [Adler @ Volokh]
- More on California high court’s adoption of sophisticated-user defense in product liability cases [Marilyn Moberg & James Neudecker for WLF, PDF; earlier]
- Business defendants have little choice but to cop plea with federal prosecutors even when they think their defense is strong. What to do? [Joan McPhee, Legal Times]
- Debate in Japan about whether to increase the number of new lawyers from its low annual level [Tillers on Evidence]
- Punitive damages and jury second-guessing of expert agencies: why “regulation by lightning bolt” is no way to run a safety regime [Mark Herrmann @ KevinMD]
- Law firms doing booming business in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act these days [Pearlstein, WaPo via Elefant]