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• Who is legally responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing?

  Posted Sunday, May 04, 2008 5:59 AM by Ted Frank Comment Here: (Comments Off) In the wake of the September 11 bombings, Congress established a Victims Compensation Fund and limited liability for a number of deep-pockets who were also victimized by the attacks . A number of academics questioned that it was even conceivable that [Read More]

• Zombie Litigation

  Posted Friday, April 04, 2008 10:59 AM by Ted Frank Comment Here: (Comments Off) My latest Liability Outlook examines the problems of retroactive lawmaking and litigation, especially reviver statutes: The controversy over whether and how to seat the Michigan and Florida delegations at the Democratic National Convention shows the danger [Read More]

• Patent Reform in Congress

  Posted Tuesday, March 04, 2008 9:33 AM by Ted Frank Comment Here: 1 Comments For more on patent reform, see my February 2008 Liability Outlook , from which this is excerpted. Despite some in the media calling patent reform dead,[1] on January 24, 2008, the Senate placed S. 1145, the Patent Reform Act of 2007, on the general calendar. [Read More]

• The Ledbetter case and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

  Posted Monday, February 04, 2008 12:02 AM by Ted Frank Comment Here: 7 Comments By a 5-4 margin in Ledbetter v. Goodyear Tire and Rubber (PDF), the Supreme Court ruled last May that the 180-day deadline for filing a discrimination lawsuit cannot be stretched to serve as the basis of the filing of suits today based on the lingering [Read More]

• Racially discriminatory lending?

  Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 4:53 PM by Ted Frank Comment Here: (Comments Off) The NAACP and the City of Baltimore have both sued banks, alleging practices of racially discriminatory lending and foreclosures. Says the NAACP complaint : "In 2004, African-American homeowners who received subprime mortgage loans from Defendants were [Read More]

• Tapping the microphone

  Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 4:44 PM by Ted Frank Comment Here: (Comments Off) Greetings. I'm Ted Frank , the director of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest and I'll be blogging here at least once a month in addition to my more frequent blogging at the legal weblogs Point of Law and Overlawyered . I look forward to this [Read More]