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NRA, San Francisco battle over gun-control laws

By: Joshua Sabatini 09/27/11 10:56 PM
San Francisco attempted to strengthen two local gun-control laws Tuesday to protect from legal challenges that could strike them from the books. Handguns in someone’s San Francisco residence cannot be left out in the open, but instead must be either locked in a container or disabled with a trigger lock, under a 2007 city law. Another law, adopted in 1994, prohibits the sale of ammunition such as hollow-point bullets, which expand upon impact. Read More

Texas makes losers pay for frivolous lawsuits

By: SF Examiner Editorial 06/04/11 9:00 PM
It’s no wonder that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has recently been the focus of speculation about whether he might run for president in 2012. Texas has been on an economic roll since 2001, creating far more new jobs than any other state in the nation even as its population increased to 25 million. Love him or hate him, Perry is in his fourth term in Austin and thus deserves a big chunk of the credit for many of the good things happening in the Lone Star State. Read More

Why wacky warning labels are only printed in English

By: Bob Dorigo Jones 05/22/11 4:00 AM
‘Only in America” was a phrase once used to measure pride in American ingenuity and the rule of law that’s provided the stability for businesses, inventors and entrepreneurs to succeed. Sadly, it’s now a measure of lawsuit fears unique to America that cost jobs and quality of life. Where do we see the evidence first? Wacky warning labels. Read More

Don't laugh, lawsuit abuse runs rampant around the country

By: David Freddoso 04/13/11 6:48 PM
"Nice small business you have there.”“Um, thanks. Who are you? What’s this?”“I’m a trial lawyer. I’m serving you with a lawsuit for $100,000.”“What? How can that be?”“My client slipped and fell in your restaurant last Tuesday and broke his hip.”“But we were closed last Tuesday.” Read More

Trial lawyers try to squeeze billions from Wal-Mart

By: SF Examiner Editorial 03/29/11 9:00 PM
In January 2009, President Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Act, the first new law of his presidency. The bill was named after a woman who had allegedly suffered discrimination by a former employer and who then waited for years before suing for back-pay. She lost a landmark Supreme Court case in 2007, because the statutory time-limit had long since expired when she filed her suit. Read More

Obama caving on lawsuit reform? Think again.

By: David Freddoso 02/15/11 8:48 AM
I noticed in this morning's Washington Post that the graphic on Obama's budget included "limiting awards in malpractice lawsuits" among the ways Obama saves money in his new budget. This is simply not true -- the newspaper has been taken in by the president's rhetorical sleight of hand. Read More

Half the states now suing the federal government over Obamacare

By: Mark Hemingway 01/13/11 10:17 AM
I guess this is landmark of sorts, but half of all the states are now suing the federal government to block Obamacare: Read More

California legislators suing for more pay

By: Mark Hemingway 12/08/10 1:54 PM
Hmmm. This should be popular with taxpayers. California's beyond bankrupt, and yet the very people running it into the ground are suing for more money: State legislators are making yet another attempt to get back salary and benefits that were cut by an independent commission last year. Read More

City’s gun laws may be challenged

By: John Upton 06/29/10 12:00 AM
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Legal challenges to San Francisco gun laws, which outlaw some ammunition sales and require handguns to be locked up, could move forward following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Supreme Court justices ruled 5-4 in a decision published Monday that a Chicago ban on handguns violated the constitutional rights to bear arms for the purpose of self-defense. Read More

National Federation of Independent Business joins 20 states in lawsuit against Obamacare

By: Mark Hemingway 05/26/10 12:00 AM
Dan Danner, president and CEO of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today. The NFIB, the biggest small business advocacy group in the country, is joining the lawsuit filed by 20 states challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare: Read More
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