legal reform
Climate lawfare is raising our energy bills, slowing our economy
The Trump administration is taking a well-earned victory lap after successfully delaying a carbon tax on the shipping and logistics industry at a United Nations meeting in London last month. “The U.S. achieved a diplomatic victory and successfully rallied a coalition to stop the body’s proposed ‘net-zero framework,’” wrote Secretary of State Marco Rubio about the effort to delay by one year a proposal to implement new climate…
Republicans Are Walking Into a Trap on Section 230 Repeal
Among political conservatives, there is no hotter potato at the moment than the civil liability protections afforded by Section 230 to online operators. Unless Republicans learn to love it again and reject the censorship lawfare complex favored by Democrats, they risk dooming our tech leaders and everyone who uses their products to the sharks circling…
RFK’s Tylenol-autism link bails out his class action lawsuit-industry friends
The federal health bureaucracy’s latest health advice deals with Tylenol, pregnancy, and a supposed link to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders. It’s a controversial flag for the Trump administration to plant, but it’s on-brand for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who knows precisely what he’s doing. RFK Jr. is relying on select studies and questionable experts for…
RFK’s Tylenol Claims Are Expected To Fuel Wave of Lawsuits
I was interviewed by the New York Sun on the latest announcements by RFK Jr. surrounding Tylenol and acetaminophen, and how this will supercharge the lawsuit industry: The deputy director at the Consumer Choice Center, Yaël Ossowski, says a district judge threw out the case because the expert testimonies used by the plaintiffs were determined…
Trump’s Energy Reset: Dismantling Biden’s Climate Lawfare Legacy
The Comer investigation underscores why we should consider federal lawfare liability reforms that would put most of these frivolous cases to rest. President Trump’s push to boost energy affordability by slashing green regulations and climate lawfare has been a powerful yet undercovered plank of his second term. Drastically changing course from the energy-restrictive policies of…
Legal advertising needs to be ready for AI boom
Every industry in the world is scrambling to put artificial intelligence tools to creative use, and America’s robust sector of lawyers, law firms, and jurists is no exception. Judges have hilariously busted lawyers for using ChatGPT to hallucinate court citations in briefs, and AI-generated attorneys have pleaded for their clients and faced ridicule online. There have been AI videos created using…
Ridding America of the Invisible Liability Lawfare Tax Is Long Overdue
If we knew about a $500 billion drain on the American economy that inflates prices for everyday consumers, slows down much needed technological innovation, and locks real victims out of our civil justice system, wouldn’t we all demand something be done about it? This is the current state of our liability lawfare system today, known…
A narrow window for justice in Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder bankruptcy trial
The third time is a charm for New Jersey’s Johnson & Johnson, as the pharmaceutical and biotech giant attempts to get a court-issued seal of approval on its long-awaited settlement offer and subsidiary bankruptcy plan, which is sitting before a Houston federal courtroom this week. Red River Talc LLC, the subsidiary tasked with handling the thousands of…
With RFK, It May Be ‘Golden Age’ for Cash-Hungry Lawyers
Should Coke be forced to use cane sugar again? Which food coloring will be banned next? What’s the fate of seed oils in the American diet and school lunches? These aren’t the musings of some fringe online health influencer; these are the rumored policy priorities of attorney and former Democratic-turned-independent presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose Senate confirmation hearing…
RFK Jr. Can’t Escape His Progressive Record
Cabinet confirmation hearings began in Washington last week for several of President Trump’s picks for top jobs in government. While Marco Rubio passed the gauntlet, we’re still waiting on word of a scheduled hearing for Trump’s most controversial picks: Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health…