Daniel Fisher
@DanielDFisher
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Sailor, writer, CFA, Yale Law Knight fellow, ex- Forbesie, husband & father of 2. In no particular order.
Guilford, CT
Joined June 2009
Gee, what are the odds. 200k veterans all say faulty instructions led them to insert earplugs the wrong way, they all were exposed to artillery noise and all got hearing loss. No chance of fraud here.
Plaintiffs' firm Heninger Garrison Davis is facing sanctions after a special master's report concluded that nearly 1,000 of its claims in the 3M earplug settlement were fraudulent.
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Whoops! Wrong plaintiff costs class action lawyers $600k in Walmart legal fees.
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LOS ANGELES - Plaintiff lawyers who pursued a class action over supposedly adulterated avocado oil must pay Walmart $624,000 in legal fees after a judge ruled they should have known
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A verbose way of saying murders are down almost 50%: “The rate of homicides has dropped from an average of more than 12 a month since the National Guard was deployed, but still stood at seven per month…” https://t.co/5Uz0KBGnQJ via @NYTimes
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President Trump insists there are no more murders in Washington, D.C. “I wish that was true,” said Jamia Vaden, whose sister was gunned down in November.
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Salaried NY Times writers don’t grasp “protection for freelancers” means “no work for freelancers.” https://t.co/38sfxN4jkO via @NYTimes
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Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s signature plans for New York City will take time. Lina Khan, the former chair of the Federal Trade Commission, has ideas for making a swift impact.
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Can’t wait to see plaintiff lawyers back away from their experts when they realize no settlement is possible if they blame virtually every meso case for next 30 years on talc. The fee grab will win out.
$JNJ: J&J vows appeal after US jury hits it with record $1.5 billion talc cancer award, story via @Reuters
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As opposed to the good old days when the climate was steady, unchanging and the weather could be predicted with certainty.
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Incredible jurors can’t see through these plaintiff experts. Do they even grasp the fact they inhale more asbestos sitting in the courtroom?
BREAKING: A Minnesota jury hit Johnson & Johnson on Friday with a $65.5 million talc verdict.
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$1 for the plaintiff but rest easy, the lawyers get 4x lodestar
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The plaintiff was offended because it is all “part of the Christmas, and the whole, you know, Christianity thing.”
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No one, not even Baby Jesus or Mariah Carey, is immune from Christmas-related lawsuits.
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Hmm…“All these new internet companies would go raise money, then spend $10 million buying capacity from Global Crossing.Then, the music stopped.”
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The onetime billionaire spent his vast fortune on lavish homes in Bel-Air, Malibu and New York City. But the aftermath of his death reveals a dire financial situation.
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Medical professionals in Oregon can be blamed for anyone’s injuries. Hey, it’s just insurance and that’s free money, right?
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PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon’s top court has held that medical providers can be held liable for the injuries of people who aren’t their patients, in a closely watched case involving
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You can’t arrest me for computer hacking, I quit!
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PHILADELPHIA - Resigning from a company doesn’t necessarily end an employee’s legal access to company computers, a federal court ruled in a case involving a contractor who downloaded thousands of
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Courts must balance the interests of endangered species, not just focus on the ones activists sue over
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SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals panel has ruled courts evaluating disputes over the environmental impact of development and environmental regulatory decisions must widen their focus to include all...
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And one suspects admissions officers are equally appreciative when the children of these benefactors apply.
A profile in the @UChicagoLaw alumni magazine. This is exactly why “cy pres” is a conflict of interest. This lawyer doesn’t get a glowing profile in his (and my!) alumni magazine if he uses his clients’ money to pay his clients rather than his alma mater. His contingent fee
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@DanielDFisher @EnergyInDepth The Vertically Integrated Climate Litigation Inc - Climate Litigation Watch
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A prize for the genius who thought up “affordability crisis” to replace “inflation.”
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RFK and his friends are pursuing a legal strategy, not science.
Aaron Siri says no one has identified errors in his ACIP presentation. Here are several, with citations to the primary literature. 🧵
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Best of all, with the turnover in drivers, a constant stream of dues with no need to ask workers’ permission again!
What freelance busting has always been about: “If rideshare workers in just these two states were to organize, agreements would cover more than 900,000 workers, effectively reversing the past 20 years of union coverage decline in the United States.” https://t.co/8taGh4KRON
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Cook County property ‘tax sale’ system unconstitutional | Cook County Record | https://t.co/8nqrWShIDL
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CHICAGO - Cook County's longstanding system of collecting property tax debts by seizing and selling people's homes, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, over unpaid taxes worth a fraction of
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