The whole business of discovery in civil litigation is dreary and depressing. In a mass tort, a defendant can rack up defense verdicts yet still incur discovery costs that exceed the damage amounts sustained by defendants found liable in other torts. Little wonder that the mass of defense lawyers in mass torts lead lives of
With one glance at the calendar, regular readers of this blog will have been able to predict the content of these prefatory paragraphs, later to be (tenuously) tied to today’s case. On Monday and Tuesday, as we have for nearly twenty years, we attended the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the second-oldest continuous sporting
When Congress enacted HIPAA and its Privacy Rule in the mid-1990s, it was a big deal. Healthcare providers surely protected patient privacy in the pre-HIPAA days, but the federal statute gave them a standard set of rules with which to comply and a uniform referent against which to gauge their privacy practices. All told, HIPAA’s