Category Archives: Hypocrisy

Judge Joan Orie Melvin Reeks Of Hypocrisy

Look at this foolishness: HARRISBURG — Superior Court Judge Joan Orie Melvin launched an attack today on her opponent in the state Supreme Court race, Jack Panella, saying it was unethical for him to take large campaign contributions from Philadelphia trial lawyers, whose cases he rules on regularly. "It's pay to play and it's justice [...]

Doctors Sue To Prevent The Distribution Of The H1N1 Vaccine

I always take note when doctors file any sort of a lawsuit since doctors are generally supportive of measures to limit lawsuits against doctors.  This one jumped out at me because doctors are trying to prevent the distribution of the flu vaccine, which is a bit unusual to say the least. A "stop the shot" [...]

Lily Allen: Crappy singer, hypocrite

You just can’t make this stuff up. On Lilly Allen’s new blog “It’s Not Alright” musicians such as Gary Barlow from Take That, the one with the silly hat from N-Dubz and ex-Robbie Williams songwriter Guy Chambers are queuing up to help in her campaign against illicit file-sharing. The debut post on the blog includes [...]

Tort reform hypocrite turns to “terrorists” to get his money back

Do you remember way back in February of 2004 when Hank Greenberg (then the Chairman of AIG) said that trial lawyers were terrorists?  Well, now Greenberg has hired those same “terrorists” to help him get his fortune back. NEW YORK (AP) — The former chief executive officer of American International Group Inc. on Monday sued [...]

Are you on the Overlawyered black list?

Some time ago, I wrote about how Walter Olson was playing petty linking games at Overlawyered.  In a nutshell, if you’re on his “black list,” he’ll only link to your site by using a proxy, such as TinyURL, or his new favorite, is.gd.  To quote or link to someone else’s work without properly linking to [...]