Now the reactive vogue for natural lying-in (or squatting, as the case may be) has been co-opted by a litigation-wary medical establishment.
The latter theory was supported by a litigation-funded study that has since been shown to have been "an elaborate fraud".
Says organist John Giacchi (by day, a litigation attorney for an insurer), "Jasper and Marian don't do anything by halves.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer alone spoke for more than half an hour, and Justice Sonia Sotomayor was close behind, at just 30 seconds shy of a half-hour, according to the study, which was conducted by Ryan A. Malphurs, a litigation consultant, and L. Hailey Drescher, a graduate student at the University of North Texas.
"But the other angle, and the especially troubling one given the Thiel reveal, is the fact — and it does now appear to be a fact — that even a successful digital publisher can be threatened with ruin by a concerted litigation attack financed by someone (or some group) who wants to destroy it," he said.
Hopefully, the pound-of-flesh season will be abbreviated by a successful litigation season.
Since 2007, U.S. university students have been a prime target of a litigation campaign by the Recording Industry Association of America, or R.I.A.A., the music industry trade group that has found university campuses to be hives of file-sharing activity.
A litigation analyst by profession, she got involved in speaking out last year over specific issues, such as the lack of flak-jackets, but she's tried not to let logistical shortcomings poison her view of the war president.
By Michelle Ratpan works as a Litigation Specialist for the Integrity Vice Presidency of the World Bank.
They had long been wary of the Proposition 8 suit, preferring a state-by-state litigation and lobbying strategy over betting the farm on a case that was likely to end up in the United States Supreme Court.
