A Little Rock friend of mine had an emergency gap in his law review, and solicited me to write about the fast-food litigation. I'm not a big fan of the eight-footnotes-a-page-style that law reviews like, but I think the piece is a good overview of what has happened to date. The article, "A Taxonomy of Obesity Litigation," 28 UALR L. Rev. 427 (2006), can be downloaded at SSRN (help me catch up with Bainbridge!) or at the AEI Liability Project website. (cross-posted at Point of Law)

I worry that events have outstripped me; one sentence in the article, "Why is selling soda [to 17-year-olds] an attractive nuisance, but selling ... Internet connectivity is not?" predates the MySpace litigation.

...it means that enough people are on vacation that National Review Online is desperate enough for content that they'll return my emails and publish stuff I send them. (To be fair to myself, they only ignored my email once, and it probably wasn't intentional.)

I have an op-ed in today's New York Sun on shenanigans in recent Vioxx litigation, and what it means to the calls for a "global settlement."