The Open Market Blog

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/05/2007

Most courts have rejected claims that websites have to be redesigned, at great inconvenience and expense, to accommodate their tiny number of visually-disabled visitors. But…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/04/2007

The London Daily Mail reports on a lawsuit pending in an English court: Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/04/2007

My wife loves fish, especially tuna and sashimi, but when she was pregnant with our daughter, she didn’t eat much fish, since the FDA and…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/03/2007

There are a lot of problems, ethically, legally, and constitutionally, with a state attorney general hiring trial lawyers to sue on behalf of…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/03/2007

As legal commentator Ted Frank observes, the $11.6 million in damages awarded in the Isiah Thomas sexual harassment case was excessive and at odds…

• By: Hans Bader
• 10/03/2007

The New York Times has an interesting story today on the potential marketing of Snus, a form of smokeless tobacco that does not require…