November 21 roundup

• “A Decade After Realizing It Can’t Threaten A Critic Online, UCLA Returns To Threaten A Critic Online” [Mike Masnick, TechDirt; Adam Steinbaugh, FIRE]
• “D.C. Bureaucrats Are Trying to Make Parents Get a License to Let Children Play Together” [Kerry McDonald, FEE; Karin Lips, Washington Post; Lenore Skenazy, Reason]
• “If you were ripped off by a couple of companies that enrolled consumers in membership-rewards programs without their consent, congratulations, you’re entitled to a $20 credit to buy more stuff from them. Ninth Circuit: Your class counsel, however, is probably not entitled to $8.7 million in attorney’s fees for winning you a coupon.” [John Kenneth Ross, IJ “Short Circuit” on In Re EasySaver Rewards Litigation]
• Congestion highway pricing and the “Lexus Lanes” epithet, supervised injection facilities, single payer in one state and more in my new Maryland roundup at Free State Notes;
• Chain that touched off public outrage stands to gain by reaction: “Licensing pet groomers won’t help pets. It will hurt low-income groomers.” [Shoshana Weissman and Jesse Kelley, R Street]
• “A Case for an Executive Order to Rein in Guidance Documents and other ‘Regulatory Dark Matter'” [Clyde Wayne Crews, CEI]

Tags: coupon settlements, Maryland, occupational licensure, regulation and its reform

November 21 roundup curated from Overlawyered