January 4, 2018 9:50AM 

# Highlights from Overlawyered — 2017 

By [Walter Olson](https://www.cato.org/people/walter-olson) 

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At my Cato blog [Overlawyered](http://overlawyered.com/) I’ve been pulling together month-by-month highlights of stories from last year. I’m currently up to May in [the series](http://overlawyered.com/tag/best-of/). Here’s a small sampling of my favorites:

- “Cleveland police union plans to [sue toy gun makers](https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/05/cleveland-police-union-plans-sue-toy-gun-makers/)”;
- “Recruiting on campus [might be an age discrimination violation](https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/05/recruiting-campus-might-age-discrimination-violation/)”;
- “N.J.: ‘Drunken driver hurt in crash sues bars [for serving him alcohol](https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/05/n-j-drunken-driver-hurt-crash-sues-bars-serving-alcohol/)’”;
- Before bringing a monkey into the courthouse in your purse, [read this](https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/05/bringing-monkey-courthouse-purse-read/);
- Federal judge orders UPS delivery giant to pay nearly $247 million [for not asking questions](https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/05/ups-didnt-ask-questions-volume-shipments-indian-reservations/) about bulk shipments from Indian reservations (they contained untaxed cigarettes);
- Third Circuit: neighbors who criticized condo residents over emotional support dogs [must face civil rights suit](https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/04/third-circuit-bloggers-criticized-condo-neighbors-emotional-support-dogs-must-face-civil-rights-suit/);
- “Cheating Frenchman sues Uber [for unmasking his mistress](https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/02/cheating-frenchman-sues-uber-unmasking-mistress/)”;
- EPA cracks down on household wood-burning [in Alaska, in winter](https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/01/epa-cracks-household-wood-burning/);
- Hit show “Hamilton” sued over [lack of audio descriptive services](https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/01/hamilton-sued-shows-lack-services-blind-patrons/) for blind patrons;
- Honda calls car owners to warn of defective airbags, [gets sued by class action lawyer](https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/01/safety-recall-put-phone/) under federal junk-call law TCPA;
- Clichés come to life: [lawyer’s pants catch fire](https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/03/cliches-come-life-lawyers-pants-catch-fire-final-argument/) during final argument;
- Judge greenlights ADA suit by blind man [not allowed to walk up](https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/02/ada-not-necessarily-complied-disabled-people-treated/) to McDonald’s drive-through window after regular store hours.

Read the whole series [here](https://www.overlawyered.com/tag/best-of/).

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[Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) 

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