Overlawyered is a law blog

Blog

A blog is a type of website or part of a website supposed to be updated with new content from time to time. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in...

 on the subject of tort reform

Tort reform

Tort reform refers to proposed changes in common law civil justice systems that would reduce tort litigation or damages. Tort actions are civil common law claims first created in the English commonwealth system as a non-legislative means for compensating wrongs and harm done by one party to...

 run by author Walter Olson

Walter Olson

Walter K. Olson is an author and blogger who writes mostly about tort reform. Olson is a senior fellow of the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank in Washington DC. Formerly Olson was associated with the Manhattan Institute in New York City...

. Founded in 1999, it is "widely considered to be the oldest legal blog and is also one of the most popular", according to Law.com.

The subject of the site is absurdities, excesses, and abuse of the American tort law system. Its regular readership includes thousands of lawyers in the United states, as well as physicians, and readers in other countries considering American-style tort systems.

Dispute with aviation tort lawyer

Aviation tort lawyer Arthur Alan Wolk

Arthur Alan Wolk

Arthur Alan Wolk is an attorney, author and the founding partner of The Wolk Law Firm in Philadelphia, PA, which specializes in aviation law and air crash litigation for plaintiffs....

 has sued Overlawyered, Olson, and contributors Ted Frank

Ted Frank

Theodore H. Frank is an American lawyer, legal writer and blogger, based in Washington, D.C.. He is the founder and president of the Center for Class Action Fairness , established in 2009...

 and David Nieporent for libel over a post written by Frank.
Judge Mary A. McLaughlin

Mary A. McLaughlin

Mary A. McLaughlin is a United States federal judge.Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, McLaughlin received a B.A. from Gwynedd-Mercy College in 1968, an M.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1969, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1976. She was a law clerk, Hon. Stanley...

 ruled that Overlawyered is a "mass medium

Mass media

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" and dismissed the case because Wolk did not file within the one-year statute of limitations

Statute of limitations

A statute of limitations is an enactment in a common law legal system that sets the maximum time after an event that legal proceedings based on that event may be initiated...

.

Wolk has appealed his loss.