- Safety vs. “discrimination”:9th Circuit: UPS must hire deaf drivers; EEOC challenges Exxon’s pilot age limit; “To avoid charges of ‘racism,’ we disciplined black and white students differently.”
- Jackpot justice: $217M for misdiagnosed stroke in Florida (and followup)
- Trespass atop rail car, win $24 million
- Jackpot justice: $20M for $25,000 insurance claim
- Judicial elections and the New York Times
- On picking a jury
- Public Citizen and DMI caught using misleading statistics
- Encore on the falling-out-of-a-loft-bed case
- Why there aren’t DVDs of some of your favorite old TV series
- Tag banned because of liability fears
- Punitive damages and the Supreme Court
- Two more hot-coffee-lawsuit datapoints. It might be easier to list the chains that haven’t been sued for serving coffee.
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