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Best of 2006: October

by Ted Frank on December 31, 2006

  • 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
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  • On picking a jury
  • Public Citizen and DMI caught using misleading statistics
  • Encore on the falling-out-of-a-loft-bed case
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  • 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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