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

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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