Completing our series of the Best of 2006 in a busy month:
- Frequent filer v. Kraft: pay my attorney millions because I didn’t read the label on your guacamole dip.
- ADA Week: drive-by suits and filing mills, $2.5 billion sidewalks, the separatist fringe, paper money redesign for the blind appeal, and an epileptic’s right to operate heavy equipment.
- Jesse Branham v. Ford: $31M verdict against Ford when driver drove off the road while turned around, and followup and more followup. See also multimillion dollar seatback verdicts, again blaming Ford for driver error. Ford did win an Arkansas “sudden acceleration” case, and the losing lawyer wrote in.
- Imams: we want to “hit [US Airways] where it hurts, the pocketbook.”
- Killer’s mom sues high school for not stopping him.
- Warren Buffett’s new insurance company on medmal caps.
- Class action for uninjured Nintendo Wii purchasers.
- GAO on litigation risk and drug development.
- Lawsuit: I should be allowed to anoint cubicles with olive oil
- What do wacky pro se cases teach about legal reform?
- UK patient: doc hurt my feelings by telling me to quit smoking
- California Prop 65: protecting us from cooked chicken.
- 19 year old dies moshing, sues home owner
- Bad facts make bad law—and that’s true even when the defendant wins because of that bad law.
