January 16 roundup

Ted Frank — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 08:01:48 +0000

Caution: Warning label overload. Why wacky warnings matter. [Ted Frank @ Sphere]
Further evidence of efficiency of product liability limits when federal safety regulation is already in place. [Philipson/Sun/Goldman NBER Working Paper No. 15603]
Army seeks to court-martial soldier in Afghanistan for possessing “child pornography” when his mother sends him family photos that include a four-year-old in a swimsuit. [AP/WaPo via Riehl; WQAD]
Burger King coffee is hot, too. [Virginian-Pilot]
The “slush pile” disappears, in part because of fear of plagiarism litigation. [WSJ]
Schwarzenegger faces fight on his proposed tort reforms. [Legal Newsline (I'm quoted)]
I’m speaking at NYU Law January 21 at an American Constitution Society panel on class action issues. [NYU Law]
Off topic, but I believe that this may be the first time I’ve been listed in the index of a book.

Tags: Burger King, California, class actions, crime and punishment, hot coffee, overwarning, product liability, Sarah Palin, Ted Frank, wacky warnings

Burger King hot coffee lawsuit settles

Ted Frank — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 22:43:09 +0000

ATLA and its surrogates would have you believe that the McDonald’s coffee case reflected the unique circumstances of one chain that sold coffee hotter than anyone else. We’ve been telling you for a while that that’s not true, and there’s now another datapoint in Oklahoma. Donna Aslanis purchased two cups of coffee from a Rolla, Missouri, Burger King drive-thru in 1998, but burned herself severely when she spilled the coffee while pouring it into a plastic container in her lap, and sued in 2002, complaining that the employee failed to tell her that the coffee was hot. The case went into mediation and settled; the amount (if any) of settlement was not disclosed. Her lawyer was Steven Paulus. (Ryan Slight, “Woman settles in hot coffee lawsuit”, News-Leader, Mar. 7). (More on Stella Liebeck.)

Tags: Burger King, hot coffee, Missouri, Oklahoma

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