http://overlawyered.com Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:22:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/judge-rejects-injured-beer-pong-champ/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/judge-rejects-injured-beer-pong-champ/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:11:27 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27461 “A New Jersey man who got so drunk playing beer pong at a Greenwich Village pub that he thought walking across a busy highway was a good idea cannot sue the bar over his injuries, a judge has ruled.” [Dareh Gregorian, NY Post]

Tags: alcohol, dramshop statutes, NYC, personal responsibility

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/judge-rejects-injured-beer-pong-champ/feed/ 0 http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/hit-by-car-playing-hooky-mother-blames-school/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/hit-by-car-playing-hooky-mother-blames-school/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:04:43 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27254 Having decided to cut classes, a 15-year-old student at Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Fla. was fatally struck by a car one morning last year about a mile from school grounds. “Her mother says school officials could have prevented her death — and she’s pursuing legal action with the hope of changing their supervision and tardiness policies….The notice, drafted by Mamonoff’s attorney Stacy Kemp, offered to drop the matter and settle out of court for $1 million.” [St. Petersburg Times]

Tags: Florida, personal responsibility, schools

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/hit-by-car-playing-hooky-mother-blames-school/feed/ 14 http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/drunk-drivers-who-sue-over-their-accidents-contd/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/drunk-drivers-who-sue-over-their-accidents-contd/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:45:25 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27246 Max Kennerly thinks we should understand their point of view. Earlier here, here, etc., etc.

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/drunk-drivers-who-sue-over-their-accidents-contd/feed/ 18 http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/you-served-me-the-alcohol-now-pay-for-my-crash/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/you-served-me-the-alcohol-now-pay-for-my-crash/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:07:57 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27113 “A South Carolina woman is suing the bar that served her alcohol as a minor the night she had a car accident that left her paralyzed. Chelsea Hess, 22, is also suing the South Carolina Department of Transportation, the town of Bluffton and Beaufort County for negligence for allegedly not maintaining the road shoulder she drove her car over in her accident.” [ABC via @amyalkon]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/you-served-me-the-alcohol-now-pay-for-my-crash/feed/ 5 http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/steals-gun-hurts-himself-with-it/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/steals-gun-hurts-himself-with-it/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 11:30:54 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26659 But the estate of a Massachusetts man killed in an apparent accident when the gun went off was not allowed to sue the owner and gun manufacturer. [Volokh]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/n-j-overdoses-on-xanax-collects-4-1-million/feed/ 2 http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/montana-bicyclist-gets-nearly-100g-after-fall-on-icy-trail/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/montana-bicyclist-gets-nearly-100g-after-fall-on-icy-trail/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:37:03 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=26045 “The president of the Florence Park District says he’s disappointed in a system that allows a man riding a motorized bicycle on a winter night on a trail that doesn’t allow motorized vehicles to receive an insurance settlement. Half of the settlement came from a Florence bar because snow was pushed onto the trail when the bar parking lot was plowed.” [AP]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/12/montana-bicyclist-gets-nearly-100g-after-fall-on-icy-trail/feed/ 0 http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/owner-sued-in-car-thiefs-crash/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/owner-sued-in-car-thiefs-crash/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:35:20 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25490 “Two passengers riding in a stolen car that was involved in a wreck sue the car’s 91-year-old owner” The driver of the wreck was a man defendant George Hinnenkamp had sometimes hired to do odd jobs; the passengers claim he had extended permission for the man to take the car that night, but a district attorney who successfully prosecuted the case says that isn’t so, noting that Hinnenkamp had reported the car stolen well before the accident. [Eugene, Oregon, Register-Guard]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/owner-sued-in-car-thiefs-crash/feed/ 3 http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/charlie-davies-sues-nightclub-red-bull/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/10/charlie-davies-sues-nightclub-red-bull/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:11:21 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25248 “D.C. United’s Charlie Davies is suing the owners of a Washington nightclub and the drink company Red Bull for $20 million, claiming they are responsible for a fatal car crash that ended the MLS player’s hopes of joining the 2010 U.S. World Cup team. Davies, now 25, was a passenger in the car driven by a woman who has since pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and drunken driving in the 2009 one-car crash that killed a second passenger.” Perhaps his theory will be that the nightclub had an obligation to assess how drunk the woman was, but he didn’t. [AP/ESPN]

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