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“Judge Approves Lawsuit Against City, Cornell Over Suicide”

Walter Olson — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 12:12:06 +0000

“A federal judge Tuesday okayed a lawsuit claiming the City of Ithaca and Cornell University are liable for the 2010 death of a student.” The father of Bradley Marc Ginsburg “alleges the defendants did not do enough to prevent suicides from the [Thurston Avenue] bridge.” [Ithaca Independent]

Tags: colleges and universities, suicide

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November 24 roundup

Walter Olson — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 16:20:34 +0000

Jack Park on Bruesewitz v. Wyeth vaccine preemption case at Supreme Court [Heritage]
Incidentally happening to assure lawyers more access to work: Harvard’s Tribe devises “access to justice” initiatives for Obama administration [BLT]
New Haven cops accidentally photograph themselves deleting video of an unlawful arrest [Balko]
How elite law culture miscomprehends the military [Second Circuit chief judge Dennis Jacobs speech at Federalist Society convention, YouTube]
“Later, Bad Lawyer”: a blogger heads to prison [Greenfield]
Reform medical liability? Depends on how badly you want neurosurgeons’ services [Michael Lavyne, NYDN]
“Cab-rank principle” in legal ethics explained [Lawyers' Lawyer, Australia; via Legal Ethics Forum]
$3.5 million award to unsuccessful suicide-while-in-custody is one of long series of such cases [six years ago on Overlawyered]

Tags: ethics, legal blogs, medical malpractice, military, police, preemption, suicide

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October 21 roundup

Walter Olson — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:29:49 +0000

“Japanese landlords sue families of suicide victims” [Telegraph via Tyler Cowen]
Best candidate you’ve never heard of: lawprof Jim Huffman runs for a U.S. Senate seat in Oregon [Weekly Standard]
“Freedom of culinary expression: Chefs speak out on behalf of salt” ["My Food, My Choice" via Ponnuru, NRO]
“In-House Counsel Expect More Regulatory Litigation, Survey Finds” [NLJ]
“Oladiran’s ‘Motion of the Year’ Earns Him Sanctions” [AtL]
Resisting a music-delivery-system claim: “Patent Trolls and Public Goods” [Julian Sanchez]
More transparency for New Jersey lawyer/lawmakers? [Philly.com]
“Ninth Circuit: marine mammals don’t have standing…yet” [six years ago on Overlawyered]

Tags: Japan, music and musicians, New Jersey, Oregon, patent trolls, salt, suicide

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Subrogation without adult supervision

Walter Olson — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:10:36 +0000

How litigious can insurance companies be when they find themselves in the plaintiff’s seat during the process known as subrogation? This litigious, per Patrick at Popehat.

Tags: insurers, suicide

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On trial for vehicular homicide, sues family she killed

Walter Olson — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 05:40:27 +0000

Citing text messages she sent her boyfriend shortly before the incident, Montana prosecutors contend that Justine Winter’s crash at 85 mph into an oncoming vehicle was a deliberate suicide attempt. Winter, who faces trial on homicide charges in the deaths of Erin Thompson, the woman she ran into, and Thompson’s 13-year-old son, has now sued Thompson’s estate as well as the construction company that built the interstate overpass where the accident occurred. [Daily Inter Lake, Siouxsie Law]

Tags: Montana, personal responsibility, roads and streets, suicide

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The fatal workplace joke

Walter Olson — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:38:13 +0000

A lab technician in Bolton, Lancashire, U.K. kills himself after an offhand joke at his workplace is denounced as insensitive [Telegraph, Mail]

Tags: harassment law, hostile environment, suicide, United Kingdom

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May 10 roundup

Walter Olson — Mon, 10 May 2010 19:42:34 +0000

Failure to warn? “Non-Child Sues For Slide-Related Injury” [Lowering the Bar]
“AG Cuomo Sues Lawyer for Fraud, Says He Sold His Name to Debt Collector for $141K” [ABA Journal]
Ted Frank on his move to the Manhattan Institute and Point of Law [CCAF]
“Viacom is becoming a lawsuit company instead of a TV company” [Doctorow, BoingBoing]
UK: “NHS pays £10,000 to family of psychiatric patient who committed suicide” [Times Online]
American Cancer Society: federal advisory panel’s chemicals-cause-cancer alarms are overblown [NYTimes] More: Taranto, WSJ.
“Who Knew Bankruptcy Paid So Well?” [NYTimes]
Famed sleuth Bloomberg Holmes on the case: was the Pathfinder headed for a vile sodium den? [IowaHawk]

Tags: bankruptcy, debtor-creditor law, environment, failure to warn, Manhattan Institute, salt, suicide, Ted Frank, YouTube

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Jumps over fence to prevent a suicide

Walter Olson — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:06:22 +0000

And then sues would-be suicide over foot injury sustained in the jump. The unusual case reached an Illinois appellate court last year, which ruled that a suit could proceed against the would-be suicide, though not his wife, who had also been named as a defendant on the grounds that she had requested the plaintiff’s help. [Illinois Injury Lawyer Blog]

Tags: assumption of risk, suicide

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Teen commits suicide, 9 classmates charged with felonies

Walter Olson — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:12:57 +0000

“See if you can figure out how the shock and sorrow of the young girl’s death got processed into criminal charges against 9 teenagers and whether this reaction is helpful or just.” [Ann Althouse]

More: there’s not enough in the article to reach conclusions either way, says Scott Greenfield.

Tags: bullying, crime and punishment, Massachusetts, student suicide, suicide

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“Wal-Mart Wins Suicide Case in Illinois”

Walter Olson — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 05:07:54 +0000

“The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a case against Wal-Mart for selling bullets to a person without requiring her to present an identification card as required by Illinois law. Candice Johnson later used the bullets to commit suicide.” [Day, MoreLaw]

Tags: guns, suicide, Wal-Mart

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