Overlawyered » third party liability for crime 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 Long Island pharmacy massacre http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/long-island-pharmacy-massacre/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/long-island-pharmacy-massacre/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:45:32 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27511 Four people were killed when pill addict David Laffer robbed a Medford, N.Y. pharmacy. Now the survivors of victim Jamie Taccetta are suing a variety of defendants including the drugstore whose pharmacist was killed, the Suffolk County police and a former commissioner, “and pharmaceutical companies that make the drug oxycodone.” [CBS New York, Newsday]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/02/long-island-pharmacy-massacre/feed/ 5 When companies’ hot products are stolen http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/when-companies-hot-products-are-stolen/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/when-companies-hot-products-are-stolen/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:44:10 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27089 Toronto lawyer Michael Deverett thinks a bad guy must have followed him home from the Apple Store; at least someone smashed his hatchback car window when he stepped away for a couple of minutes and made off with what he said was a well concealed bag of new electronics purchases worth C$2,200. The company — which gave him a store credit plus a small extra for legal fees — is also facing criticism from theft victims who say it should do more to help owners retrieve stolen cellphones. [Toronto Star](& welcome Elie Mystal, Above the Law readers)

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/when-companies-hot-products-are-stolen/feed/ 8 “Wrongful-Death Suit Filed Against Criminal Defendant’s Parents, Grandmother” http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/wrongful-death-suit-filed-against-criminal-defendants-parents-grandmother/ http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/wrongful-death-suit-filed-against-criminal-defendants-parents-grandmother/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:30:16 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=27036 “While lawyer Scott Marshall has pleaded guilty to a murder charge, his victim’s mother has filed an unusual wrongful-death suit against not only him but his parents and his 92-year-old grandmother.” [Texas Lawyer]

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]]> http://overlawyered.com/2012/01/wrongful-death-suit-filed-against-criminal-defendants-parents-grandmother/feed/ 4 November 11 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-11-roundup/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-11-roundup/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:56:20 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=25363
  • Manhattan Institute’s “Trial Lawyers Inc.” series looks at cozy relations between state attorneys general and plaintiff’s bar [report, related featured discussion, Copland, Examiner] Report comes down hard on Ohio’s Richard Cordray, nominee to head CFPB [Copland, Gorodetski/PoL] Judge tosses Cordray suit against credit rating agencies [O'Brien/LNL, Krauss/American Thinker] Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller denounces report [IowaPolitics.com]
  • “The Tort of Internet Mobbing Is Perfect For Suing The Internet” [Popehat]
  • Canada faces challenge to hate speech law [Arthur Bright, Citizen Media Law] Do not put a frog down Her Majesty’s back at the county fair [Lowering the Bar]
  • “Markopolos eyes a fortune from BNY whistleblowing” [Felix Salmon] “Bounty hunters in Korea” and closer to home [Alex Tabarrok] “Developments in Whistleblower Laws: Advantage Whistleblower” [Larry Wood & Richard William Diaz, Federalist Society "Engage"]
  • As third party liability for crime anecdotes go, the case of Bonilla v. Motel 6 is on the lurid side [Point of Law]
  • Prospect of cyberwar: official U.S. response is commando lawyering [Stewart Baker, Foreign Policy]
  • Why it’s hard to stimulate manufacturing through product liability reform in one state [Rick Esenberg]
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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/11/november-11-roundup/feed/ 0     “Owner sued in car thief’s crash” 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     Catering hall “could not have foreseen a surprise ninja attack” http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/catering-hall-could-not-have-foreseen-a-surprise-ninja-attack/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/catering-hall-could-not-have-foreseen-a-surprise-ninja-attack/#comments Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:39:36 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24666 A Long Island judge has ruled for the defense in a negligent-security case filed by a patron who was slashed by a surprise assailant dressed as a ninja. [Newsday]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/catering-hall-could-not-have-foreseen-a-surprise-ninja-attack/feed/ 14     Le suit: climate of sexual harassment at Yale “emboldened” murderer http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/le-suit-climate-of-sexual-harassment-at-yale-emboldened-murderer/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/le-suit-climate-of-sexual-harassment-at-yale-emboldened-murderer/#comments Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:59:05 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24516 Citing a Title IX complaint, the lawsuit claims that the university’s failure to crack down harder on male behavior was in part responsible for the sensational crime in which a fellow lab worker strangled the pharmacology student and stuffed her body into a wall. [Yale Daily News, Slate "XX Factor" (despite feminist sympathies, doubting basis for suit), New York Daily News] More: Scott Greenfield, Max Kennerly.

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/09/le-suit-climate-of-sexual-harassment-at-yale-emboldened-murderer/feed/ 7     “Minivan-drownings suit could cost taxpayers plenty” http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/minivan-drownings-suit-could-cost-taxpayers-plenty/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/minivan-drownings-suit-could-cost-taxpayers-plenty/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 16:03:08 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=24376 Following the horrific murder-suicide of a woman who intentionally drowned herself and three of her four children, the woman’s estranged boyfriend is suing the city of Newburgh, N.Y. and its surrounding county for failing to prevent the crime. Joint and several liability reform would help, if only Albany were more sympathetic to the cause. [Thomas Stebbins, Poughkeepsie Journal; Daily News]

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/08/minivan-drownings-suit-could-cost-taxpayers-plenty/feed/ 1     Chuck Norris: it started with a fight… http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/chuck-norris-it-started-with-a-fight/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/chuck-norris-it-started-with-a-fight/#comments Fri, 03 Jun 2011 13:47:39 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=23233 According to the actor, in an op-ed (co-authored with Stephen DeMaura) in today’s WSJ:

    Two women get into a fight in the ladies’ restroom at a restaurant. Afterward, they sue the restaurant owner, claiming someone should have been in there to break up the fight. It costs the small-business owner $2,000 to pay each plaintiff to drop the complaint, which was cheaper than fighting the lawsuit would have been.

    This completely ridiculous story is true, and the restaurant owner was one of us, Mr. Norris. …

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    ]]>     http://overlawyered.com/2011/06/chuck-norris-it-started-with-a-fight/feed/ 18     April 22 roundup http://overlawyered.com/2011/04/april-22-roundup-2/ http://overlawyered.com/2011/04/april-22-roundup-2/#comments Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:23:01 +0000 Walter Olson http://overlawyered.com/?p=22652
  • Furor as NLRB issues complaint against Boeing for planning to open S.C. plant [Wichita Business Journal, Costa/NR "Corner", Wood/ShopFloor, more, Tom Bevan/RCP, Ira Stoll, Hirsch/Workplace Prof, Megan McArdle, Jonathan Adler]
  • Perp meanwhile declared not criminally responsible and awaits release: “Jury orders Nordstrom to pay $1.6 M to Bethesda stabbing victims” [WaPo]
  • Not so reliable: how eyewitness and confession testimony can result in convicting the innocent [Brandon Garrett, Slate]
  • Trying to pin down who merits label of “patent troll” [Michael Risch, Prawfs, and followup] “Digital Innovators vs. the Patent Trolls” [Peter Huber, WSJ]
  • Publishers as targets in pharma suits? Philadelphia product liability case names as defendant the company that put out drug fact sheet [Beck]
  • Regulate-Google schemes: “If search neutrality is the answer, what’s the question?” [Manne/Wright, TotM]
  • Hey, John Boehner’s tweeting about my blog post [@johnboehner]
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