- “Japanese landlords sue families of suicide victims” [Telegraph via Tyler Cowen]
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- “Ninth Circuit: marine mammals don’t have standing…yet” [six years ago on Overlawyered]
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The Japanese case is interesting. Although it would seem that in many cases the relatives of suicides have no responsability, in some cultures there is a real loss to the landlord. Traditional Navajos will not knowlingly enter a house in which someone has died for fear of becoming infected by the malicious spirit. They will move the bed of a dying person out of doors to prevent the death from contaminating the house. On the reservation you will see abandoned houses with a hole cut in the north wall. Those are houses in which someone died: the hole is intended to facilitate the departure of the malicious spirit. I don’t know to what extent this issue has arisen, but it is certainly the case that the owner of rental housing in a heavily Navajo market would legitimately claim to have experienced a financial loss if someone committed suicide.
Re the salt thing,
Beyond my abhorrence of this kind of nannyism, perhaps they should hear the French theory before they jump to conclusions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YfrqvUzHxc
When I lived in France, I lost weight despite eating nothing but a what’s-what of “bad for you” foods, so I tend to agree with the French 😉