- Texas jury awards $27 million against McDonald’s in negligent security case [Bloomberg]
- NYC cop sues after being acquitted on rape charges, and from the difference in coverage between the NY Daily News and Slate, you might not realize it was the same case;
- “Obamacare was no inartful compromise; it was a brutal cramdown.” [Michael Greve, Law and Liberty, on Halbig]
- American Tort Reform Foundation nominations of “judicial hellholes” this year include Louisiana, South Florida and NYC [Abnormal Use]
- Antitrust’s awful academics [Tom Bowden, Ayn Rand Institute]
- New York Assembly Speaker Silver “earned up to $750,000 in 2013 working a few hours per week” at prominent tort firm [NY Daily News]
- Europe: Gardeners with sit-on lawnmowers face buying motor insurance [Telegraph]
Filed under: antitrust, ObamaCare, problem jurisdictions, Sheldon Silver, third party liability for crime
One Comment
So McDonalds was supposed to have a security guard… and be responsible when a mob of 30 or 40 beat him to death. Perhaps if he was armed… McD’s would be responsible for him shooting a couple of teenagers, and for the rest of the mob beating him to death. Maybe if he had a machine gun…