Update: “Judge says perfume lawsuit can proceed”

Susan McBride, who works as a planner with the city of Detroit, can proceed with her ADA lawsuit “alleging a co-worker’s perfume made it difficult for her to breathe and impossible to do her job, a federal judge has ruled.” (Paul Egan, Detroit News, Nov. 27, opinion in PDF courtesy Bashman, h/t reader Vicky Gannon). We covered the case earlier here, here, and here.

Microblog 2008-11-30

  • Torquay, England: cops to give flip-flops to drunken women exiting nightclubs to reduce high-heel trip/fall risk [Daily Mail]
  • Mumbai attack introduced new terrorist tactics, expect to see them employed elsewhere [John C. Thompson/National Post, Bill Roggio] Heroic hotel employees [Reuters] Twitter, Flickr come into their own as breaking news sources during attacks [TechCrunch]
  • “15 ways to get more out of Pandora” [Lifehacker h/t @lilyhill]
  • NYT covers legal difficulties of pursuing pirates (but we did get to the story first) [NYT]
  • Interview with Eve Tushnet [Norm Geras via Ann Althouse]
  • “Dear @barackobama – thank u 4 another email with ‘donate’ at the bottom. Pls note my future donations will be called ‘taxes'” [@JerseyTodd]
  • Pictorial tour of America’s ugliest motel [Lileks] At the time people were duly impressed. What equivalents are we building today?

Livery car liable for passenger’s later crash

Massachusetts: “A livery company and its driver are liable in a fatal car accident caused by a drunk passenger after he left the livery van, the state’s highest court ruled yesterday. … The court said [the hired driver] should not have dropped off a drunk passenger at a location where he would probably get into a car and drive.” (Denise Lavoie, “SJC rules livery firm negligent in crash”, AP/Boston Globe, Nov. 27).

November 29 roundup