Most curious angle, as reported in the Tulsa World:
The plaintiffs alleged that the bike was “inherently defective and dangerous” because of the defective front fender bracket, which broke within the first week the bike was used.
Pacific Cycle countered that it had designed and manufactured an ordinary “pedal powered” bicycle but that a third party had retrofitted it with a motor.
The company claimed that the mounting of the motor was “unforeseeable misuse and modification” of the bike.
Ken at Popehat laments, “My Entire Existence Is Now Against The Law In France.” [New York Times]
Something about fruit-flavored snack foods seems to get the class-action lawyers going. A Brooklyn woman is now suing General Mills, saying its Fruit Roll-Ups, popular with kids, are not as healthy as buyers might think from its marketing. [California Civil Justice Blog, Reuters, New York Daily News]
Is it too cynical to detect a whiff of hotel-protection in this crackdown? [Sean O’Neill, Newsweek Budget Travel]
I’m happy to announce that today I sent the manuscript of my next book, tentatively titled Schools for Misrule: Legal Academia and an Overlawyered America, off to Encounter Books. If you’ve noticed that posting has been light in recent weeks, that’s why. Did you know that you can pre-order the book on Amazon?
Posting will remain light for a little while longer because I plan to get an early start on enjoying the long holiday weekend.
First came the character assassination aimed at Judge Martin Feldman, then came the death threats [Jeff Crouere, BayouBuzz via Wood/PoL, earlier]
By reader acclaim: “Two sets of parents are suing the Greater Toronto Hockey League, one of its clubs and four coaches for $25,000 each because their sons were cut by the Avalanche Minor Sports Club midget junior A team during tryouts in April.” One father claims the defendants’ conduct “destroyed the dignity” of his son and caused him to suffer “irreparable psychological damage.” [Toronto Star]
She’s not expected to sympathize with them, for reasons Ted outlines at Point of Law.
So puzzling and inexplicable that health insurance rates keep rising. [NYT]