Comments on: November 19 roundup

By: markm

markm — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:24:18 +0000

The DOJ should assist them in these lawsuits to recover as much as possible from the employers – and then fine the illegal aliens the amount recovered before deporting them…

By: Deoxy

Deoxy — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:26:28 +0000

“Illegal aliens may sue for wages at U.S. levels.”

In any sane universe, whther they were allowed to do that or not would be moot, as they would be dported immediately upon confession to being an illegal alien.

What utter insanity.

By: Ted

Ted — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:21:34 +0000

The official position of ATLA is that Stella Liebeck’s case reached the correct, aspirational, result and that the majority of cases that threw identical claims out are incorrect. Even today, torts students are being taught that Liebeck’s case is legitimate. If one googles for the McDonald’s coffee case, nine out of the ten top links erroneously argue for its legitimacy–the tenth is this site.

The Liebeck case illustrates many things that are wrong with our liability system, ranging from bogus expert testimony to the game-show tactics of tricking witnesses in depositions to punitive damages divorced from intentional wrongdoing to the increasing disappearance of proximate causation in torts cases. As such, it’s entirely appropriate for this site to note that case’s problems.

By: Peter Nordberg

Peter Nordberg — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 14:11:10 +0000

Agreed that press reports on the hot chocolate case disserve informed public discussion in failing to mention the various spilled coffee cases that have been thrown out. That omission gives sustenance to the myth, assiduously cultivated by some, that our legal system is plagued by such problems as hot coffee liability run amok.