Comments on: October 21 roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/10/october-21-roundup-3/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:05:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: RecentLawGrad https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/10/october-21-roundup-3/comment-page-1/#comment-105086 Fri, 22 Oct 2010 04:05:32 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=19786#comment-105086 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 😉

]]> By: Bill Poser https://www.overlawyered.com/2010/10/october-21-roundup-3/comment-page-1/#comment-105035 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:13:33 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=19786#comment-105035 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.

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