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Exoneration on the links

Walter Olson — Sat, 22 Sep 2018 15:58:45 +0000

“What a wild story: a prisoner serving 39 years to life started making drawings of golf courses. The drawings made their way to Golf Digest, which wrote about him, then realized his conviction was sketchy, then investigated, and now he’s free.” [Tom Gara on Max Adler, Golf Digest]

The article quotes one of Valentino Dixon’s pro bono lawyers: “It’s embarrassing for the legal system that for a long time the best presentation of the investigation was from a golf magazine.”

Tags: crime and punishment, golf

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Update: “Judge tosses suit from caddies who claimed they were ‘human billboards'”

Walter Olson — Fri, 12 Feb 2016 11:05:31 +0000

Following up on a post from a year ago: “Caddies lost their class-action lawsuit against the PGA Tour when a federal judge in California ruled they signed a contract with the tour that requires them to wear bibs as part of their uniform and cannot claim that corporate sponsorship on the bibs makes them human billboards.” [AP/Fox]

Tags: advertising, class actions, golf

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Lawsuit: pay PGA caddies for bib wear

Walter Olson — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:16:43 +0000

Class-action lawyers sue PGA Tour demanding compensation for caddies’ use of bibs with advertising on them [ESPN]

Tags: advertising, class actions, golf

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Torts roundup

Walter Olson — Mon, 30 Dec 2013 04:05:12 +0000

Bad lawsuit on bad theory: “Cantor Fitzgerald, American Airlines Settle 9/11 Lawsuit” [Financial Advisor mag]
New Jersey court: only golfer, not his companions, responsible for yelling “Fore” to warn of errant ball [TortsProf]
“The New Lawsuit Ecosystem: Trends, Targets and Players,” 158-page report for Chamber of Commerce, topics include emerging areas of litigation (food class actions, data privacy); also lists leading plaintiff’s lawyers in various areas [Chamber’s Institute for Legal Reform]
“Eleventh Circuit Stacks Deck Against Defendants in Never-Ending Engle Product Liability Litigation” [Cory Andrews, WLF]
Beck vs. Prof. Chemerinsky on prescription drugs and pre-emption [Drug and Device Law]
“Outrageous Court Decisions: O’Brien v. Muskin Corp.” [Schearer; above-ground pool dive defect claim, New Jersey 1983]
New York rejects medical monitoring cause of action [Behrens]

Tags: golf, New Jersey, pools, preemption, September 11, toxic torts

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“Derek Boogaard’s Family Is Suing The NHL For Wrongful Death”

Walter Olson — Mon, 13 May 2013 12:06:07 +0000

The family, now represented by Chicago’s Corboy & Demetrio, is refiling a suit dismissed earlier [Deadspin]:

According to The New York Times, the complaint alleges that the N.H.L., through the actions/inactions of the teams and team physicians charged with caring for Boogaard, breached a duty to Boogaard in failing to monitor his prescription drug use. The suit also alleges that the league’s substance abuse program violated its own rules when it failed to suspend or reprimand him for his several lapses, even in the face of multiple failed drug tests and his admissions that he occasionally purchased the drugs illegally.

P.S. In other sports-lawsuit news, “Vijay Singh sued the PGA Tour on Wednesday for exposing him to ‘public humiliation and ridicule’ during a 12-week investigation into his use of deer-antler spray that ended last week when the tour dropped its case against him.” [ESPN, auto-plays video]

Tags: golf, personal responsibility, sports

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Step 1: Buy house next to golf course

Walter Olson — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 04:17:52 +0000

Step 2: Sue golf course because balls land constantly on your property. Step 3: Lose lawsuit. [Ravalli, Mont., Republic]

Tags: golf, Montana

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Torts roundup

Walter Olson — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:39:00 +0000

House Judiciary passes measure (FACT Act) promoting transparency of asbestos trusts, could preserve assets for honest claimants by curbing n-tuple dippers [Harold Kim/US Chamber, Ted Frank] “$48 million jackpot justice asbestos award for 86-year-old” [Frank]
Canadian court: car crash caused chronic cough [Magraken]
Push in Connecticut legislature to ease expert testimony threshold, thus enabling more med-mal suits [Zachary Janowski, Raising Hale]
Georgia court: residents on notice of wild alligators, golf club not liable for elderly woman’s demise [Daily Report]
“NYT is inconceivably shocked that NYC defends itself in lawsuits instead of blindly writing multimillion $ checks.” [@tedfrank]
Arizona court declines Third Restatement’s invitation to gut duty prerequisite in tort law [David Oliver]
Vintage insurance fraud: “The Slip-and-fall Queen” [Brendan Koerner via @petewarden]
Relaxation of fault in auto cases: “Richard Nixon’s Torts Note” [Robinette, TortsProf] “Reforming the Reform: No-Fault Auto Insurance” [same]

Tags: Arizona, asbestos, Canada, Connecticut, expert witnesses, Georgia, golf, insurance fraud, NYC

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“Golf course company in lawsuit: Sanford lied 90 years ago”

Walter Olson — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:52:25 +0000

“The city of Sanford [Florida] is in court — again — because the private company that manages its Mayfair Country Club golf course wants out of its 20-year contract, accusing the city of a 90-year-old lie. Maece Taylor Inc., which rescued and revived the course four years ago after the city had a falling-out with its previous operator, says its deal with the city is invalid because city officials lied about who designed the course in the 1920s.” [Orlando Sentinel]

Tags: Florida, golf

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March 14 roundup

Walter Olson — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 05:28:17 +0000

A San Francisco cosmetic surgeon sues her online critics — in Virginia? [Paul Alan Levy, CL&P]
SCOTUS ruling in “cat’s-paw” case could gut summary judgment in many bias suits [Hyman]
Cuomo spokesman’s smart retort to Litigation Lobby attack on Medicaid reform panel [LoHud.com]
“Tennessee Cops Posed as a Defense Attorney To Get Suspect To Incriminate Himself” [Reason]
“Illinois golfer not liable for head shot” [Lowering the Bar]
Trade friction mounts due to anti-India provisions in Zadroga (9/11 recovery workers) compensation bill [PoL]
Is a tax-funded federal nonprofit entity funneling money to environmental suits against the government? [Ron Arnold, Examiner]
FCRA class action deemed “lawsuit abuse problem in a nutshell” [Examiner editorial]
“Fatherhood by Conscription: Nonconsensual Insemination & the Duty of Child Support” [Michael Higdon, SSRN via Instapundit]

Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Center for Justice & Democracy, debtor-creditor law, discrimination law, environment, family law, golf, India, libel slander and defamation, police, September 11

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“Golfer Gored by Gator Sues Course Over Pond Design”

Walter Olson — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:28:16 +0000

“A golfer whose arm was torn off by an alligator during a round of golf in South Carolina has sued the course’s owner under the novel theory that the design of the course created an alligator hazard.” [OnPoint News]

Tags: animals, golf, South Carolina

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