You’ve all heard about the McDonalds hot coffee law suit, right? You know, the one where the older woman spilled hot coffee in her own lap and then sued McDonalds and received a multi-million dollar award from a jury? That case has become the poster child for the big corporate and insurance industry attacks on [...]
Jun
29
2011
29
2011
Jun
23
2011
23
2011
Judicial Activism is in the Eye of the Beholder
I’m sure you’ve heard (or read) by now that the United States Supreme Court sided with retail giant and competition-killer Wal-Mart when it decided that hundreds of thousands of women who suffered varying degrees of discrimination could not band together and bring a class action lawsuit.  For anyone who has followed this Court’s decisions, it is no surprise that [...]
Jun
14
2011
14
2011
Out of the frying pan into the fire–GE Zoneline air conditioners could present fire hazard.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall Tuesday of more than 90,000 General Electric Co. (GE) air conditioners and heaters, stating that electrical malfunction in the units pose a fire hazard. The heaters and air conditioners, manufactured in Japan and China and distributed by GE, were sold under the name “GE Zoneline.” General Electric [...]