Miami jury sends a $61 million message to Ford: if a 17-year-old falls asleep driving an Explorer, please make sure you design it so that no one gets killed.
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November 21, 2005
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Here are some recent stories about a variety of questionable lawsuits (or questionable conduct resulting in lawsuits). Most need little commentary other than some basic pop law principles:
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That's scary business. Do you have to check common sense at the door to be on one of these juries?
Chris
Posted by: Christopher Meisenzahl | November 21, 2005 at 02:56 PM
Juries should not be able to set awards, only rule as to guilty or not guilty. I doubt if even the judges on the ninth circus could screw up this badly.
Posted by: Kyle N | November 21, 2005 at 06:14 PM
Why don't these lawsuits ever happen to Honda, Toyota and other non-US car makers? Doesn't the plaintiffs' bar know that those are the car makers that are most solvent, and hence, have
the deepest pockets?
Posted by: chswagner | November 23, 2005 at 07:00 PM
"Do you have to check common sense at the door to be on one of these juries?"
No, you have to not have any to begin with. That is what lawyers generally WANT*, and the current jury selection laws in this country make it amaingly easy to get.
* That way, the actual issue of who is right or wrong, legally, is removed, and it all comes down to who is the better jury manipulator, which has become the primary lawyer skill these days, right after skill in getting the jury you want.
Posted by: Deoxy | November 29, 2005 at 10:06 AM