2d 646, 648, 650 (Ohio Ct. App. I bought my lawn darts about twenty years ago at a garage sale. — Jonathan Turley, Legal Myths: Hardly the Whole Truth, USA Today, Jan. 30, 2005. A $600,000 jury verdict for losing psychic powers sounds ridiculous, and likely the grossly misunderstood McDonald’s coffee spill case, Haimes v. Temple University has been abused as a tool to whip up on trial lawyers and the tort system. After approximately an hour and a half, the McCann’s went to a register and paid for their purchases. Property -- Pierson v. Post (New York, 1805) Property can be a dry subject, but this case is anything … 1992). The Important Five Things to Look for in a DUI Lawyer, Call for Papers: RMLNLU Journal on Communication, Media, Entertainment & Technology Law [Volume 8]: Submit by 7th February, 2021. This week another child was severely injured by a lawn dart. Do you possess them? It is not too much to say that a person sitting down in New England to consume a good New England fish chowder embarks on a gustatory adventure which may entail the removal of some fish bones from his bowl as he proceeds. Describing “the Creature,” Burchill said: “It’s a very new look for the Creature—no bolts in the neck or flat-tap hairdo—and I think it works; it’s a lot like Stephen Berkoff, only marginally better-looking.”. He claimed damages against the first defendant, a member of the opposing team, and against the second defendant, the referee. 1996). Now Chris Fergus, a professor in Australia, sends along this photo showing another coffee cup maker having a grand old time with the case by including a warning on its cups stating, “Avoid Pouring on Crotch Area.”  I don’t speak French, but  can guess the French version amounts to something like “Don’t Pour It on Your Oolala.”  Chris said he received the photo from one of his students and is unsure where it originated. One of my students sent me this tweet from Morten Nielsen regarding a new oven requiring on the touch screen that, before using the product, the happy new appliance owner must waive their legal rights by agreeing to the “Terms of Service.”  Even in just the snippet of text visible in the picture, the user is assuming risks and waiving legal claims. Negligence: duty of care Chapter 3. All the men were attired in tuxedos, the pants of which were not mounted with cuffs which could transport asparagus and sauce to the dance floor, unwittingly to lubricate its polished surface. Flowers claims that, as a result of all this schemery, her reputation has wilted and her blossoming career as a Las Vegas lounge singer has been nipped in the bud. Lawn darts were banned by the Consumer Product Safety Commission in 1988 on the basis that their risk outweighed their social usefulness. Torts include negligence cases and personal injury. In case you're wondering, "tort" is an Old French word meaning "very lengthy negligence fact pattern." Sandy called him a pervert and her mother berated him. Thanks to Cynthia Cohan. To the contrary, it touts lawn darts as “The Most Exciting Outdoor Game Today.”  No doubt. Hate to be a party-pooper, but I think there’s a duty to act reasonably to prevent highly foreseeable injuries at premises open to the public. The defendant tried to escape liability by relying on an Ohio statute intended to provide tort immunity for riding stable owners and horse show operators for injuries resulting from the inherent risks of equine activity (a statute Painter said “is noteworthy mainly for using the word ‘farrier’ ten times”). Intentional torts may be charged as crimes and prosecuted by municipal, state, or federal attorneys. One of the most famous contract law cases is the case of Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Company. The neighbor could not see Truman because he was kneeling down while in the process of stealing the neighbor’s hubcaps. Do you consider yourself to be a dedicated law student? In the not-as-exciting climax, the Ninth Circuit panel felt compelled under the law to reverse the district court, which had dismissed all of Flowers’ claims. Causation: intervening acts and remoteness Chapter 9. Professor Jonathan Turley exposed phony outlandish tort cases. Thanks to Darius Asly. Employers? The trial court dismissed the case, finding that the plaintiff assumed the risk of the collision by praying in the aisle with her eyes closed, a decision affirmed by the court of appeals. 1979). Suing the Weatherman. Won a defamation judgment for being called ugly. Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. For non-legals, Judge Benjamin Cardozo is one of the most famous American jurists. Generally speaking, the precise manner in which the harm occurred need not be foreseeable so long as the same general kind of harm was foreseeable. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. We decide whether Flowers’s claims are timely and, if so, whether they survive a motion to dismiss. If anyone knows the original source, please send it along so we can give proper credit. Accordingly, the court concluded that the general negligence standard of reasonable care under the circumstances was inappropriate for consensual sex-physical injury cases. In certain, albeit relatively rare, cases, the person may have committed an intentional act meant to lead to injury in another person. — Schwartz v. Warwick-Philadelphia Corp., 226 A.2d 484, 485–87, 488 (Pa. 1967). It was held in this case, an action for nervous shock was recognized in this case but with the limitation that the shock must arise from a reasonable fear of immediate personal injury to oneself. The Torts Museum accepted my invitation. At least if they’re scandals involving the saga of President Bill Clinton’s sexcapades. Wow! John does not know that Adam suffers a disability, but he does know that kicking someone will cause discomfort. But on Halloween at trick-or-treat time, that duty is modified. Every lawyer remembers Mrs. P from law school. As proof, she followed up and sent this photograph to my student, who entrusted it to me. Students often question this principle, arguing that five-year-olds lack the mental capacity to appreciate the consequences of their acts. Hanker J. said “Damnum may be absque injuria as if I have a mill and my neighbor builds another mill whereby the profits of my mill is diminished… but if a miller disturbs the water from going to my mill, or does any nuisance of the like sort, I shall have such action as the law gives.”. It’s highly doubtful calling someone ugly would be actionable defamation under U.S. law. Upon further information and belief, the deck never had a railing when it was installed, or any time thereafter. 2005). That’s one of the things we most appreciate about him. Cardozo wrote the famous majority opinion in Palsgraf. Plaintiff sued for negligence. • Carl Truman, who won a $74,000 judgment after his hand was run over by a neighbor. There are much worse pictures of her injuries available on the internet. Causation in fact Chapter 8. Doe v. Moe, a May 2005 Massachusetts appellate case, gives a whole new meaning to the idea of safe sex. The Ohio Court of Appeals affirmed the trial judge, which had rejected the claim, although one member of the appellate panel concurred “reluctantly” and suggested that the legislature consider allowing damages for tortious injuries to pets. The subject deck was approximately 3-4 feet high. Psychiatric injury Chapter 6. The defendant, as a joke, pointed a gun at the victim who was terrified until. • BALTIMORE AND OHIO R.R. Despite manifold attempts to define the standard, answers remain elusive. Carlin apparently was a learned Shakespeare fan. — Bosley v. Andrews, 142 A. Here, a passenger bus was overloaded and yet the conductor invited passengers on the roof of the bus to travel. At least this is what I heard from some person I met in a bar. Thanks to Chris Nace. However, … he ignored the pain until he returned to Pensacola two weeks later. One descendant fell off a ladder in 1965 and sued the manufacturer, but never made it to trial because the ladder was stolen. During a revival, a fellow worshiper ran down the aisle where plaintiff was kneeling and praying and knocked her down, causing injury. For the most part, courts–wisely so–have been reluctant to entangle tort law with church and religion except in cases of intentional physical batteries. A less noticed, but just as fun pop culture-laden opinion was his dissent to an order denying rehearing en banc in White v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a case where the Ninth Circuit upheld a “right of publicity” claim by former game show hostess Vanna White against Samsung for using a robot resembling her game show persona in a television commercial. ], When I first heard the news about Ralph Nader’s new American Museum of Tort Law, my first thought was, “Awesome! — Bass v. Aetna Ins. — Doe v. Moe, 827 N.E.2d 240, 245 (Mass. As many a law student knows, there are reported cases, and reported cases, the latter being those cases which have not only been decided by the highest courts in the land, but which have fundamentally shifted the legal landscape, shaped societal changes and the way in which family law cases are decided. Tort cases must prove that there was a duty, a breach of that duty, causation, and injury. Judge William Andrews wrote a famous dissent in the same case. Jim said there was a great debate in Eddyville at the time of the case and for years after, with some people siding with Marvin Katko and others defending the Brineys. In the heat of the 1992 presidential primary campaign, the Star—that ubiquitous supermarket source for celebrity scandal—ran a story claiming that Bill Clinton had carried on an affair with an Arkansas woman named Gennifer Flowers. No Problem. With that cast of characters (including Judge K), you know it’s going to be an interesting opinion. For non-legals, Judge Hand was a famous judge who in a famous case–U.S. Other posts related to the famous case are here, here, and here. In a case of first impression, the court struggled to arrive at an appropriate and workable standard of care to apply to private consensual sexual conduct. Here’s a taste from the opening paragraphs (some paragraph breaks inserted): Long after the public spotlight has moved on in search of fresh intrigue, the lawyers remain. Good old Mrs. Palsgraf. The court said a jury could “conclude that in the context the remarks about Mr. Berkoff gave the impression that he was not merely physically unattractive but actually repulsive” and that this could injure Berkoff’s ability to make a living by “lowering his standing in the estimation of the public … [by] making him an object of ridicule.”. The case does raise an interesting legal issue. Waive your rights to warm up your dinner. Pop culture ran amuck in a single footnote (footnote 6) that includes references to (in order): grunge rocker Tad Doyle, the Hell’s Angels, Marvel Comics, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Breakfast of Champions, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, The Coca-Cola Kid, The Kentucky Fried Movie, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, The Wonder Years, Wonder Bread, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, Janis Joplin, Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Prince, dada, Monty Python, Roy Clark, Mel Tillis, the Talking Heads, Andy Warhol, REO Speedwagon, 38 Special, Jello Biafra and the Dead Kennedys. He looks okay in this picture (photo by Getty, borrowed from The Telegraph). Well done! In December, 1996, Ms. McCann and two of her children were shopping at the Maine Wal-Mart store. 2d 56 (La. Clinton and Flowers both denied it at first, but a few days later Flowers (doubtless realizing that honesty is the best policy after all) sold her story to the Star. The most interesting thing about it is that it actually summarizes the law pretty well, assuming one has dropped acid before studying it. Why? A 1L sent me this “Torts Illustrated” image, sort of a grown-up version of Garrett v. Daily, a famous case that all law students study in which a five-year-old was sued for pulling a chair out from under an elderly woman. A battery takes place when the defendant’s intentional act actually causes offensive or harmful contact with the plaintiff. The general category of the Law of Obligations includes Torts Law, Unjust Enrichment Law, and Restitution Law, besides Contracts Law. Set it on Fire. Ernest kept grabbing and shaking the gun while still in the holster and threatening to jump astraddle of him if he did not leave Sandy alone. The main issue was whether the Yale Divinity School could be held strictly liable under the Connecticut dog-bite statute as a “keeper” of the dean’s offending canine, Rocky, a Labrador, because the dog was permitted to roam free in common areas of the divinity school residences and chapel. — Flowers v. Carville, 310 F.3d 1118, 1122 (9th Cir. As for Marvin Katko, Jim said he knew him from school. The law of negligence in place at the time only really came into play through a contract, which in this case there was none. The intersection of church and tort law is an interesting area. — Cordas v. Peerless Transp. Most modern courts apply a reasonableness test that looks at whether the substance was one a consumer would reasonably expect to find in a prepared dish, but the Massachusetts Supreme Court in this 1964 case adopted the older approach that there is no liability for harm-causing natural substances (i.e., bones as opposed to pieces of glass) in food. In the meantime, one can only imagine what the swimsuit issue would look like. 5. He further testified he declined to use the hotel mirror to view the “injury” because that is “not something he would do.” He also testified he did not ask his wife to examine his penis because he would never ask her to do such a thing, nor would he want to let her know about his pain because it would have “ruined her vacation” as well. In dissent, Musmanno skewered the majority for what he saw as an unjust result, closing his opinion by stating that the majority’s approach “is unsupportable in law, logic, and elementary justice – and I shall continue to dissent from it until the cows come home.”. She is now in critical condition. 13-1266 (N.D. Ohio Apr. The actual wire used to set up the shotgun trap in Katko v. Briney. These cases are known as intentional tort cases and are very different from others you may have experienced. The formula states that if the burden of avoiding the harm is less than the probability of the harm occurring multiplied by the severity of the potential harm, the conduct is unreasonable (i.e., negligent). He was confronted by Sandy Medley, her father Ernest, her brother, brother-in-law, and mother. Maybe we’ll find out, now that a court has held that a dog in a dog-bite case was to be judged by a “reasonable dog” standard. Hillary Clinton, the alleged mastermind of the conspiracy, not only orchestrated the defamatory exploits, but also exposed private information about Flowers and organized break-ins of her residence. Ruiz v. … As the bottle was of dark opaque glass sealed with a metal cap so that its contents could not be a ascertained by inspection. Having cleared that up, the most interesting part of the case was the testimony pertaining to her psychic abilities. How a reasonably prudent person would have behaved under a given set of circumstances is one of the great imponderables of tort law that jurors, law students, lawyers, judges and law professors struggle with every day. The famous case of Rylands v. Fletcher was instrumental in laying down the law relating to the tort of strict liability. A piece of shrapnel hit (guest) Plank–Greer’s hand, nearly severing it. The truck slid towards the edge of cliff. These cookies do not store any personal information. The museum offers a history of American tort law, with exhibits covering everything from the infamous McDonald’s hot coffee case to the even more infamous Ford Pinto exploding gas tank fiasco. But there are also atypical readings that allow students to see tort law from different perspectives, including an opening statement, a closing argument, administrative-enforcement letters, an excerpt from a novel, and an opinion on tribal law from a Navajo court. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. It’s only going to get worse, much worse. Assaul… 1. More appropriate publication vehicle than the Northeast Reporter? The trial judge had dismissed the lawsuit on theory that the offending asparagus could have been unwittingly transported onto the dance floor after becoming entrapped in the apparel of the dancers. FLORIDA LAW WEEKLY. The issue was whether the defendant caterer had negligently spilled the asparagus on the dance floor. Pl. Co., 491 So. Over the next few days he and his wife “walked all over the place” until his condition worsened to the point that he “could hardly walk.” Plaintiff testified his inability to walk was caused by defendant’s defective manufacturing of his underwear which caused his “fly” to gap open. Highlights of his career include serving as the presiding judge at the Nuremberg war crime trials and as a defense lawyer in the Sacco & Vanzetti trial. Because of the competition, the plaintiff had to reduce their fees. Although several years old, Professor Jonathan Turley’s USA Today article exposing phony tort cases remains must-reading for anyone concerned about the tort reform movement. Tort is French for “wrong” and is a wrongful act, intentional or accidental, that causes injury to another. Do these same rules apply when the premises are advertised as having, as their only purpose, to scare visitors? When it was dislodged by employees of the Long Island Railroad trying to help the man on the train, the fireworks exploded, allegedly knocking a scale onto Mrs. P. Mrs. P’s saga led to the legendary, and incredibly confusing, opinions by Judge Benjamin Cardozo (that’s Cardozo in the picture–handsome fellow he was) and Judge William Andrews studied by students year in and year out at law schools great and small. 1986) (also noting that the Louisiana legislature has recognized Halloween as a special occasion by exempting it from the statute which prohibits the wearing of masks in public places). We are not inclined to tamper with age old recipes by any amendment reflecting the plaintiff’s view of the effect of the Uniform Commercial Code upon them. COMMON LAW ASSAULT AND BATTERY. Nothing like an in-court reenactment to drive home a point (will resist the obvious “if they do not fit, you must acquit” joke): Both the plaintiff and the defendant’s expert demonstrated the “tensions” that are placed on men’s underwear. 13-1266 (N.D. Ohio Apr. “My wife took it off and we kept it.” That was before they intentionally burned down the house, a barn, and a machine shed because they “weren’t worth anything.” (I suggested he consider donating the wire to the American Museum of Tort Law, but he said they wanted to keep it.). Never used. One cannot help wondering if plaintiffs had, in the alleged 35 years of dancing, ever been to any dance, let alone a wedding banquet dance. Just an off-the-cuff analysis of the facts as alleged. Co., the court had to decide whether “trotting under the Spirit of the Lord” in church, with the result of running into and injuring the plaintiff, was actionable or a protected “Act of God.”. This is referred to as an intentional tort. Elise was listening to oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in Exxon Co. USA v. Sofec, 116 S.Ct. Instead, the court said the plaintiff needed to show conduct rising to the level of “wanton or reckless.” The court opined that while the trial record might support a finding that the defendant’s conduct exposed plaintiff to a risk of harm, it did not support a finding of wanton or reckless conduct. 12. When you say, you know, that the negligence … the causality … had long since terminated. 1986). — Post v. Annand, 798 F. Supp. 99 (1928), is a leading case in American tort law on the question of liability to an unforeseeable plaintiff. A lot of the most notorious cases are fabricated, as Turley explored in his article. Kasturilal Ralia Ram v. The State of Uttar Pradesh. It appears that a man, whose identity it would be indelicate to divulge, was feloniously relieved of his portable goods by two nondescript highwaymen in an alley near 26th Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan; they induced him to relinquish his possessions by a strong argument ad hominem couched in the convincing cant of the criminal and pressed at the point of a most persuasive pistol. Yesterday I taught my first Torts class of the year and, as always, we began with Garratt v. Dailey, 279 P.2d 1091 (Wash. 1955), where an elderly woman sued a five-year-old boy for battery for pulling a chair out from under her as she was (allegedly) trying to sit in it. Take this test and see. (Caveat: I have no way to confirm the following tidbits Jim shared with me, so take them as one observer’s memory of events that happened several decades ago). Playdon (chuckling): I smile—I never envisioned thirty years ago that I’d have the opportunity …. Give them helmets, maybe even put flashlights on them, or scare them outside where they can run into the cushy-walls of cornfield mazes. The box contained fireworks. The surprising legal lesson of this case is that expert testimony about tighty-whities fit can apparently pass scrutiny as scientifically valid under Daubert. But that didn’t happen. The gap resulted in his penis protruding from his underwear, whereupon the edges of the opening abraded his penis like “sandpaper belts.” …, Under cross examination plaintiff admitted he never examined his penis to assess the problem and/or treat the problem. Welcome to 1L torts class! Years ago, a student of mine at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law took a trip, to Philadelphia, I think. —Complaint, Helmburg v. Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, Case No. Problem: A high school baseball game is scheduled. 1813 (1996), and came across the following exchange between George Playdon, counsel for Sofec, and Justice Scalia. Measure yourself on McClurg’s simple 0-100 scale, with 0 being “I’m not totally thrilled with Judge Learned Hand” and 100 being “I aspire to be like the guy in this picture.”. Tort law negligence, duty of care, personal injury and property damage, omissions, policy factors, negligently inflicted psychiatric harm, breach of duty, causation, remoteness of damage So how does one prove a complex products liability case like this one? Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. It’s a 1927 Tennessee death certificate for a 74-year-old hospitalized man. But an interesting side issue was whether a five-year-old is capable of forming the requisite “intent” to commit an intentional tort. In Kirkham v. Will, an Illinois intermediate appellate court held that, in deciding whether the defense of provocation applied in a dog-bite case, the appropriate test to apply was the “reasonable dog” standard; that is, how a reasonable dog would have reacted to the plaintiff’s presence under similar circumstances. Don’t want to accept iTune’s or Facebook’s terms of service? He testified he is a “belly-man” and his “weight” prevents him from looking down and seeing his penis. Perhaps surprisingly to non-lawyers, the Garratt court, as have other courts, held that even young children have the mental capacity to form the intent to inflict a harmful or offensive bodily contact upon another. It is another famous category of tort law cases in which the person being caused harm can impose its responsibility on the wrongdoer without any proof of intentional damage or negligence. (Cue Twilight Zone theme.). The refrigerator immediately blew apart and sent shrapnel flying across the yard. Keep reading to learn more about intentional torts and call us at (504) 475-2455 for any legal assistance you may need. 2d 342 (Pa. 1968) (Musmanno, J., dissenting). It might be on the bar exam. Assuming the plaintiff was standing close by he could have been injured in any number of ways from someone setting off fireworks in such a dangerous, uncontrolled manner. Translation: It’s not negligent to react in fright when a carjacker has a gun pointed at your head. You might also want to check out the movie, Hot Coffee, which explores the McDonald’s case and, more generally, the tort reform movement. The court described the shotgun-trap as follows: “After Mr. Briney cleaned and oiled his 20-gauge shotgun, the power of which he was well aware, defendants took it to the old house where they secured it to an iron bed with the barrel pointed at the bedroom door. Here’s your Palsgraf test: Was the plaintiff within the zone of foreseeable danger of the bottle rocket-defendant’s alleged conduct? CASES FROM THE WEEK OF APRIL 7, 2017. One of the milder pictures of  Stella Liebeck’s coffee burn injuries. Thanks to Lillian Gustilo. msrlawbooks Law of Torts P T O Page 9 Explain with cases, the liability of the Master for the acts of the servant, done during the course of his employment. Another lost her thumb when a ping-pong table collapsed. Indeed, many visitors will leave a haunted house disappointed if they were not frightened while there. 21, 2015). Because people are still circulating these tall tales. Thanks to all the folks who sent in this classic. Reading the opinion, it wasn’t hard to predict the defendant was going to win in the end. U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski, another notable opinion-writer,  reported to Lawhaha.com that Musmanno has been his model since law school and that he consciously tries to emulate Musmanno’s writing. Leave it to insurance coverage guru/legal humorist Randy Maniloff to track down the most interesting cases for his monthly publication, Coverage Opinions. A bit hard to read, but the highlighted note written across the top and going down the right side says: Inquiry at Hospital: They state that patient slipped on banana peeling and fell shortly before death. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. The artist said the young man above came into her tattoo parlor with the accompanying picture of Judge Hand (the picture is from the famous Prosser, Wade & Schwartz Torts casebook used at 124 law schools) and asked to have Judge Hand, wearing a jester cap, tattooed on his arm. But, one problem. The next generation oven will come with a built-in corporate lawyer who will send you threatening cease and desist alerts if you overcook or undercook your food and bill at a rate of $300 per hour. [Great News. TOP 10 LANDMARK JUDGEMENTS OF LAW OF TORTS. (By the way, this practice, known as “libel tourism,” resulted in enactment of a 2010 U.S. law that prohibits U.S. courts from enforcing foreign defamation judgments if they were rendered under legal protections less protective of speech than U.S. standards. However, in order to exempt the State from liability it is further necessary that the statutory functions which are exercised by the Government servants were exercised by way of delegation of the sovereign power of the State. Defendant Hughes placed a bottle rocket in his anus, ignited the fuse, but instead of launching, the bottle rocket blew up in Defendant’s rectum, and this startled plaintiff and caused him to jump back, at which time he fell off of the ATO deck, and he became lodged between the deck and an air conditioner unit adjacent to the deck. It was rigged with wire from the doorknob to the gun’s trigger so it would fire when the door was opened. 2002) (Kozinski, J.). “He had somewhat of a reputation around town.”, Jim claims Katko was suspected of stealing a marble-top dresser from the Briney’s house prior to the occasion where he was shot. According to Flowers, Hillary Clinton and her two “henchmen,” George Stephanopoulos and James Carville, conspired to protect Bill Clinton’s presidential candidacy from Flowers’s damaging revelations. Brennan: Tort Law Concentrate 4e Interactive flashcards of key cases. He laments that today’s law school graduates have never heard of Musmanno and return only blank stares when his name is mentioned. Sorry for the graphic pic, but this is actually one of the milder pictures of her burn injuries: And so here we are more than a decade later continuing to distort the American tort system with a case in which dangerously hot coffee sold through a drive-thru window caused third-degree burns to a 79-year-old woman who accidentally spilled it while a passenger in a stopped vehicle trying to add cream and sugar. [W]e consider a dish which for many long years, if well made, has been made generally as outlined above. The legal dispute is an old one: To what extent is food containing a harmful ingredient a defective product when the substance is a natural one as opposed to a foreign one? This case involves a claim for false imprisonment. First, that the trial judge specifically instructed the jury it could NOT award damages for loss of her psychic abilities, and, second, that the court threw out the plaintiff’s verdict. Known to generations of law students as the "snail in the bottle" case, it is best known for Lord Atkin's famous neighbour principle. All sorts of duties are imposed on property owners to maintain a safe premises. The Consumer Product Safety Commission’s original notice of the ban “urge[d] consumers to discard or destroy all lawn darts immediately” and instructed them to call the Commission’s hotline if they find any still for sale. Now that the suit has been wrapped up, perhaps Poopi should consult independent counsel about the possibility of pursuing emotional distress of having to go through life named “Poopi.”. He raised “Act of God” as a defense and also asserted the plaintiff assumed the risk of the collision and was contributorily negligent. Town in Winsted, CN church and religion except in cases of intentional physical batteries perhaps. Two critical facts category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of ATO. 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