“Should they disbar TuberculEsq?”
David Giacalone has some thoughts on now-notorious Atlanta personal injury lawyer Andrew J. Speaker, who doesn’t seem to have lived up very well to the Lakoff-prescribed billing of “public protection...
View ArticleUpdate: “Quebec passengers sue TB-infected U.S. lawyer”
“The American personal-injury lawyer who caused a health scare after flying despite being infected with a potent form of tuberculosis is facing a lawsuit by three of his fellow passengers.” Montreal...
View ArticleUpdate: Andrew Speaker’s fellow passengers
None of them caught tuberculosis. (Molly McDonough, “Tests Reveal Lawyer’s Fellow Air Travelers Free of TB”, ABA Journal, Nov. 28). Earlier: Jun. 2, Jul. 8. Tweet Tags: airlines, communicable disease...
View Article“TuberculEsq” sues CDC
Atlanta lawyer Andrew Speaker says the Centers for Disease Control invaded his privacy during the 2007 cause celebre over Speaker’s having taken an international flight while suffering an unusually...
View ArticleSwine flu and hotel liability
It can get tricky when 1) having swine flu may itself count as a protected disability under laws like California’s; 2) innkeepers are required to report communicable disease to authorities; 3) they...
View ArticleMay 12 roundup
Florida: “Law firm is found liable for injuries to client who fell off a chair” [WPBF via Bernabe] Monsanto, known for hardball litigation over its patented seeds, might regret taking on duPont [AmLaw...
View ArticleSwine farms and fishing expeditions
Texas lawyers are seeking discovery against hog-raising giant Smithfield Foods to determine whether a swine operation it partly owns in Mexico might have contributed to the death of a Harlingen woman...
View ArticleAssistant principal’s swine flu death
It’s New York City’s fault, say the survivors of Mitchell Wiener in a new lawsuit over Gotham’s allegedly inadequate response to the H1N1 virus [WCBS]. More: Katie Drummond, True/Slant; Michael Falino,...
View ArticleLiability for flu spread?
Some are anticipating that, per this line in Washington Post coverage: Still, discussion [at a recent conference] centered on what employers could do to minimize the spread of the virus and to keep...
View ArticleCanada: STDs not insurable “accident”
“The Supreme Court of Canada has taken away a $200,000 insurance award made to a Vancouver man who became paralyzed after a series of medical calamities arising from him having unprotected sex.” [The...
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