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How does US products liability law work (personal injury plaintiffs) How does US public nuisance law work (local government/school district plaintiffs) For ex
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 9mo ago
How does US products liability law work (personal injury plaintiffs)
How does US public nuisance law work (local government/school district plaintiffs)
For example,
what are the claims
what do the plaintiffs have to prove to succeed
what about strict liability
what about causation
what about duty to warn
and so on
Here are the master complaints for
(a) the personal injury plaintiffs
https://dn710108.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.cand.401490/gov.uscourts.cand.401490.138.0.pdf https://dn710108.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.cand.40...
(b) the local government/school district plaintiffs
https://dn710108.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.cand.401490/gov.uscourts.cand.401490.729.0.pdf https://dn710108.ca.archive.org/0/items/gov.uscourts.cand.40...
The defendants have not had much success in dismissing any of the plaintiffs' claims nor in excluding plaintiffs' experts' testimony (so far)
e.g., https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.401490/gov.uscourts.cand.401490.2750.0.pdf https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.40...
In the Google antitrust litigation Google resorted to unusual, creative tactics to avoid a jury trial
Will a jury get to decide on the plaintiffs' claims here, or will the remaining defendants settle
We will know soon enough
Then HN can return to 100% "AI" topics
But a substantial portion of the evidence gathered in this litigation will live on in the public record; not everything is sealed
There was a time before so-called "social media" when personal websites did not force visitor to "sign in", when personal websites did not have millions of pages, let alone millions of pages authored by other people, and when a third party's personal website was not used by members of the public to communicate with each other "directly" while being surveilled by the website's operator, who aims to sell them out to advertisers
The internet is still in its infancy. It's still evolving