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I Can’t Bear to Look Either

No doubt inspired by Ms. Timms’ success, fellow Chicago Transit Authority bus driver Donald Hall has made a similar argument in a lawsuit he is currently defending for fatally striking a pedestrian in 2009. Michael C. Payne, a man with physical disabilities, allegedly slipped under the rear tires of the bus Mr. Hall was driving, and the bus crushed Mr. Payne to death. Mr. Hall has argued he should not have to view video footage and photos of the incident because he suffers from post-...

That Trick Never Works

As reported in the March 3, 2013 Idaho Statesman, a woman who has been designated a vexatious litigant by three western states for filing frivolous lawsuits--as well as by federal courts at the trial, appellate court, and U. S. Supreme Court levels--has filed yet another suit, this time challenging her designation as a vexatious litigant. As reported by the Statesman and picked up by the Associated Press, court records reveal Holli Lundahl Telford has been declared a “vexatious litigant...

No Net Profit

Jacobs High School student Allison Leja of Algonquin, Illinois sued Carpentersville-based Community Unit School District 300 after she was allegedly hit in the face in the gymnasium by a volleyball net she was tightening with a crank. Leja’s lawyer alleged her school was or should have been aware that assembling the net was dangerous based on a warning label against over-tightening attached to the crank equipment. (Read that again: The warning label was attached to the crank equipment...

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