I heard someone discussing the McDonald’s hot coffee case the other day, and like most folks, the speaker knew nothing about the real facts of that case. Regardless, this case still impacts the debate about reform of our civil justice system (i.e., tort reform). A new documentary, Hot Coffee, to be released in 2011 explores how the case has been misrepresented to advance the anti-civil justice agenda of big business, including the health care lobby. I thought this was a good time to help spread the truth about the facts of this case. (more…)
Archive for July, 2010
McDonald’s Hot Coffee Continues to Spill into Tort Reform Debate
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
Learned Hand: The Spirit of Liberty
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
I like to read. Of course, I like to write also, but this is the first blog post in a month. And likewise, I started and finished only one book in June: Learned Hand: The Man and The Judge by Gerald Gunther. Judge Learned Hand was a name first encountered in law school; although he became a judge in the early 20th Century, his fifty years on the bench produced many valuable opinions, some of which end up in law school texts. He was a non-partisan yet also a progressive, who believed in judicial restraint even when he was in the majority. In this regard, Judge Hand would be one of a kind today.
