Torts

In contrast to the majority of my other classes, torts is both interesting and often entertaining-and would be to the average person. You know how people always talk about those crazy lawsuits filed all the time-some guy suing McDonald's for making him fat, a robber suing an owner of a house he was breaking into after he fell through a roof-well we read those all day. Sometimes they're funny but man tonights were depressing. Here's the rundown:
1. Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company v. Buckley- This guy sues his former employer for emotional distress damages because he's been damaged by the thought that he could some day get cancer from the asbestos he's been exposed to. Okay, it's not that interesting.
2. Gammon v. Osteopathic Hospital of Maine- Son sues hospital for emotional damages after he opens a bag from the hospital his father has just died in. The bag was supposed to contain his fathers personal effects. It contained a bloody, severed leg. Somebody lost their job over that one.
3. Portee v. Jaffee-The saddest case we've read yet. Little kid is playing in an elevator, gets caught between the door and the elevator shaft and is dragged up three floors. Mother watches helplessly as police try and free her son. He died on the scene. She sues for emotional damages, and I really hope she won-a lot.
4. Johnson v. Jamaica Hospital- Parents sue after their infant is abducted from the hospital during a bomb scare. He was returned unharmed.
-There were a couple other interesting ones. Can people in an elevator sue for witnessing a man get decapitated when the elevator malfunctions? Can a woman sue when she is told her son has died in an accident when it turns out it really wasn't her son? I think she should just be grateful her son's alive. Can you sue if your negligently told you have AIDS when you really don't? Either way, this class is interesting, if not occasionally depressing and morbid.
-Kind of chilly here today. Definetly not used to wearing a sweatshirt in September but that's Chicago in the fall.
-Been spending time musically in letters T-W