Word: strictly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congratulations on your Law section. But we don't charge "up to 50 per cent of the judgment" [Aug. 6]. That's unconscionable. The interesting quaere you didn't consider is whether the strict-liability doctrine will ever be applied to services, i.e. doctors' malpractice, as well as to commodities...
...yearned to own a much advertised power lathe. His wife bought him one; it promptly shot a hunk of wood into his head. In upholding a verdict based on faulty design, the court ruled that injured consumers need not claim a theoretical "implied warranty" but may rely simply on "strict liability in tort." Said the court: "A manufacturer is strictly liable in tort when an article he places on the market, knowing that it is to be used without inspection for defects, proves to have a defect that causes injury to a human being...
Loving Lecturers. Not surprisingly, strict liability was on every tongue last week at the Miami convention of the American Trial Lawyers Association-a group so dedicated to winning personal injury suits (fee: up to 50% of the judgment) that the delegates spent eight hours a day buying such trial props as plastic skeletons and listening to such maestros as Melvin Belli, who lovingly lectured on his tactics in winning a $215,000 judgment for a Navy pilot's widow against the manufacturer of a helicopter that crashed during military operations...
...least partly belying Belli, many judges are still loath to stack all the odds against manufacturers, and the doctrine of strict liability is unlikely to be applied universally to all products. Even so, it is easily the most spectacular development in modern tort law-the most potent new weapon aimed at making business safeguard consumers...
Calico Folklore. Quilling's great era in America ran from 1750 to 1870, when the Industrial Revolution put an end to the need for home manufacture. The Hanoverian kings of England had placed strict embargoes and taxes on the use of fine fabrics, such as cotton prints from Calcutta, in the colonies. So women hoarded snippets and swatches left over from dressmaking for the piecework of quilts. By the Victorian era, odd batches of brocade, chintzes and calicoes were patched into crazy quilts, more a tour de force in stitchery than in pattern. As shown in an exhibit...