Comments on: One of the Oddest Tort Cases http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/06/one_of_the_odde.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: RCinProv http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/06/one_of_the_odde.html/comment-page-1#comment-58160 RCinProv Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:29:26 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/06/one-of-the-oddest-tort-cases.html#comment-58160 Leave it to Overlawyered to call an implant that causes ten years of agony "state of the art." Yeah right. Leave it to Overlawyered to call an implant that causes ten years of agony “state of the art.” Yeah right.

]]> By: Ted http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/06/one_of_the_odde.html/comment-page-1#comment-58159 Ted Sun, 25 Jun 2006 06:15:29 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/06/one-of-the-oddest-tort-cases.html#comment-58159 Of course, the correct result from a trial court that acted perfectly might be zero, since the penile implant in question was state of the art, there was res judicata from a previous federal case, and only the defendant who failed to perfect its appeal was held liable by the Rhode Island Supreme Court. See Overlawyered. Of course, the correct result from a trial court that acted perfectly might be zero, since the penile implant in question was state of the art, there was res judicata from a previous federal case, and only the defendant who failed to perfect its appeal was held liable by the Rhode Island Supreme Court. See Overlawyered.

]]> By: RCinProv http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/06/one_of_the_odde.html/comment-page-1#comment-58158 RCinProv Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:44:24 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/06/one-of-the-oddest-tort-cases.html#comment-58158 I guess you don't read many tort cases. There is at least one this, uh, unusual, almost every month in the California Bar Journal's summary of jury verdicts. Anyway, what's so odd about a defective penile implant? Awful, yes. What's odd, I think, is the reduction of damages. Was $750,000 out of line for what this man has suffered? I don't think so. I wouldn't take his condition for ten times the dough. And I doubt you would either. Would you?! I guess you don’t read many tort cases. There is at least one this, uh, unusual, almost every month in the California Bar Journal’s summary of jury verdicts.

Anyway, what’s so odd about a defective penile implant? Awful, yes.

What’s odd, I think, is the reduction of damages. Was $750,000 out of line for what this man has suffered? I don’t think so. I wouldn’t take his condition for ten times the dough. And I doubt you would either. Would you?!

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