A note for teachers: Don’t buy a book you haven’t read for a student. Your sweet gesture may go unappreciated. A teacher named Philip Aidoo who teaches at a Philadelphia charter school thought he was doing something nice for his ninth graders when he purchased books for his students as gifts. He apparently made these [...]
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I wrote a while back about some of the ongoing NFL litigation, as have other writers, but this is slightly different… In 2008 parents of a high school student brought suit against high school administrators, football coaches, and the helmet maker Riddell for brain injuries suffered by their son. In 2008 Rhett Ridolfi suffered a [...]
Wrongful Death Action Joined with NFL Litigation
If you’re a sports fan, or even if you’re not you have probably heard of the NFL concussion litigation filed by nearly 4,000 former football players claiming that the NFL hid the risk of concussions and head injuries and instead glorifying the masculine and violent nature of football. A recent twist has come about with [...]
20-year-old Cara Munn filed a lawsuit against a private school in Lakeville called Hotchkiss. Munn attended the school in 2007 when she was a 15-year-old ninth grader and in 2007, she went on a school-supervised trip to China. While on this trip with her school, Munn contracted a tick-borne illness, called encephalitis. The illness left [...]
Here is a story you don’t hear everyday. Dirk Schroeder was diagnosed with prostate cancer and had to undergo routine surgery. He was told that his life expectancy was another 6 years from that point. Unfortunately, the routine surgery did not go as planned because the surgeons had apparently left 16 different items inside his [...]
