[CedarDave]

Zokhrabov's attorney said that while the circumstances were "very peculiar and gory and creepy," it ultimately was a straightforward negligence case.

[NonValueAdded]

Have we heard from any of the candidates their position on tort reform?

[RoarkMan]

I understand she is suing for an arm and a leg.

Hey Now!....tip your waitresses people...I’ll be here all week.

[Alissa]

Why would his family be liable? This makes no sense.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Cases like this should be thrown out of court. You see the train coming, you see lights flashing. The fact that he had an umbrella is a distraction. He tried to beat the train and lost.

[count-your-change]

The man made a record breaking post-mortem flying tackle. He's guilty of negligently being killed. Or something.

[WOBBLY BOB]

It’s Illinois, so now he can vote democrat in 3 different places at once.

[Wallop the Cat]

What would Mrs. Paslgraff say??

[husky ed]

If he hadn’t already lost his ass to the train, he sure as hell lost it in court. /:8^)

I’ve got a million of them. BAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

ED

[Lando Lincoln]

Anything to get ahead...

[Scoutmaster]

No.

One of the most famous tort/negligence/proximate cause cases of all time - that any lawyer or law student knows by name - is Palsgraf. I had to cheat and look up the cite: Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. , 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (N.Y. 1928.

Without going into specifics (and if I remember correctly), a man carrying a package was running to catch a train, and the worker from the train reached out to give him a hand. The man dropped the package. It contained fireworks. Sparks from the train wheels ignited a firework. It struck a scale on the platform, knocking it over, and a bystander was seriously injured or killed by the falling scale.

Was the railroad liable?

Yeah. That Palsgraf Benjamin Cardozo wrote the opinion. Yeah. *That* Benjamin Cardozo. Should your employee have known that trying to help the man may cause him to drop the package that might contain fireworks that may ignite, which might knock over a scale, which could injure someone?

And now we have this?

The law comes full circle.

And you can even buy a Palsgraf t-shirt for your favorite attorney or law student, in several choices of color, with this design:

[DainBramage]

Sometimes with a jury you just have to get your foot in the door.

A guy cant just go throwing his weight around....