Had he heard from Mr. Loftus, do you think he might have been inclined to rule differently?
Then again, Judge Baer is most likely another bleeding-heart liberal who will invent just about any excuse for a real criminal not having any responsibility for his or her actions. He might find the Bic lighter people criminally liable, for example, in a an arson case.
Not to mention what those terrible lighters contribute to the smoking habit.
I notice in The Smoking Gun's summary of the civil lawsuit filed by 9/11 survivors that Judge Baer decided that lawyers for the families "have shown, albeit barely...that Iraq provided material support to bin Laden and al-Qaeda" in the attack on the World Trade Center.
This is a far cry from his saying that, as HighWheeler did in large type, Iraq was behind the 9-11 attacks.
To the same degree as Bic causes lung cancer? Possibly.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20030923-101959-4113r.htm