Appeals Court Orders New Trial for Damages in Ford Rollover Case

September 4, 2007

  • September 4, 2007 at 2:31 am
    Claims Guy says:
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    Another whacko court decision from the land of fruit & nuts. The proximate cause here is the borderline criminal negligence of the parents in to supervising a 3 year old. Even if there were liability, the value for a wrongful death of a 3 year old isn’t that much. If the court wants to penalize Ford, you don’t unjustly enrich the negligent parents. Our legal system is broken.

  • September 4, 2007 at 2:35 am
    A Parent says:
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    If the child was able to open the door, crawl into the truck, put it in neutral, etc., then the mother was not watching her child well enough. The article mentions she was checking on him occasionally. That is not good enough. Three-years olds need to be watched almost constantly. This is a tragedy for the parents to be sure, but had those parents been properly supervising the child, this most likely would not have happened.

  • September 4, 2007 at 3:43 am
    Mary B. says:
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    Um, me thinks the parents were 99.9% liable for this loss. They deserve nothing but a swift kick in the rear.

    I just don’t understand juries. Are they all stupid? Do they not care? Do they throw a dart at a board and decide the verdict and $$ amounts? There’s no logic.

  • September 4, 2007 at 3:54 am
    One Big Wookie says:
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    This is the same 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that has made so many stupid rulings, such as allowing the suit to remove “Under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.

    Considering this is the second retrial to address punitive damages, the court would have better served all by ruling what was an acceptable award and moving on.

    This court should be disbanded.

  • September 4, 2007 at 5:31 am
    Anon says:
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    Where are they coming from? From a population of people where 75% can’t find their own country on a globe and where a beauty pageant contestant can’t even answer a question about why that’s bad.

  • September 6, 2007 at 5:44 am
    Mary B. says:
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    The 9th Circuit CoA is great and most of their rulings are common sense. To go WAY off the topic like you did, the ruling on the Pledge was fantastic even though it never went into effect. Many, many people in this country ARE NOT religious or do not believe in YOUR deity and making people say that word goes against the very principles that this country was founded upon. That word has only been in the pledge about 50 years (give or take) and should be removed simplt due to the fact that we have freedom of religion in this country and you have no right to shove your religion down the throats of others.

    Okay, soapbox, off.



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