Issue Spotting and Insights
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Assignment 1a - In the News: Issue Spotting and Insights
2. List
the headlines of at least
ten
non-criminal legal issues
you are able to spot in 10 minutes (provide the citation which includes the paper, date, title and author). Be sure to include the live link as well; no need to cut and past the article. All selections should relate to the legal environment of business or
civil law
in some way, (be sure you are able to articulate how they relate to the legal environment of business and civil law).
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Boom in A.I. Prompts a Test of Copyright Law
o
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/30/business/media/copyright-law-ai-
media.html
o
Moreno, J. Edward. “Boom in A.I. Prompts a Test of Copyright Law.” The New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023.
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Jury Awards $800,000 to a Girl Burned by a Chicken McNugget
o
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/us/mcdonalds-nugget-lawsuit-florida.html?
searchResultPosition=2
o
Che, Chang. “Jury Awards $800,000 to a Girl Burned by a Chicken McNugget.” The New York Times, 23 July 2023.
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Giuliani Was Ordered to Pay $148 Million. What Happens Now?
o
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/17/us/politics/giuliani-defamation-
damages.html?searchResultPosition=3
o
Sullivan, Eileen. “Giuliani Was Ordered to Pay $148 Million. What Happens Now?” The New York Times, 17 Dec. 2023.
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Supreme Court Backs Employer in Suit Over Strike Losses
o
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/01/business/economy/supreme-court-strikes-
teamsters.html?searchResultPosition=7
o
Scheiber, Noam. “Supreme Court Backs Employer in Suit Over Strike Losses.” The New York Times, 1 June 2023. -
16 Crucial Words That Went Missing From a Landmark Civil Rights Law
o
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/qualified-immunity-supreme-
court.html?searchResultPosition=11
o
Liptak, Adam. “16 Crucial Words That Went Missing From a Landmark Civil Rights Law.” The New York Times, 15 May 2023.
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Muttered Insults, Stern Warnings: Inside Trump’s Second Defamation Trial
o
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/nyregion/judge-kaplan-trump-e-jean-
carroll-trial.html?searchResultPosition=14
o
Weiser, Benjamin, et al. “Muttered Insults, Stern Warnings: Inside Trump’s Second Defamation Trial.” The New York Times, 17 Jan. 2024.
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Court Throws Out New York’s Civil Case Against Ivanka Trump
o
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/27/nyregion/ivanka-trump-fraud-case-
ny.html?searchResultPosition=28
o
Bromwich, Jonah E, and Ben Protess. “Court Throws Out New York’s Civil Case
Against Ivanka Trump.” The New York Times, 27 June 2023.
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Jury Selection in Trump’s Defamation Trial Has Watchful Eyes: His
o
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/nyregion/trump-e-jean-carroll-defamation-
trial.html?searchResultPosition=33
o
Benjamin Weiser, and Maggie Haberman. “Jury Selection in Trump’s Defamation
Trial Has Watchful Eyes: His.” The New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024.
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Potential Trump Charges Include Civil Rights Law Used in Voting Fraud Cases
o
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/us/politics/trump-charges-civil-rights-law-
voting-fraud.html?searchResultPosition=13
o
Haberman, Maggie, and Adam Goldman. “Potential Trump Charges Include Civil
Rights Law Used in Voting Fraud Cases.” The New York Times, 19 July 2023.
3. Choose/Write one of the issues from the list that you think applies to business law and write a paragraph summarizing the relevant points and a second paragraph telling me how it is relevant to business law.
Be sure to provide a sufficiently robust response. As you read and write consider and address (with labels):
What is at stake?
What are the parties competing interests?
Who do you think should prevail and why ?(If you need more information before you decide who should prevail, discuss what you'd like to know or why you need more information.)
Jury Awards $800,000 to a Girl Burned by a Chicken McNugget
In this article a little four-year-old girl, Olivia Caraballo, was receiving chicken McNuggets from her mother, when one of the nuggets fell on Olivia’s thigh which left it “disfigured and scarred” along with second degree burns. The family filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s and Upchurch Foods, and eventually a different jury deemed that
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both companies were liable for not providing “reasonable instructions or warnings on the packaging” This case had quite a lot of similarities to the one the past where a older woman had suffered severe burns from the ridiculously hot coffee from McDonald’s. In the end the jury awarded the girl “$400,000 for the pain she endured and an additional $400,000 for any future suffering resulting from the injury”. At the time of this article being written there is no warning labels on the Happy Meal boxes or Chicken McNuggets
packaging. This article is very much related to business/civil law due to fact that an individual was affected/injured by a business entity. The main legal issue here was the fact that there was
no warning or precaution present on the food packaging, when the food is hot enough to cause serious bodily harm. This incident had caused physical and mental damage to the child and the parents/lawyers were seeking 15 million initially. In the article it seems that McDonald’s lawyers didn’t appeal the decision award $800,000 to the child, however it seems at one point the McDonald lawyers tried to propose $156,000. So, the McDonald lawyers had the goal of lowering the cost of damages as much as possible, where as the family’s lawyers were obviously going for the exact opposite. In this article, the outcome and verdict were decided, but a big part of the argument fell under not having any warnings or labels, along with it being very unreasonable to expect Chicken McNuggets to served at such dangerous temperatures, especially to a child as kids meal.