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Re: Not Ob/Gyn: Lawyers! Gotta luv 'em! From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com) Thu Jul 28 07:41:20 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Not Ob/Gyn: Lawyers! Gotta luv 'em!" Previous message: Anita42@aol.com: "+hpv" In reply to: Cheri Van Hoover: "Re: Not Ob/Gyn: Lawyers! Gotta luv 'em!" Next in thread: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Not Ob/Gyn: Lawyers! Gotta luv 'em!" And now the lawsuits... As we predicted on July 16, the ridiculous lawsuits over the Grand Theft Auto video game "scandal" have begun. The lead plaintiff in the putative class action is an 85-year-old grandmother, Florence Cohen, who bought the game for her 14-year-old grandson, who may have his own claims for emotional distress when his ninth-grade classmates beat him up. I suspect the eventual lead-plaintiff deposition I imagined is likely to be more entertaining than the game itself. "Laurence D. Paskowitz, the lawyer who filed the lawsuit on behalf of Cohen, said no parent would knowingly buy an adult-only video game for their children." Because a "M-for-Mature" 17-or-over game featuring graphic violence, profanity, and "strong sexual content" is so much more appropriate. The sex scenes that are the subject of the lawsuit are only available by taking affirmative steps to download a modification from the Internet and install it: if her 14-year-old grandson has that much freedom with a computer to be able to experience the pixeled sex (an allegation that is missing from press accounts), what else is he downloading? The Class Action Fairness Act is already paying dividends; the case was filed in federal court, which increases the likelihood that federal judges will correctly decide that class certification is inappropriate. (AP, "Grandmother sues maker of 'Grand Theft Auto'", Jul. 27; hat-tip to W.F. and A.B.). http://www.overlawyered.com ( great site, btw) art At Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Cheri Van Hoover wrote: > >Anna Meenan, MD wrote: > >> A lawyer here in Illinois had the audacity to call the river that runs >> through our town an "attractive nuisance" (direct quote from the local >> paper). > >Interesting. When my husband I discussed with our attorney an issue >having to do with people coming on our property to fish he said that >natural bodies of water are generally not considered "attractive >nuisances." He said that in most cases only man-made objects, like >swimming pools or abandoned cars, are designated that way. > >-- >Cheri Van Hoover, CNM, MS >Faculty, Midwifery Institute at Philadelphia University > -- art fougner, md "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." Lawrence Peter Berra Next message: art fougner, md: "Re: Not Ob/Gyn: Lawyers! Gotta luv 'em!" Previous message: Anita42@aol.com: "+hpv" In reply to: Cheri Van Hoover: "Re: Not Ob/Gyn: Lawyers! Gotta luv 'em!" Next in thread: DoctorJoe@aol.com: "Re: Not Ob/Gyn: Lawyers! Gotta luv 'em!"

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