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| US court refuses to reinstate lawsuit by family of Rachel Corrie | |
| 2007-09-18 | |
 A federal appeals court panel has refused to reinstate a lawsuit brought against Caterpillar Inc. by the family of a 23-year-old American peace activist crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer. The three judges from the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the lawsuit presented foreign policy questions best left to the White House.
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| Posted by:Fred |
| #20 And CAT closes up $3.77/share (+5.12%), but that could also be attributed to the rate cut which sent everything up today! |
| Posted by: Dar 2007-09-18 16:49 |
| #19 The fact that a living Corrie, able to say whatever she wanted, would be a lot less useful to the PA than a dead "martyr" they could use as a sock-puppet might have had something to do with her "tragic death"... Go ahead, call me a cynic. |
| Posted by: mojo 2007-09-18 16:29 |
| #18 It's not like she couldn't have got out of the way. There's no way Caterpillar can be at fault for Corrie's stupidity. However, I'd like to point out that she was not crushed to death. I saw pictures of her (I think this was on LGF, but I was unable to find them) being taken into the hospital, and she was most certainly not "crushed". You can see a picture here (fifth photo) of Corrie after the incident (this site is one of her supporters). There, it's reported that she's still alive and talking afterwards, and claims that her back is broken. I wouldn't be at all surprised if her friends' incompetent handling is what really killed her ("She says her back is broken! Be sure to move her spine around a lot!"). |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2007-09-18 12:01 |
| #17 Caterpillar (CAT) up $1.29 (1.75%) as of 11:00 EDT this morning. |
| Posted by: Dar 2007-09-18 10:52 |
| #16 If the West had not lost its spine the family would be counter-sued by Caterpillar and the Israeli government. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-09-18 09:29 |
| #15 LOL MR! It's not like you can't get out of the way of the dozer. St. Pancake failed to grasp the laws of cause and effect. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2007-09-18 09:00 |
| #14 |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2007-09-18 08:35 |
| #13 The D9 is so big that there are visibility problems with objects where the line of sight is blocked by the dozer itself. The bigness itself creates the problem. Because of the visibility issue, in the US, spotters are, in urban and suburban areas, used to guide the work of the dozers. In Israel, the IDF had spotters to guide the dozers also; however, the spotters couldn't do their work because of Palestinian snipers. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-09-18 08:14 |
| #12 the Cats are enclosed/armored and modified by the evil Joooooos. You don't normally see armored Cats on construction sites... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-09-18 08:11 |
| #11 Actually, I am surprised the suit failed. I wonder if they framed it wrong. All accounts I read said she was crushed because the operator could not see her - she was in a blind spot, which would be a design flaw, which would seem to expose Caterpillar to a liability claim, based on precedent of other liability cases (for other products). |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2007-09-18 07:52 |
| #10 All the attention... I'm flattered! |
| Posted by: Ghost of Rachel Corrie 2007-09-18 07:48 |
| #9 crushed even |
| Posted by: Whavising Hatfield5201 2007-09-18 06:45 |
| #8 The family was heard to exclaim: "We were steamrolled." |
| Posted by: doc 2007-09-18 06:38 |
| #7 Rachel Corrie wasn't in Soudan helping those who really suffer. She was in the West Bank with those who dream of genocide. She was not better (in fact worse because they didn't knew what was happenning in Auschwitz) than the Jewe who enlisted in the ghetto police under the Nazis. A Jewish Nazi. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-09-18 04:00 |
| #6 Pity it wasn't one of those Italian bulldozers with the 10 reverse gears. |
| Posted by: JFM 2007-09-18 03:54 |
| #5 A federal appeals court panel has refused to reinstate a lawsuit brought against Caterpillar Inc. by the family of a 23-year-old American There - fixed it for ya! No charge - we believe in truth in news reporting.... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2007-09-18 01:36 |
| #4 What a load of crap. Plaintiffs would have to prove that Caterpillar's conduct was the proximate cause of St Pancake's death. And they would have to prove forseeability of the fact that a protester would jump in front of a working machine operator. In fact, an Oregon train engineer successfully sued a protester for the anguish that he suffered after running over his leg. That suit sounds cruel until you try to understand how the engineer actually felt. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2007-09-18 00:47 |
| #3 Varoom Varoom, clank, clank, clank. ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] ]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-09-18 00:28 |
| #2 If these two loons couldn't get the loons on the ninth circuit to listen, they ain't going to get anyone to. The only way they're going to get attention for Rachel is to open a pancake house. |
| Posted by: xenophon 2007-09-18 00:26 |
| #1 I guess the Corrie's case has finally fallen flat. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-09-18 00:10 |