No Injury Means No Standing For A Talc Plaintiff

By Steven Boranian (October 2, 2018, 2:18 PM EDT) -- We sometimes sit around trading stories about the dumbest lawsuits we have ever seen. Our personal favorite is a class action from years ago seeking damages against a national shipping company because items sent by "Second Day Air" did not always go in an airplane. The packages arrived as promised, but the plaintiffs were shocked, shocked to learn that items sent from San Francisco to Palo Alto were carried in an ordinary (and earthbound) truck. There is also the one about the guy who sued his dry cleaner for $67 million after the cleaner lost his pants. It was reported that the cleaner showed up in court and tendered the trousers — cleaned and pressed. The plaintiff was unimpressed....

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