Sears Pays
Sears and Roebuck agreed to pay $500,000 for a lawn mower. Well... not for a lawn mower, but for not reporting the defects of a riding lawn mower. They agreed to pay the civil penalty after recieving 1600 complaints of gas leaking from a certain brand of lawn mowers. This happened between 1999 and 2001. The reason they got the fine is because they didn't report the problem to the Consumer Product Safety Commission within 24 hours of figuring out the problem. Noone was hurt or injured from the malfunction. Full Story
posted by Anonymous @ 3:38 PM
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Thank goodness my wife isn't as hard on me when I fail to give the whole story.
Say, why is it that regulatory agencies have carte-blanche to impose punitive damages at their own descretion, when the judicial system is being stripped of its right to inflict punitive damages on the verdict of a jury with legal oversite?
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