LAWS 2202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wallace Arnold, Mortgage Broker, Regulatory Agency
11 Dec 2016
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Astroturf lobbying to real grass roots movements. Corporations, free-market capitalism and big money vs. tort law. Tort reform and the corporate lobby for complete caps on damages. Determination of negligence: duty of care. House being constructed, people who built the house were negligent when the building the foundation. Hughes jr. original builder, built a house on a hill. Wanted to build a house, provided a blueprint to the city, they said the foundation was faulty and needed to be changed because he was building on a hill. The (cid:272)it(cid:455) (cid:449)e(cid:374)t to i(cid:374)spe(cid:272)t a(cid:374)d (cid:396)ealized that he did(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge the pla(cid:374)s, thus the(cid:455) put a stop warrant. Hughes said he would hire engineers to create a new blueprint, hughes and the e(cid:374)gi(cid:374)ee(cid:396)s did(cid:374)(cid:859)t see e(cid:455)e to e(cid:455)e so it did(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:449)o(cid:396)k out. Hughes dad has a history with city council, he said the house was his retirement home and that he would deal with the issues if they arose.
