I have been interviewed in the press and on the radio about the pet food recall. While the incident can produce some change in the law, the high cost of private actions for the injuries and deaths to pets will probably prevent their owners from being compensated. For details, see The Pet Food Recall.
If a pack of pit bull-Rottweiler dogs escapes from their pen, which is surrounded by only a three-foot fence, should their owner be convicted of criminally negligent homicide if they kill a person? Applying the law of Texas, a jury said no. Click here for Kenneth M. Phillips’ analysis of the Lillian Stiles case.
This month, two people were killed by dogs in the USA. On March 16, a 50-year-old woman from Friendswood, Texas, was found dead in her backyard, apparently the victim of her own dog or dogs, of which there were three. On March 23, a two-year-old Dallas-area girl was fatally mauled by her parents’ dog at […]
If you are a citizen of Tennessee, and your House representative is Kent Colemand, Rob Briley, Frank Buck, Tom DuBois, Henry Fincher, Jon Lundberg, Janis Sontany, Eddie Bass, Rob Briley, Henry Fincher, Judd Matheny or Eric Watson, it is particularly important for you to contact him or her now. The reason is that all of […]