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Subject: Any liability lawsuits
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From: "Halle, John" <JJHALLE@stoel.com>

As a practicing lawyer for the last 30 years (if I practice enough I'll =
get it right) I have to jump into all of this wild speculation.
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1.  This is America.   Anyone with a filing fee and the ability to sign =
his name can sue anyone about anything.
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2.  The legal standard in any lawsuit over an airplane accident is =
whether the defendant's negligence (if any) was the proximate cause of =
the plaintiff's injury.  A jury gets to decide.
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3.  I am not aware of any case in which the builder of an experimental =
aircraft has been sued as a result of a crash of an airplane he sold to =
the plaintiff.
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4.  You can get hit by a meteorite at any moment.  Get a life.