Legal Commentary

The 41-hour smoke break and other elevator stories
While working late one Friday night to meet a publication deadline, Nicholas White decided to take a smoke break. It lasted 41 hours. White worked on the 43rd floor of the McGraw Hill Building in downtown Manhattan...

Quick Study break
For those studying hard for the bar exam and needing a quick break, try Hangman . It has topics like American Presidents, cartoon heroes and Reasons to Stay Inside on a Sunny Day. I just played a quick 2 minute game and had a bit of fun...

Zigarettenpausen mit Konsequenzen
A paralegal who defied a new policy at work that banned smoking breaks for hourly employees was fired legally, a New York appeals court ruled Thursday. Karen Kridel had worked for a Rochester law firm for about 14 months...

2 women accused of letting 2-year-old smoke at Ponderosa
Story is from Wisconsin. I'm more concerned about his other bad habit: The aunt told police that the boy often says "smoke, smoke" and sometimes takes cigarettes out of the pack and puts them in his mouth...

Katz on Smoke-Filled Rooms
Ellen D. Katz (University of Michigan Law School) has posted Smoke-Filled Rooms on SSRN. Here is the abstract:The smoke-filled room is making a comeback. Condemned as a corrupt, anti-democratic means for nominating candidates to public office, the smoke-filled room has...

An ADA right to smoke-free eateries
Thus argues a lawsuit filed by James Bogden against four restaurants in Alexandria, Va., which "seeks to require the restaurants to become smoke-free, arguing that they must accommodate Bogden's disability, coronary artery disease, and eliminate secondhand smoke so he can eat at them...

Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Failure

Composix Kugel Mesh Patches
alleging the memory recoil ring has the potential to break and cause bowel perforation or chronic enteric fistulae.

Kidde
Recalls Dual Sensor Smoke Alarms

Hayes Bicycle Group
Recalls Quick-Release Devices

Medtronic
Recalls Specific Lots of Paradigm Quick-Set Infusion Sets