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Product Liability

Oct. 7, 2000

X-treme Risk

The court rejected Whitfield's proposed new theory, concluding that it would be unwise to adopt a broad new theory of recovery.

        By Timothy B. Bradford and Esperanza Cervantes
        
        One quiet February day in 1998, two gunmen, armed with semiautomatic assault rifles, bungled the robbery of a bank. The police were summoned, but the gunmen attacked, rather than surrender. Protected by body armor, the gunmen strafed the responding police officers wit...

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