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Litigation

Sep. 13, 2016

Pokémon GO (carefully)

In the United States alone, there are already numerous reports of injuries directly attributed to Pokémon GO: car accidents, people falling off cliffs, and even stabbing incidents. By Mark Talise

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By Mark Talise

Seemingly overnight, the Pokémon GO craze has run wild across the world. Unfortunately, as the all-too-familiar saying goes, "it's all fun and games until someone gets hurt."

For the uninitiated, Pokémon GO is a game created by Niantic, which is based on the Pokémon characters made widely popular through videogames and cartoons in the 1990s. The game creates an augmented virtual environment on mobile phones and encourages pla...

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