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Going Mano-a-Monorail: Tort Liability for Bum Design Advice

By Barry Barnett on December 7, 2010

You may recall, as Blawgletter fondly does, a Simpsons episode featuring a monorail that an itinerant huckster — Lyle Lanley — convinced the good people of Springfield to buy for $3 million.  The money came from a fine the town assessed against power plant owner C. Montgomery Burns for dumping nuclear waste. 

The decision to invest in…

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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