{"id":195850,"date":"2008-06-10T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T10:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/10\/taser-loses-1st-product-liability-suit\/"},"modified":"2008-06-10T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T10:11:00","slug":"taser-loses-1st-product-liability-suit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/10\/taser-loses-1st-product-liability-suit\/","title":{"rendered":"Taser Loses 1st Product-Liability Suit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601103&amp;sid=aYJitFRQLpZk&amp;refer=us#\">verdict will be amended on repeal<\/a>, but the fact that the jury dismissed their bullsh^% claims of &#8220;excited delirium&#8221; is a good start.<\/p>\n<p>Using a Taser is less lethal than a gun, but it should still be treated as deadly force, and Taser International&#8217;s attempts to flog a non-existent medical condition to avoid liability is revolting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No doubt the verdict will be amended on repeal, but the fact that the jury dismissed their bullsh^% claims of &#8220;excited delirium&#8221; is a good start. Using a Taser is less lethal than a gun, but it should still be treated as deadly force, and Taser International&#8217;s attempts to flog a non-existent medical condition to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1198,972,1041,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195850"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}