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Re: Convicted for using a non-academic language ? (was: Hot Topics)
Subject:Re: Convicted for using a non-academic language ? (was: Hot Topics) From:Jay Mead <jlmead -at- OURAY -dot- CUDENVER -dot- EDU> Date:Mon, 10 Mar 1997 17:28:30 -0700
On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Peter Ring, PRC wrote:
> Please note, that the opposite situation is just as possible: a law
> suit - e.g. through a labour union - that a manual was written in
> such an academic language that it was unreadable for the worker and
> his/her foreman (or for a consumer) so that THIS was responsible for
> an accident.
>
> Does ANYBODY know of ANY real law suit(s) following any of the
> above cases and the result(s) of this/these law suits?
There is a superb example of such a lawsuit, concerning the lack of
clarity of a benefits package description--and as I remember the company
lost the case (proving just how valuable we writers are)! I can't
remember the citation just now (I'll look it up at home
tonight)--I read it in a graduate course at the Univ of Colo a couple of
years ago. Any UCD graduates out there remember that example? From Jim
Stratman's Legal Writing class?
Jay Mead
Galileo International
jay -dot- mead -at- den -dot- galileo -dot- com
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