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February 22, 2010. See Asahi Metal Industry Co. v. Superior Court, 480 U.S. 102 (1987), in which the Supreme Court ruled on whether mere knowledge by a foreign company that, by placing its products into the "stream of commerce", the product would reach California justified subjecting it to California's personal jurisdiction.
See also proximate cause and The Gods Must be Crazy. An earlier version of this strip had this as the last panel:
Tort Bunny: Good thing all of that is completely unforeseeable, right?
Brown Rabbit: Yup, completely unforeseeable.
Also, in case you're wondering, to my knowledge there is no tort for negligently altering the natural course of a people's cultural evolution. There is, however, the Prime Directive.
Message in a Bottle
Brown Rabbit: Wotcha up to?
Tort Bunny: Putting a message
into this bottle
End of panel.
Tort Bunny places her message in a bottle and the bottle into a stream.
Tort Bunny: This stream flows into a river
Tort Bunny: That river into a sea
Tort Bunny: That sea into an ocean.
End of panel.
Tort Bunny: Who knows what distant shores that bottle may reach? Brown Rabbit: Well, it could be discovered by indigenous peoples that have never had contact with other civilizations. Brown Rabbit: And treat the bottle as a gift from the gods. End of panel.
Brown Rabbit: And then wage war with each other
over who gets to own the bottle!
Brown Rabbit: Until they are stopped by a lawyer
Brown Rabbit: Who traces the bottle back to you
Brown Rabbit: And sues you for negligently
altering the natural course of
a people'
s cultural evolution!
End of panel.
Tort Bunny: Oh, huh. End of panel.
Tort Bunny: Good thing I used your name and address then. Brown Rabbit: Wait, wha- Tort Bunny: The message is a murder confession by the way. End of comic.
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