{"id":2952,"date":"2006-02-13T01:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T01:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:58:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:58:42","slug":"that-woman-who-sued-lowes-when-she-got-hit-by-a-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/13\/that-woman-who-sued-lowes-when-she-got-hit-by-a-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"That Woman Who Sued Lowe&#8217;s When She Got Hit By a Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/news\/cst-nws-lowe05.html\" target=\"_new\">Case dismissed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was attacked by a bird at a Lowe&#8217;s store in Fairview Heights.<\/p>\n<p>Rhonda Nichols of Centreville claimed that Lowe&#8217;s Cos., the nation&#8217;s second-largest home improvement retailer, should have warned her of the birds.<\/p>\n<p>But U.S. District Judge William Stiehl ruled Tuesday that a &#8220;reasonable plaintiff&#8221; either would have noticed the birds or understood that contact with them was possible in any outdoor area with plants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/14\/2152\/\" target=\"_new\">Original post<\/a>.  Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.overlawyered.com\/2006\/02\/update_gardencenter_bird_attac.html\" target=\"_new\">Overlawyered.com<\/a> for the update.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Case dismissed: A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by a woman who claims she was attacked by a bird at a Lowe&#8217;s store in Fairview Heights. Rhonda Nichols of Centreville claimed that Lowe&#8217;s Cos., the nation&#8217;s second-largest home improvement retailer, should have warned her of the birds. But U.S. District Judge William Stiehl [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18917,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions\/18917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}