Boyle v. United Technologies Corporation

5-4

Prologue Projects

News Commentary, News, Government

4.6 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

What does a military contractor have in common with Justice Antonin Scalia? They both manufacture things! The contractor manufactures helicopters with faulty escape hatches. Scalia manufactures, out of whole cloth, new laws about who can be held liable for deaths. Neither of them care if you live or die, as long as the designs are to spec!

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0:00.0	We'll hear our human next, the number 86492, the Albert Boyle v. United Technologies.
0:09.6	Hey everyone, this is Leon from Viasco and Prologg Projects.
0:16.9	On this week's episode of 5-4, Peter, Rianne, and Michael are talking about Boyle V. United
0:23.0	Technologies Corporation, or UTC.
0:26.3	The case centers around a subsidiary of UTC that was commissioned to build a helicopter
0:30.4	for the military.
0:32.1	The helicopter was poorly designed, leading to an otherwise preventable death of a marine.
0:37.6	His parents sued over the faulty design, but...
0:40.3	The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Reagan and his administration a victory today,
0:45.1	the court ruled 5-4 that military defense contractors generally cannot be held liable
0:51.2	for defects in their products.
0:53.6	The result is that government contractors now have even less incentive to make product
0:57.7	safer.
0:58.7	This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.
1:08.2	Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have left us
1:13.8	strained and dying like an insolvent venture capital bank.
1:17.6	Mmm.
1:18.6	I'm Peter.
1:19.6	I'm here with Rianne.
1:20.6	Hi.
1:21.6	And Michael.
1:22.6	Hi everybody.
	...

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