Should Jardine be sued for the recall of several baby cribs ?
Douglas Robert Jardine (23 October 1900 – 18 June 1958) was an English cricketer and captain of the England cricket team from 1931 to 1933-34. He is perhaps best known for captaining the English squad during its 1932-33 Ashes tour of Australia, in which his team employed Bodyline tactics to neutralize the opposing Australian batsmen, particularly Don Bradman. Early life and cricketing career Jardine was born in Bombay, British India, and was of Scottish descent. His parents were Malcolm Robert Jardine, who himself played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Middlesex, and Alison Moir. Douglas Jardine was educated at Horris Hill School in Newbury, Berkshire, Winchester College (where he was in the first eleven for three years, becoming captain in his final year and heading the batting with 997 runs, average 66.46[1]) and New College, Oxford; he habitually wore the Oxford University Harlequin cap on the cricket field, which some saw as a symbol of pretension. Upon entering Oxfor
On the day before the government held a special meeting to toughen crib safety standards, Babies R Us announced it was dropping drop-side cribs, according to the Logo_BABIES_R_US Wall Street Journal. The Journal reports: “There are enough concerns raised about drop-side cribs that we’re moving forward and we’re going to phase them out,” the company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Jerry Storch said in an interview. While Mr. Storch said he doesn’t necessarily believe newer drop-side cribs are dangerous, he’s concerned about the amount of time consumers are keeping their cribs, especially in this economy. “It adds in an element of risk that we don’t want to take, particularly over time,” he said. “It seems that the strongest cribs are ones where the four sides attach to each other and have less complicated hardware.” BRU’s move comes after 4.2 million cribs were recalled in the past two years—many of those recalled cribs were drop-sides. Of course, BRU played its own role in this drama,
Douglas Robert Jardine (23 October 1900 – 18 June 1958) was an English cricketer and captain of the England cricket team from 1931 to 1933-34. He is perhaps best known for captaining the English squad during its 1932-33 Ashes tour of Australia, in which his team employed Bodyline tactics to neutralize the opposing Australian batsmen, particularly Don Bradman. Early life and cricketing career Jardine was born in Bombay, British India, and was of Scottish descent. His parents were Malcolm Robert Jardine, who himself played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Middlesex, and Alison Moir. Douglas Jardine was educated at Horris Hill School in Newbury, Berkshire, Winchester College (where he was in the first eleven for three years, becoming captain in his final year and heading the batting with 997 runs, average 66.46[1]) and New College, Oxford; he habitually wore the Oxford University Harlequin cap on the cricket field, which some saw as a symbol of pretension. Upon entering Oxfor
On the day before the government held a special meeting to toughen crib safety standards, Babies R Us announced it was dropping drop-side cribs, according to the Logo_BABIES_R_US Wall Street Journal. The Journal reports: “There are enough concerns raised about drop-side cribs that we’re moving forward and we’re going to phase them out,” the company’s Chairman and Chief Executive Jerry Storch said in an interview. While Mr. Storch said he doesn’t necessarily believe newer drop-side cribs are dangerous, he’s concerned about the amount of time consumers are keeping their cribs, especially in this economy. “It adds in an element of risk that we don’t want to take, particularly over time,” he said. “It seems that the strongest cribs are ones where the four sides attach to each other and have less complicated hardware.” BRU’s move comes after 4.2 million cribs were recalled in the past two years—many of those recalled cribs were drop-sides. Of course, BRU played its own role in this drama,
