Blog: $14.5M Settlement Revives Debate Over Metal Bats - and the U.S. Legal System

News of yesterday's $14.5 million settlement of a metal-bat injury lawsuit has already ricocheted from the newswires to the anti-legal system blogosphere. The denunciations of the amount given the family of Steven Domalewski for his ongoing care (and to pay the family's attorneys) have been as hard, swift and predictable as - well, as the flight of a line drive off the barrel of an aluminum bat.

Domalewski took a batted ball to the chest while pitching in a Police Athletic League game in June 2006, when he was 12 years old. Sent into cardiac arrest, the boy was rushed to a New Jersey hospital by paramedics who arrived within minutes, but he was left essentially brain dead.

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