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10. For smartphone software, see http://www.textecution.com; for lessons from Ulysses, JON ELSTER, ULYSSES AND THE SIRENS: STUDIES IN RATIONALITY AND IRRATIONALITY (1979).
11. See CASS SUNSTEIN & RICHARD THALER, NUDGE: IMPROVING DECISIONS ABOUT HEALTH, WEALTH, AND HAPPINESS (2008).
12. See Perry A. Zirkel, Confident about Confidences?, 73 THE PHI DELTA KAPPAN 732 (May 1992). The case is Eisel v. Bd. of Educ. of Montgomery Co., 597 A.2d 447 (Md. 1991).
13. Eisel, 597 A.2d at 454; for additional context for the case in a discussion of liberalism and feminism, see ANN SCALES, LEGAL FEMINISM: ACTIVISM, LAWYERING & LEGAL THEORY, 66–68 (2006).
14. Eisel, 597 A.2d at 456.
15. See Pelman v. McDonald’s Corp., 237 F.Supp.2d 512 (2003); Marc Santora, Teenagers’ Suit Says McDonald’s Made Them Obese, N.Y. TIMES, Nov. 21, 2002, at B1.
16. Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act of 2005, H.R. 554, 109th Cong. (2005); for text and history, see http://www.govtrack.us.
17. David Yosifon, The Consumer Interest in Corporate Law, 43 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 253, 277 (2009); David Burnett, Fast-Food Lawsuits and the Cheeseburger Bill: Critiquing Congress’s Response to the Obesity Epidemic, 14 VA. J. SOC. POL’Y & L. 357, 365 (2007).
18. Katherine M. Flegal, et al., Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999–2008, 303 J. AM. MED. ASS’N 235 (2010), available at http://jama.amaassn.org; see also Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Overweight and Obesity, http://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/index.html; Cynthia Ogden & Margaret Carroll, Prevalence of Obesity Among Children and Adolescents: United States, Trends 1963–1965 Through 2007–2008, available at http://www.cdc.gov (table 1 showing obesity for children ages 6–11 going from 4.0 percent in the early 1970s to 19.6 percent in 2007–08, and obesity for children ages 12–19 going from 6.1 percent to 18.1 percent in the same timeframe); J. A. Skelton, S. R. Cook, P. Auinger, J. D. Klein & S. E. Barlow, Prevalence and Trends of Severe Obesity Among U.S. Children and Adolescents, 9 ACAD. PEDIATRICS 322 (2009); Greg Keller, Number of Fat People in U.S. to Grow, Report Says, Associated Press, Sept. 23, 2010, available at http://abcnews.go.com. For an excellent treatment of the problems of obesity for legal and regulatory theory and practice, see Adam Benforado, Jon Hanson & David Yosifon, Broken Scales: Obesity and Justice in America, 53 EMORY L. J. 311 (2004).
19. Seth Doane, Battling Obesity in America, CBS Reports, Jan. 7, 2010, available at http://www.cbsnews.com.
20. Megan Woolhouse, As City Census Starts, Homeless Man Dies, BOSTON GLOBE, Dec. 19, 2007, at B1.
21. JOSEPH WILLIAM SINGER, THE EDGES OF THE FIELD 38–39 (2000).
CHAPTER 8
Umpires, Judges, and Bad Choices
Epigraphs: Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, appearing in newspapers on Dec. 30, 1991. TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS, PIECES OF WHITE SHELL, 134–35 (1987).
1. See Baseball-Reference.com, No-hitter, http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/No-hitter.
2. See NASA, Apollo, http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/index.html; see also Baseball Almanac, Perfect Games by Pitcher, http://www.baseball-almanac.com/pitching/piperf.shtml.
3. Joyce Tops Survey; Players Nix Replay, ESPN.com, June 13, 2010.
4. Details of the game can be found at Cleveland Indians v. Detroit Tigers—Recap—June 2, 2010, ESPN.com, http://scores.espn.go.com.
5. Brian Dickerson, Umpire Made All the Right Calls after His Big Mistake, DETROIT FREE PRESS, June 4, 2010 (“Unless he figures out how to plug the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, Jim Joyce has likely written the first paragraph of his obituary.”).
6. This quote is from the Associated Press recap of the game, available at Cleveland Indians v. Detroit Tigers—Recap, supra.
7. Paul White & Seth Livingstone, Missed Call Leaves Detroit’s Armando Galarraga One Out Shy of Perfect Game, USA TODAY, June 6, 2010.
8. Kurkjian on Joyce’s Disputed Call, ESPN, June 2, 2010, available at http://espn.go.com;