Can Cop Get Emotional Distress Damages for Whopper Spit? 9th Circuit Seeks Wash. Opinion

A federal appeals court has asked the Washington Supreme Court for its opinion on whether state product liability law allows a police officer to recover emotional distress damages caused when he found a glob of spit on a Whopper. Sheriff's Deputy Edward Bylsma of Clark County claims he checked out the burger after getting an “uneasy feeling” about two employees who served him at a Burger King drive-up window in Vancouver, Wash., report Thomson Reuters News & Insight and SeattlePI.com. He noticed the sandwich was topped with a “slimy, clear and white phlegm glob," according to Bylsma's allegations. A DNA…

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