Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
Not really. What you seized upon was that both cases involve liability, but so do most legal matters, and there are many different forms of liability. Lessons drawn from one case may not apply to another.

The one you invoked involved corporate business liability with respect to consumer goods and purchases. The Texas flooding suit involves, among other things, the liability of the federal government in its use, seizure, or destruction of private land and property (as a Constitutional issue).

These are just different cases and different kinds of law.
Probably. I am no lawyer. But it seems to me this "we weren't explicitly told" may be used by the suitors.