This has happened before, like 30 years ago. In Winter v. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 938 F.2d 1033 (9th Cir. 1991) it was ruled that the publisher can’t be sued for selling a guide book that misled a reader into eating an extremely poisonous mushroom.
I can’t find anything about the authors in that case (I think Colin Dickinson and John Lucas?) ever getting sued, probably because they were in Britain so the US courts couldn’t get jurisdiction over them, unlike how it could against the publisher who did business in the US.
This has happened before, like 30 years ago. In Winter v. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 938 F.2d 1033 (9th Cir. 1991) it was ruled that the publisher can’t be sued for selling a guide book that misled a reader into eating an extremely poisonous mushroom.
I can’t find anything about the authors in that case (I think Colin Dickinson and John Lucas?) ever getting sued, probably because they were in Britain so the US courts couldn’t get jurisdiction over them, unlike how it could against the publisher who did business in the US.
Might be time for a change in the law.