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Ethan Ruby is the president and CEO of Theraplant, a company which produces and processes legal medical marijuana in Connecticut, and is president of the Connecticut Medical Cannabis Council.〔 http://www.sciact.org/conncord/email_blasts/Presentation%20Medical%20Marijuana%2011-2014.htm〕 He has become a notable figure in debates over medical marijuana in part because, after a traffic accident left him a paraplegic, he testifies to personally experiencing the benefits of cannabis for control of severe pain. ==Background== Ruby was a star baseball player at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island,〔http://www.mosesbrown.org/commoninc/pushpage/299/cbannerpp.asp?send_id=&volume_id=20889&user_id=&mode=view&news_id=429896〕 and played college baseball at Brandeis University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he played left field briefly with future major leaguer Mark DeRosa on the 1995-96 Ivy League championship team. He graduated from Penn in 1997 with a degree in psychology. On November 29, 2000, while crossing a street in New York City, Ruby was struck by a driver who ran a red light and hit another car which then struck him, severing a vertebra and leaving him with no movement below his middle chest and persistent pain in his legs. Ruby subsequently sued Budget Rent a Car with a jury awarding him $24,552,918, finding that the rental car company was liable under New York’s “vicarious liability” law, which stated that a rental car or leasing agency could be held responsible for a driver’s negligence.〔http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Vicarious+Liability〕 The two sides settled for $20,312,692 in 2005.〔http://www.newyorkinjurycasesblog.com/uploads/file/Ruby%20v_%20Budget%20Rent%20A%20Car%20%281st%20Dept_%202005%29.pdf/〕 The case ultimately had legal repercussions, as it was often cited during debate over the constitutionality of vicarious liability laws.〔http://www.floridalawreview.com/2010/brent-steinberg-the-graves-amendment-putting-to-death-floridas-strict-vicarious-liability-law〕〔Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ethan Ruby」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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