“When they read the word ‘boneless,’ they think that it means ‘without bones,’ as do all sensible people.”

Ohio Supreme Court Justice Michael P. Donnelly in his recent dissent, after the state Supreme Court decided that “boneless” referred to a cooking style, rather than a true guarantee, after Michael Berkheimer, a patron at Wings on Brookwood, a chicken wing restaurant in Hamilton, sued the restaurant and its suppliers after ingesting a chicken bone. The one-and-three-eighths-inch bone tore Berkheimer’s esophagus and resulted in two surgeries. Berkheimer claimed the restaurant and the supplier were negligent for failing to warn him that “boneless” wings could contain bones. The court dismissed Berkheimer’s suit with a 4-3 verdict. (NPR — July 25, 2024)