When doing the right thing goes wrong

For the companion podcast to this story from “The Weekend Intelligence”, listen here. In Lisa’s case, they rippled through California’s courtrooms, then its state capitol, until finally they rewrote America’s oldest law on Good Samaritanism. “Alexandra, we’ve got to get you out of the car,” she heard Lisa yell through the window. The first court to hear Van Horn v Watson ruled quickly for Lisa, on the basis that she was protected under California’s Good Samaritan law. Revelation Four days after the final ruling in Van Horn, California’s state assembly introduced a bill to protect everyday rescuers like Lisa.