When All Else Fails, Sue the Gubmnt

These cases from Overlawyered, are sadly amusing fodder for an economic analysis of law course. Short-answer quiz: who is the least-cost bearer of the risk in these two suits against the gubmnt of the City of New York?

* The alleged wife-beater who, on being arrested by police, stumbled drunkenly down the stairs and broke his ankle, though he got nothing from a Manhattan jury;
* The legally blind Bronx man who "drove his car into a
concrete barrier" and sued arguing that better lighting might have prevented the accident

There are more here.