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Originally posted by Shape Shifter
Hey, I miss lawn darts as much as the next guy, but I don't see anything haywired in this case.
eta: If the settlement was so outrageous, how come little kids' bloody guts are still being fished out of pool filters?
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They should take tort cases away from juries and give them to groups of randomly chosen professionals. Juries are too stupid to get past emotion.
I say this as a person who has written expert reports which caused large settlements which were filled with fucking lies. I played semantic games and caused people to lose lots of money when we really honestly did not have a case. The experts never balked. They alsmost always play ball. Only three or four have ever complained and said they wouldn't go along with some sort of hiding of the truth effected by a little tweaking of important verbiage.
Nothing like getting seven figures for a pile of shit a lawyer with no skills in science or accounting made up. Google's pretty amazing. You know how loose and screwy I can be here? You can serve my least coherent drivel to the average imbecile on a Philadelphia jury and he wouldn't know better.
In fairness, I did it from the defense and plaintiff's side. I've always got my Nuremberg Defense. Just following some shyster's orders.
It's sleazy. It's all fucking sleazy. And John Edwards is pond scum.
