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Old 01-25-2005, 01:57 PM   #1861
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This was my thought exactly. The securities class action bar is a real problem, especially with deriviative actions where there is no fraud. Yes, the shareholders receive some compensation, but it is at the expense of their investment because these suits often times have a crippling effect on companies. The lawyers get phat though.
The securities class action bar demonstrates the power of the Law of Unintended Consequences. Milberg was always strong, but got a lot stronger after the PSLRA was passed.
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Old 01-25-2005, 01:58 PM   #1862
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Most people in the country are pro-choice, though.

BTW, parental notification is very expensive.
The other side would argue that abortion (with or without notification) has its costs as well.
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Old 01-25-2005, 01:59 PM   #1863
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Here's what I think happened. They asked him about it. It was ten years ago, so he had to refresh his memory by reading the transcript. The in chambers stuff was not in the transcript and he forgot it happened.
I know you're just a transactional type, but how fucking gullible are you?
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Old 01-25-2005, 02:05 PM   #1864
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I know you're just a transactional type, but how fucking gullible are you?
Last night fringey PM'd me to ask me to post something funny. At first i was really complimented, then I found out she also asked nfh, so then I was devastated that she saw us as equals. i now found out she didn't even PM you.
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Old 01-25-2005, 02:10 PM   #1865
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I know you're just a transactional type, but how fucking gullible are you?
I wasn't the one that fell for Ty's chinanigans . . .

ETA: Seriously, can you even remember things you worked on in 1996? I can't even remember 2003.
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Old 01-25-2005, 02:15 PM   #1866
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Last night fringey PM'd me to ask me to post something funny. At first i was really complimented, then I found out she also asked nfh, so then I was devastated that she saw us as equals. i now found out she didn't even PM you.
He wasn't around.
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Old 01-25-2005, 02:15 PM   #1867
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I guess that I don't see the Democratic, pro-Wade, pro-health-of-the-mother position as absolutist.

What's the middle ground?
Obviously polling is a very inexact science, but on the spectrum of possible approaches, from always legal, to legal with restrictions, to legal with significant restrictions (e.g., first trimester only), to illegal except in limited cases (life of mom, rape, incest), to always illegal, one needs to capture that third (middle) group to have a majority of voters in favor of laws at least that liberal.

The real problem is that there's no dominant position--regardless of where the country is, there's a majority to change it, just in different directions.
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Old 01-25-2005, 02:17 PM   #1868
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I wasn't the one that fell for Ty's chinanigans . . .

ETA: Seriously, can you even remember things you worked on in 1996? I can't even remember 2003.
96? I can still remember meetings of my torts group from then. I can remember specific times being called on in class. I can remember the Butthole Surfers "Pepper." I don't see how someone would forget what happened when he appeared in court on behalf of a governor.
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Old 01-25-2005, 02:24 PM   #1869
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96? I can still remember meetings of my torts group from then. I can remember specific times being called on in class. I can remember the Butthole Surfers "Pepper." I don't see how someone would forget what happened when he appeared in court on behalf of a governor.
You haven't done enough drugs . . .
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Old 01-25-2005, 02:30 PM   #1870
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You haven't done enough drugs . . .
Gonzales did drugs in 1996? Who knew? And he looks like such a timmy....
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Old 01-25-2005, 02:33 PM   #1871
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You haven't done enough drugs . . .
I have never heard that before.
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Old 01-25-2005, 02:47 PM   #1872
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I have never heard that before.
well "enough" is a relative term I guess.
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Old 01-25-2005, 02:48 PM   #1873
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Gonzales did drugs in 1996?
Remember, he was working for Bush . . .
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Old 01-25-2005, 02:51 PM   #1874
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Remember, he was working for Bush . . .
Bush was doing drugs as late as 1996? Amazing what comes out after the election....
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Old 01-25-2005, 03:31 PM   #1875
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The other side would argue that abortion (with or without notification) has its costs as well.
That's all very well and good, but the study I cited suggests that parental notification laws and erosion of confidentiality regarding reproductive rights increases teenage pregnancy (hi hello!) and abortion rates.

We should be on the same side here.
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