Cleaner loses pants $65 Million Dollar Lawsuit

As amusing as this is, the poor sods have been abused in a horrid way. Consider how they sleep at night all because of this wanker.

Still they may well counter sue.

I do hope that they do and get him chucked off the bench.

Sounds to me as though these poor people are being stitched up. I hope they get it all ironed out soon, and maybe even press charges for victimisation. They must feel really hemmed-in. These darn lawyers, eh?!

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Originally posted by Rasher:
Sounds to me as though these poor people are being stitched up. I hope they get it all ironed out soon, and maybe even press charges for victimisation. They must feel really hemmed-in. These darn lawyers, eh?!

And the Naim Forum Award 2007 for most puns per post goes to.....

No wonder the legal profession and judiciary are held in such high esteem.

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Originally posted by MichaelC:

No wonder the legal profession and judiciary are held in such high esteem.

Yet doctors bury their mistakes - literally - and they are held in high esteem. Their profession bands together to protect reasonably incompetent doctors from consequence - and only really boots out the extremely incompetent ones.

Lawyers cock things up but people don't end up with the wrong limbs amputated as a result...

It has been calculated that, by 2020, lawyers will outnumber humans in the USA.

(Yes, I know it's an old one.)

Yeah yeah, lawyers are bad. Old hat really. It's the clients you've got to watch, I reckon. After all, lawyers don't solicit for business (well, not in civilised countries...)

Note that the twit asking $65m for his pants was representing himself. Tells me that nobody would take his case.

"The plaintiff, who says he has devoted more than 1,000 hours to represent himself in this battle..."

Courts should fine these people for wasting the their time.Mind you the right to sue is probably tied up the 400th amendment or something.

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Originally posted by Deane F:

Yet doctors bury their mistakes - literally - and they are held in high esteem. Their profession bands together to protect reasonably incompetent doctors from consequence - and only really boots out the extremely incompetent ones.

Lawyers cock things up but people don't end up with the wrong limbs amputated as a result...

True. Too true.

hhmmmm .... let's see, most all the legislators are lawyers, all the judgeship are lawyers, all the lawyers are lawyers, half the workforce in washington d.c. are lawyers, and lawyers do advertise freely ad nauseum here (it was ruled long ago that you can't keep a guy from advertising his trade), on tv, busbenches, and there are literally huge billboards guiding plaintiffs to these lawyers, in russian, spanish, and korean. i work in the legal field, and can point out that 12% of the budget of an average american co. goes to legal fees and settlements.

not only that, most of them listen to bose, or sony, if a supreme court justice.

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Originally posted by fidelio:

and lawyers do advertise freely ad nauseum here (it was ruled long ago that you can't keep a guy from advertising his trade), on tv, busbenches, and there are literally huge billboards guiding plaintiffs to these lawyers, in russian, spanish, and korean.

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Originally posted by Deane F

After all, lawyers don't solicit for business (well, not in civilised countries...)

I'd be interested to know, do the rules about maintenance and champerty apply in the US profession?

unfortunately champertry is seldom challenged, and i cannot recall in 27 years downtown anyone being prosecuted or disbarred for it; the rules are weak. i worked on an appeal of a stockholder case some years ago where shares in the class had apparently been sold to plaintiffs; don't recall the outcome, but it's all quite insane. and l.a. is the world capital for fraud and crazy divorce cases. makes it interesting, i suppose, but not for me as i work for a huge corporation.