This is good news...

legion · 08-02-2006, 06:46 AM

Until it reaches the 9th...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,206615,00.html

Jims5543 · 08-02-2006, 06:51 AM

Good news indeed. It would be awesome if this stood and became a trend. Unfortunatly you need a lawyer to pull this off so it will not last. They tend to stick together.

legion · 08-02-2006, 06:53 AM

Thick as theives, they are.

TheMentat · TheMentat's Garage

Quote:

Holmes had argued earlier to the Supreme Court that attorneys must be free from fear of retaliation if the "American adversarial system is to work." He now believes that attorneys face "a dilemma" created by the Supreme Court decision. Attorneys are ethically obligated to advocate zealously for their clients but too much zeal may result in civil liability. [/B]

Nice try jackass... there is no dilemma. Just hold yourself to the same standard that everybody else does!

Jims5543 · 08-02-2006, 07:13 AM

I have on 2 occasions had attornies try to extort money from my company. The first time was for $10,000. I paid another attorney $800 to tell them to go to hell. They went away.

The second one is right now. The funny part is the person that hired an attorney to try to extort money from me is an attorney himself. They are trying to extort $170,000 from me.

Now I have had to hire an attorney again to review his accusations.(Totally lies and unfounded) and wrtie another FU letter. More money spent because people think they can bully you into paying out money right away to go away. Maybe I should look into a countersuit?

There are lots of people in this world that spend all their time looking for ways to extort money instead of earning it and the lawyers are happy to help.

legion · 08-02-2006, 07:31 AM

As a class of people, we have allowed lawyers to grant themselves the right to tax (or more accurately, skim off the top from) anyone or anything at any time.

I wonder if getting rid of one of the devices that allows this to continue, specifically the out-of-court settlement, would help solve the problem. If every case had to go to trial and have its relative merits proven or disproven, it would make filing (or threatening to file) lawsuits far less profitable.